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Archive for March, 2008
Environment: Greenpeace guide to greener electronics
Environment campaigning organization Greenpeace has yesterday published the 7th issue of its “Guide to greener electronics” that ranks the top 18 manufactures of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and game consoles based on their policies how to handle toxic chemicals and recycling of their goods.
In the latest version Samsung and Toshiba are leading the group with 7.7 out of 10 possible points for their policies on toxic chemicals use, e-waste amd recycling. While Toshiba took the crown this time for…
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Design: Oskar Fischinger – Komposition in Blau
An outstanding example of an early animation and mesmerizing play with colors.
Oskar Fischinger’s – Komposition in blau (composition in blue) uses solely color, geometric shapes and music to describe and create motion.
It’s a piece of abstract art.
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Research: Autodesk Design on Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch
You might have seen Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch screens in action on CNN when following the 2008 primaries and caucuses. And he demonstrated the device with Google Earth and some drawing programs.
The video below shows you the potential of Multi-Touch screens with…
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Fun: The Flock of Mullets
A weird and silly but amusing animation that makes you smile. The Flock of Mullets is a website created by NYC comedian and writer Dan Allen as “his personal wall of shame”.
More information at….
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Humor: The 10.5 most stupidest captchas on the web
Captchas have been around now for a few years but still some web sites use them more as a Darwin award then a Turing test.
For them it seems that captchas help to keep traffic from annoying passers-by at a minimum.
Here is our collection of the funniest, most unusual or plain unusable captchas – 10.5 ways to assure that (“almost”) nobody will be able to access your web site….
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Street-Art: London as an Open Prison
These signs are currently popping up all over London.
An excellent idea to create awareness of the planned ID card project in the UK. You find more images of this great poster “here”, “here” and “here”.
We refrain from commenting on the subject directly (in our opinion the issues…
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