Future, Frivolity & Folly — By Jay Oatway
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Future Files:
The new titans of mobile sports technology, Nike+, are once again teaming with their cohorts at apple — this time developing wifi and 3G tie-ins for the next-gen iPhone. Lace up your sneakers and tune to your power song — this is going to be one hell of a run: [via Engadget]
Stuff.tv is kicking back in Nike’s HQ at …
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"Nicknamed the green machine, it can be used as a conventional computer, or an electronic book. A child can control it using a …
Sometimes you need a back-up place to stay–like during fumigation, or a visit from your mother-in-law. The solution is a house of cards–cardboards that is: Houses of the Future.
The Cardboard House is conceived as a kit of parts comprising a flat pack of frames, and infill floor and wall panels. It uses minimal fixings: nylon wing nuts, hand-tightened polyster tape stays and Velcro fastenings are used to assemble the frames and protective skin …
Making water drinkable is a basic human neccessity. However, in this era of advanced technology, more than one billion people � one sixth of the world�s population - still lack a potable water supply. Everyday, nearly 6,000 people � mainly children � die in connection with unsafe drinking water. The world�s most prolific killer though is diarrhoeal disease from bacteria like typhoid, cholera, e. coli, salmonella and many others. …
The starting gun fires and all you hear is the snick snick snick snick of the cyborg legs scissoring down the track. Forget testing the limits of a natural athlete. We know that we’ve reached the pinnacle for meat and bones. But we are just getting started at testing the techno-doped athlete. …
Not since Jimmy Hendrix lit his guitar on fire at Monterey has the world seen such a visual display on the face of the trusty rock’n'roll axe — presenting The TV-Guitar <natch>. The invention of Ben Lewry of Lewry Guitars, builds a laptop -esque visualizer display …
While there is no shortage of video sharing services, Google will no doubt be the Grandaddy of them all. So the clever services now are the ones that are tapping into the Google archive, like DownloadGoogleVideos.com :: Easily Watch, Search for and Download Google Videos. Here’s a quick taste: DownloadGoogleVideos.Com …
Eurpoeans are gobbling up Chinese art faster than you can say, "sweet and sour take-away." And you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your own computer screen to visit the gallery [via PSFK]
Cao Fei is a 29 year old artist from …
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