Infographic of the Day: Let the Wind Knit Your Next Scarf

Visualizing the wind, by making it produce something useful.

Designer Merel Karhof wanted to visualize the wind--a challenge made poetic by the fact that the wind's ever present but always invisible and almost always ignored. And what she eventually came up with is having a windmill create a scarf--an item that would protect the wearer from the very power that created it.

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"The machine visualizes directly what you
can produce with the present amount of urban wind," she...