Behind blue eyes

Foodini is a kickstarter project and is the first 3D printer where fresh and healthy ingredients can be used with. The aim of the creators of the Foodini is that people will use healthy and fresh products instead of ready-made meals. The fresh products can be done in a capsule, and the it comes out of the 3D printer as a fresh meal. I think this have potential for the future because 3D printers will become more important for the daily life. Actually, for everything. Also for food. And in the future, we can make new organs with the 3D printer. That is simply amazing. 

Do you ever had the ambition to be a mermaid or merman? Apparently, lots of people have. So, a new trend was born. We already know the girls who dye their hair in all sorts of colors. But now, also men join the trend and dye their hair in blue, green and purple. Even the beard will not be forgotten. This men really look like mermans with their colorful hair. The trend was born in America and is spread by the festivals Coachella and Pride. I do not know if the trend will come to Europe. Maybe the men here are too down to earth. 

I was thinking about what I have done the last years of my study. And suddenly I remembered a video which we made in the second year. After long thinking, i finally know what it is about. The video was called; be your own ruler. It is about the trend self-sufficiency. People distrust the government and that is why they take matters into their own hands. We made a very cool video about it, if I may say. But you can look at it yourself.

Andreia Chaves designed this shoe in collaboration with prototyping studio Freedom of Creation. The basis of the Invisible Shoe is made with 3D printer, then it is covered with mirror shards. The mirrors creates an optical illusion which is consistent with the trend Escapism. The mirrors fit the shoes at every step as a kind of chameleon. The shoe is one with the environment. This optical illusion is the deformation of the reality what has been called can be seen as it runs from the reality.

Iris van Herpen uses the 3D printer a lot for her collections. She wants to translate her associations and fascinations of daily life in her designs. Each collection has its own story. Similarly, the collection Escapism, which of course bears the same name as the trend. The collection is actually a perfect translation of the trend; the escape from the everyday. Only Iris van Herpen focuses more on flights from the digital age. She explains the concept: "Something that is seen as the exaggeration and extravagance which is a result of the digital age. It makes the general human enthusiastic, wanting and desiring. It's all about how greedy society will find its own ways to reject reality by addictive entertainment. "

Earlier I have written about eating seaweed. And now I am going to write about eating insects. Once, I eat a grasshopper. It didn’t taste bad, but I was disgusted by the idea of eating a insect. Ento is a company which will introduce insects to the Western diet. It is the outcome of a project undertaken by a team of four students from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London who wanted to fight against the growing issue of food supply in a world where people are hungry. The company wanted to see how this provocative new food source could be introduced to Western diets.        People in Europe do not eat insects daily, but in other country’s it is very normal. Insects are very healthy; they contain a lot of proteins. So why don’t we eat it? Because it looks horrible. And that is what Ento does. They make the insects unrecognizable and let it look delicious. So, this is a ‘’reverse trend’’, people can not see what is in their food with this but I think this has future grow potential because it is a solution for the hungry world.

Always lose everything. You recognize that? Than I found something cool for you. A special ring. Kickstarter made it possible for John Mclear to make this ring. With this ring, you can unlock doors, pay, share information and link with people. It is very efficential because you will need only one ring for all your personal information. I think that the ring is cool because you only need one thing for much personal things. It is much safer because it is on your own finger, this makes the chance for losing it very small. I think this is cool for urban nomads because they are always on the go, so they take all their personal information with them. With this ring they can not lose it easily. So, are you a person who loses everything? Buy this thing. 

I was just looking around on the internet when I saw something terribly sad. I am a huge animal lover, so this broke my heart. Poor little fish is a fish bowl designed by Yan Lu. When you open the tap to wash your hands, the water sucked out of the fishbowl. The water will come from a different direction, so it is clean. When you stop the tap, there is coming. I do not think it's cool because it's sad for the fish. Instead of using a real fish they had to choose for something else, so the fish can just have a normal life. The only cool thing about it is that you can see how much water you consume and being aware of it.

‘’Liever lui dan moe’’. A common said sentence in the Netherlands, which means ‘Rather lazy than tired’. And this has all to do with where i am going to write about today. Actually, it is really cool. But also a little bit ‘lazy’. I am talking about Amazon. Yes, the very big company. They have introduced the Amazon Dash. The new way to shop from home. It is a little gadget which helps you to shop at home. You can say what you want and the gadget will find it on amazon or amazon fresh. You can also scan products with it. So, if you eat the last piece of crackers, you can easily scan the product and dash will add it to your shopping list. I think this is really convenient and cool. But that is why i am ‘’liever lui dan moe ;) ‘’.

Look at the video I put down here. It makes it all clear for you!