Creatively Distracted
Creatively Distracted
Not everything is worthy of complaint.
While we are all sitting around waiting for the release of the Optimus keyboard (man, how long do we have to wait anyway?), a Korean company has launched an programmable LED keyboard of its own. Sadly, the keys are not individual LED screens, but it still looks really cool.
This just proves my belief that coffee is the answer to everything. JavaLog – a fire log made from coffee waste promises eco-friendly fire that provides a warm soothing glow to relax in front of. I can’t help but think…
Adam Reuters, the Reuters correspondent dedicated to Second Life reported on Tuesday of the new build by Clear Ink of the US Congress. It appears to be affiliated with the Democratic Party, but when the space is open it will be intended to serve as a non-partisan place for open discussion and information about the 110th Congress.
Cemetery 2.0 is a concept that links burial plots to online repositories of information about the deceased. Information is connected to the physical resting place so that visitors may access the surviving artifacts of that person. This project is a…
Gene Koo, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society as well as Director of Online Training at Legal Aid University, lists three criteria for which computer simulations add value in an educational context: 1. The subject is best…
JustVirtual has posted a fantastic recap of the ZeroG Sky Dancer’s performance, produced and directed by DanCoyote Antonelli the other night. By all accounts this even was a huge success – even in the face of a buggy grid upgrade…
Phillips Design is planing to develop a space in Second Life, in cooperation with the design studio Rivers Run Red, to present concept products to residents and gather feedback about them. They see this endeavor as an opportunity to interact…
The advent of the read/write web is a topic that comes up frequently where I work. Likewise, community contribution and knowledge sharing is popular among people I come into contact with online too, but I don't run into too many people in real life, outside of work, who care much about the idea at all.
The folks at Terra Nova have figured the value of the inworld currency for a number of virtual worlds – and Monopoly and put it all in a nice little table. I feel I have to mention Monopoly separately as…
From the design labs at Electrolux comes the KaionWAVE washing system, a groundbreaking concept for laundry of the future. Functioning as both a washer and a dryer, the KaionWAVE washing system is ideal for houses where space is limited. No…
Ralph Koster has written one of the more well thought out articles about the emergence of CopyBot and some of the implications for Second Life. The conversation following this article is also very thought provoking and worth a scan to…
Synthravels wants to be your virtual travel agency the next time you plan a vacation.
On his blog, Tim Berners-Lee has posted clarification to a recent interview with The Guardian so that his thoughts would be accurately represented.
These miniature gardens are absolutely fascinating. More interesting is that the main site seems to be for a decontamination service and that these miniature little ecosystems are their targets.
Dean & Deluca have an amazing cake for halloween this year. Six layers of spiced butter cake
with praline buttercream and a center layer of rich chocolate fudge. Hand-made and decorated.
Self-education or self-directed learning. An autodidact, also known as an automath, is a mostly self-taught person — typically someone who has an enthusiasm for self-education and a high degree of self-motivation.
Linden Lab is celebrating their 1M account today. Though I am still a young resident, watching the exponential growth of SL over the past six months is nothing short of amazing. LL is forecasting 50,000 new accounts in a single day this week - ALT accounts or not, it is hard to dispute how rapidly things are growing. Kudos to the LL team of their heroic efforts as they stand in the path of such a large wave. Pull out the surfboards!
This is a question I have been mulling in my head for a few weeks now - somewhat passively...and certainly not so much that I would call and interrogate
Scripted dice now make it possible to play D&D in the virtual world of Second Life. How many virtual steps can one take from "reality"?
Kaspen has created beautiful ads for Anagram bookstore. View one. [via BibliOdyssey]
Stunning 3D rendering solutions that make real life look – well, just dirty. View the ARTVPS gallery
Having a rough day? Take a serene desktop vacation by Hybridworks and restore your inner peace. [via Coudal]
Power Plastic from Konarka:
Light activated plastic (or more specifically, a nano-enabled polymer photovoltaic material) as an alternative energy source. This technology
Moo.com is offering to print mini cards of your Flickr photos – $20 for 100 cards form as many photos as you like. If you have a Flickr Pro account you can order 10 cards from 10 different pictures for…
HTML graph, graphs the structure of websites. Written using Processing. View a live map of this site or make one of your own (requires Java). [via coudal] There are more cool projects on the Processing site.
Research Chronology 2 is a project by Aaron Siegel that allows del.icio.us users to visually map their tags chronologically and outline tag “paths”. The visualization that is created provides insight into tagging trends and intersections. [via visualcomplexity]
It occasionally happens that I find myself sucked into YouTube, hopelessly lost down multiple rabbit trails wasting hours at a time. There is no longer a need for TV. Somehow, this past weekend I landed on episode one of Saiunkoku…
Fab-ja-wha? Print your virtual creations to the real world with Fabjectory’s service that will print your SecondLife avatar as a 3D tangible thing. Definitely a vanity purchase, but I would be tempted if I wasn’t afraid of discovering that my…
I forget how I ended up at this article, but it is fascinating none-the-less. It is an interesting introduction to geta, a style of traditional japanese footwear, at Pingmag. All that is left is to figure out where to buy…
Engadget has captured a play-by-play of Job’s “It’s Showtime” keynote this morning on their site. Among the notable news is a smaller Shuffle, a beefed up Nano, more features for the iPod (and a bigger 80GBs), and finally, an announcement…