September 29, 2004 at 1:22 am
· Filed under Geek Culture & Tech
Ok, here’s a popular everyday tactic at the local supermarket: “Value for money”, which is a formula pertaining to quality, quantity, and price. After you compare quality and prices, you turn to the quantity. Which product has more?
How Much is Inside will help you answer that question. It’s a halarious website where a lot of everyday products are tested for quantity.
My favorite experiment was with a Sharpie, as I’m obsessed with Sharpies. The project was to lable as many CD’s as possible with one Sharpie. The result was really impressive:
They labeled 968 CDs with one Sharpie marker. That estimated length of a line that one Sharpie would make is 1,800 feet. The pile of CD’s was 54?” tall (138 cm).
Now, thats value for money!
To view the whole experiment, go here.
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September 28, 2004 at 8:08 pm
· Filed under Design, Geek Culture & Tech
Nokia announced the Kaleidoscope product almost a year ago, and according to Josh Rubin at Cool Hunting, they should be shipping out soon.
According to Nokia, “This device lets you upload digital images and carry them like a photo album or mini-gallery. Only one person can see the screen at a time, so you can share an inspiration or experience with a friend or colleague in confidence.
A full-color display, infrared transmission, and chic metallic looks make this a fantastic device both for leisure and professional use.”
In this age of extreme technology, I find this idea extremely appealing. You get to enjoy the technology, and enjoy childhood memories while doing so.
It would also be really nice if they provide retro covers along.
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September 28, 2004 at 7:43 pm
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“This change will begin 27 September for new users and become effective for all users worldwide in 2005 after extensive communications to our existing users.
Microsoft says it decided to start charging for the service as it was being abused by senders of spam.
In the past, people could download e-mail from Hotmail into Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express for free.
But now only people who had paid an annual subscription fee will be able to access their messages without opening a browser window.
Users who want to use Outlook to pick up their Hotmail messages will have to pay $19.95 (£11) for an annual subscription to Hotmail Plus or the $99.95 (£55) a year for MSN Premium.
But subscribers who are already using the technology to download their messages will be able to carry on using the service for free until April. “[Via Sabbah's Blog]
More reasons to hate Hotmail! I can’t believe them sometimes!
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September 28, 2004 at 5:09 pm
· Filed under Design, Geek Culture & Tech
“Amodal Suspension” is an interactive installation where people could send short text messages to each other using a cell phone or web browser. So far, that’s quite normal. The twist however, lays in the fact that rather than being sent directly, the messages are encoded as unique sequences of flashes and sent to the sky!
The signaling works in a way that is similar to Morse code(intensity of lights represent different text characters.) Each message, once encoded, is “suspended” in the sky of Yamaguchi. An email is sent to the intended recipient to notify him or her that “a message was waiting for them in the sky of Yamaguchi”.
How interesting.
To view Amodal Suspension Live Video, go here. To send a message to someone in the sky of Yamaguchi, go here.
This maybe old news as “Amodal Suspension” opened on November 1st, 2003 with messages sent by astronauts Pedro Duque and Mamoru Mohri, but it’s still worth a post.
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September 28, 2004 at 3:15 am
· Filed under Design, Geek Culture & Tech
Newsmap uses a new visual technique to present news. It shows relationships between headlines and patterns that would be unnoticable in the regular news presenting format. It also takes its data from Google News news aggregator, so you know where the information is coming from.
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September 27, 2004 at 11:49 pm
· Filed under Art
Here’s a close up. Can anyone make out what it says?
My vacation is winding down, and I guess I was trying to emotionally prepare myself for the new year by trying to get my creativity thumping after 4 months (yes, four, I didn’t take any summer courses) of having it lay dormant.
I started this habit of writing what I feel in this way when I was at highschool. It’s actually extremely efficient, because it’s impossible for someone else to read, it takes so long that by the time you’re done you feel so relaxed, and it looks kinda cute.
I did this piece today, I have such bad allergies that I can’t really go out. See, Sami, I’m not really fadyeh, I have an excuse! :P
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