Tamiya created this unique business card to promote their business outside of Japan. You can take the parts out from the card and build several different models.

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

We’ve been just as crazy about covering the rise of augmented reality as anyone else–but we haven’t yet seen too many examples of just how terrifying a world filled with AR could become.

Architecture student Keiichi Matsuda took it upon himself to imagine just such a future, in this video:

sony corporation has revealed their latest development, a super-flexible 80 μm-thick
4.1-inches 121 ppi organic thin film transistor (OTFT)*1-driven full color OLED display
which can be wrapped around a thin cylinder.

the display was achieved due to sony’s research of integration technologies of OTFTs
and OLEDs on a ultra-thin 20 μm thick flexible substrate (a flexible on-panel gate-driver
circuit with OTFTs which is able to get rid of convetinal rigid driver IC chips from interfering
with the roll-up of the display) and soft organic insulators for all those in the integration circuit.
sony has created the organic semiconductor material, peri-xanthenoxanthene (PXX) derivative,
which is stable under exposure to oxygen, moisture, light and heat, with improved current
modulation of eight-times*2 that of conventional OTFT with organic semiconductor of pentacene.

by combining these technologies, they have successfully demonstrated the world’s first
OLED panel*3 with an integrated gate-driver circuit with OTFTs. the imporvement of the
OTFT makes it capable of reproducing moving images while being rolled-up repeatedly,
around a cylinder with a radius of 4mm. this roll-up capability is possible because the gate-driver
IC chips have been removed from the display. even after 1000 cycles of repeatedly rolling-up
and stretching the display, there was no clear degradation in its ability to reporudce moving images.
the material would be well suited to e-readers and other mobile devices that could have
large screens and small form factors

technology features
l: integration of flexible gate-driver circuit with OTFTs
r: the high performance OTFT with originally developed high-mobility and highly-stable organic semiconductor materials,
PXX derivatives

OTFT specifications:
organic semiconductor: peri-Xanthenoxanthene(PXX) derivative
hole mobility: 0.4 cm2/Vs
current on/off ratio: 106
channel length: 5μm
threshold voltage: -5V

specification of the rollable OTFT-driven OLED display
size of a panel: 4.1 inch wide
number of pixels: 432 x 240 x RGB pixels
size of a pixel: 210μm x 210μm
resolution: 121 ppi (pixels per inch)
number of colors: 16,777,216
peak luminance: >100 cd/m2
contrast ratio: >1000:1
minimum bending radius: 4 mm
driving scheme: 2T-1C voltage programming with OTFTs
thickness of a panel: 80μm

Frequent viewers of I New Idea must have noticed that we’re quite concerned about the new designs of cameras, and we’ve published many interesting and innovative cameras during the past. But few of them would beat the Stampy Digital Camera designed by Jinhee Kim. It works in a way like this: you take pictures, edit them on the camera, and then you stamp the photograph onto a sheet of paper. So simply put, the Stampy Digital Camera is a digital camera that also doubles as a rubber stamp. Isn’t that interesting?

‘Stack’ is a table lamp designed to create an illusion that resembles a pile of rock-solid stone slabs stacking on top of one another while retaining an aesthetically pleasing form and posture that is simple yet functional. Once lit, the arrays of light will slip through this seemingly impenetrable material that will instantaneously warm up its surrounding environment. The use of a minimalism approach allows its user to further appreciate the texture and the unique properties of this revolutionary material without the contamination of a visually-complicated design.

found via Downstairs Studio

Mirikeshi is an eraser that 5 edge in various sizes.  The number indicates the thickness in millimeters.