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World Mouse Clicking Competition
The world record is 104 clicks in 10 seconds.
Go on, you know you want to.
Inspired Bicycles | Danny MacAskill
Encounted this clip a while ago and didn’t watch it – it’s a video of Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill. Anyway, was with a few mates last night (funny how YouTube has infiltrated socializing) and one of them played it thru. Wow, features probably the best collection of street/street trials riding I’ve ever seen.
Awesome.
More here.
PingPongPlus
PingPongPlus is a digitally enhanced version of the classic ping-pong game. Played with regular paddles and balls, PPP features a reactive surface incorporating sensors, sound and projection technology. As the users play visuals are projected onto the surface and music adopts the rhythm of the game.
Sweet.
Video here.
Bubble Project
I know this is old, but I hadn’t posted it yet and I wanted to.
Ji Lee, (Google Creative Labs’ Creative Director), got tired of working in adland because he felt he was limited by client ‘stubbornness’ when it came to realizing ideas. So he took a few thousand dollars and started the infamous Bubble Project. Bubble Project, as proclaimed by its manifesto, aims to counteract corporate marketing and advertisement messages in public spaces. By filling in blank bubbles (posted by Lee) people engage and transform “the corporate monologue into an open dialogue”. The comments are then photographed and posted on the project’s site.
BarbieFoot
‘Barbiefoot’ by french design Chloe Ruchon combines the iconic doll with table football. On one side it uses Barbie‘s pink, frilly world and on the other its uses the predominantly male world of table soccer, know traditionally as ‘Babyfoot’ in french France.
More here.
Where’s The Party? | Carlsberg
Carlsberg has launched the service that everyone has been trying to sell to a booze client for the last two years – the mechanics of which are explained when you arrive at the site. Basically it’s a mobile app and online combo that enables people to track friends and find parties. It’s very nicely packaged and ties into the networks/technology of the moment, but it’s pretty thin without a host of good stuff to do.
The reality is that I don’t really need Carlsberg to help me find and keep track of my friends or introduce me to other lardy boozers. I’d like them to throw a party for me, but they could just as well do that without this service…
This idea was good two years ago, now – I’m not so sure.
make-digital.com | Grafitti
The good folks at the Graffiti Eradication Partnership will be spilling their Campari.
Urban Knitting Graffiti | Knitta Please
Knitta began in August 2005, when the soon-to-be-Knittas were discussing their frustration over unfinished knitting projects: half-knitted sweaters and balls of yarn gathering dust. That afternoon, they knit their first door handle. Then it dawned on them… a tag crew of knitters, bombing the inner city with vibrant, stitched works of art, wrapped around everything from beer bottles on easy nights to public monuments and utility poles on more ambitious outings. With a mix of clandestine moves and gangsta rap — Knitta was born! Today, Knitta is a group of ladies of all ages, nationalities, and… gender.
More Shorditch than Shorditch.
Paper House
Made entirely of paper and inspired by the distorted canal buildings of Amsterdam.
By Mandy Smith
Skate 1/2 Board
Foldable Skateboard concept by designer Jin Seok Hwang.
Looks good, but it’ll break surely.
ViaNGBoards.
Sick + | Apple Does Extreme Sports
According to these patents Apple is working on a system that uses GPS, speed and loft sensors (amongst others) to monitor ski, snowboard and bike jumps. The tech appears to provide a method for determining the “air” time of dudes participating in extreme sports activities. The diagrams below show the whole thing working with a monitoring watch, kinda like a Nike + iPod style arrangement.
If true then it’s another very smart move from the (ever-youthful) Apple brand machine.
ViaMacNN
Plants +
Nike+ for the green fingered.
EasyBloom USB sensor device into your computer to access the My EasyBloom dashboard. Configure and place the sensor in a spot where you want to grow something, or adjacent to an existing plant that needs monitoring. The sensor will then gather a 24 hour plant’s eye’ view of that location that can be uploaded to the EasyBloom website where ‘algorithms‘ are run that will either recommend a plant or diagnose what is wrong with an ailing plant.
Wing Sluts
Gnarly etc.
Jade Deady
