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Video: Norman Mailer vs. Marshall McLuhan
2007-11-11 20:45:00 Two intellectual greats duke it out in a CBC debate from 1968 More About: Video , Movies , Views , Reviews , History
The All OLED Keyboard-The Optimus
2007-11-10 20:52:00 Available to preorder but with an appximate price tag of $1565 i don’t think mass consumption is an issue, it is still cool though and the Keyboard can reall be handy to multilinguist… “ Every key of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing the function it is currently associated with. Optimus is equally good for any keyboard layouts?Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, ... More About: Design , Products , Industrial Design
On The Trail of Serial Killers Profilers!
2007-11-10 20:25:00 Arts & Letters Daily links to an excellent piece profiling the FBI?s serial killer profilers and its conclusions are amusing to say the least. Here is an excerpt”in a scene that has become legendary among criminal profilers, he made a prediction: ?One more thing.? I closed my eyes because I didn?t want to see their ... More About: Views , Reviews , Killers , Serial , TRAI
Video: Olympia (Prologue) 1936 Olympics by Leni Riefenstahl
2007-11-08 17:34:00 The prologue of the 1938 film “Olympia” directed by Leni Riefenstahl. It features shots of the Acropolis, ancient statues, athletes and the lighting of the Olympic flame. Olympia was commissioned by the International Olympic Committee for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Music from the soundtrack of “Alexander” (2004) by Vangelis. (Only the last 15 seconds of ... More About: Video , Movies , Podcasts , Documentary , Olympics
The Sleeptracker Watch
2007-11-07 01:46:00 “Wake at Your Perfect Time! SLEEPTRACKER® puts an end to that tired feeling. Once you set its alarm window, it monitors your body and continuously looks for your optimal waking times so it can wake you at just the right moment. SLEEPTRACKER® Pro offers historical tracking of sleep data. SLEEPTRACKER® Pro connects via USB to your computer, ... More About: Watch , Design , Products , Innovation , Industrial Design
The Latest High-Tech Solar Homes
2007-11-03 00:31:00 This piece covers the Solar Decathlon (2007)which is a competition that showcases Solar Tech nology in dwellings“There was nothing Spartan about these homes. In fact, the name Decathlon is a reference to the ten categories that these homes can rack up points in the contest: architecture, engineering, market viability, communications, comfort zone, appliances, hot water, lighting, ... More About: Views , Products , Architecture , High Tech
Drag & Drop Video From PC To A TV Via SanDisk?s TakeTV
2007-11-01 20:58:00 I love this product and want one …”TakeTV is built around a roughly 4-inch-tall, 1½-inch-wide USB thumb drive that is conveniently concealed in a small holder. This stick, which you can easily stash in your pocket, is where you store video files dragged off a computer ? about five hours of playback on a 4-gigabyte ... More About: Video , Products , Gadgets , Innovation , Drag
Music Video: Colbie Caillat - Bubbly
2007-11-01 20:03:00 Music Video : Colbie Caillat - Bubbly More About: Movies , Music , Podcasts , Music Video
A Google Parallel Internet?
2007-11-01 19:45:00 “A mobile datacenter patent has been issued to Google based on its December 2003 filing, giving the company a technology similar to that of Sun’s Project Blackbox. The timing of the patent, and the beginning of YouTube videos with ads on AdSense, may not be coincidental. Google has made significant promises regarding its AdSense video content. Delivering ... More About: Software , Internet , Views , Phones
Prefab: Jean Prouvé?s 1951 Tropical House
2007-11-01 18:44:00 Jean Prouvé Tropical House SLideshow @ UCLA’s Hammer Museum 1951-Shown during installation in the Hammer Museum courtyard, October 2005.Photo by Elon Schoenholz, 2005. “Prouvé was among the most important builder/entrepreneurs of the twentieth century and demonstrated a belief in the powers of technology to solve the world?s problems, a strong ethical sense, and a reliance on ... More About: Design , Products , Architecture
Slideshow: The Kaufmann House
2007-11-01 18:08:00 NY Times SLideshow: “The Kaufmann House , a 1946 glass, steel and stone landmark built on the edge of Palm Springs by the architect Richard Neutra, has twice been at the vanguard of new movements in architecture ? helping to shape postwar Modernism and later, as a result of a painstaking restoration in the mid-1990s, spurring a ... More About: Movies , Design , Architecture , Podcasts
Samsung Anycall 5200 Gaming Phone - With Windows mobile, Sony PSP and Ninte
2007-11-01 18:04:00 Anycall per Wikipedia is a Samsung spin-off ?Anycall are Samsung rebranded handsets sold in throughout Asia?, though most blogs report the company as a cloner but seem to have an innovative design edge?“Below are the features and my personal review of the phone. Features: - Anycall 5200+ MP3 MP4 PDA Phone - Double Slide Function - Suitable to be ... More About: Software , Windows , Design , Gaming , Mobile
Hulu Undercutting iTunes?
2007-10-29 22:35:00 “NBC and News Corp. on Monday launched in beta an online video service that offers ad-supported video and feature films, a model that undercuts the buying of TV shows and movies through services like Apple iTunes.Called Hulu, the service, which is available for now by invitation only, carries content from NBC and Fox networks, as ... More About: Software , Views , Products , Itunes
GeneTree: Linkedin FaceBook Style Via Your DNA
2007-10-29 18:29:00 A cool website Facebook Style with a DNA Social Networking Twist…..>> “For a fee of £73, GeneTree will analyse a mouth swab and compare it with the 100,000 DNA samples and 6m ancestral records on its database. ?Suddenly, people are able to find and communicate with relatives they never knew they had from all over the world, ... More About: Science , Software , Fun , Products , Web 2
Slide Show: Electric Vehicles You Can Buy Now
2007-10-28 23:25:00 Slide Show : Electric Vehicles You Can Buy Now <Link> More About: Movies , Design , Products , Podcasts
Lost Child Of War, Refugee, Super Model!
2007-10-27 20:48:00 Alek Wek fled her home in war-torn Sudan as a 9 year old with only the clothes on her back. Now she is a supermodel. “I WAS born, the seventh of nine children, in a little town called Wau. Alek means ?black spotted cow?, a symbol of good luck for my people, the Dinka. I got ... More About: Politics , Lost , Views , Reviews , History
Waiting For the Barbarians: USA VS. The World
2007-10-27 20:24:00 “A once-great empire, Rome fell into catastrophic cultural and economic decline. Morris Berman on chilling parallels with modern America ….. The United States does not seem to grasp the impact of its current foreign policy on the have-nots of this world. Without such an understanding, an Israeli-style scenario would seem to be inevitable: a garrison state, ... More About: Politics , Views , Reviews , History , World
Prefab: Martin Boathouse
2007-10-27 19:57:00 “The boathouse is a two-story prefabricated steel grid infilled with ipe wood window frames, floors, walls, and ceiling. The barge-delivered steel structure is welded onto pylon supports which rest atop submerged rocks. The steel is painted with a protective zinc coating in a sympathetic hue that allows for a gentle visual transition between lake and ... More About: Design , Products , Architecture , Innovation , Industrial Design
Prefab: Zero House
2007-10-27 19:39:00 <ZeroHouse .Net Slide Show & Text> “ZeroHouse is a 650-square-foot prefabricated house designed to operate autonomously, with no need for utilities or waste connections. It generates its own electrical power, collects and stores rainwater, and processes all waste. Shipped to a site on two flatbed trailers, it can be field-erected in less than a day. The house, ... More About: Design , Products , Architecture , Innovation
The New Psychology of Leadership
2007-10-24 21:27:00 “Even the way leaders dress can help them appear representative of the groups they lead. Bush?s leather jackets and cowboy clothes round out the image of him as a regular guy. In the same vein, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat adopted the headscarf of the peasantry to identify himself with his people. The founder ... More About: Views , Reviews , Leadership , Innovation , Psychology
Samsung?s 10mm Thick LCD TV
2007-10-24 20:54:00 “Samsung has previewed a screen which is just 10mm thick at this week?s FPD International show Japan. The new screen comes hot on the heels of Toshiba’s 40XF355D, which at just 23mm wide, is the slimmest LCD TV currently available in the UK. This 10mm screen comes with an LED backlight to provide what Samsung are claiming ... More About: Design , Products , Innovation , Industrial Design
Prefab House: HABODE
2007-10-22 20:15:00 Via Best House Design Blog “A HABODE is a journey as much as a place. From its arrival in a metal cocoon on the back of a container truck to its unfolding as a complete home hours later, HABODE represents an amazing transformation in a remarkably short space of time”…. HABODE’s Website More About: Products , Architecture , Industrial Design
How to Write a Thriller-An Ian Fleming Essay
2007-10-20 23:48:00 “I never correct anything and I never go back to what I have written, except to the foot of the last page to see where I have got to. If you once look back, you are lost. How could you have written this drivel? How could you have used “terrible” six times on one page? ... More About: Views , Reviews , Write , Thriller , Essay
Hymini: Wind and Solar Powered Gadget USB Charger
2007-10-19 22:14:00 “The Hymini might look like a cheap, handheld electric fan, but it is actually the complete opposite: a wind powered charger. You can also plug the Hymini into the mains so you’ll have an emergency charger for your gadgets. If there’s not even any wind, Hymini also makes an add on solar panel, and up ... More About: Design , Products , Gadgets , Solar , Wind
Top 10 Green Gadgets
2007-10-18 21:11:00 2. DIY Kyoto Wattson Remember the Electrisave gizmo that Justin “ethical man” Rowlatt used to measure his electricity usage at home? Well, the Wattson is its glamorous, iPod-like cousin - a gadget that glows blue when you’re using little electricity and flashes red when you’re consuming a lot. In case that doesn’t drive the message home, ... More About: Design , Products , Gadgets , Green , Innovation
3G and Beyond & The Promises, Problems of WiMax
2007-10-18 20:40:00 “Last week, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea demonstrated a wireless transmission platform fashionably named the NoLA (Nomadic Local Area Wireless Access). With a download speed of up to 3.6 gigabits per second, it is by far faster than 3G technologies mentioned above. Theoretically, the NoLA network will enable one to download a ... More About: Science , Views , Innovation , Problems , Wimax
Prefab: Space Box
2007-10-17 22:24:00 Mass produced prefabs are not new but I seem to run into more of them on the web, the modernist design approach is catching on slowly but surely: “Space Box is now in the United States and is actively looking for ways to adapt its product here. We have contacted SpaceBox USA and expressed our interest ... More About: Design , Products , Architecture , Innovation
Philips launches WAC3500D Streamium Wireless Audio Center
2007-10-17 22:12:00 “The WAC3500D enables consumers to store up to 1500 CDs on an internal high capacity 80GB Hard drive. The music can then be wirelessly streamed to up to five Wi-Fi stations located anywhere in the house. The same digital audio track can be enjoyed simultaneously in each location or, alternatively, independent track selections can be streamed ... More About: Views , Wireless , Products , Apple , Audio
Creationism With Ricky Gervais
2007-10-17 00:42:00 Gervais on biblical creationism More About: Video , Comedy , Movies , Podcasts , Creationism
Prefab: Tempo Housing
More articles from this author:2007-10-16 22:23:00 “Tempohousing has come up with an original and simple solution: modify shipping containers into quality homes that are easy to set up and to move when needed. Everything you need is built in: wiring, heating, ventilation, bathroom, kitchen and so forth. A suitable and very affordable solution for any housing problem that needs a quick ... More About: Video , Movies , Design , Products , Architecture 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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