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Google’s Swiss Headquarters
Google’s philosophy that work and play are not mutually exclusive is definitely shown off in form of game rooms and themed.
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Tags: Architecture, Design, emea, google, switzerland
Fireplaces have ruled the roost when it comes to heating solutions to warm up your home. But the Nobo Firepit series electric radiators sees the radiator in entirely different light with captivating designs that are sure to overshadow your designer fireplace and become the focal point of your living space. Much said, the Firepit series [...]
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Tags: Design, firepit, FURNITURE, nobo, radiator
$1200 Titanium-made ID Mouse
Showcased at Dutch Design Week 2009, the “ID Mouse” from the house of Intelligent-design is a Bluetooth mouse for all who demand perfection at their fingertips. Finished in hand-formed grade 1 titanium and high-quality plastic (resin), the wireless mouse integrates a 3-button neodymium scroll wheel for smooth and brisk scrolling on the web. Compatible with [...]
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Tags: Bluetooth mouse, Design, grade 1 titanium, ID Mouse, laser tracking, lifestyle, mouse, neodymium scroll wheel, Technology, Wireless
Based on the mysterious movement clocks created by the famed Jean-Eugene Robert Houdin in the 19th century, Louis Vuitton’s new calibre LV115 is a near transparent wonder. This calibre is actually the first from Louis Vuitton to have been created, developed and assembled entirely in the brand’s workshops in Switzerland.
With an 8-day power reserve, there [...]
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Tags: Calibre, Floating hands, Louis Vutton, Lv115, Mysterieuse, tambour, Watches, Wristwatch
Pocket projectors — if they aren’t quite ‘all the rage’ — crop up all over the place these days. Beamboxhas teamed up with MiLi (makers of some fine iPhone chargers) on this newest one. The MiLi Evolution Mini Power Projector works in conjunction with your iPhone or iPod touch, docking it into the unit which then acts [...]
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Tags: iPhone, Apple, Projector, beambox, ipod touch, mili, mini projectors, pocket projector
Sony’s 53 Year Product Timeline
They have been in comma lately but, through 53 years of history, Sony has created some of the most amazing gadget in history. Some of them changed the world forever. Here you have them all.
Click here to access the full timeline in 2800 x 1188 pixels.
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Tags: betamax, PLAYSTATION, sony, Sony timeline, walkman
Ready for the ultimate in convergence overkill? Meet the SmartFaucet from iHouse; a tap with built-in face recognition technology that automatically adjusts the water pressure and temperature to your preferred settings.
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Tags: bathroom, face recognition, faucet, home automation, ihouse, smartfaucet
An especially awesome development would be to automate this, requiring only a starting and a finishing point. Suddenly, the nightly rituals of Google Mapsing great drives or pleasant strolls would be even more fun.
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Tags: Clips, golden gate bridge, Google Maps, street view
The Neuma Hybrid is lighter—air-driven tattoo machine. Its design somehow promised a less painful tattoo (we’re confused as to how since the needle is still a needle) and it was crafted from solid aluminum for easy medical-grade sterilization. a mere 3.7 ounces—and it operates both under air pressure and electricity.
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Tags: Air, Needle, Neuma hybrid, Neuma tattoo, Tattoo, Tattoo machine, Tattoo needle
Symbian Phone applications
Symbian is the planet’s most popular smartphone OS—everywhere except the US, that is. It’s also arguably the most boring. In this last, most urgent installment of the cellphone revitalization series, we alleviate your Symbian shame.
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Tags: agile messenger, Best symbian apps, bolt, Bolt browser, Fring, Google Maps, Mobbler, nokia, Opera Mini, opera mobile, qik, S60, Skyfire, Skype, symbian, SYMBIAN S60, truphone
It’s been less than a year since Apple launched the iPhone App Store, but now virtually every mobile OS is showcasing its own take on the mobile application storefront. How do they all stack up?
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Tags: Android app market, Android apps, Android market, App catalog, App marketplace, app store, App world, Apple, blackberry, Blackberry app world, Blackberry Apps, iPhone, Iphone app store, iPhone apps, itunes App store, mobile apps, Mobile oses, Ovi, Ovi app store, Palm app catalog, Palm pre, Palm Pre Apps, rim, S60, symbian, WebOS, windows mobile, windows mobile apps, Windows mobile marketplace
The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it’s slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship.
And it’s kinda creepy… (FF to 1:17)
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Tags: Androids, cb2, japan, Robot, Robots, Science
There’s just something about this sleek, black, digital Ondus Digitecture faucet that makes me wish it would speak to me in William Daniels voice
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Tags: bathroom, Design, faucet, ondus
Tiny 4mm Telephoto Lens Implant
Tiny 4mm Telephoto Lens Implant Is One Step Closer To Being in Your Eye
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Tags: Cyborgs, Implants, lens, Medicine, Visoncare
Moixa is awarded a patent on its apple sized multi-touch sphere that can be used to display the world (e.g. Google Earth), browse web pages or control interactive games.
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Tags: moixa, MULTITOUCH, sphere
ENESS’ appropriately named Humble Telescope is an interactive installation that presents a 3D simulation of our entire known universe to anyone who dares peer in. Viewers simply point the “telescope” in any direction, and instantaneously they’re presented with what exists in that specific area of space.
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Tags: humble telescope, interactive, simulation, telescope
A good look at the crazy touchscreen console in the Tesla Model S electric Sedan, the most interesting of which is that it has a 3G connection all the time.
In addition to that, there’s the center console’s controls, which are full touchscreen, can manipulate your iPod, Google Maps as well as streaming radio. There’s HD, [...]
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Tags: CARS, Jalopnik, lcd, Tesla, touchscreen
the Ulysse Nardin has the mechanical intricacy you would expect along with a 2.8-inch multitouch screen, 5-megapixel camera, biometric fingerprint unlocking, WiFi and an email browser. It also sucks supplemental power into the battery by harvesting kinetic energy from the revolving rotor on the back.
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Tags: CELLPHONES, kinetic energy, MULTITOUCH, Ulysse Nardin Chairman, Watches
How Cell Towers Work
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Tags: Cell site, Cell tower, CELLPHONES, WiMax
With America’s status as a technological superpower comes a tendency to occasionally straight ignore the rest of the world. For better or for worse, here are technologies we’ve all but completely missed out on.
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Tags: America, Ewallets, japan, Mobile TV, nokia, Osaifu-Keitai, T-dmb
For a long time, we’ve been able to pride ourselves on the fact that we’re smarter than our primitive ancestors. But it turns out a lot of our most technologically sophisticated inventions were already invented, which does nothing but remind us how useless we are.
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Tags: Computer, modern, Tech
There are plenty of robot builders, but none bring as much elegance to engineering as Shigeo Hirose. His creatures are Star Wars, Iron Giant and Dean Kamen rolled into one cybernetic maki.
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Tags: Hirose, Retromodo, Robots
While their major competitors (and even some allies) in the mobile space seem bent on changing ideas about how we interact with our portable devices, the company proved once again that it’s content to rest on its laurels and learn little from its mistakes.
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Tags: microsoft, mwc, mwc 2009, windows mobile, windows mobile 6.5
Skylon Rocket/Jet Hybrid
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Tags: Hybrid, Jet, rocket, Rockets, Skylon, SPACE, Space Shuttle
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