links for 2006-10-31
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Short film/documentary collaboration between an undergraduate artst and a graduate researcher at MIT’s Physical Language Workshop.
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links for 2006-10-30
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Beautiful earphones with a combination of bamboo and steel, similar in design to the Bang & Olufsen classics.
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David Watanabe’s Inquisitor just gets better and better. Version three is available for free. I don’t know how any Safari user can live without it.
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A Paisley primary school is using hand-scanners for school meal payment. Somewhat over-the-top, but whatever floats the Scottish Executive’s boat, I suppose.
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MIT researchers are developing a half-sized gasoline engine that uses controlled ethanol injection to increase performance and reduce cost.
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links for 2006-10-27
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Core77 on the much-vaunted BenQ mobile phone design which removes all traces of ‘phone’ from the package, leaving a multi-purpose ‘thing’.
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UI designers are starting to realise what us more generalist design types worked out sometime around the Stone Age.
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links for 2006-10-26
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Gorgeous jewellery made from electronic components. Yeah, it’s been done before, but it’s rarely done this well. $nerdbling;
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links for 2006-10-25
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Basically, this thing records motor impulses in a monkey’s brain and then plays them back, creating a new pathway.
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University of Wyoming researchers have the brainwave that observing emu gait and tracks can provide understanding of dinosaur tracks.
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links for 2006-10-24
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Jan is the principal researcher at Nokia, and a well-respected ethnographer. This interview at Convivio ain’t bad at all.
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Their prototype makes it to 150ppi and a size of 10″. The electronic newspaper gets one step closer to reality.
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links for 2006-10-23
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How to buy a cheap suit without making a hash of things. Practical advice from Thomas Mahon at English Cut.
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links for 2006-10-20
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The CH team cover a wide range of salt products in true food-porn style.
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A Safari plugin which gives you a simple, fullscreen method of viewing photo galleries online. Interfaces with Flickr, Photobucket, Google image search, etc.
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links for 2006-10-18
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Online community for the discussion of both quality and ethics (amongst other things) in advertising.
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A very clear info-graphic showing the history of control over the Middle East, empire by empire. could be styled more simply, but the message is strong.
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links for 2006-10-17
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Simple OS X app which lets you attach Applescripts to the sensable directions of your MacBook’s motion sensor. Amazing and fun.
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