The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.
Wired has an intersting piece on how the intenet is evolving and leaving the web behind. You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad — that’s one app. During breakfast you browse Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times — three more apps. On the way to the office, you listen to [...]
Apple’s New Products
Well, Apple has once again refreshed their iPod line of products. There wasn’t a whole lot of wow factor to the announcement — I think only the social aspect of iTunes was somewhat news to anyone — but the products just keep getting prettier and better. Co.Design put it well: Yet again, Apple raises their [...]
Race and Middle School Elections
I’m still shaking my head in disbelief over this memo from Nettleton Middle School in Nettleton, Miss. that specifies which race you must belong to in order to run for certain school offices. What’s that? You are a black kid interested in running for 8th grade president? Ha!! Try vice president or reporter instead. Legal Blog Watch.
Biosensor Pajamas for Babies
Wow! Don’t know if this is creepy or cool. Reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons were Herb, Homer’s long lost brother invents a machine that turns a baby’s cries into English. Exmovere has debuted a new type of monitor, however, which are actually part of the baby’s pajamas, and which are said to [...]
Offcut Stools : Edwards Moore Architects
These are probably not very comfortable, but they look really cool. They are part of an exhibition of works made from “hard rubbish finds, found objects or the reuse of existing materials” displayed at a working bar. Edwards Moore Architects via Treehugger
How Ancient Greek Statues Really Looked
Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away…Although it seems impossible to think that anything could be left to discover after thousands of years of wind, sun, sand, and art students, finding the long lost patterns on a piece of ancient Greek sculpture can be as easy [...]
Musician : Architect
This is a neat comparison of two different “artist” categories and their equivalents. Based on an observation by Greene and Greene’s David Mathias that the Beatles were the Frank Lloyd Wright of music, Architect magazine (@architectmag) roped Architizer (@architizer), Co.Design (@fastcodesign), and a bunch of other Twitter hounds into a game this morning that made us [...]
Dude! Canada to Build a Cannabis Car
Dude, where’s my car? You smoked it. (booo) Several Canadian companies are teaming up with polytechnic schools in Alberta, Quebec and Toronto to make an electric vehicles out of hemp. The cars will hold up to three passengers, reach 55 miles an hour and go for up to 100 miles without having to be recharged. [...]
Your Personal Hobo-mobile
I said Hobo, H-O-B-O, ok? Check out this sweet ride. Perfect for hipsters and treehuggers as well. Bufalino, which converts a simple Piaggio APE50 trike–familiar if you’ve ever traveled in Asia–into a full on rolling shelter with as many comforts as your local artisanal coffee shop. “The traveling vehicle is always with you like some [...]
Mod Miniatures & Videos for Chillout Sessions XI & XII / Andrew van der Westhuyzen