In promotion of the Sierra Wireless Compass 597, the device’s Now Network provider, Sprint, has launched a ridiculously interactive widget-based site at now.sprint.com. And it brings you info on everything that’s happening at the moment that you never knew you wanted to know.
Dozens of constantly updating panels spout facts and figures, including that “In what other city was Mozart born?” is the tenth most Googled phrase today. (There’s a confused Music in Western Civ class out there somewhere with papers due tomorrow.)
But you can also learn about the…
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Two kids play some variation of California Cruisin’ at the Fun Zone inside the International Arrivals Terminal at JFK.
A man, perhaps a guardian (though the remove at which he watches suggests he is a stranger) has been drawn from his seat towards the whirring glow.
The placement of the Fun Zone, in the middle-smack of a smooth swath of terminal linoleum, suggests that its makers understood the Zone’s resplendent, almost monolithic quality. It seems to radiate prophecy, the potential for salvation.
The placement of the Mastercard advertisement on the…
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Power to the People.
Design Democracy is opening the doors to this years ICFF to anyone with a great idea. The website was founded by Detroit based design/build studio Context Furniture “to prove that mass customization is a viable alternative to mass manufacturing.” Anyone may submit a design, vote for their favorites, and chat about all things mass customized. The top designs will be prototyped and displayed at the 2008 ICFF in NYC.
Some of the highest rated designs come courtesy of LVHRD members. One of my favorites, Rocker Prototype 03 by HollerDesign, is…
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Graffiti Research Lab built their own bullet time camera rig for a hip hop video they shot with Styles P, AZ and the Large Professor.
Not only is the video sick, but they left instructions on how to build your own ghetto rig.
Lots more pictures here; and then you have the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfyu-RFWYs
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When I was a kid my computers were Tiger Electronic Games. Shinobi. Ninja Gaiden. Gauntlet. Little handheld sets you bought sealed in plastic, all the moves pre-determined, so if you tilted the set in the sunlight you could see all the movement combinations against the never-changing cardboard backdrop.
No Macbooks, no iPhones, no iPods. These were the machines that populated my Christmas wish list.
Compare to the laptops designed by seven-year olds in “The Laptop Club.”
Made on construction paper with marker and crayon, these laptops reveal just how great…
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Yesterday we talked about the body being a poor vessel for the mind: it gives out.
What if we had the ability to extend our lives beyond the meager 70, 80, 90 years we get now? Augment our bodies and enhance our intelligence. Would we want to live longer in the world we’re building?
On his blog “Accelerating Future” Michael Anissimov lists 10 Reasons We Should Live as Long as Possible:
“8. Because aging and death are primitive and inherently unpleasant”.
And 10 Reasons to Learn about Science and Technology:
“1.…
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Blendtec’s viral video blender ads ask “Will it Blend?†They test their blenders against tiki torches, transformers, and now an iPhone.
You wouldn’t think it, but the blender literally reduces the iPhone to pile of smoking black dust.
Blendtec’s host on the videos, Tom Dickson, reminds us a bit of Dr. Mark Marmalard from the Stop SMC campaign leading up to (CLL) PHN-LCKN.
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We don’t buy the adage, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” If it’s not broke and it sucks, throw it out the window and build a new one.
That’s what thehappycorp founder Doug Jaeger did with the ancient MS DOS looking Bloomberg stock terminal interface. Even though it’s essential for trading, the interface as it stands that people can end up paying $1800/month for, looks utterly awful. You might as well be reading the streaming green Matrix text.
Portoflio.com asked 3 top design firms, including thehappycorp, to have a go at…
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Aliph announced today that its Jawbone Bluetooth headset will be sold alongside the iPhone at 157 Apple stores starting June 29th.
Jawbone features a new technology called Noise Shield that adjusts the call volume and voice clarity depending on the noise of the surrounding environment. Aliph tested the headset in Black Hawk Apache helicopters and Abrams tanks.
Yves Behar of Fuse Project is the mind behind the new Jawbone design with Anomaly NYC running the sleek marketing campaign. Jawbone looks like the future, an appropriate compliment to the iPhone, which also looks like the future.…
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Maybe you’ve seen this already. Hiroshi Ishiguro, professor at Osaka University and researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, created an android duplicate of himself called Geminoid.
Geminoid mirrors Hiroshi’s movements through nodular sensors attached to the scientist’s body, breathes using compressed air, and responds to being poked. It was such a labor of love that Geminoid’s hair came from Hiroshi’s head.
Watch the video where Hiroshi speculates on the near future when android duplicates (he calls them clones) will replace absent businessmen at board meetings and you won’t know the…
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EMI, the world’s third largest record label, has announced that every song in its digital library will be available for download without the digital locks that have, in the past, prevented how many copies of a song you can make and which players you can use to hear your music.
The “premium” versions of the songs, free of Digital Rights Management, will be available on iTunes in May for $1.29, and will supposedly be twice the quality of the regular versions, still available for $.99.
Unfettered access to services you…
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