5 posts tagged “food”

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Yellow Treehouse Restaurant

Dec 27, 2008
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(November) The New Zealand Yellow Pages is conducting a marketing promotion to show that no matter what your project is, the Yellow Pages can help you complete it. To prove it, they’re building a restaurant 10 metres up a redwood tree, and the idea is to source all products and services through Yellow Pages listings.

As you can see the treehouse is now complete. You can read the original post about the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant - here.

The Treehouse was designed by architects Peter Eising and Lucy Gauntlett from Pacific Environments Architects.

Photographs by Lucy Gauntlett.

Visit the Pacific Environments Architects website - here.

Visit the website for the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant - here.

Projected Menu by Christiaan Postma + The Root Source

Dec 24, 2008
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Christiaan Postma - Projected Menu

This film was a projected menu behind a bar that creates a typography from food or drinks saying what they are and what their price is. The menu was part of the Design Bar at Stockholm Furniture Fair in 2006 created by Front Design.

via Christiaan Postma Design

The original video is silent. I added a clip of Core Hailer Pts. 1 & 2 by The Root Source (Freestyle Records)

*If you have trouble viewing the video on Vox I've cross-posted to my Posterous.

Robot Cook

Nov 28, 2008
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The multi-talented Motoman SDA10, a dexterous dual-arm industrial robot manufactured by Yaskawa Electric, is demonstrating its ability to cook okonomiyaki at the International Next-Generation Robot Fair now underway in Osaka.

Designed to operate independently alongside humans in the workplace, the 135-centimeter (4.5 ft) tall, 220-kilogram (480 lb) industrial robot has 15 joints — 7 in each arm and one in the torso — allowing a wide range of motion for the job, whether it be on the factory floor or behind the kitchen counter.

Motoman assembles camera

For a peek at Motoman’s dexterity, check out this video (from Fuji TV’s “The Best House 1-2-3″) of the robot delicately assembling a disposable camera from two dozen parts. The robot completes the complicated series of tasks in two minutes.

This high degree of manual precision comes in handy when grilling up okonomiyaki.

Motoman_2

As a chef, the Motoman relies on speech recognition technology to take verbal orders from customers. Using standard kitchen utensils, the robot mixes the okonomiyaki batter, pours it onto the iron grill, forms it into a round pancake-like disk, flips it, puts it on a plate when done, and applies condiments.

No word yet on the taste.

[Photos: AFP]

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Richard Belzer: Food Insecurity?

Nov 21, 2007
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Richard Belzer: Food Insecurity?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard...

This Thanksgiving some of us have more to be thankful for than others. The millions -- yes, millions -- of Americans who go hungry everyday (most being children) must be overwhelmed with gratitude towards our beloved government. Why? Because the geniuses whose job it is to pervert and redefine reality have come up with one of the most cynical and heartless redefinitions since Eric Blair wrote his often-quoted novel 1948. The word "hunger" has been thrown down the memory hole. Now, if a child and his or her family goes hungry, they are, according to their government, not hungry but -- get this -- "food insecure"! These soulless operatives, at the behest of their "superiors", rape and pillage the dictionary to obfuscate how little they care for our nation's most vulnerable and helpless: hungry children! Many of these renaming attempts are patently ridiculous. But to lessen the Hobbesian barbarity of this administration's perpetual "war" on the disenfranchised is amongst its lowest and most loathsome rewriting of history and the truth. Again, one must ask: What would Jesus do? Happy Thanksgiving?

Choices: Too Many or Not Enough?

Sep 7, 2007

In this witty monologue, Malcolm Gladwell follows the career of a food industry consultant Howard Moskowitz who uncovered a key secret to what eaters like. Running huge focus groups to find customers' truest tastes, Gladwell's hero draws a radical conclusion, an epiphany that has defined food marketing ever since.

Note: The theme of the 2004 conference was "The Pursuit of Happiness" -- hence the talk's quirky presence.

Malcolm Gladwell on Howard Moskowitz

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central belief of western societies: that freedom of choice leads to personal happiness. In Schwartz's estimation, all that choice is making us miserable. We set unreasonably high expectations, question our choices before we even make them, and blame our failures entirely on ourselves. His relatable examples, from consumer products (jeans, TVs, salad dressings) to lifestyle choices (where to live, what job to take, whom and when to marry), underscore this central point: Too many choices undermine happiness.

Barry Schwartz on Choices

Thanks, Ted.