Weekend activity: Do something with that old printer

Over the years most of us have gathered at least two printers at home and some of us got quite a collection of them. Latest since prices have drop so much it often does financially make no sense to get that old boy going again. And with that new printer you have it’s most unlikely that you would go back to half the resolution of the old one. So it’s collecting dust in your closet since quite some time - but what to do with it? - Our three suggestions to you…

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Design: Tim Parsons Half Pints

British designer Tim Parson has created a glass version of his well known Half Pint Mug design. The Half Pint Mug created as a Royal College of Art project, has two walls so the outside never gets very hot. The profile of the mugs and glasses is borrowed from the standard British pint glass, known as…

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Do not compute or watch TV!

Two gadgets no office warriors or couch potatoes should be without. Both objects are created by French designer Matali Crasset who worked for Philippe Starck before opening her own studio in Paris.
Available online from Made in Design for about EUR 33.

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The BEST Interactive Image Interfaces on the Web

To create this list we have been looking at dozens of data visualization, image mapping and picture mosaic solutions plus piles of descriptions. To make the list most useful we came up with the following criteria for the tools:

Should be online and actively maintained by the site owner
Should be interactive
Should use photos / images [...]

Live Labs: 3D photo worlds with Photosynth

A few months ago we have seen the prototype and some videos of Microsoft Research’s Photosynth application.
It was quite impressing and yesterday Photosynth has been released as a public technology preview on the Microsoft Live web site.

Live Labs is describing the software as:
Photosynth combines hundreds or thousands of regular digital photos of a scene to [...]

Travel: Very Light Jets are getting ready for delivery

One of the latest innovation in aviation are the so called “Very Light Jet” (VLJ ) claiming to start a revolution in air travel.
At cost of less than current piston engine business planes they bring reliability and comfort of jet travel to a new group of customers. VLJs have also been praised for their [...]

Gadgets: Einstein Hollow Face Illusion

UK shop Grand Illusions that provides all sorts of illusion gadgets has an object called “The Einstein Hollow Face Illusion.”
This is one of the most amazing optical illusions we have seen. Watch the video on their web site to see it how it works. The image follows you as you move around the room.

Update: Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?

In our previous post Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts? we have shown evidence how Digg is currently spammed and asked users to read articles before voting for them. (our article was removed in minutes while being heavily digged by users)
Since then a few things have happened:
1. Digg support more or [...]

Internet: The Top 10 lies of Web 2.0

The Technology Chronicles at SFGate.com have a nice short write up with their opinion on Web 2.0. They have created a list of Top 10 lies of the Web 2.0 that contains the following:

1. We learned our lesson last time.
2. This is not a bubble.
3. It’s all about community and sharing.
4. Online advertising will pay [...]

Technorati: State of the Blogosphere, October-2006

Yesterday Technorati founder Dave Sifry has released his highly popular Blogosphere report for the 3rd quarter of 2006.
He sees the medium of web logs further maturing but still going strong with about 100,000 new blogs being created daily.
The report also shows that the integration of blogs and traditional media sites like those of major newspapers [...]