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virtual fit

Posted on December 6th by Leonardo Bonanni.
louise guay, president and founder of my virtual model, presented her company’s avatar-based fashion shopping and social networking system tuesday at the moda+tecnologia gathering at the ICA. ...
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interknit

Posted on December 3rd by Leonardo Bonanni.
netGranny is a revolutionary service where consumers directly commission grandmothers in switzerland to custom-knit socks for them. it has the spirit of transparency of programs like dole’s organic ...
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photovoltaic payback

Posted on November 29th by Leonardo Bonanni.
with solar panels (once again) the craze, a lot of discussion goes into whether they are truly efficient and whether they do the environment any good. most solar cells require ...
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stop&chop

Posted on October 15th by Leonardo Bonanni.
i’ve been posting for a long time about open design, or the free dissemination of design knowledge. ponoko is a site that allows you to share designs for furniture ...
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snug-fab

Posted on October 11th by Leonardo Bonanni.
mass customization is only slowly gaining ground in industries such as automobiles, and usually only with cosmetic choices like the color of seats. a number of shoe manufacturers have interfaces ...
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light prophet

Posted on October 10th by Leonardo Bonanni.
if art can predict culture, then design foreshadows technology - the ingo maurer retropective at the cooper-hewitt is an astonishing exhibit. time and time again the genius better know ...
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improvisation

Posted on October 8th by Leonardo Bonanni.
open-source design promises a lot of invention but has the trouble motivating a lot of people to contribute design work. but one kind of distributed design is flourishing: improvised explosive ...
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paperCAD

Posted on October 4th by Leonardo Bonanni.
papercraft is the most versatile personal fabrication system: all you need is a printer, scissors and glue. now there’s a CAD for papercraft called pepakura that unfolds any three-dimensional ...