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Alien Abduction Lamp moves from concept to prototype

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The “Alien Abduction lamp” which we all enjoyed early 2007 looks like moving forward from concept to production. Designer Lasse Klein put “an update” on his web site.

Tell us when the production starts – we want one.

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Design: Create a bowl from a topographic map

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Austrian Design shop FluidForms that offers individualized designs now also provides a service to create wooden bowls based on topographic maps.

To create your own bowl – for your home location or a place you like – go to their web site and in 3 quick steps you will have the design finished and can preview it in an interactive 3D viewer.

You just select the location you want by entering…

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Mobile Phones: Putting the numbers to scale

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Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, provided some insides at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California this Monday. Comparing the volume of Apple’s iPhone shipped to Nokia’s shipments of phones he said:



“…Since the launch of iPhone in June, Apple has shipped 5 million to 6 million of the devices, paling in comparison to Nokia’s device shipments…We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday…”

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Gadgets: The RC Rubber Duck

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From our completely useless but great department: Here comes the remote controlled Bath Duck…

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Games / Multi-touch screens: The Fentix Cube

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We came across the name Andrew Fentem a few times when we did research on multi-touch screens the last years. The Fentix Cube one of his most recent work is the first cubic multi-touchscreen games platform. In the video clip below the Fentix Cube has been programmed to emulate a Rubik’s cube puzzle…

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Humor: Button Paradox

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The text on the buttons reads:

Red button: The blue button is true
Blue button: The red button is false

Nice idea…sorry already sold out last night

via “Etsy”.

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