From BuzzFeed: ” The new commercial for the 4th generation iPod Nano is out which also means the next big indie band is about to go mainstream. The song playing over all those pretty colors is “Bruises” by a group called Chairlift. By being featured in the commercial, they’ve received the Apple touch which grants one lucky, obscure band instant stardom. At this point, Apple has proven that every time an ipod is created, an indie band gets their wings.”
Designer Anthony Mallier from India has created ‘Sparkle’ contact lenses to make your eyes “Sparkle like they’ve never sparkled before.” The ‘Sparkle’ contact lenses are fused with tiny Swarovski crystals in a circle around the edges of the lenses.
Spin doesn’t belong in the news. It’s like putting motor oil in the mojito. We have tremendous respect for journalists, but who would argue that the media circus isn’t out of control? A full 66% of Americans think the press is one-sided. Now there’s a website and software tool that exposes news spin and bias, misuse of sources, and suspect factual support. At SpinSpotter, you’ll experience the news in a profound new way. Yes, the truth is back in town.
The School of Life is a new cultural enterprise based in central London offering intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life.
We offer evening and weekend courses, holidays to unexpected locations, stigma-free psychotherapy, secular sermons, conversation meals, a floating faculty of experts and a new kind of literary consultancy service called bibliotherapy.
That guy is putting little figurines on the streets for ppl to find out (and art exhibition). Remind me a bit of the snails project I linked to a couple of weeks ago.
Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.
Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search amazon, google, wikipedia, yahoo, youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; lookup and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax highlight any code you find; and a lot more. Ubiquity “command list” to see them all.
Find and install new commands to extend your browser’s vocabulary through a simple subscription mechanism
FFL follow up with their outdoor campaign with this fabolusly twisted tv ad (which caused quite a stir in the UK, with Orangina moneyshot and other BS..)
Delicious revamped their website and it seems there’s now some issues with their automatic blog-posting feature. Here’s what made the news in the last few days:
Based in Fremont, California, GrandCentral provides an innovative web-based voice communications platform that helps you manage all your phones and phone numbers through one simple interface. You get a single phone number that forwards to all of your phones, giving you one number for life.
Based on the data gathered by Hoeckstra et al. in their study »Water Footprint of Nations« German designer Timm Kekeritz created this double-sided poster. One side visualizes the water footprint of selected nations, emphasizing the im- and export of virtual water. The other side shows the virtual water content of selected foods and commodities.
Lowe Sydney made noise around a low-interest football match between the Socceroos and Ghana by creating a fake Ghanaian fan club, which goes on a desperate mission to recruit people to be their missing ‘H’
Zimbabwe’s inflation rate has soared in the past three months and is now at 11.2 MILLION percent, the highest in the world, according to the country’s Central Statistical Office.
11.2 MILLION. I mean, between the time u get paid and the time u arrived at the store, u you lost every purchase power u had ;P
I blog earlier this month about James Powderly, his L.A.S.E.R. Stencil/Graffiti art and his involvement with the graffiti research lab. Well, he just got arrested in China for doing his thing…
“We present a framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene. For example, our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. Additionally, the user can quickly modify the video by editing only a few still images of the scene. Finally, our system allows a user to remove unwanted objects and camera shake from the video. ”
swedish illustrator/ designer olle hemmendorff was commissioned, together with 7 other creatives
(patrik söderstam, hanna wieslander, marguerite seger, jonas wiehager and fredrik skogkvistby)
by nike to interpret a nike sportswear icon. hemmendorff created a burger sculpture of nike’s ‘air max 90′.
American Idol / SuperIdol
While pretty much every civilized country has their own American Idol knockoff, China’s stands out among the rest by the sheer scale of the proceedings. Last year’s final episode was seen by over 400 million viewers, making it not only the most watched TV program in the history ever, but giving it a larger audience than the populations of the US + UK combined. The show also drew in an estimated 1.2 billion votes over the course of 2007.
The price of retail gasoline could fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday.
The similarities between products from Braun and Apple are sometimes uncanny, others more subtle,… says the article. The pics shows products that are SO identical…
The Cloud” is a newly released project from MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab. It’s a megalithic sculpture for the modern age that responds to human touch and proximity
Film and media studio Squint/Opera has created a series of images depicting imaginary scenes in London in 2090, when rising sea levels have inundated the city.
Photographer Luke Hayes has sent us these photos of Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion, a pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects at Zaragoza Expo 2008 that doubles as a pedestrian bridge across the river Ebro in Zaragoza, Spain.
Pilen Concept, Cube Urban Street Concept, Puma Bike and The Ride (with a continuously variable planetary drive” offers an infinitely variable drive ratio ;P)
Symbian joins two other major platforms — the Google-backed Android operating system and Apple’s OS X iPhone — that give programmers tools for creating and deploying software for smartphones.
Designers Studio Weave and fashion designers Eley Kishimoto have collaborated on a range of super-sized street furniture for the London Festival of Architecture, which started last week.
The Iron Chef alum serves this sinus-assaulting sorbet as a palate-cleanser on the omakase menu at Morimoto. Fresh wasabi, the chef insists, is less spicy and has a richer flavor than the powder. The Popsicle can also be served after a meal as a tangy des
Elaine Gennard-Levy opened a luxury ladies’ room on Oxford Street, Europe’s busiest shopping area. Use of the toilet and powder room at the facility costs 5 pounds ($10).
Why do brides spend thousands of dollars on wedding dresses they will never wear again, while grooms, who will have scores of future occasions that call for formal attire, generally rent a cheap tuxedo?
Axon Automotive is a newly formed car company based within the UK. It aims to manufacture the most fuel efficient cars in Europe […] at 100mpg, the most fuel efficient car in its class.
A website that sales paintings for the price of what’s represented on them. So you can buy the painting of buffalo wings for 12,70$ or a painting of a hundred bucks for 100$
Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important and lasting cultural shift. As technology has created avenues for advertising anywhere and everywhere, people are embracing brands more than ever before–creating brands of their ow
Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”–the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attent
