Trying to forecast the future of global healthcare is an ambitious undertaking, to say the least. Even trying to discuss the future of health insurance leads to heated debate and disagreement, as we've seen over the past few months. Not to be deterred, the team at Ergonomidesign took on this task, and created a short video outlining their vision of an Integrated Health Care Ecosystem.

The good news for our readers is that in this future scenario there seems to be plenty of work for product and interaction designers, in addition to actual healthcare professionals.

After over 40 years of pioneering work in the Life Science industry, we have been working for the past months to put together our take on the future of Life Science. Our story comprises not only scenarios and a clear picture of the eco-system in which Life Science might exist (in 2015) - but we have gone as far as prototyping glimpses of how interaction might occur with doctors and other medical professionals and services. The future concept and prototype was developed by the Life Science team at Ergonomidesign including user experience and interaction designers, design strategists, graphic designers, developers and health care professionals. Our challenge was to envision the future of Life Science and develop possible solutions for the world to test, use and reflect on.

The future of Health Care is a subject that has aroused intense speculation recently across different forums. Several interesting scenarios and points of view have been discussed. Professionals and designers alike have tried to make sense of a fuzzy future. Predicting possible futures for the Health Care industry is an ambitious task, fraught with great risk. There are far too many disparities in various global Healthcare Systems today that make it impossible to present one comprehensive solution that fits all. The industry is constantly affected by Government legislation, making their rate of development impossible to predict in isolation from external factors. Most importantly, Health Care is about us - ordinary people - for whom tailoring one universal solution is out of question.

Often the best way to predict the future is by attempting to design and build critical glimpses of it. Storytelling has usually been the most favored approach - usually giving rise to compelling and believable scenarios. The approach taken by us at Ergonomidesign was to bring in elements of prototyping at crucial moments in the scenario, in order to demonstrate key interactions actually taking place. Right or wrong is always subject to debate - a process of endless iteration.

Original industrial design by Dave Schultze | SchultzeWORKS designstudio.
For more information or to contact Dave, visit the data page schultzeworks.com/philcopc/

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about Cap & Trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.

Official Video of Ashtray Heart. Release date on the 21st September world wide.

CD Single

1.Ashtray Heart
2.Fuck U
3.For What Its Worth (Losers Remix )

iTunes Digital Download (Available to buy 20th September)

1.Ashtray Heart
2.Fuck U
3.Hardly Wait
4.For What Its Worth (Losers Remix )
5.Ashtray Heart (Video)

Google Chrome is a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. Click on the notice board in the video to see our other films.

There's something incredibly whimsical about Google Chrome's artsy new ad that making me smile. Maybe it's just because the "Speed" section of the ad keeps making me think of those crazy contraptions in Tom and Jerry cartoons. [Thanks, Emery!]

Using the same camera perspective trick employed by weareom for their “Chop Cup” viral (or sidewalk artist Julian Beever or Salvador Dalí or countless others, I’m
sure), Google crafted a series of elaborate analogue vignettes to tout the features of its Chrome browser.

Some of the ideas work better than others, with the obvious crowd-pleaser being the Speed demo. The subtext for all the vignettes is a celebration of DIY ingenuity, of making something seemingly simple through the complex combination of unlikely components. In many cases, the machines are human-powered, with hand-turned cranks and puppeted objects supplying the “animation.”

Mostly, though, the message is one we don’t often hear among the nerdified banter of browser battles: Surfing the net should be fun. It should be unexpected, but not because your browser crashes or because you contract a nasty virus.

El destino va a cumplirse. ¿Cuándo? En febrero. La partida empieza y termina en Cuatro.

Se acerca el comienzo de la sexta y última temporada de Perdidos. La serie ha sido un fenómeno, su final se prevee épico, y la expectación es mucha. Por eso Cuatro decidió anunciarlo a lo grande, con la promoción que podéis ver a continuación.



Cuando Carlton Cuse y Damon Lindelof vieron el anuncio, dijeron de él que era la mejor promoción de la serie que habían visto nunca. En su cuenta de Twitter podía leer: “¿La mejor promo de Perdidos que he visto nunca… es en ESPAÑOL?”.
Tanto les ha gustado, que han solicitado a la ABC que utilicen el anuncio para anunciar la temporada final en Estados Unidos.

Terry O’Quinn (John Locke) será el encargado de recitar el texto, inspirado en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges y en el poeta y matemático persa Omar Khayyam. Todo un éxito del que ya se han hecho eco durante esta semana los más prestigiosos diarios de Estados Unidos.

Si quieres saber más sobre este anuncio, te recomendamos visitar el blog de Perdidos dentro del web de Cuatro, en el que Iñaki Martikorena, director creativo del canal, y Gonzalo Tegel, guionista de autopromociones de la cadena, cuentan cómo hicieron el spot.

Y nosotros nos alegramos del éxito… ¡pero lo que queremos es ver ya los nuevos episodios!

Via: http://www.cinemaspop.net

FIFA announced the ten goals nominated for the Puskas Award, given to the scorer of
the best goal of the year. The winner will be chosen by votes cast on the FIFA website and criteria for the award include the quality of the goal and the importance of the match in which it was scored.

A creation from MIE. Commissioned by Twenty120.

Lucky is a film that was made for Twenty120 earlier in the year. Attentive readers may already have seen it, but it’s really too gorgeous and haunting to let it slip by and not give it its own full post. Its creator, EB Hu is a Director and Motion Designer based in London.

Angular Records / Domino Records are proud to present the new video for These New Puritans 'We Want War', the first single from forthcoming album 'Hidden'. 'We Want War' is available on itunes and 7digital NOW to download. Available on 10" Jan 2010...

Directed by Daniel Askill
www.thesenewpuritans.com

Director Sugimoto Kousuke creates action-packed, animated music videos overloaded with colorful visuals and global disasters. His "The TV Show" goes from hypnotically zen to multiversal meltdown, while "Full Moon Party" chronicles the rise and fall of civilization starring monkey kind.

Sugimoto's "The TV Show" is a feast for the eyes from the get-go, but watch all the way through to see its multiple realities bleed into one another.