Creatively Distracted
Creatively Distracted
Designer Mac Funamizu has come up with an elegant conceptual solution for searching the environment that surrounds us. Beyond searching by text as we have become accustomed to with services like Google, the device searches by scanning an object from…
In graphic design, as with all other creative professions, it is just as important to know what came before you as it is to have a vision for where you are going. Surfing around this afternoon, I came across The…
I was going to post this yesterday, but I’m glad I didn’t because at a small get together last night a few of us found the End of the Internet. Yes, like the guy in that commercial that surfed all…
There is an interesting write up on how to stream video taken on a Nokia N800 into Second Life here. It would be an odd circumstance that I would need to do this, but it is certainly good to know…
Spotted in the Shared Reading of Danielle, one of my two super cool sisters. Foodsel is a website that provides visualizations of food nutrients based on food category or by manufacturer. It also can display equivalence – “eating this food…
In the most irritating way possible, FeedJournal offers to bring the technological advancement of feeding/reading news full circle by enabling you to generate a newspaper from your feed content. Kill trees AND read slower with no mechanism for sharing –…
If you are a web developer who works with clients from a distance, Stixy is a tool worth looking into. Need reasons? it’s free it enables collaboration/sharing on projects it’s well-suited for visual presentation How? Sign up for an account.…
Leigh Alexander of Worlds in Motion writes about an MMO IBM is launching the first quarter of this year, which will have kids staving off planetary ecological disaster by employing wind, solar, and water power strategies.
We’ll see if the correlation holds true. Kinda like when you were little and got new sneakers – because they made you run faster, right? My intent is to start posting more here again.
I've often wondered just how much energy was being "wasted" - converted to heat and lost to the environment - at the gym as I watched all the people sweating away on their stationary machines. Well, one man is trying to capture back some of that energy and make use of it.
Adam Boesel, a personal trainer in Seattle, is determined to discover new ways to utilize the energy his clients generate to power his gym.