Weekly Roundup: Japanese Solar Cell, 4-Year-Old Hero and More

We all had a long week of work, school and maybe vacation (some of us) and after spending some time relaxing with family, friends; we'll mostly spend be ready to tackle a new week. Before you do, it's time for the Weekly Roundup where we curated our some of the interesting things that happened on the Web either it is news, a new tool to try, a cool video and some sites inspiration that caught on attention. We'll also include some Abduzeedo articles from the past week just in case that you've missed them. Time to sit back, see what you've missed and gear up for the next one.

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From the Web

New Japanese solar cell is closest to reaching maximum efficiency via TheNextWeb

4-year-old uses Siri to save his moms life via TheNextWeb

Meet Nadia, the scarily human chatbot who can read your emotions via TheNextWeb

How to prepare for employment in the age of artificial intelligence via TheNextWeb

Unsplash Bulk Downloader via Product Hunt

Download a batch of stock images from Unsplash at once!

The Rapture Startup Framework via Product Hunt

Huge startup UI tool for HTML5, Photoshop & Sketch

From Abduzeedo

This Week's Perfect Office

We've built a nice set of items for your perfect office this week! Beginning with Unicoo, an adjustable drawing desk for artists seeking cool solutions for their needs. Print your pictures directly from your Smartphone using Kodak's Instant Photo Printer. Samsung has released a beautiful TV that will mistake the untrained eye for a regular framed image. But there's more!

Motion Design and Illustration: Loopy by MUTI

Loopy is a graphic design and motion design project created and shared by MUTI on their Behance profile. This project caught my attention because it shows where our industry is heading in my opinion. The project is a set of motion design pieces on very stylish illustrations, the sort of illustrations we would see featured on design sites just a illustrations a few years back. Now, however there's subtle and elegant animations, which really takes it to a new level. As the title of the post suggest, they are all perfectly looped motion graphics. Check them out.

Product Design: Anicorn Hidden Time Watch

I think most of us shared our love for gradients. As a designer, I do! What if it shares the time through a gradient on a beautiful watch?! This is the product design we are sharing today named: the Hidden Time Watch. Its a play on the colour contrast of the gradient to tell the time, its quite a genuine concept. It almost feel like an optical illusion and I think its such a cool factor. Currently on Kickstarter, the watch is unisex and comes in three colours including rose gold, black, and white.

Graphic Design and Visual Identity: Feiner Herr

Lets take a look at this visual identity & graphic design work by Hojin Kang in collaboration with Sebastian Haus for Feiner Herr; a street food startup that is all about pancakes with a twist. I really appreciate how the approach totally fits with what Feiner Herr is all about from the colours, product, the chef and that fancy looking truck. Hojin totally nailed it, hope you will enjoy!

Web Design and Visual Design for Nokia OZO

Nokia OZO is a web design, interaction design and UI/UX project shared by Viktor Vrs on his Behance profile. OZO is a virtual reality camera, the first of its kind and of course it looks extremely futuristic and the work that Viktor did an excellent job showcasing it on a beautifully simple and elegant web site. The cool thing about his design is that the camera is always on the first plane and everything looks secondary in a way. The images of the camera always pop and the low contrast text and black and white theme help with that quite a lot. Enough of descriptions, check it out after the break and let us know what you think.

Adobe Premiere 25th Anniversary

Raise your hand if anyone of you have ever use at least once Adobe Premiere? What was the version? Its hard to believe that they are celebrating its 25th Anniversary. For the occasion, they are sharing with us some cool souvenirs to take us down the memory lane. Give it a look, youll get to watch of their first demo from Version 1. Happy 25th Adobe Premiere!

ABDZ Photo Challenge: Our #abdz_lookup Picks

For this week, we went with the hashtag: --> #abdz_lookup. Whatever is your focal point, the main purpose of this challenge is to simply look up. You'll realize how much you can discover really interesting angles or even a picture as a whole. Hope you guys had fun!

Architecture: Inside the Offices of VSCO Oakland

VSCO is an editing app that I use almost every day to enhance workflow with my photography through taking photos, editing, filtering and sharing them. That being said, I am always wondering about the architecture inside the offices will look like, a behind the scenes look to see their work environment of such a genuine app that changed the way we take pictures.