Spell ransom notes with Flickr

Erik Kastner has created an online application that uses random Flickr images to spell ransom notes. While there are other services online to do such a thing the results from this are definitely the best so far.

Intended for developers (source code available) but you can still use it to create yourself some great images of [...]

Bittorrent: Now embedded in network and consumer electronics

Today Bittorrent announced that its popular file sharing software will be embedded into network routers and Internet devices.
BitTorrent enabled network devices will allow users to connect to the Internet, schedule and download files without the need to use a PC.
ASUS, Planex and QNAP are the first to announce plans to embed BitTorrent’s download manager [...]

Sudan: UN envoy ordered to leave country for blogging

Yesterday official SUNA news agency reported that the Sudanese foreign ministry has given Jan Pronk, special representative of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in Sudan 72hours to leave the country.
Last week Professor Pronk wrote in his personal blog that the Sudanese army had lost two major battles in Darfur to rebel groups, one in [...]

How NASA imagined space colonies in the 1970s

During the 1970s NASA Ames has conducted a series of space colony summer studies. Colonies housing for about 10,000 people were designed and a number of really amazing artistic renderings of the concepts created.
The Library with the full size images is accessible here
Thumbnails of some of the images are shown below.

images courtesy NASA Ames [...]

Tokyo: Catering for the brand conscious

In fashion and brand conscious Tokyo it can be one of the greatest sins to step out of a shop with the wrong bag - ideally you are carrying one with a major European brand name printed on.
Now help for those is literally - at hand.
A department store in Tokyo has put up machines [...]

Motionposter: Best advertising idea since years

When you recently looked out a subway train window in a tunnel and you’ve seen a runner or a blond girl taking over the train you were watching a new type of advertising displayed with MotionPoster’s new advertising system.

It works by installing 192 backlit poster images in the tunnel and turning them on with [...]

Transcend: New 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

What not so long ago was the size of a standard portable hard disk you can now put into your pocket with Transcend’s new high capacity USB 2.0 flash drive (JetFlash 2A).
Transcend says that the device has read/write speeds up to 25/20 MB per second. It comes bundled with software applications (Auto Login, Data [...]

Luxury Dept: Bang & Olufsen - Louis Vuitton mobile phone gadgets bundle

For those who are looking for mobile phones with style and believe that Bling-Bling is better left to others we would suggest the Bang & Olufsen Serene phone together with the Louis Vuitton case and headset cover.

Manufactured together with Samsung, the Bang & Olufsen Serene phone is out for quite a while. It might [...]

Nokia: Ever wanted to see who’s calling you?

Did you ever wanted to know who is just calling you on your mobile phone? With Nokia’s new HS-13W headset you can not only see the number it shows an image with it.
It’s a Bluetooth headset with an ear plug, but the interesting part is the 128 x 128-pixel 4,096-color display you can hang [...]

Web Browsers: Firefox 2.0 release date 24-October-2006

After Microsoft having released his new Internet Explorer 7 web browser with some hickups this week, the Mozilla Foundation today announced that it will make the version 2 of its popular Firefox browser available for download on next Tuesday 24-October-2006.
PC World has created a review of the IE7 and Firefox 2 comparing the [...]