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	Dancing Weatherman
	By Ben on Sat Nov 7 2009 \| Comments ( 1 )

Gear | Video

Haha!

	Tundra Midnight Rider Tailgater
	By Ben on Sat Nov 7 2009 \| Comments this

Car | Other

The Midnight Rider Tundra Tailgater was developed through Toyota’s partnership with Brooks & Dunn. Inspired by the music duo’s large truck-devoted fan base, Toyota wanted to push the boundaries of bed utility and capture the imagery of the truck trucker. When you slide out the tailgate, exposing a BBQ grill, beer tap, ice chest, 42″ HDTV and Kicker sound system. The sound system features a dual subwoofer system and a separate amp, four two-way speakers with tweeters and separate crossovers, and dual two-channel amps with separate equalizers and speaker control units.

Source | Price: $TBA | BUY

	Sevres Vase Clock by Georgios Maridakis
	By Ben on Fri Nov 6 2009 \| Comments this

Home | Clock

The Sevres Vase Clock is is a new type of timepiece that tells the hour by tapping on the surface of a vase to produce sound. An adjustable hammer mechanism allows a variety of vases to be used, thereby permitting a range of chimes to be generated. By Georgios Maridakis.
An adjustable hammer gently knocks on any vase you place on the stand on the hour, every hour. Different vases produce different sounds so potentially every home’s clock looks and sounds different just from one device.

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	AICP Southwest Sponsor Reel by Corgan Media Lab
	By Ben on Fri Nov 6 2009 \| Comments this

Gear | Video

This sponsor reel was completed by Corgan MediaLab, corganmedialab.com at no charge, for the AICP Southwest Awards. This national program honors the best commercials produced throughout the past year, and celebrates "The Art and Technique of the American Commercial." The show travels across the US, and appeared October 21st in Dallas - the Southwest region.

	HTC Droid Eris available on Verizon today
	By Ben on Fri Nov 6 2009 \| Comments this

HTC Droid Eris available on Verizon today

Gear | Cellphone

Today the HTC Droid Eris is available alongside the Motorola Droid(Android 2.0) in Verizon stores. It is running the Android OS 1.5 system and it is cheap for $99.99 with a two-year contract. Features includes a 5 megapixel camera with video recording and uploading capabiliti, 3.2-inch capacitive display, 3.5mm headphone jack, and microSD expansion up to 16GB. The latest news, HTC plan on bringing Android 2.0 to Droid Eris when they are ready for it.

	Posters by Arjan Benning
	By Ben on Fri Nov 6 2009 \| Comments ( 1 )

Gear | Pic

Posters by Arjan Benning, Cool!

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	Facebook Facelift - Home & Profiles
	By Ben on Thu Nov 5 2009 \| Comments ( 6 )

Gear | Software

The Facebook Facelift is a self initiated project to challenge the form and functionality of Facebook. It's streamlined, structured, linear interface is more comprehendible, enhancing the user experience and absorbability of content.

The home page features many new benefits: the publisher toolbar enables users to post content from any page within Facebook, saving time in navigating needlessly through profiles; the streams' two-tiered filter (content type & content contributers) also creates a more coherent structure with the core elements retaining their position throughout most of the site; and the live feed displays a constant stream of all content posted in a users network, which expands upon mouse over.

Profiles also integrate with the system more seamlessly. Just as friend lists filter the stream by a select number of people, user profiles simply filter content to a single person, creating a clearer and more comprehendible layout.

	Animation: Ferret dance (A series of tubes)
	By Ben on Thu Nov 5 2009 \| Comments this

Gear | Video

Funny!
The ferrets are here to make you happy.
Just a bit of fun, using puppet show principals in a simple animation.
Music is "Buddy Holly" arranged by The Moog Cookbook (A cover version of the Weezer song).

	This is Karma by Erling Hoveid
	By Ben on Thu Nov 5 2009 \| Comments this

Gear | Video

THEME: This is a documentary about the philosophy of karma. I am into eastern philosophy which I find to have a lot of truth in it. I wanted to make a film that conveys the idea that we are all basically the same. And I also wanted to make an informative film about what karma really is in case people are interested.

FORM: I wanted to experiment with fusing the documentary genre with the music video genre. I also wanted to make a film that in form reflected indian society in all its colour, chaos and diversity. Indian traditional ideas and beliefs, indian classical music remixed and edited trough western eyes to hopefully suit a western audience.

Erling Hoveid: director, producer, music, photography, co-editor
Geir O. Ramsvik: photography, editor, visual effects
Kristian E. Sjølie: graphic design
Jan Magnus Nymo: sound design, surround and stereo mix

	Next Room Eavesdropping Device
	By Ben on Thu Nov 5 2009 \| Comments this

Gear | Spy

I don't know who will purchase this eavesdropping device and this kit is good as its claim. The Next Room Eavesdropping Device($62) looks a bit like the business end of a stethoscope, but uses an electronic internal sound amplifier to boost the noises coming through a wall, door, window and even steel plates. It includes a set of a set of headphones, built-in rechargeable battery charge via USB, ON/OFF Switch Button with volume Dial.

Source | Price: $62 | BUY

	Prince of Persia Movie Trailer
	By Ben on Thu Nov 5 2009 \| Comments this

Gear | Film

Prince of Persia Movie Trailer, Cool!

	Bread Shoes
	By Ben on Thu Nov 5 2009 \| Comments ( 5 )

Style | Shoe

Shoes are made of bread, eatable, Cool shoes, the Bread Shoes(€27), so cute!
"eatable…dries itself… made from bread...first in fashion… needs no pressing…feels good in dry climate …won’t sag"

Price: EUR 12-22 | BUY

	Soft infrastructure (borrowed from Madrid Metro)
	By Ben on Thu Nov 5 2009 \| Comments this

Gear | Video

Borrowed from Madrid Metro by La Huella FX.

	Alvaro Puentes
	By Ben on Wed Nov 4 2009 \| Comments this

Gear | Pic

By photographer Alvaro Puentes.

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	R1 radio by il-gu cha
	By Ben on Wed Nov 4 2009 \| Comments this

Gear | Design

Il-gu cha has designed an analog radio, the R1 radio, tuning is done by moving the radio from left to right and volume is controlled by rolling the radio forward and backward, watch the video, here. I like this design!
"An analog radio is one of most important product for a blind people. In the using a behavior of how people manipulated rather than burying all of interaction in to the product. So adjusting radio to the right station would require a new kind of manipulation rather than simply tuning a knob.
‘R1’ has designed for them to control the radio more intuitively. By using a wheel structure user can control the radio by physical movement. The ‘R1’ allowed users to turn gadget on or off and to control volume and tuning simply by physically rolling the radio forward, backward and sideways. "

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