Sunday, November 15, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
This Story is Amazing!
The Eyewriter from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Before disease took his ability to move, Tony Quan was an amazing graffiti artist. Now he is completely paralyzed, save for his eyes, and still an amazing artist. Seeing how he works left me with tear-streaked cheeks.
Beautiful, isn't it? Art, whether in the form of graffiti or coffee, is an individual's contribution to humanity. And the incredible people behind the EyeWriter Initiativeare making sure that not even paralysis, like Tony's, stops someone from making such a creative contribution.The project is an open-source collaboration which seeks to continue building on their low-cost eye-tracking system and they've even got instructions for a DIY version of the EyeWriter. [Eyewriter via Infosthetics]
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into a Display
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there's the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It's a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer.
As great as it seems, this concept is seriously creepy because it powers itself by converting the glucose and oxygen found in blood into electricity. Though somehow getting your blood sucked by a gadget is worth it for the endless potential applications. I'd probably just end up using it to moderate comments, but what would you do first with your implant? [Core77 via Geekologie]
New Apple Store on the Upper West Side
Apple has taken the wraps off the company's newUpper West Side retail store in New York City in advance of the public opening scheduled for Saturday morning.• Apple's total sales in 2001 were $5.4 billion. Apple Stores this year: $6.6 billion. (Apple's total sales this year were $36.5 billion.)
• They hit 170 million visitors this year. 10 million people hit Genius Bars or personal training.
• Sales per store—$26 million, which is just below what Macy's, Target and Best Buy make per store. But, if you look at the real estate, it's a slightly different picture. Apple Stores do sales of $4,300 per square foot which is 5x the $872 per square foot Best Buy does.
• Wow—over 100,000 applicants on file for jobs at the Apple Store worldwide. 10,000 people submitted applications for the new Upper West Side store. Just over 200 got a job.
• Apple realized they were going too small with their stores, so now all of their stores will be at least "three tables wide." In other words, they're going to be bigger. They're also going to be opening more stores next year, more like 50. More of them will be "significant stores," iconic ones like the Fifth Ave. store with the Apple Cube. And they'll be going more international, adding stores all over Europe, like the UK, Paris and two in Shanghai getting those "significant stores."
• All checkouts are done using an iPod touch now with a new EasyPay system, if you care about the purity of the Apple Store and the old Windows Mobile system offended you.
Sony MBW-100 Bluetooth Watch
SPL Teams to Join EPL?
EPL teams just voted to not let Celtic and Rangers join the EPL. Good choice?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The Bozeman Snowmaster Telemetric
Absolutely stunning watch from American watchmaker, Bozeman of Montana. The SnowMaster Telemetric was designed for the U.S. Ski Team with portions of the sales of the watch going to the support the Olympic effors of the US Ski & Snowboard team. The watch features speed and distance timing functions, chronograph, GMT function, and a telemetric scale. The SnowMaster can be pre-ordered from Bozeman’s website and is priced at $5,900.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
American Closer to Arsenal Takeover?
Stan Kroenke has increased his stake in Arsenal once again. The American businessman now owns 29.6 per cent of the shares in the north London club. Kroenke is now just 0.3 per cent - 209 shares - away from owning enough of the club to be obliged to make a formal takeover bid.
