Zune HD

ipod touch contender.
wait til this baby changed to a phone
;P

Not bad considering its a concept we "imported" from France ;P!

From the beginning, Montreal officials had ambitions for the new Bixi bicycle-sharing system that went beyond the borders of that Canadian city.

On Wednesday, Gérald Tremblay, the Montreal’s mayor, announced that the Bixi system will be implemented in Boston and London.Boston’s Metropolitan Area Planning Council confirmed that it has selected Bixi to put in place a bike-sharing program.

In a statement, the Public Bike System Company, Montreal’s marketing operation for Bixi, indicated that the Boston system will initially offer 2,500 bikes at 290 stations in down

Designers Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway MBE have today called for budding creative
entrepreneurs to come forward to sell their products from 'KiosKiosK' - an innovative 'pop
up shop' that will provide free temporary retail space for start-up businesses in central
London this summer.
The first KiosKiosK - designed by the Hemingways and supported by the Mayor of London
and the London Sustainable Development Commission’s London Leaders programme - will
be housed for two months (July to September 2009) outside London's iconic City Hall. It
will offer rent-free space for people with creative products to sell such as ceramics,
artworks, creative gifts and fashion, helping new businesses with great ideas to get a stepup
on the ladder to success.

Today, Mr. Gude wakes at around 6 a.m. to check his work e-mail and his Facebook and Twitter accounts. The two boys, Cole and Erik, start each morning with text messages, video games and Facebook.

“Things that I thought were unacceptable a few years ago are now commonplace in my house,” she said, “like all four of us starting the day on four computers in four separate rooms.”

Technology has shaken up plenty of life’s routines, but for many people it has completely altered the once predictable rituals at the start of the day.

This is morning in America in the Internet age. [...] people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging their legs to the floor and tending to more biologically urgent activities.

“It used to be you woke up, went to the bathroom, maybe brushed your teeth and picked up the newspaper,” “But what we do first now has changed dramatically.

On a tiny vacant lot between period terraces Kavellaris Urban Design have not only created an environmentally sustainable family home but pushed the envelop of what we think of heritage values and the cultural significance of the built environment. It's not just a "decorated shed" though but a space that reacts with and to its inhabitants as well as challenging what is private and what is public.