Author Archives: kenblaue

Youbar - customized health food


Just ran across this new product Youbar, a energybar that you can completely customize to your hearts desire. It’s so beautiful…

The new shape of manufacturing 1: Smart tools

Smart tools
This is the first in a series of posts concerning technologies that have and will enable mass customization on a large scale…

The Chaboo are coming

Project Chaboo
Project Chaboo is the brainchild of Ken Tomita. He wanted to create tighter bonds between the creative community…

Keep calm and make things!

Keep Calm and make things
A wave of sullen irony brooding in the UK at the moment, or is it genuine british stiff optimism. My guess is that depends on where you stand socially…

Knitting with a vision

News Knitter
I can’t think of a project that has got me this fired up in many years. Take an RSS feed and port it to a knitting machine. And it’s not just the idea that’s brilliant…

Sauerkids

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The days are few when I see work by designers that stop me in my tracks. Sauerkids is one (actually two) of those designers. Yes, they’re based…

Engrave Your Tech

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Engrave your tech is a company committed to customizing the world, or at least your electronic gadget world…

The medium is the service

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Marshall McLuhan just keeps on giving and giving. I was so moved by this sentence because it was exactly the phenomenon I’m seeing these days…

John Maeda and Reebok customs

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John Maeda, renown media artist, professor and theorist from MIT Medialab has teamed up with Reebok custom for a shoe. It’s a pretty shoe, a nice shoe…

Create a Converse

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Converse has gone custom, all the way. Customizing your Chucks are now a main part of what Converse has to offer from their website. IT’s pretty comprehensive…