Online museum dedicated to bringing the worst of art to the widest of audiences.

Giant Christmas decorations at the Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen. Written messages displayed via external lights.

An unusual piece of online promotion for the Wii: Nintendo’s President interviews his own staff on their design process.

The ‘thought commands’ are limited to a few basic instructions. A person can instruct the robot to move forward, choose one of two available objects, pick it up, and bring it to one of two locations. Preliminary results show 94 percent accuracy.

Product design sketches from Electrolux of vacuum-cleaner shoes. Clean the floor while you walk around. Neat enough on it’s own, but what else could you do with suction-enabled feet? Climb walls?

Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-century, since hunting killed off the Caribbean monk seal, that a large aquatic mammal has been driven to extinction by human intervention.

Boston University professor Jelle Atema can actually ‘steer a shark’: either through “electrical stimulation of the brain” or by delivering “little odor pulses” of “squid juice” to the predator’s nose.

A University of Colorado at Boulder researcher has designed a new generation of compact vortex generators that could make it easier for scientists to maneuver and dock underwater vehicles at low speeds and with greater precision.

Wilfred van Rooijen will receive a PhD in Sustainable Energy from Delft University today. His PhD thesis proves the possibility of gas-cooled fast reactors, which basically ‘use up’ their own waste in a totally closed,safe process.

This small DVD reissue company have kicked off with the most fantastic design work on their covers. Amazing work, which will no doubt be seen as a classic series in years to come.

Robot vacuum cleaners are very cool. Hacking them to be controlled over Bluetooth by your MacBook’s tilt sensor is possibly the coolest thing ever.

Juvenile squid, paralarval Leachia sp. (family Cranchiidae), 4 cm long, with eyes on stalks. From the Danish Galathea 3 expedition off Broome, Northwestern Australia, November 2006.

The international Census of Marine Life is getting bigger every year. The 2006 census is now up online, and just as packed full of amazing new discoveries and fantastic photos as ever.

Noted giant squid specialist, Dr Steve O’Shea, has taken charge of the biggest ocean sunfish ever found. Frozen for delivery, he transported it the last few miles himself, saying; “It almost buggered my car.”

World’s first hydrogen luxury performance car. BMW have headed off on a slightly different tangent to most carmakers with their first hybrid hydrogen/petrol car being a variant of their 7-series luxury line.

Public Library of Science paper on hunting co-operation between moray eels and groupers. Amazing stuff about two specialised species of hunters combining their talents to catch more prey.

To accompany the above paper, check out this short video clip. A grouper signals to a neaby moray eel by shaking it’s head back and forth.

A pretty thorough blog on the subject of data visualization & visual design. Infographics are fun, kids.

The New York Sun’s 1897 reply to a little girl’s letter is generally remembered as one of the greatest pieces of newspaper editorial ever written. Nice to see a scan of it in it’s original typesetting.

Robert is Director of Finance & Operations at the One Laptop Per Child project, commonly known as Nicholas Negroponte’s sub-hundred dollar laptop. An insider’s perspective on this massive project makes for an interesting read.

“[Advertisers should] … focus more attention on the emotional metacommunication—the creativity—in their advertisements, than they do on the rational message communication.” Well, duh. For brand loyalty, yes. To sell a specific product/service, the rational message needs to follow.

QR (or 2D) barcodes are mostly used in Japan to hold website links. Scan the code with your mobile phone and it takes you to a website. Here, Jan Chipchase shows amazing Shibuya station posters made up of mosaics of these info-squares.

Not original, but nicely presented: How to fix a floor sweeper to the front of a cheap radio-controlled car. Make housework fun!