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BIOWAVE: Biomimicry Solution for Ocean Power
via Inhabitat by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by spavis free energy from ocean currents? yes pleaseBiomimicry - or designs based on natural systems - is one of the most intriguing methods for designers and engineers to create innovative and efficient solutions to problems. Inspired by forms and functions found in nature, this approach to sustainable design allows for environmentally friendly solutions for energy, waste reduction and...
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Paper Portraits by Bert Simon
via MAKE Magazine by Marc de Vinck on May 05, 2008
Bert Simon has taken papercraft to a whole new level. His website has several other portraits and a lot of great photography. You can even download a 12 page PDF and make a paper clone of the artist.Red more about Paper Portraits by Bert Simon - via designverb[Read this article] [Comment on this article]
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Brand new Google Reader for iPhone
via Official Google Reader Blog by dolapo on May 12, 2008
Mobile web browsers have come a long way since we first introduced an XHTML version of Reader back in 2006. For example, iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser is. We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. Sometimes we use it to kill time, other times for answering important questions that come up during brunch: What is Tyrol's first name? How...
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Interactive infographics
via Latest Adobe News by Category by The Computus Engine on May 13, 2008
Humans respond very well to pictures. We just have a natural ability to distinguish and extract meaning from patterns in visual data. Relationships within large or complex data sets have long been communicated visually through the use of 'infographics' in newspapers and in books. Static infographics: Napoleon's March to Moscow The advent of television and film introduced [...]
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TRANSPORTATION TUES: NOVA’s ‘Car of the Future’ Online
via INHABITAT by Jorge Chapa on May 13, 2008
We don’t usually make a habit of asking you to stop reading Inhabitat and send you off to watch television, but this program is definitely worth it. If you live in the US and you weren’t paying attention, you might have missed NOVA’s Car of the Future special. This program features NPR’s ‘Car Talk’ guys off in search of “a new breed of clean, fuel-efficient vehicles.” Car of the...
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Giant Missle Command: The Best Use of Multitouch to Date [Displays]
via Gizmodo by Sean Fallon on May 13, 2008
So, multitouch has some interesting applications, but all pale in comparison to playing a two player version of Missile Command. The clone was installed by Steve Mason at the Obscura Digital production studios massive 8'X4' multitouch wall—and as you can see in the video after the break, It looks like a good time, not to mention a decent workout.[smason]
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AS3 Creative Papervision 3D Flash Games
via [ draw.logic ] by drawk on May 12, 2008
Recently on the papervision lists there have been some really creative uses of pv3d in games. I will highlight two here:Bowling Buddies (Facebook integrated game)AirShip demosThe Bowling Buddies game is made by the very creative Playfish.com company(more on the release at their blog). They have some great facebook/social network games combined with flash. With bowling buddies they created a game...
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Monitor Google's Homepage with Page2RSS
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 05, 2008
Page2RSS is a very nice service that creates feeds from any web page, by including the new content and linking to a page that highlights the differences.A simple example of web page that could be monitored using Page2RSS is google.com: a homepage that rarely changes only to celebrate important events or to announce new Google features. You could subscribe to the automatically-generated feed by...
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TimeTube: The Timeline That YouTube Should Build
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on May 09, 2008
TimeTube is a new mashup from Dipity, the interactive timeline site, that takes the mostly unsorted mess of videos that is YouTube and arranges them by date, offering a useful (and often unexpected) perspective on recent events.Links to each video are situated across a horizontal timeline, with emphasis placed on the most popular videos (they appear bigger). Users can expand or contract the...
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zero gear . . . in spaaaaaaace!
via NimbleBit: purveyors of nimble bits by David Marsh on May 09, 2008
real quick post, we just got our new level up and running for the next game mode we are building for the next video. Wanted to post a screenshot. Click for big.
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