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links for 2006-07-30
Posted on 07.30.06 by Emily

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the ultimate backpack: art + solar + helping others
Posted on 07.30.06 by Emily

Snipshot 1Aacbqjmmd New backpack is coming out this fall from Tumi co-designed by Anish Kapoor to benefit Doctors without Borders, coinciding with the launch of Kapoor’s intriguing Sky Mirror installation (a 35-foot-diameter concave mirror made of polished stainless steel reflecting the skyline) at Rockefeller Center from September 19 through October 27th (also sponsored by Tumi and organized by Public Art Fund).

Featuring a solar panel on top and temperature controlled neoprene compartments, the backpack can charge your phone or PDA while keeping your lunch or bionic tissue samples cool. Constructed from red-on-gray FXT ballistic nylon with silver metallic lining and a removable padded laptop sleve, you probably won’t be able to destroy it. (I’m still fond of their first generation computer backpack from the early Web days that confidently holds and comfortably distributes more weight than any other bag I’ve ever tried.)

100% of the $695 retail price for this individually numbered limited-edition of 500 backpacks (with Anish Kapoor’s imprimatur) will go to the worthy cause of Doctors without Borders.

Seeing this immediately brought to mind the great solar bags available now from Voltaic Systems. Also, lots of intriguing features recently added to another useful type of Backpack, a useful, beautiful and easy-to-use web service from 37 signals that allows you to organize all your to-dos, notes, ideas and calendar online.

via Fashion Week Daily


links for 2006-07-29
Posted on 07.29.06 by Emily


Spot-on episode of the show with zefrank on copyright issues and profiteering with video online.

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links for 2006-07-27
Posted on 07.27.06 by Emily
  • Fuel for Travel (at Schiphol Airport) lets you download travel guides, music, audio books, tv shows and movies to MP3 players and other digital devices. features listening and viewing stations for travellers to browse digital content. Pricing is similar t

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links for 2006-07-26
Posted on 07.26.06 by Emily

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kiss me! high-tech+touch secret message silk wedding costumes
Posted on 07.26.06 by Emily

kiss me wedding costumeI’m no fan of the designer wedding industrial complex, but i love everything about this Swedish summer wedding that features a little complex industrial design from CuteCircuit in the form of The Kiss Me! gown and suit.

Environmentally friendly, smart and full of heart, the Kiss Me! costumes are made of exquisite layers of emerald green and sapphire blue pure Indian silk; they are reversible and reconfigurable. (Check out the magnificent train!) At the dramatic moment when the happy couple kissed, two messages containing before unspoken love words were passed from one to another, shown privately to each other through a miniscule display integrated inside the trim of the clothes (based on the technology of the soft & comfy Secret Message Glove) for absolute romantic secrecy.

Photos of the delightful wedding ceremony on flickr. (Dinner looks good too!) Kiss me! suit at Unravel, the SIGGRAPH Fashion show in Boston, 7/31/06.

Congratulations and best wishes to Livia and Magnus (and CuteCircuit)!

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links for 2006-07-20
Posted on 07.20.06 by Emily

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helloooooo hellodeo (this is a test)
Posted on 07.20.06 by Emily

Wow, vlogging (video blogging) just got really easy thanks to Odeo’s new Hellodeo. If you have a webcam, you can record, play and publish video with ease, instantly, for free.

Now I really feel like a part of the “whole virtual network out there” that Susan notes so beautifully. (Thanks, Seth, for going first!)

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