Google co-founder Sergey Brin was recently seen riding the New York underground and taking his work home (or wherever it was he was going) with him. Sporting the Google Glass, a blogger called Noah Zerkin recognised Brin and his pair of incredibly rare specs. Zerkin decided to have a chat with Brin (as it happens, … Continue reading
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Through Google’s (Magic Looking) Glass
Google Glass may not be available to buy just yet, but it’s already showing that it could have plenty of applications beyond just acting as an extension of your smartphone. One application currently being explored is the InSight project (via 9to5Google); funded in part by Google and developed by University of South Caroline and Duke University … Continue reading
Design / Futures / Innovation / Technology
Smartphone-Like, ‘NYFi’ Touchscreen Payphone Wins NYC Design Challenge
Earlier this year, the City of New York hosted the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge to redesign its network of over 11,000 payphones when vendor contracts expire in 2014. The contest received 125 submissions and out of six finalists, NYFi by Sage and Coombe Architects won the public vote. The double-sided, smartphone-like touchscreens would act as … Continue reading
Location, Location, Location… The Best Neighbourhoods For Life on Mars?
You can see it now, can’t you…? Future settlers on Mars weighing up the pros and cons of which areas on the red planet are the most desirable to live! With Project Nomad location won’t be an issue! The plan is to build mobile skyscrapers that would move about the planet’s surface using Martian minerals … Continue reading
When Storytelling Becomes Reality
When Storytelling becomes a reality, an identity… With branding by GBH (Gregory Bonner Hale) and interiors by Philippe Starck, ‘Miss Kō’ is inspired by the character’s imagined ‘world’. The Asian fusion restaurant opened recently in Paris, is described by GBH as “…the future; a place where cultures collide, fantasy rules and nothing is what it … Continue reading
Heroes
Continuing the David Bowie theme… Heroes …one of our favourites. Happy Wednesday. Continue reading
The Starman Cometh…
Pop icon David Robert Jones is one of the most influential performers of modern times and is being celebrated with the first international retrospective in London, UK. You may not know him by that name, so how about The Thin White Duke…? The Starman…? Ziggy Stardust…? If not, then David Bowie? Ah. Curated by the … Continue reading
Spicing Up Community Currency
There is an unrest, a revolt happening in the market place; a demonatisation, right under the very noses of the governing institutions of what is surely becoming an ‘old world’ money system, gripping hold of our current economies as they roller-coaster ever dangerously close to, if not over, the edge. But no apple carts are … Continue reading
The Discovery
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight for a very long time, of the shore. – Andre Gide, ‘Les Faux-monnayeurs’ 1925 Continue reading
Banksy – Exit Through The Gift Shop
Kick back… after all, it is the weekend! If you haven’t already seen Exit Through the Gift Shop it’s a must; in the meantime enjoy the trailer of the Banksy biopic (or as close to a biopic as the elusive street artist allows), filmed by Thierry Guetta and narrated by the inimitable Rhys Ifans; music … Continue reading
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