Oh the Amazingness

that is Alexander McQueen. I love his esoterc, edgy, creepy, and stunning apporach to the fashion world. His work finds dark, lucious, and profound beauty in conflict. I think i need to find more of his work.

Meet Android

The new open source platform for mobile devices of all shapes and color about to be released by Google.

8 Bit Tessla

Via: electro^plankton

too pissed to drive?

Lets find out.


This is brilliant. Only in Germany would someone create a pissing video game. But its for a good cause. A company in Frankfut decided to combat drunk driving in the verry place all drunks end up. The leu of course. Check out the games details, along with some videos and picts.

Via: Electro^Plankton

Virtual phones

Touch screen phones with virtual keyboards can be anything, look like anything, and do anything a programmer and animator can imagine. new concept phone by AU KDDI a japanese phone company.

Via: Electro Plankton

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Fascinating Times. A Generation approaching The Singularity.

Via: Viral Video Chart

Google's Soo Cool

So Google is throwing money at people with the challenge to develop a viable hybrid/plug-in electric combo car that will get 100mpg. They are also pushing for energy reclamation systems that will take unused energy in the car such as heat and overcharged batteries and sell it back to power companies when the car is plugged into a standard outlet. Cool stuff. So who wants to buy me a 100mpg Prius!

via: How Stuff Works: Auto

Experience, The New Reality

Via: Centripetal Notion

Flat & Efficient Bulbs

Researchers have developed an ultra thin panel which illuminates using charged plasma, similar to fluorescent bulbs, injected into micro pockets within standard aluminum foil, sandwiched between plastic, glass, or crystal. This technology can be manufactured in any size in many shapes, and most importantly, its fairly inexpensive. The sheets are thinner than a sheet of LEDs, more efficient than incandescent bulbs (and fluorescent bulbs in the near future), and can be produced in many colours. the designers have founded a company called Eden Park Illumination and hope to have a marketable product in the next two years.

The Future of Supercomputing

So Microsoft has released a beta version of their new photosynth software. This is killer computing here. a program that can intelligently extrapolate a 3D composite of a location from a large collection of arbitrary photos taken at that location. One can then navigate through these photos in a 3D environment that logically and seamlessly (assuming you have the computing power to keep up) transitions between the images placing them in the correct perspective/angle relative to the 3D model of the environment.

Whats wild about this is first, the information this software can store about an area is nonlinear, its in fact fractal. one can dive into the details of a room or environment for near infinity. The detail and depth of information is only limited by the source images used to generate the composite.

Second, the future of this technology is mindboggling. theoretically in a few years, systems could be set up to composite the globe, using every photo, image and picture ever taken, from high resolution satellite images to half a megapixle cell phone pictures. All of this stuff readily available on the net. Every picture you ever put on a computer integrated into one massive 3D generation of the world.

On the more practical side we will probably see Google and other mapping programs snatch this stuff up. No longer will you glide over dated satellite images of the planet, but will walk in 3D models down every street and alleyway ever captured on a camera. scarier yet, you will be able to walk into any building, house, or complex ever captured in a snapshot.

And I'm only scratching the surface. Its a brave new world. On the other hand I can't wait until I can play with this thing myself and start crating my own image composits.