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Turn a Sound Waveform Into a Bracelet

2009-04-10T04:53:00.003-07:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Turn a Sound Waveform Into a Bracelet

While it's packaged as a way to talk your kids out of getting high via a WWJD-type bracelet (LAME!), the Sound Advice Project nevertheless makes a cool bracelet of any sound's waveform for $18.

Sheep-Powered LED Display Lights Up Welsh Hillside

2009-04-10T04:53:00.001-07:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Sheep-Powered LED Display Lights Up Welsh Hillside

Snow White MacBook Cover Can Only Be Awakened With Steve Jobs's Kiss

2009-04-10T04:51:00.001-07:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Snow White MacBook Cover Can Only Be Awakened With Steve Jobs's Kiss

Mark McKeague - Twitter Radio

2009-03-29T05:39:00.000-07:00

source: beautifuldecay

TwitterRadio from Mark McKeague on Vimeo.

Man-Made 'Happy Clouds" Float Over London [Emoticlouds]

2009-02-26T06:42:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Man-Made 'Happy Clouds" Float Over London [Emoticlouds]

While a cloud floating overhead is traditionally heralded as a bad omen, the 2057 "Happy Clouds" released over London were simply meant to "cheer people up a bit."

Jacket With an Inflatable Hood Is Perfect For Sleepy Travelers

2009-02-26T02:41:00.000-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Jacket With an Inflatable Hood Is Perfect For Sleepy Travelers

Sleeping on a train, plane or car would be a hell of a lot more comfortable if your jacket had a hood that could inflate and function as a pillow.

Rundle Lantern

2009-02-19T04:34:00.001-08:00

sauce: Hyponeiria

Rundle Lantern Launch from Damien Mair on Vimeo.

The Credit Crisis Visualized in Animated Infographics

2009-02-19T04:09:00.001-08:00

sauce: Information Aesthetics: The Credit Crisis Visualized in Animated Infographics

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Indian matchbox art

2009-02-19T04:06:00.003-08:00

sauce: Boing Boing: Indian matchbox art

Matt Lee's gallery of matchboxes from the subcontinent highlights the lovely art that adorns these little bits of ephemera: "The random and disparate juxtapositions of the imagery encapsulate the mix of historic, mythological and contemporary visual culture in India."

Ice Invaders Attack Girly Mixed Drinks Everywhere [Food]

2009-02-19T04:06:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Ice Invaders Attack Girly Mixed Drinks Everywhere [Food]

Sometimes it's not enough to be a somewhat indifferent fan of an 80s arcade phenomenon. Sometimes you need to share your blasé passion with others by making them ingest it.

Soviet Atomic Lighthouses Are Both Spooky and Deadly [Boom]

2009-02-19T04:05:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Soviet Atomic Lighthouses Are Both Spooky and Deadly [Boom]

Once upon a time, back when people in Russia used big moustaches and sent other people to Siberia, there were no GPS or tacky cellphones. But they had atomic lighthouses to light the Artic shores.

FREE GRAFFITI!

2009-01-29T12:30:00.000-08:00

source: http://www.notcot.com/archives/2009/01/augmented_reali.php

watch the video

Aeolus Airship Concept Can Stay Aloft for Two Weeks [Air Travel]

2009-01-24T07:33:00.001-08:00

that thing has a very strange attraction!

sauce: Aeolus Airship Concept Can Stay Aloft for Two Weeks [Air Travel]

president obama

2009-01-21T13:23:00.000-08:00

sauce: swissmiss: Article 2 (for BHO) by Andrew Sloat

Article 2 (for BHO) from Andrew Sloat on Vimeo.

Sex Pixels Girls: If Semi-Tasteful Nudes Were Made of LEGO (NSFW) [Art]

2009-01-12T12:52:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Sex Pixels Girls: If Semi-Tasteful Nudes Were Made of LEGO (NSFW) [Art]

You could recreate this effect with a $60,000 Lego self-replica...if you were only as perfectly-formed as the ladies from this photoshoot.

The best LEGO creations on Flickr — all in one place

2009-01-08T04:37:00.001-08:00

sauce: The Brothers Brick: The best LEGO creations on Flickr — all in one place

Simply put, we didn’t blog everything that deserved to be blogged in 2008. In some cases, time just got away from us before we gave a major event like Brick Fan Town the full write-up it deserved (though the Visual Tour is still well worth a look). In other cases, we just missed an amazing LEGO creation completely.

“Reflection” by birdboykristian.

As I tried to write a post about the “Best LEGO creations of 2008 we really should’ve blogged,” I got invited to the LEGO - Top rating images group on Flickr.

“Super Electric Robot Team” by Peter Reid.

The group pulls together the three most-favorited photo from each member, ranging from amazing photos with hundreds of faves to hidden gems with just a few. An interesting way to view this group pool is to sort all of the photos by, well, “interestingness.”

“The War Wagon” by Fedde.

A site called Flickriver lets you flip through sets of photos by recency, randomly, or by how “interesting” they are. Scrolling down the Flickriver page for “LEGO - Top rating images” is like looking through a Greatest Hits selection from the last few years. I’m proud to say we’ve featured nearly all of the top photos from that group, but I loved seeing new things alongside all my old favorites.

Meatspace “Grillbot” by Ryan Wod.

So, take some time and check out the LEGO - Top rating images group. You just might find a few new favorites yourself.

Crazy Video of Skiers Jumping Into the Void

2009-01-08T03:19:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Crazy Video of Skiers Jumping Into the Void

Gulnur Ozdaglar's PET Jellies

2009-01-07T06:49:00.000-08:00

sauce: Boing Boing: Gulnur Ozdaglar's PET Jellies

I've always really liked jellyfish. I can spend hours zoning out at the jelly exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. And I'm almost as enthralled with these jelly sculptures made out of plastic bottles by Gulnur Ozdaglar, which I discovered on Design Sponge. Ozdaglar makes all kinds of wonderful things out of PET bottles.

Aerial7 Graffiti Headphones One Pacifier Short of a Personal Rave

2009-01-04T17:33:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Aerial7 Graffiti Headphones One Pacifier Short of a Personal Rave [Headphones]

Well hello color. How ya been, and who at Aerial7 did you have to get high in order to get yourself arranged in such a, um, loud way on these new Graffiti headphones?

Crazy Japan Builds Crazy Highways to Drive People Crazy [Architecture]

2008-12-23T14:05:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo: Crazy Japan Builds Crazy Highways to Drive People Crazy [Architecture]

This road smashing into a building and emerging out on the other side is the most "normal" highway in this album of Japanese infrastructures collected by Dark Roasted Blend.

[Dark Roasted Blend]

LG 14.1-inch laptop LCD for indoor and outdoor use

2008-12-22T06:37:00.001-08:00

if this is working in everyday use as intended this technology is pure WIN!

sauce: Obsessable: LG 14.1-inch laptop LCD for indoor and outdoor use

LG has developed a new LCD technology offering transmissive and reflective illumination, which basically means that it will perform well both inside in normal lighting conditions and outside in the sun. LG's Backlight Data Signal Switching Technology will allow users to easily switch between the two modes. The transmissive mode offers a backlight like the majority of current laptops and cellphones, whereas the reflective mode will use ambient light to generate contrast for the screen's display. This reflective mode will have the added benefit of consuming 75% less energy than the traditional backlit method, which should mean prolonged battery life in laptops featuring this technology. These LG displays aren't available in any devices yet, but the original production run is aimed to develop 14.1-inch screens for laptops, so we should be seeing a few laptops with this technology after it officially debuts at CES 2009.

Murloc bento box looks strangely tasty

2008-12-22T01:11:00.001-08:00

sauce: Wow Insider: Murloc bento box looks strangely tasty

2008 Greek riots

2008-12-17T05:21:00.001-08:00

sauce: boston.com

On the night of Saturday, December 6th, two Special Guards of the Greek police clashed with a small group of young men. The exact details of what took place are still unclear, but it is known that one of the Guards fired three shots, and one of those bullets caused the death of 15-year-old Alexander Grigoropoulos - whether the injury was made by an accidental ricochet or deliberate shot remains to be determined. The two Guards are now in jail awaiting trial, the shooter charged with homicide. This incident sparked an immediate and widespread response in the form of angry demonstrations and riots in many Greek cities that have continued at varying levels to this day - though dimming in intensity recently. Alexander's death appears to have been a catalyst, unleashing widespread Greek anger towards many issues - police mistreatment of protesters, unwelcome education reforms, economic stagnation, government corruption and more.

(37 photos total)

Soma Fm

2008-12-17T03:57:00.001-08:00

14 unique channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco.

sauce: Soma Fm

my favourite channels are:

lush,secret agent, groove salad (tbh all channels are great!).

The Mactini: The Inevitable Future of Apple in a Post-Netbook World [Parody]

2008-12-17T03:55:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo: The Mactini: The Inevitable Future of Apple in a Post-Netbook World [Parody]

Who could have guessed that the most prescient technologist of our day would be a relatively unknown British sketch comedian?

Peter Serafinowicz, of the possibly acclaimed Peter Serafinowicz Show, has put together a couple videos in the style of Apple's stodgy online product demonstration videos, imagining two new products from the company. The iToilet, below, is relatively uninspired (it's funny because it's impossible, and something to do with bathrooms! Ha!) but the Mactini is kind of fantastic. Not to mention Serafinowicz's wonderfully convincing half-Jobs, half-generic-demo-guy character, who is only a wandering eye away from fitting right into Apple's product tour rotation. [Cult of Mac]

The Evolution of the Console Controller [Video Games]

2008-12-16T04:07:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo

It's not just some unfounded stereotype that video game controllers have gotten more complex over time, just look at this fantastic chronological illustration.

The controllers are offered in proper scale with each set of hands sized identically. And we see, while controllers have gotten more complicated, they've also grown larger—though we look to have peaked back in the last generation (if you discount arsenal of peripherals you'll find in Rock Band or GHIV).

One trend we found interesting: The ill-fated Atari 5200 represented the early height of how-many-buttons-will-this-thing-fit engineering. And I don't think that it was before two successful generations of consoles later that the arms race picked up again. [Chewing Pixels via Offworld]
[From The Evolution of the Console Controller [Video Games]]

Iraq Shoe Tosser Guy: The Animated Gifs

2008-12-16T04:06:00.001-08:00

sauce: Boing Boing

Mr. al-Zaidi has become Iraq's version of Joe the Plumber -- with nicer taste in loafers. (Thanks, John Walsh!) Previously: Arab shoe-tossing isn't a gesture of friendly affection

Update: And the hits keep on comin'!

(that last one via substitute.livejournal.com
[From Iraq Shoe Tosser Guy: The Animated Gifs]

Adventurous teabag danglers

2008-12-15T09:11:00.001-08:00

sauce: Boing Boing

Love the little adventure dudes on the ends of these teabags, custom designed for a posh cafe in Istanbul.

Activitea... (see what I did there)

[From Adventurous teabag danglers]

Classic Hip-Hop Album Covers Redone in Lego: Dr. Dre is More Cuddly as a Minifig [Lego]

2008-12-13T08:54:00.001-08:00

sauce: Gizmodo

The ironists over at Formatmag have taken 20 classic hip-hop albums and Lego-fied them, making famous grumpy scowlers like The Game and Nas into everyone's favorite tiny plastic figurines.

Some of the transformations work out in expected ways: De La Soul, Common, and the Beastie Boys all look cute as cheerful minifigs. Somehow they managed to find a minifig as angry-looking as The Game, but reimagined him as more of a crazy biker with pinkeye:

But my favorite has to be Dr. Dre's "The Chronic," just for how inappropriately happy he looks in Lego.

[via Prefix]
[From Classic Hip-Hop Album Covers Redone in Lego: Dr. Dre is More Cuddly as a Minifig [Lego]]

Driving Simulator on Google Maps

2008-12-11T13:14:00.001-08:00

sauce: geoquake

2d driving simulator on google maps. must be played!

Obento! "Cute lunches made for me by my girlfriend!"

2008-12-09T05:29:00.001-08:00

sauce: Make Magazine

Man, this is super cute... Obento! "Cute lunches made for me by my girlfriend!" - her site is here.

Nintendo DS Bento.

Amazing bento art.
[From Obento! "Cute lunches made for me by my girlfriend!"]

Balloon tank

2008-12-09T05:28:00.001-08:00

sauce: Make Magazine

Balloon tank

[From Balloon tank]

Brick Brothers: BrickArms under attack in recent Sun edition [Editorial]

2008-12-09T05:24:00.001-08:00

sauce: Brick Brothers

BrickArms under attack in recent Sun edition [Editorial]

[From BrickArms under attack in recent Sun edition [Editorial]]

Monoscope: Fruta Del Diablo

2008-12-09T05:23:00.001-08:00

sauce: Monoscope

[From Fruta Del Diablo]

Signalnoise: Inspiration: Logos from Canada

2008-12-09T05:22:00.001-08:00

sauce: Signalnoise

Here is a round-up of some fine Canadian logos, grabbed from one of my favorite websites, The Canadian Design Resource. Canada has a wonderful history in terms of identity design with simple and iconic logos, most of which remain quite timeless. Listed above are:

1. Canadian Metric Movement

2. Westbeach

3. Okanagan Spring Brewery icon

4. Montreal Alouettes

5. Potash Corporation

6. Marlborough Hotel

7. Delta Acceptance

8. Art Gallery of Ontario

9. Toronto Images Festival

10. Northwest Territories

11. Ville de Sainte-Laurent

12. Green party

We live in a time when logos seem very polished and over-produced, a logical side-effect given the technology we now have, however most of the above stand the test of time. I am especially fond of the Potash Corporation, Northwest Territories and the Green Party logos. Beautiful in their simplicity, and I don’t say that only because I am Canadian :)
[From Inspiration: Logos from Canada]