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Today is a big day on the gadget sites, new Apple MacBooks – the cool thing (I think) is Apple showed videos of how their new laptops are made from carving them out of sheets of aluminum – how things are made (and why) is becoming more important and the lead story once everything else […]
25 years of cell phone service… Pictured above, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X cost $3,995, was 13 inches long, and weighed 1.75 pounds… Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first commercial wireless call. It happened Oct. 13, 1983, at Soldier Field, where Ameritech Mobile, now part of Verizon Wireless, made the call from a Motorola […]
Nice Battlestar Galactica mod via the Giz! If you want to make your own Cylon pumpkin this Halloween – we have a kit!!
Jeff made a fun Flash app that lets you listen to the price of a stock, he writes… So, my boy Mike Nathanson and I wore our brains on our sleeves at Flashcamp this weekend. We dreamed up a sweet idea of listening to stock prices, which we dubbed MoneyTalks. It uses the new SampleDataEvent […]
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies was created as a set of cards containing a variety of non-specific phrases and ideas intended for use by the creative mind in need of direction. They can be quite helpful in those ‘stuck’ moments of manufacture, and now there’s a free open source iPhone application available to […]
Seok-Hyung Bae, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Karan Singh, “ILoveSketch: As-natural-as-possible sketching system for creating 3D curve models,” (To appear) ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2008 (Monterey, CA, USA, October 19-22, 2008) [pdf] via NOTCOT. A 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing […]
This Nokia concept phone is made from sustainable timber and features an 8 megapixel camera, bluetooth, integrated speaker, and runs Symbian. We like it when big companies go green, and this is a nice way of proclaiming your love for the environment without getting splinters, as you would with this other wooden cellphone mod. via […]
