At first glance I thought the gold blinds were lenses that pivoted when the glasses were unfolded, so that the dollar signs would just jab the wearer in the eyes. Your design is better, but gilded blinding greed goggles feels appropriate, too.
It’s nothing very clever honestly, the prompt is this : table lamp, ultra realistic, design by Charles and Ray Eames, --v 4 with a bunch of famous designers:
Yeah, and arguably those systems were clunky to use, barely had any quality improvements over the native cameras, awkward to attach/detach and never really caught on.
This in part is why I made the project — it’s a thought experiment on how to make such a product more seamless and user-friendly. So I guess sorry if it came across as presenting a completely new idea, it wasn’t intended as such. It’s an attempt to revise an unsuccessful idea considering more modern solutions.
I have always wanted something like this! The processor in our phones are far more powerful than any camera, so why not use it. Same with the screen. And I want all images geotagged, something a phone has built in. And importantly, I want my images on my phone for sharing. Just need a little bigger sensor and a way to attach lenses. I always thought the old Nikon 1 system would make a great starting point.
Cameras have low processing power because they don’t require all that much. The issue is the physics of light severely limiting what a sensor small enough to fit in a smartphone can do. A small sensor requires either fewer pixels, smaller pixels, or both.
Smaller pixels = less light gathered = worse image quality and far worse low light performance.
While something like this could be made, it would be very expensive, and there is no possible way it could come close to the image quality of even an entry-level DSLR or mirrorless camera. Even the best lens in the world can’t make up for a bad sensor. Smartphones can use their higher processing power to try to hide it with HDR and absurdly bad faked depth of field, but it will always look noticeably worse compared to the same photo taken on even a very old, low-end APS-C or full frame camera.
Smartphone cameras definitely fill a big niche in photography, but unless there’s an incredible breakthrough in sensor technology, their physical limitations will always prevent them from being good enough for widespread professional use.
I agree. Which is why I want a moderate sized sensor in a format that can attach to my phone. Small enough the lenses are easy to carry, but multiple times larger than what will fit in a phone.
Also, much of the amazing things phones are able to pull off with absurdly small sensors is because of processing. My iPhone has a special chip just for image processing. Many things can be done in software. My DSLR’s are slow, clunky, and the software rarely changes much post purchase.
My use case would be travel. Phone cameras today are terrible anywhere you need a telephoto lens. But I also rarely want to carry a full dslr (I own several). And, I want to easily share photos as I take them. Today I use my phone and leave my big cameras at home. There are many times I don’t even bother getting it out of my pocket because I know taking the photo I could easily take with my SLR would be impossible.
This is a very nicely presented video, but I discovered it 20 years too late! Back in the early 90’s I was experimenting with b-spline surfaces for car exteriors. I needed to reverse engineer our CAD system, and teach myself to program. There was no internet resources for normal people then, no IT people around either. And I’m no mathematician, so I programmed everything geometrically. Gerald Farin’s book helped with some breakthroughs, but I had to ignore all the heavy formulae. I was finally able to make a program to help create the very precise, smooth surfaces needed for vehicle exteriors seen on many well known cars driving around since then.
That’s interesting) Have you worked on those vehicles’ designs as well, or specifically on the software that was used? Is it something that’s still utilized to this day?
Yes. My job is designer. But typically the software is a big limitation. So initially I secretly learnt to enhance the software without my bosses knowing. And in the time I saved, I was able to develop the software and my knowledge even further. It was when I shared my commands with my colleagues the bosses started to take notice. Not all bosses understood what it meant for productivity though.
When the commercial software improved, most of my programs became redundant. Yet I was happy to now use real professionally programmed tools. But some of the coolest things are still missing.
Hey! Just joined after seeing your comment about this place yesterday.
I am not an industrial designer, alas, I actually went to uni for the first time in my 30s and chose this as my topic to study, but the course was kind of a scam and then Covid hit halfway through our second year so other than meeting a couple of cool people it was basically a complete waste of time!
That said, one of the lads on the course was big into his CAD and taught me some skills that I’m still using. Myself and my husband got into making our own resin dice, and knowing how to CAD was huge in terms of designing 3d printed contraptions to create weird and wonderful dice moulds.
It’s something I’d love to get back into in a hobbyist context, but without any tools of my own or makerspaces nearby everything would be limited to digital design. The reason I chose an industrial design degree in the first place was that after a career as a web developer, I wanted to make something physical for a change!
So I guess what this rambling rant is saying is, I’m basically here to live vicariously and compliment people on their awesome ideas and weird inventions. Which isn’t super helpful to you but at least it’s someone responding 😄
Is this a common pipeline I was hitherto unaware of? You know what they say about great minds, and all that!
I’ve settled more on gamedev these days, it sort of feels like a cross between the two since it’s still digital but you’re making something a bit more interactive than a regular web app. Do miss the smell of sawdust from the uni workshop, though!
That looks like a really interesting project. Do you have some more info about it, or other renderings? A discord channel perhaps? I’d be interested to learn more.
I’m working on a musical instrument as a hobby too btw (way too niche tho, it’s an electric lyre).
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