By Michael McDaniel – October 27, 2009 In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became obvious that America was frustratingly ill-prepared to house people displaced by a natural disaster. frog Senior Designer Michael McDaniel took this as a design challenge. His Reaction Housing System — inspired by the humble Styrofoam cup — could be deployed [...]
Project: KiSS – Kinetic Seating System
The product is a wheelchair seat that has the potential to relieve many problems related to sitting for long periods of time and save millions of dollars in health care costs. It consists of a seat back and a seat base that fits into a wheelchair frame. The device is adjustable in width, height and [...]
Project: Connecticut Rock Gym
http://www.ctrockgym.com/ Indoor climbing finally meets New Haven! After several years of preparation and planning, we are thrilled to finally be open to serve the residents of New Haven County and offer a safe, fun and non-intimidating environment where you can learn, train and enjoy indoor climbing. Our goal is to provide a unique and challenging [...]
Project: VitaMetrix
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The Case for Working With Your Hands – NYTimes.com
The television show “Deadliest Catch” depicts commercial crab fishermen in the Bering Sea. Another, “Dirty Jobs,” shows all kinds of grueling work; one episode featured a guy who inseminates turkeys for a living. The weird fascination of these shows must lie partly in the fact that such confrontations with material reality have become exotically unfamiliar. [...]
Development Watch: 580 Carroll Gets Its Glass On
One of the defining features of the controversial development 580 Carroll Street, its angled glass windows, has started to come into focus. Over the past few weeks glass has gone up on the Garfield Place side of the Enrique Norten-designed building, above, as well as on a small section of the Carroll Street part of [...]
Anchor has flexibility: bull kelp
“Kelp’s survival depends on flexibility and extensibility. Each alga can grow up to 20 to 45 m 22 to 49 yd long and consists of a holdfast, stipe, float, and fronds. The holdfast uses a flexible network of root-like haptera or anchors to attach the kelp to the ocean floor. By being flexible, the haptera [...]