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Pankraz Piktograph is a reinterpretation of the classic photo booth, only this one uses automated robotics to translate photographs into portrait sketches.

Photo booths are just as good as cake at parties. Everyone loves a photo strip souvenir they can take home with them and laugh at in the morning or keep for years to follow. Taking inspiration from ancient photo booths like Maillardet’s automaton from the 1800s that didn’t use flash to capture smiles and funny faces, but robotics to perform automatic sketches of people standing before the machine. Felix Fisgus, a design studio, in collaboration with Joris Wegner, multimedia artist, and product designer, designed their very own robotic automated sketch booth called Pankraz Piktograph, a self-contained portrait-drawing robot.

Turning the act of getting your very own portrait into the event itself, Wegner created their Pankraz Piktograph to draw portraits of bystanders at events like science exhibits, trade fairs, and museums for them to bring home. With the press of a button on a handheld remote, the Pankraz Piktograph snaps photographic portraits of its users to then transform into a delicate pencil sketch.

Once the photograph has been taken, it’s translated into a vector representation, which can then be drawn by the automated robot styluses. Equipping the Pankraz Piktograph with the technical makeup to master various drawing styles, users can choose to have their photograph drawn from fast minimalist styles to more intricate, or abstract renderings.

Running the whole show, the Pankraz Piktograph contains a Raspberry Pi 3 that takes charge of drawing on the 3.5” display canvas. The machine’s integrated technology generates vector-based graphics from photographs and increases its contrast to capture the essence and edges of each photograph, leaving out the softer details to prioritize the image’s harsher lines.

Describing the robot’s motion technology, Wegner states, “Each arm is moved by a stepper motor via a one-to-five pulley transmission. This helps to increase the torque as well as the resolution of the movements. We decided to go for an open control loop, thus light barrier sensors at each shoulder joint are used for calibration and determining absolute positions of the arms.”

With such accurate movements, the Pankraz Piktograph is constructed to capture even the finer details of each photograph’s distinct features – from moles to dimples. Attached to each moving arm, the spring-loaded pens are set into motion with a servo motor to make enough contact with the paper, but to keep the pen swift enough to capture slight irregularities in each photograph.

Designer: Felix Fisgus

America's often hypocritical social mores mean that breast feeding in public is not as tolerated as it is in, say, Europe. For this reason, American women who start off breast feeding a child at home often give up when they're out in the world with that child. Privacy is required, but difficult to find, and your average bathroom does not have the right set-up for breast feeding and/or pumping.

"After having pumped at trade shows, airports, corporate retreats, baseball games, and even the back seat of a male client's car, we decided enough was enough," writes Christine Dodson and Sascha Mayer, the entrepreneurs and co-founders of Mamava.

Mamava is a Vermont-based company that produces a variety of designs for lactation pods. Their Inflatable model is a portable lactation pods for events:

The Mamava Mini, produced by Steelcase, is designed for workplaces and features power outlets and USB ports, as well as adjustable lighting and airflow:

The fully-enclosed Mamava Solo provides the same features as the Mini but with greater privacy and a more compact footprint, with 14.5 square feet versus the Mini's 22 square feet:

The model you're most likely to have seen out in the world is the Mamava Original or the larger, wheelchair-friendly and ADA-compliant Mamava ADA:

In recent years Mamava's pods have seen uptake at airports, sports stadiums and workplaces. And this summer they've cracked a new market: Retail spaces. Walmart has recently announced they'll be the first retail outlet to install Mamava pods (for usage by both customers and employees) at their stores.

What's worth noting is how Mamava pods were first created and how they've spread: Both were realized by the relevant parties using their own personal agency to make it happen. Dodson and Mayer created the company based on their own experiences. Kevin Warren, Chief Operating Officer for the Minnesota Vikings, told Cosmopolitan that a new mother and employee of his mentioned that "the team needed to do better for female employees, guests, and fans who needed to nurse or pump breast milk;" when Warren later spotted a Mamava pod at an airport, he reached out to the company and arranged to have the pods installed at Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium.

As for Walmart, Tenille Webb (pictured), a new mother and the company's Senior Business Relations Manager, also spotted a Mamava pod at an airport and convinced her employer to start the pilot program. Walmart subsequently ordered 100 units for their retail and distribution centers to try them out.

So, just a reminder: If you're a member of an underserved community and see something you need, see if you can create it yourself, or find it in the marketplace and advocate for it with those who can make it happen. If the people mentioned here hadn't stepped up, Mamava's designs wouldn't have gotten to where they are today.

Tableware essentials such as spoons, cups, plates and bowls are classic designs whose forms have remained unchanged over time. While the majority of us find these designs beneficial in their current form, what evolution for a society entails is evolution of our everyday designs to suit not only the majority, but to be inclusive and cater to all humans alike. It is this progress and inclusiveness Jexter Lim brings to the world with his tableware design named Eatsy.

Jexter’s design process started with a relatively simple question, “How might we design an adaptive tableware to enhance dining experience for the visually impaired?” The answer was Eatsy, a set of multi-functional tableware consisting of a plate, a bowl, a cup and utensils designed with a unique feature, a silicone flap that can be bent to increase ease of usage while reducing the stigma by blending in with the existing tableware. The silicone flap is one of those minor changes that make all the difference – they provide unique sensory cues in a subtle manner for the visually impaired, helping them feel the edge of the container to guide them in their tasks – be it pouring water correctly into the cup, scooping food from the edge of your plate or even balancing your spoon on the edge so it does not slip into the food. For example, the cup’s indent or silicone flap bends inwards, helping the user identify the spot and secure that location for pouring from a jug. The raised corner of the plate is sloped in nature, helping you capture, corner and scoop food onto your spoon, making it easy for the user to scoop the food towards this corner and judge the content left on their plate. Such tasks that commonly do without realizing our dependency visual cues and taking the action for granted.

Eatsy is also user-friendly for both left and right-handed users while its stackable design makes it easy to store. The simplicity of the design ensures it is easy to implement across restaurants and home. Given the fact that it helps prevent spillage, Eatsy is user-friendly not only for visually-impaired but for the elderly, children or just about anyone who has a tendency to spill – Eatsy is just as useful for everyone as it is for the visually impaired and that’s what makes it a truly inclusive design!

Designer: Jexter Lim

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Things Made of Cardboard, who previously built a harmonograph with a robotic arm that draws Lissajous curves with an attached pen, created a simple, but ingenious cardboard sculpture that demonstrates the principle of tensegrity (floating compression) through an optical illusion.

I made a sculpture out of cardboard based on the principle of tensional integrity (tensegrity for short), where all the strings are under continuous tension. The result is the impression that the sculpture levitates.

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Tonya Ruiz, a former model turned custom toymaker, has for years made realistic versions of Barbie and her household accessories. She publishes them on her appropriately-named Instagram feed Grandma Gets Real.

Recently, she's been producing kits for what Barbie, Ken, and their children would actually be living like if they were quarantined during the pandemic. Barbie is getting by as a homeschooling mom of young children who rarely dresses appropriately during her Zoom meetings and enjoys her new hobbies of baking and assembling jigsaw puzzles.

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Okay, now THAT is a selfie.

This is such a cool photography/biology experiment.

Says IMGURian @MxMarx, “I put a petri dish filled with algae under my enlarger and left it on for a week. The algae grew thicker and greener where the image was brighter, so it formed a positive image in the petri dish!”

Scroll through the entire gallery to see how this was done.

Printing photographs on algae

Ryan of Ryan’s Cinematics has very cleverly edited classic bloopers from Star Trek: The Next Generation and seamlessly integrated each into the original scene. Some of these edits are very subtle, but quite amusing nonetheless.

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Prankster creativity from video producer Dan Crowd (above) and motion graphics designer Metehan Korkmazel.

I had the same like multiple instances of me hanging around. pic.twitter.com/05G4KDXNGY

— Metehan Korkmazel (@korkmazelm) April 3, 2020

WHAT HAS OCCURRED CANNOT BE UNDONE

I have trained a neural net on a crowdsourced set of vintage jello-centric recipes

I believe this to possibly be the worst recipe-generating algorithm in existence pic.twitter.com/cwQwOpUNDv

— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) February 7, 2020

Janelle Shane put out a call for mid-century American recipes last week to see what a neural network would learn from them. She received over 800 recipes, and used them to train an artificial intelligence algorithm to generate its own recipes. The results are just as horrifying as you might imagine.

Shane admits that this algorithm has previously trained on internet text to learn how to read, and she was surprised at the random bits of information it had retained from, say, fan fiction. Read about the experiment at her blog AI Weirdness, which has ten of the recipes. There are quite a few more of them at Twitter.  -via Mashable

Chicago's Volante (previously) bills itself as "streetwear for superheroes," and I love their clothes. They've just released an addition to their existing canon of Star Trek-themed, cosplay-adjacent clothes: the Picard Sweater, a stretchy knit tribute to Jean-Luc himself, the perfect thing to wear while you're watching Wil Wheaton host "The Ready Room," which airs after every episode.

Matt MacMillan recorded the sounds his infant son Ryan made over a year's time, and then edited it into the AC/DC classic "Thunderstruck." The idea is insane, the editing is sublime, and Ryan is precious. -via reddit

From our friends at Futility Closet:

Fit two identical 90-degrees cones base to base, slice the resulting shape in half vertically, and give one of the halves a quarter turn. The result is a sphericon, a solid that rolls with a bemusing meander: Where the original double cone rolls only in circles, the sphericon puts first one conical sector and then the other in contact with a flat surface beneath it, giving it a smooth but undulating trajectory sustained by a fixed center of mass.

And that’s just the start. “Two sphericons placed next to each other can roll on each other’s surfaces,” writes David Darling in The Universal Book of Mathematics. “Four sphericons arranged in a square block can all roll around one another simultaneously. And eight sphericons can fit on the surface of one sphericon so that any one of the outer solids can roll on the surface of the central one.”

It started innocently enough. A single dollar bill was pinned to the ceiling of a tiki bar in California — with a tiny paper umbrella, no less. That lone bill soon inspired many more.

For over 10 years now, patrons of Forbidden Island, a popular tiki lounge in the island city of Alameda, have been leaving legal tender suspended above their rum-filled cocktails. Using their drink's umbrellas, or swizzle sticks, the bar's customers stick the cash up, but not before they decorate it in some way. Some pen their name and the date, while others get more elaborate and make their offering a rectangular piece of art.

It's become such a popular pastime, the bar keeps a bucket of markers and unused umbrellas for those who want to leave their mark.

But it recently got out of control, at least in the eyes of my pal Michael Thanos, the bar's owner. He invited me down to get the whole story.

"There was simply no more room to put the money in the ceiling," Thanos told me. "So people started sticking money all over the place," motioning to the Lauhala-matted walls and tapa-covered light fixtures.

"It was just too much."

Before (photo by Alex T./Yelp) and during (photo by Michael Thanos)

So, in October, he and his staff spent an entire day carefully pulling the cash off of everything.

It was a bigger job than they had first realized. As it neared opening time, they had to stuff the cash in four big garbage bags to deal with at later time. "And it was a really dirty job. We had to wear gloves and face masks because there was layers of fire retardant and dust," reported General Manager John Peterson. When they got back to sorting and counting it, they were surprised to learn they had a significant amount of money on their hands.

"$10,367 to be exact," said John.

Michael Thanos (left), John Peterson (right), and 10 grand (big pile).

Now, Forbidden Island's first dollar-bill-on-the-ceiling came with a story, from the gentleman who placed it. He told staff that the tradition dated back to World War II. "Servicemen headed to the South Pacific would have their final drink before being shipped out and stick a dollar in the bar's ceiling as a sort of a visual promise that they'd return home," recounted Thanos, "And when they did return, they would head to that same bar to find it."

(The United States Bartenders' Guild dates the tradition back to the California Gold Rush days.)

"Origami Alley"

When the bar re-opened with a bare ceiling, some regulars were upset that their contributions had been removed. So when the Forbidden Island crew was deciding what to do with all the money, they kept them in mind.

"We wanted to be sensitive to the fact that our guests had memories and important dates attached to these dollars. We want them to know that we're going to do good with it. That's when we took a poll of the staff to select the top three charities," Peterson remarked.

Thanos and his staff believe charity begins at home, so they have chosen three local organizations to receive the bulk of the money. Over $8,000 will be divvied up between Building Futures, Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter, and Alameda Family Services.

"Since the day we opened in 2006, we have been pro-Alameda in every way, from promoting Alameda causes and events to carrying Alameda-produced spirits and brews in favor of the big name international brands. So naturally we decided that the beneficiaries of our donation should be organizations that specifically benefit Alamedans in need," said Thanos.

To continue the goodwill, on Tuesday, November 26, the bar is having a pop-up benefit event, hosted by Tiki Lindy. All proceeds will be donated to Stand for Kindness, a charity that helps Northern Californian wildfire survivors.

The remaining nearly $2000 of the ceiling money will, well, remain. The more unique (decorated or otherwise) currency was put back on the ceiling.

Some big spender left ten trillion... Zimbabwe dollars.

Thanos shrugged, "In 10 years, or maybe sooner, I'm guessing we'll be pulling money off the ceiling again. And again, we'll do the right thing for our community."

---

The "Forbidden Island" bill, photo by Michael Thanos

Forbidden Island is located at 1304 Lincoln Avenue in Alameda, California.

If you go: Dress "Aloha," order a tropical drink, and bring some dollars to play the "Money Ceiling" game.

photos by Rusty Blazenhoff, except as noted

If you're a designer, it's likely you interact with objects on a daily basis and think, "there's a much better way to design this [insert object here]," or more simply, "this thing is trash!" So attain a bit of catharsis today by watching seasoned industrial designer and Smart Design co-founder Dan Formosa rate and test out kitchen gadgets for Epicurious:

While Formosa only employs a couple methods for testing a product's effectiveness, it still reveals to the non-designer the many minutiae involved with getting a kitchen tool right they may have never considered. To make the video even better, Formosa does some sketching to demonstrate how each object could be designed to improve on the original. Bon appétit, designers!

How would you have redesigned one of the objects featured in the video? Share in the comment section below.

Researchers at MIT have proposed a novel swarm system for bicycles that would allow those riding together or just passing by to synchronize their lights in order to create a collective source of illumination, much like what occurs in nature. This synchronization not only looks good but imbues the riders with the benefit of a united visual front that provides greater safety on darkened streets within urban environments.

Imagine that as solitary bikes come together, their lights begin to pulsate at the same cadence. The bikers may not know each other, or may only be passing each other briefly, but for the moments they are together, their lights synchronize. The effect is a visually united presence, as groups of bikes illuminate themselves with a gently pulsing, collective light source.

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Designer and data scientist Michael Toth of Artful Data has created a minimalist map of the United States that showcases the thousands of thousands of rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, and canals within her borders. The data for this poster was retrieved from the United States Geological Survey National Hydrography Dataset for utmost accuracy in representation.

Data reveals information about the world we live in, and it tells us about who we are. Most importantly, I’ve found that data can be breathtakingly beautiful. …My United States map is created from public watershed datasets and shows the thousands of rivers and waterbodies of the country in incredible detail. These images are extremely high resolution, so they look great up close and far away. …This physical art print comes printed on thick, museum-quality, durable, matte paper, and is available in a range of sizes from 8x10in up to 24x36in!

This print and other items are available for purchase through the Artful Data Etsy Shop.

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CNBC profiles a small handful of young Americans who have moved abroad and ceased payments on their student debt, relying on international borders to protect them from their edu-creditors.

It's not clear how many young Americans have gone this route. That said, the story is fascinating, since -- as an expert in the story says -- this is effectively permanent exile. Once you stop paying your student loan, your lenders get to add penalties and compound interest on the penalties, then add more penalties and compound even more interest. Walk away from those debts and they will balloon to the point where you can never pay them back -- and since student debt is the only debt you can't effectively escape through bankruptcy (it's also the only debt that can be taken out of your Social Security), turning your back on student debt means never reestablishing residence or holding assets in the US or any country that could be reached through a treaty arrangement.

The exiles had struggled with low credit scores in the USA before leaving -- scores that were tanked by their nonpayment of student loans, which made everything else (housing, employment, access to credit) even harder, making it impossible for them to repay their loans.

One of those profiled is living for $50/month in rural India, where he gets to see elephants all the time -- but where he was also hospitalized by eating bad goat meat. The others are teaching English in China, Japan, Ukraine, and other places where the wages are low, but the expenses are also low.

Elizabeth Warren has proposed canceling student debt as part of her 2020 campaign. I am a donor to her campaign.

Seeing no future for himself in the United States, he decided to move to China in 2011. In the city of Zhongshan, he discovered he loved teaching students English. Unlike when he was delivering greasy boxes of pizza, he found his work meaningful and fulfilling.

Though he earned just around $1,000 a month in China, the school where he was teaching covered most of his rent and the cost of living was much lower than in Pennsylvania.

A few years later, Albright moved to Ukraine, where he is now a permanent resident. He first taught in Kiev and now does so in Odessa, a port city on the Black Sea. He has no plans to return to the United States. “I am much happier in Ukraine,” he said, adding that he hasn’t checked his student loan account in nearly eight years.

These Americans fled the country to escape their giant student debt [Annie Nova/CNBC]

(Image: Donkey Hotey, CC-BY)

Oakland, California is home to a real gem of a storybook theme park. Located next to Lake Merritt, Children's Fairyland has been delighting families of young children since 1950. As the story goes, Walt Disney himself visited Fairyland in 1955 and soon after built Disneyland, incorporating ideas he learned at the park. He also hired Fairyland's first director, as well as one of its puppeteers, to work at his new amusement park in Anaheim.

While Disney's parks went the commercial route, Fairyland turned into a nonprofit after many years of being managed by the city. It remains the charming, lakeside mid-century park where no adult is allowed in the park without a child** and no child is allowed without an adult.

How do I know all of this? Well, I'm excited to share that I've started working with Fairyland. When I first moved to the Bay Area in the mid-1990s, I lived across the street from Lake Merritt and, as a childless young person, I often wondered what was going behind the giant (Old Lady in the) shoe. I remember devising ways to get in, eventually waiting until I had a baby to pass through its gates for the first time. When my daughter (who's now a teenager) was little, she and I visited many times together. Believe me when I say that it's a great thrill for me to be on the "inside" of this Bay Area institution.

Bert, Fairyland Master Puppeteer Lewis Mahlmann, and Frank Oz in August of 1970. This photo was shot when Frank brought Bert and Cookie Monster to Fairyland for a special visit.

In my short time there, I've learned that Walt's visit isn't the only interesting Fairyland fact. East Bay Yesterday podcast host Liam O’Donoghue recently interviewed the park's executive director, C.J. Hirschfield, and asked her many of the questions his listeners had. The questions ranged from, "Is Fairyland haunted?" to "Did Frank Oz begin his career there?" (spoiler: yes!).

Listen in. It's good stuff:

Got more questions about Fairyland? Ask me in the comments. I'll do my best to answer them.

The poster from Bert and Cookie Monster's Fairyland visit.

[**Yes, there are exceptions to this rule. Grownups can enter the park without a child in tow for three scheduled nights per year: the park's Gala Fundraiser in late May, Oaklandish's annual 21+ shindig called Fairyland for Grownups (TBD date in August), and the live-art event called Drawn Together (TBD date in September). The park can also be rented for weddings, birthdays, and other events.]

"Your Face is Your Boarding Pass" is the headline from a jetBlue press release from November 15, 2018. "JetBlue continues to lead the industry as the first domestic airline to launch a fully-integrated biometric self-boarding gate for international flights..."

Journalist MacKenzie Fegan had first-hand (first-face?) experience with the new procedure, and when she asked jetBlue about it on Twitter, the extraordinary correspondence resulted:

I just boarded an international @JetBlue flight. Instead of scanning my boarding pass or handing over my passport, I looked into a camera before being allowed down the jet bridge. Did facial recognition replace boarding passes, unbeknownst to me? Did I consent to this?

— MacKenzie Fegan (@mackenzief) April 17, 2019

You're able to opt out of this procedure, MacKenzie. Sorry if this made you feel uncomfortable.

— JetBlue Airways (@JetBlue) April 17, 2019

Follow up question. Presumably these facial recognition scanners are matching my image to something in order to verify my identity. How does @JetBlue know what I look like?

— MacKenzie Fegan (@mackenzief) April 17, 2019

The information is provided by the United States Department of Homeland Security from existing holdings.

— JetBlue Airways (@JetBlue) April 17, 2019

So to be clear, the government provided my biometric data to a privately held company? Did I consent to this? How long is my data held by @JetBlue? And even if I opt out at the scanners...you already have my information, correct?

— MacKenzie Fegan (@mackenzief) April 17, 2019

We should clarify, these photos aren't provided to us, but are securely transmitted to the Customs and Border Protection database. JetBlue does not have direct access to the photos and doesn’t store them.

— JetBlue Airways (@JetBlue) April 17, 2019

Would love more info about how my image was matched to a name on the flight manifest. I looked at the camera & a few seconds later the gate opened. Was my image, in the space of those seconds, sent to CBP, run through a database, matched to a name, and then sent back to @JetBlue?

— MacKenzie Fegan (@mackenzief) April 17, 2019

You can learn more about the process here: https://t.co/wDZYiNNhoY.

— JetBlue Airways (@JetBlue) April 17, 2019

“There is no pre-registration required.” I’ll say! This press release really doesn’t tell me anything about how it works. @EFF, can you shed some light on this? How concerned should I be?

— MacKenzie Fegan (@mackenzief) April 17, 2019

We found another article that might be interesting to you: https://t.co/yT1v05VRYX It talks a bit about the data and how it's processed.

— JetBlue Airways (@JetBlue) April 18, 2019

“It took her photo, comparing her picture to a preloaded photo database of all the passengers with tickets on this flight.” It sounds like opting out isn’t really an option. I can not go through the scanner, but my data will have already been accessed and loaded into a database.

— MacKenzie Fegan (@mackenzief) April 18, 2019

We are at first horrified to think that a full-size man is going to attempt to ride a miniature horse. Poor horse! But Pontus Hugosson has his own stylish method of getting the horse to project the two of them forward without crushing the equine down.  -via Boing Boing

The best grilled cheese sandwich recipes ever! A perfectly grilled/toasted cheese sandwich is one of the best things in life and a gourmet grilled cheese sandwich is even better! April is National Grilled Cheese Month and I have 30 amazing grilled cheese sandwich recipes for you, one for every day of the month! Grilled cheese...

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Just when you think it can't get any better, it does pic.twitter.com/FKgYZlDHKW

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) March 10, 2019

Nothing like a giant breed dog who won't stop growing.

A high-quality HEPA air purifier can eliminate nearly all the smoke, dust or allergen particles from the air in a room—but a $30 contraption can eliminate about 90 percent. It’s worth a try if you need to clean your indoor air on the cheap.

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In a movie that’s oh-so-totally ’80s, no moment in The Lost Boys is more ’80s than the boardwalk saxophone performance.

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The Big Lebowski turned 20 years old this year and it is still as much of a joy to watch as it was back in 1998. Recently, NBC's Harry Smith sat down with Jeff Bridges, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi for a long chat about what it was like to make the film and its enduring cult legacy.

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