Tooble Maps
Nice London transport/journey planner site that not only has reliable up-to-date info, but integrates the tube map with Google so you can see the geographical location of stations.
Round London With An iPod
25 songs about our city…
Twat Nav
This Knight Rider GPS has voice prompts recorded by William Daniels, the voice of KITT, and apparently when turned on asks “Hello Michael, where do you want to go today?” I can definitely see Hasselhoff getting one for his Austin Ambassador.
Get yours here.
Moto Backpack
The Yamaha Deus Ex is an ‘exo-skeleton’ with seven artificial vertebra as well as a pneumatically attached helmet (how the f*@k do you pneumatically attach a helmet..?). If you were wondering about the machine, the motor is in-wheel, powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batterie similar to those already used in hybrids.!?
What that means is that this ‘exo-skeleton’ backpack item is capable of 0–60mph in three seconds and has a top speed of 75mph.
mobiEXPLORE
mobiEXPLORE is a free multimedia travel guide that provides easy access to ‘rich content’ for tourists. Featuring (text and audio) daily news, events, weather forecast etc. for most major destinations…
New York Times Machine
“TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.”
Bird Man
I want one of these…
Street View Directions
Google Maps Street View has now been integrated into the Google Maps driving directions.
Cunning.
Geo Sim Philly
Virtual Philadelphia ia pretty much that; a carbon copy of Philly only on-line. It features (amongst other things), Human Interaction and E-Shopping (wow). The former enables you to be seen by other “Virtual” Philadelphia users, and communicate with them. The latter allegedly provides you with the experience of “real shopping”, by combining e-commerce with a true-to-life city model.
Sounds lazy, but fairly rubbish.
Conversely
21 Bags…
Finnair Are Rubbish
If you read this blog regularly you’ll be aware of my somewhat dim view of Finnair. This morning my flight was delayed (again), so I decided to write the above on as many sick bags as I could.
I wrote on 3…
Here Are Our Journeys
“Here are our Journeys is the Final Year Project of Brunel University student Matt Collins. It is an exploration into people’s interaction with music they listen to and the journeys they take. Using data logged by user’s iPods’ and GPS units’ the project collates people’s journeys’ and then represents them online where they can be shared with others.”
imagine if you had a device that plays music and has built in GPS…
Mail Sale
‘Genius website’, said Mr Savage - The David Horvitz fly & buy.
Space Shuttle Launch
Wow.
Flying Car
It looks a bit crap, and all your mates will laugh at you when you turn up to the boozer, but I love that someone has made a Plane//Car. Brilliant. The Milner AirCar has four seats, four doors and four wheels in ‘ground mode’ but, in a matter of seconds, its also got giant wings and propellers that just fold out. In ‘air mode’ the diesel-powered Plane//Car combo will be able to cruise at 25,000 feet.
Which would shut your mates up. Once again, who needs a jet pack?