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Tinfoil hats are so passé. So what should you wear to Faraday’s Cafe?
Check out the latest collection of electromagnetic field blocking and “anti-identity theft” clothing at DDCLAB (427 W 14th St, New York NY 10014 map).
Here’s the text from the windows:
EMF: Electro Magnetic Field Block
Anti•Identity•Theft•Fabric
Electric Resistivity
measure of how strongly a material opposes the [...]
Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, Speedbird, Urban Computing and its Discontents, and the upcoming The City is Here for You to Use, moderated an excellent panel discussion that included Christian Nold (who we loved at Pop!Tech), Eric Rodenbeck of Stamen Design, and J. Meejin Yoon of MY Studio and Howeler + Yoon Architecture. Here are the notes I took during the talk.
Eye-Fi Wireless Camera 2GB SD Memory Card
This is brilliant – a 2GB SD card for your camera that automagically uploads images to flickr (and many more services) when on a wifi network. (Thanks Photojojo!)
(tags: photography wifi wireless camera cool gadgets flickr mobile photo technology)
Undercover Jun Takashi’s Brain Bag
Definitely my it-bag for fall. (Thanks, Coolhunting!)
(tags: brain [...]
According to “Is That a Lama Behind the Camera,” Anupama Chopra’s great article in the New York Times on Bhutan’s budding film industry, last year a record 24 films were produced in the tiny Himalayan kingdom, population 700,000; in 2003 the total was only six. Even though there were only ten films produced in [...]
corona solar lighta solar powered outdoor LED lighting system that can be staked to the ground, attached to a wall or placed on a tabletop. uses no glues or fasteners and is easy to diassemble for recycling.
As part of her Contemporary Memento Mori thesis series, Fiona Carswell creates interactive wearables that reference time and our relationships to our own body…. When exposed to UV light, dark moles appear in various places on the bikini.
To think that we can “solve” climate change without addressing poverty, human rights, democratization, conflict, epidemic disease, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, food issues and the like is to suffer from carbon blindness.
…cool tool allows you to create free live talk shows via phone/web with simultaneous text chat that then become podcasts.
brilliant melanoma awareness campaign in marc jacobs windows. naked celebrity photograph t-shirts with “protect the skin you’re in,” “protect your largest organ,” and “save your ass,” with proceeds going from the sale of t-shirts (and the photographs by bill ) to NYU interdisciplinary school of medicine melanoma cooperative group.
Love Made Visible
blog highlighting beautfiul things and priya’s exquisite taste in design
(tags: design blog fashion art shopping style trends)
OrangeBeautiful
lovely letterpress and bookbinding
(tags: stationery letterpress paper invitations design print)
SCENT of Colors
japanese photo blog organized by colors, mostly floral and botanical
(tags: pictures flowers colors photoblog blog plants images photography)
New backpack coming out this fall from Tumi co-designed by Anish Kapoor to benefit Doctors without Borders, coinciding with the launch of Kapoor’s Sky Mirror installation at Rockefeller Center from September 19 through October 27th (also sponsored by Tumi and organized by Public Art Fund).The backpack features a solar panel on top for charging a phone or PDA. Constructed from red-on-gray FXT ballistic nylon with silver metallic lining, a removable padded laptop sleve and temperature controlled neoprene compartments.
I’m no fan of the wedding industrial complex, but i’ve falling in love with this complex industrial-design wedding costume.
If you’re an athletic woman on the curvier end of the spectrum, finding a bikini top that’s not a wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen is a challenge. Believe me, I tried on everything at Saks and Bloomingdales for us — nada. Athleta made a big deal in their latest catalog about one top for DDs, [...]
The wraps are off Banchet Jaigla’s beautiful flower bar, right next to Banchet Flowers at 809 washington st. Can’t wait to sip champagne among the vanda and cattleya.Have you ever smelled a shepherd’s basket?
