Readymade News

An Illustrated Weekly of World Design, 22 December 2009

2009-12-22T11:35:33+02:00

Our good friends and collaborators at Mutopo together with Toby Daniels, have launched Betacup. The goal of Betacup is to reduce paper cup consumption through the Social Product Development to find a more convenient alternative to the reusable coffee mug. Americans currently use 58 billion paper coffee cups a year, most of which are not recycled and end up in landfills. The challenge will launch in 2010, currently Betacup is looking to raise $20,000 before the 31st of December in prize money to attract designers to participate in the project through Kickstarter. Image via Brynn Marie Evans. The media landscape...

An Illustrated Weekly of World Design, 15 December 2009

2009-12-15T12:36:49+02:00

Seth Godin has organized a new ebook called What Matters Now, the ebook has contributions from “more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year. From bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert to brilliant tech thinker Kevin Kelly, from publisher Tim O'Reilly to radio host Dave Ramsey, there are some important people riffing about important ideas here. The ebook includes Tom Peters, Jackie Huba and Jason Fried, along with Gina Trapani, Bill Taylor and Alan Webber.” The ebook is free and the big idea is to get 5 million people...

An Illustrated Weekly of World Design, 09 December 2009

2009-12-09T18:33:59+02:00

SpaceShipTwo was unveiled on Monday in the Mojave Desert by Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan. SpaceShipTwo will begin short flights into space with passengers in 2011. Book your tickets here. Image; Ned RocknRoll Indian innovation is in the news again with Tata announcing a hybrid Nano and the Tata Swach; a new low-cost water purifier, aimed at lower-income households in rural areas.The Tata purifier is less than one metre tall, and does not need running water or electricity to work. Plans are to roll out in India first then Africa. For all you trainspotters out there who also have...

An Illustrated Weekly of World Design, 01 December 2009

2009-11-30T17:54:19+02:00

The Bloodhound SSC (Super Sonic Car) aims to break the 1000mph land speed record, that is just over 1600 kilometers per hour! The primary objective of the Project is to inspire the next generation to pursue careers in science, engineering, technology and maths - by demonstrating how they can be harnessed to achieve the seemingly impossible. Hakskeen Pan, in the Northern Cape of South Africa, a flat, hard surface over 20km (12 miles) long and 5km (3 miles) wide has been selected for the site of the world's fastest race track. See more images of the project here. Konstantin Grcic...

An Illustrated Weekly of World Design, 24 November 2009

2009-11-24T12:11:41+02:00

Fabrication Africa creates beautiful objects with a social conscience and a technological heritage. Inspired by Readymade’s collaboration with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) Professor, Neil Gershenfeld. Gershenfeld explains in his book, FAB , that instead of sending megatons of products around the world from factory to consumer, we could be sending electronic data around the world in seconds and making the products we need in our basements using personal fabricators. See Gershenfelds 2007 TED talk here. The NEST range is Fabrication Africa’s way of bringing this vision to life. Working with the FABlab in Soshanguve, South Africa, Fabrication Africa...