Jinsei Ginko: Watch your life on a piggy bank
21 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments
The Japanese population has one of the highest savings ratios in the world, and this Jinsei Ginko (human life bank) piggy bank helps reinforce that idea to the next generation. The Jinsei Ginko is not like other big banks you have ever seen before. For one thing, it can only take 500 yen coins ($5). Secondly, the more you save, the wealthier the tamagochi-esque family on the LED screen becomes. Starting with 3 pieces of ghetto tatami floor mats, as you put in more and more 500 yen coins, the home environment will gradually improve as you become more wealthy. The Jinsei Ginko can save up to two hundred 500 yen coins by the time it is full. The company might eventually release an even more advanced piggy bank that takes 10000 yen bank notes, if the 500 version is successful. The Jinsei Ginko is currently selling for $50 in Japan.
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via: WIRED
Tags: gadget, gizmo, japan, weird
AES+F
20 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments
Russian art collective initially formed in the late 1980s; in the “Islamic Project” they explore preconceptions of the East and West visualizing concept in a stunning manner.
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generative monsters?!?
16 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments
Czech Processing hacker Lukas Vojir has come up with a great project where you can post your own generative/interactive/scary monster done by processing. It’s surprisingly effective in its simplicity, once again reminding you that simple narrative devices are often the best.
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Processing page
Tags: interactive, monster, processing
Evolution of game controllers
15 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments
Damien Lopez shows us a graphical map of videogames controller. This is a collection of small multiples of game controllers of the main gaming systems from the past 25 years, spanning from the Atari 2600 to the Nintendo Wii.
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via: designblog
We Think 2.0
14 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments
Really cool video done for the new book by Charles Leadbeater: “We Think”. The author explores the potential of the latest developments of the internet.