today and tomorrow

I don’t know what this Wet T-Shirt World Cup is about, but it’s well made or am I distracted?

Hanazuki is both a creative studio and an online shop. I just like their website, their work and products are as great.

Uniform is a creative workshop in both France and Sweden. Their top level domain is .pro, I never saw that before.

Do you know what I like best? Transform Selector. Transform Selector is a new advancement in Application Intelligence. See our demo which includes detailed visual examples of the Application in use. Transform Selector’s ease of integration into Adobe Illustrator CS2 allows for new control of Illustrators already amazing capabilities. We’re now proud to announce that this new powerful tool is in public beta. You’ll never look at Adobe Illustrator in the same way again.

A blog dedicated to cats that look like Hitler.

Paper Record Player

To play the record the handle needs to be turned in a clockwise direction at a
steady 331/3 rpm. The paper cone then acts as a pick up and amplifies the sound
enough to make it audible.

FM Radio Map

This map plots the location of FM commercial and pirate radio stations within London.The poster
works in its own right as a piece of information design, but when connected to the modified radio
it becomes part of the interface. Each map is made site specific by connecting only the stations that
can be received in that location. This is done by drawing power lines in pencil on the back of the map,
which conducts electricity from the radio to the front of the poster.Placing a metal contact onto each
point enables us to listen to the sound broadcast live from that location.

Aha, a 3D LED cube … that’s something new. Neo^3.

TV-Filter allows to downsample an ongoing tv-show to 6 by 8 pixels in realtime. A translucent projection folie is mounted on a 5 cm deep cardboard grid. The color and intensity of each pixel is determined by the correspondend part of the tv screen on the backside. The different color information of each tv line get mixed to an average color value on each 4 by 4 cm pixel. In this way it is thinkable to reduce every high definition screen to a pleasant information density.

Marimekko makes and sells all kinds of products, as long there’s graphical pattern on it.

My Powerbook has this light sensor which adapts the brightness of my display and the intersity of keyboard backlight. Mac OS X Internals has some insight how to “hack” this capabilities. Stefan Werner wrote an iTunes plugin, iSpazz, to control the keyboard and screen backlight. Geeky!