Mori Digital Art Museum by teamLab

Digital technology has allowed art to liberate itself from the physical and thereby transcend boundaries and teamLab an interdisciplinary group of ultratechnologists whose mindblowing projects seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, design and nature, shows us just what is possible nowadays.

Various specialists such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects of this collective named teamLab are creating new experiences in a vast complex, three-dimensional 10,000 square meter space, 520 computers and 470 projectors which invite you to an entirely new world; borderless art.

Artworks in the Mori Building move out of the rooms freely, communicate with other works, form connections and relationships with people and influence and sometimes intermingle with each other.

Their main aim is to discover  new relationships between humans and nature, and between oneself and the world through art. 

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teamLab's philosophy behind the fantastical and high tech magical art they create:

"There is no boundary between humans and nature, and between oneself and the world; one is in the other and the other in one. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity of life."

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SOLA Cube by Usagi no Nedoko

SOLA Cube showcases extraordinary craftmanship and original ornaments of beauty by placing delicately preserved plants, seeds, flowers and even  minerals, and microbes, in the form of a miniature acrylic cube sized only 1.6 x 1.6 inches. 

Exceptional craftsmanship is necessary to enable this small transparent cube, which measures only 4 centimeters, to hold a plant at its very center without letting any air bubbles get inside.

How it is made:

In the first step of creating the SOLA Cube, liquid acrylic is poured into a mold slightly larger than the Sola cube. The dried plant is carefully placed when the liquid hardens to a gel, after this proces more liquid acrylic is then poured into the mold.

The mold is then placed into a vacuum kiln, then pressurized to force out any air bubbles.

The cube is showered with hot air of 80 degrees for about 3-4 hours. This stabilizes and hardens the acrylic, and guarantees the SOLA cube's durability. 

Finally the cube is cut to precisely 4 centimeterson each side, the corners are rounded and smoothed at the end of this step and the surface of the cube is then polished until it is shiny, clean, and glossy.

The manufacturing process and resin used in polishing is adjusted, depending on the variety of plant to be set inside the cube.

Every Sola cube is a true piece of art carefully handmade by an Japanese artisan, and each one takes considerable time and effort to complete. It makes for a very special and unique gift for a loved one.

Sola cubes can be displayed  in multiple ways to inspire and be observed, studied, admired.

Lifehack Finders Nice to Know: the name “Sola” with the Chinese symbol 宙 means universe.

The ADcase mobile airbag by Philip Frenzel

Philip Frenzel may have the best new solution to save smartphone damage caused by falling. He created the ADcase, a  airbag for your mobile phone, an equipped case that senses when your phone is in free fall and releases metal prongs to protect it from damaging.

He came up with the workable idea of a specialized case integrated with sensors that could detect when a phone was in freefall, and deploy a set of retractable legs bound by metal springs in response to protect the phone and set up a project to realize his idea into ADcase.

The ADcase works through its dampers which are pushed into their “airbag” position with metal springs, they mainly absorb the impact of the fall and thereby prevent the breaking of  a device’s screen and inner parts. The legs really appear to soften the impact of a fall more than your average case, while also making it less likely your smartphone's more fragile bits come into contact with a hard surface. After being deployed, the dampers can easily be pushed back into the case, allowing it to be used again and again.

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The ADcase is called  so because "AD" stands for "active damping" there is an official ADcase website though the ADcase is not for sale yet.  The designer of this clever gadget has already acquired a patent and even received an award from the German Society of Mechatronics for his invention.

UFBS (Ultra Fine Bubbles) and Nanoteragoup experiments

Ultrafine bubble are just one-billionth of a meter in diameter but they have amazing potential because recent scientific studies has shown that they are able to extend the freshness of raw seafood and promote crop and vegetation growth.

This innovative field of technology originates from Japan and its applications are very promising and highly experimental in the work of applicable nano sciences in water.

For example in the medical field the use of UFB's (short for Ultra Fine Bubbles) raises high expectations as research is now being focused on their ability to destroy bacteria and even viruses.

According to Nanoteragroup a company who specializes in developing the technique UFB's are shown effective in:

Helping the growth of aerobic microbes and decomposing sludge at water bottom. Removing bad stenches and even more exciting stimulating self purification to recover a clean water environment and improving the quality of water without destroying the water environment.

UFBs have also shown very effective in oxidation and reduction of organic compounds, in eliminating floating blue-green microbes (and thereby supplying oxygen to bottom water) and in resolving excess nutritious matter.

In laymans terms UFBs make it possible due to their ultra fine or small size to come in between the mass and the volume of other particles by changing the structure on the inside on a nanolevel; this results in a rearrangement of the available space and the waterbubbles breaking down the structural pattern of the bigger particle at its deepest core by filling it with UFBs.

Lifehack Finders Nice to Know: nano-size bubbles do not scatter visible light, making the water solution look transparent and have been confirmed to stay in a liquid for over six months.

Deveci Tech. The ENLIL Eco-smart Wind Turbine with Wi-Fi

The energy crises that faces us today and in the near future because of the depletion of exhaustible resources that are also destroying the ecosystem by generating carbon into our atmosphere , is a valid reason for great concern for the scientific world.

Finding a sustainable solution is something what the Deveci Techn. a company located in Turkey did by inventing ENLIL: a unique and eco-friendly energy generator.

In short ENLIL is a device; a windturbine with a smart vertical axis that draws wind energy from highways and transforms it into a usable powersource through creating electricity from the generated windforce. The turbine has built-in sensors and helps generate energy by using the winds created by passing vehicles as well as natural airstreams.

ENLIL provides a creative new way of thinking by placing the hybrud vertical axis wind turbine which has a solar panel on top, on highways, Metrobus lines, high rising buildings and onther transportation lines. It can contribute to becoming a real and practical solution to the crisis.

ENLIL wind turbines have a built-in IOT platform which measures the temperature, humidity, wind and CO2 levels of the environment where it is placed. These turbines are part of Smart technology and usable for the development and planning of Smart Citis and communities because they are multitasking pieces of technology that utilize existing infrastructure. By creating ENLIL, Deveci Tech. inspires to build smart cities of the future with a team of talented engineers and progressive environmentalists.

The recordings made by ENLIL can help predicte weather and it is also possible for the ENLIL device to provide relevant information in advance about seismic movement that may cause earthquakes, through it's earthquake monitoring station which is to a great advantage to earthquake sensitive areas.
Ecologically it is innovative in checking the carbon footprint by keeping close track of the CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

ENLIL is a smart device which can provide wireless internet. Users can access the information any time by downloading and installing the app on their mobile phone.

Lifehack Finders Nice to Know: a project likw ENLIL proofs that it is possible to think outside and come up with a clean, green and safe energy source. Enlil will soon launch its own mobile app to provide data about the readings recorded by the wind turbine.