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Eric de Haas

Philips Dog


The picture above is a robot dog made by Philips, somewhere around 1958 I guess. It was taken from the book 'PRACTICAL ROBOT CIRCUITS: ELECTRONIC SENSORY ORGANS AND NERVE SYSTEMS' published by A.H. Bruinsma and the 'Philips Technical


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Posted by Eric de Haas on July 27, 2010 at 11:00pm

Eric de Haas

The printed building


Finally it's here. Once the first 3d printers made it to the market and the 'built-them-yourself' community took off, it was just a matter of waiting for the first

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Posted by Eric de Haas on July 22, 2010 at 11:07pm

Clive van Heerden

Electronic Brains




Recently I was reading an article that added a new chapter in my knowledge of the Philips cultural heritage. I guess everybody knows about

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Posted by Clive van Heerden on July 15, 2010 at 4:30pm

Eric de Haas

± 30 SqM HongKong apartment with 24 rooms



A beautiful example, in addition to the Habitat project, of how an appartment of approximately 30 SqM can transform into 24 different spaces. Some other nice examples of transforming- and off the grid-houses can be found… Continue

Posted by Eric de Haas on July 5, 2010 at 1:37pm

Eric de Haas

Transforming Book Cover


For the internal Philips Design Metamorphosis document, an ever changing book cover was created by combining a photochromic and thermochromic ink. The ink that is used for the typography is thermochromic and is getting transparent when temperature

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Posted by Eric de Haas on June 25, 2010 at 5:13pm

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