Robotic shoes to change your height

Sometimes we all wish we were a little bit taller. Height is one of those basic properties of the human body that we would like to be able to change, depending on the situation. Well, if it's up to Adi Marom it won't take long before we can do exactly that. Her robotic platform shoes with iPhone interface and scissor mechanism are a lovable early version of what hopefully turns out to be a beautiful shoe with a smooth interface and quick operating mechanism.

robotic buildings for korea

The gyeonggi museum of modern art (GMoMA) in ansan city, korea currently has on display an exhibition showing an urban plan for ansan. It's all a bit postmodern and stilistic in design approach, but still the 'beautiful minds' building has an interesting aesthetic to it, merging a typical science fiction expression with a natural one. For some reason it does remind me a bit too much of the murderous robot walkers in 'war of the worlds', especially with those search lights. It seems to be the general view that it's ok to extract the surface qualities if you just paste them onto a different functionality, rather than merging structure and function into a coherent synergy. The 'mutated slabs and robotic towers' proposal is an interesting approach to how reconfigurable, modular buildings might look and behave.