Charles Ogilvie explains the systems in place to create Virgin America experience
Thu, 07/03/2008 - 17:03 — notesdesignBoing Boing TV gets a peek behind the scenes with Charles Ogilvie at Virgin America. As one of the most service focused airlines, they're about to offer wireless internet, and following the spirit of linux used to run their in-flight entertainment system, they're holding a competition for open source game submissions.
Technorati Tags: Jewelry Created from Plasticized Human Milk
Thu, 07/03/2008 - 15:15 — notesdesign
French design collective Duende have used a technique that can transform human or animal milk into plastic by solidifying the casein content. The 'Perle de lait' range of jewelry will be on display as part of their collection of objects exploring the relationship of food between mother and child at La Cuisine. This takes the concept of bespoke jewelry to whole new level.
Afterville, starring Bruce Sterling
Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:06 — notesdesign
Bruce Sterling has a starring role in the half-hour Turinese science fiction movie, "Afterville." He plays a Nobel-Prize-winning UFO prophet, speaks Italian and even got himself artificially aged (see photo above).
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Magazine photos trick new age-verification cameras
Mon, 06/30/2008 - 16:27 — notesdesign
As part of a nationwide effort to upgrade Japan's 570,000 cigarette vending machines with an age-verification system, 4,000 special machines will be fitted out with a face recognition camera that can determine if you're over the age of 20 (the legal purchasing age) based on a database of more than 100,000 faces.
Michael Pollan on shortening supply chains
Mon, 06/30/2008 - 02:07 — notesdesignYale 360 has a great interview with locavore Michael Pollan on the importance of shifting from environmentalism, which focuses on preservation, to sustainability, which focuses on a healthy relationship between industrial and biological systems. His argument for localizing food production also works for an argument to localize many other types of production:
Subversive Bathroom Scales from Alice Wang
Fri, 06/27/2008 - 19:52 — notesdesign
5 (Almost) Affordable 3-D Printers for the Home
Fri, 06/27/2008 - 16:58 — notesdesign
Sol Focus: All That Silicon Valley Alternative Energy Investment Bears Some Fruit
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 23:21 — notesdesign
The Highest Popping Toaster in the World
Mon, 06/23/2008 - 17:43 — notesdesign
Creating the garden of globalisation
Mon, 06/23/2008 - 15:38 — notesdesign
The art of the RFID transponder
Mon, 06/23/2008 - 15:17 — notesdesign
Chinese UFO working prototype
Thu, 06/19/2008 - 15:45 — notesdesign
A new photographic language? Dramatic pictures from the front-lines
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 15:08 — notesdesign
Wired takes a look at a camera hack invented to shoot Solo Avital's documentary 'More than 1000 Words' which follows independent photographer Ziv Koren into the front-lines of the most dangerous war zones in the world. A simple mechanism was mounted to Koren's still camera that filmed him and his point of view at the same time.
Kick, Push - Element's high impact PUSH skateboard
Tue, 06/17/2008 - 21:21 — notesdesign
Element's PUSH boards are engineered to get the most pop and best flick out of your skateboard. The construction combines carbon fiber and Featherlight Helium technologies with their patented air frame chambers that run the length of the board. The result, a lightweight deck ideal for high impact skateboarding.
Spore Creature Creator: Say goodbye to your morning
Tue, 06/17/2008 - 16:34 — notesdesign
DIY Lego color scanner
Mon, 06/16/2008 - 20:10 — notesdesign
Even the most hardcore lego fans will be impressed by Anders Søborg's scanner built from a Mindstorm NXT kit. The NXT image scanner can scan and save images as a BMP-file in the NXT's flash memory. Images can be saved in either 24-bit true color, 8-bit color or gray scale.
Taking archival photos to another dimension
Mon, 06/16/2008 - 19:01 — notesdesign
Joshua Heineman has been adding new life into old digitized photographs from the New York Public Library using simple gif animation trickery. Pictured above is a Cassiano indian at San Antonio Mission, said to be 136 years old, circa 1880.
CIA uses wiki technology to share information
Sun, 06/15/2008 - 13:51 — notesdesign
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Intellipedia project for information-sharing within the nation's intelligence community is still in the early adoption phase a couple years after its launch, but has become a brand name for an entire suite of related Web 2.0 technologies, two CIA officials involved with the effort said Tuesday.
The Real Iron Man: XOS Exoskeleton
Fri, 06/13/2008 - 16:47 — notesdesign
