Entries from August 2010

Chris Boardman’s Bike of the Future

August 27th, 2010 · Paul · No Comments

I love bikes. If I were rich I would have a museum of bikes. And if I were even richer I would invest in the development of this beauty. This concept bike designed by cycling legend Chris Boardman features puncture proof tyres which rotate around a fixed circular rim and finger print recognition to stop Mr Bike Thief riding off with your beloved machine. I just hope that by the time it becomes a reality I am still fit enough to ride one!

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Favsites

August 25th, 2010 · Ric · No Comments

NMAP have visualised the 288,945 most popular websites (according to Alexa) in the world using their favicon — that’s the little picture that appears by bookmarks and in the address bar. Google dwarfs the competition. I’d like a bit poster of this so help me spot our site!

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Peter Molyneux, Milo and Kinect on TED

August 19th, 2010 · Ric · No Comments

I blogged about Kinect — or Natal as it was know back then — a little while ago. The technology is truly amazing, it watches how you move, listens to what you say and understands you… it’s a massive advance in interaction and leaves everything else dead in the water. Even better it’s available for you to buy this this November for your Xbox 360. This is futurist technology that you’ll be able to own very soon. Peter Molyneux presented the first live demo of Milo to TED and the video of the talk is now live. It’s an interesting listen and shows how Kinect has the potential to create new experiences. The animation looks fantastic too. I might have to get an Xbox 360!

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How Big really?

August 19th, 2010 · Ric · No Comments

Continuing with giant theme for today is a new website by the BBC that allows you to superimpose events, places and things on different parts of the world to compare scale. Want to see how big the Glastonbury Festival would be in Guernsey, or scale of Pakistan’s floods? How Big Really allows you to do that and truly appreciate the scale. I think it works particularly well in Guernsey due to our small size and clear geographic boarders

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The land of the giants

August 19th, 2010 · Ric · No Comments

Pylons draping their power-lines across the landscape is not something we have to worry about in Guernsey, but if we did I’d want ours to look like these. Still at the conceptual stage I’m not sure they’ll ever get made — there must be a lot of structural and performance considerations — but I think someone should try.

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Obsessive nature

August 10th, 2010 · Ash · No Comments

“Obsessions make my life worse and my work better” by Sagmeister Inc. This was created entirely with euro-cent coins.

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Pictionary Pics

August 10th, 2010 · Adam · No Comments

Some great ads for Pictionary made by Art director Juan Jose Posada while working at Ogilvy and Mather. Be careful, You only have sixty egg-timed seconds to look at them. GO! Read more

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Rolling Uphill

August 9th, 2010 · Adam · No Comments

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