— via Rob and Elliot
Now that Google Drive has built file storage into your Google account, it’s only natural that you’d like it to play nicely with your other Google apps. With a few tricks, it can — at least with your Gmail account. Tech blogger Amit Agarwal details how to set up a system in which applying a GoogleDrive label to any email in your Gmail inbox will automatically save its attachment to Google Drive — syncing those files directly to your desktop — via Lifehacker
Bionic vision researchers intend to test a functional bionic eye on patients next year.
Our primary aim is to complete the first prototypes of the bionic eye so they can be tested in human recipients in 2013,
said Gregg Suaning, a professor from the University of New South Wales Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, in a statement.
Suaning is also the leader of Bionic Vision Australia’s wide-view device, the first of two prototypes designed to restore vision in people with degenerative retinal conditions.
It consists of 98 electrodes that stimulate nerve cells in the retina, which is a tissue lining the back of the eye that converts light into electrical impulses necessary for sight, and allow users to better differentiate between light and dark — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This five bedroom contemporary modernist property in Dorset is located in the highly desirable Avon Castle Estate
and in a private plot with views across the Avon valley and surrounding countryside, the house offers 10,000sq.ft of accommodation — and not just any old accommodation. We’re talking luxury here, with pretty much everything you would demand in a house, should money be no object.
Originally on the market for that £3,000,000 asking price, the agent is now asking around £1,000,000. Not cheap, but a massive reduction, that’s for sure. More images at the agent’s website — via WowHaus
Make your own voluptuous octopus with powerful, undulating legs! Using worsted weight yarn and a G hook, the finished product will be about 3″ tall, with legs that can engulf prey up to 9″ in diameter — via Etsy
Spain is not an easy country to import a motorcycle into. But perseverance has paid off for the four guys at La Corona Motorcycles. After months of paperwork and weeks of wrenching, they have a sharp XS650 cafe to be proud of. It’s a classic commuter custom, stripped back and spruced up, rebuilt in the style becoming increasing popular in mainland Europe — via Bike EXIF
Carter Williamson Architects have designed the Rozelle Terrace house in Sydney, Australia — via CONTEMPORIST
Three years ago, the Christian Science Monitor began a jump-in-the-deep-end version of digital transformation. The Monitor killed its five-day-a-week print edition, started a weekly magazine version and shifted daily operations entirely to the Web.
A protracted period, most of the first year, followed where everyone was learning how to swim
, editor John Yemma recalled in a phone interview last week. For news staff particularly, the break from the old industrial process
of once-a-day deadlines was wrenching.
But over the last two years, a slightly reduced staff has hit its stride with big improvements in traffic and the news organisation’s finances — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I like Google Plus. Some of the smartest people I’ve ever read are on Google Plus, and the Hangout is amazing.
But Google is doing everything it can to force Google Plus on everyone, and it’s pissing me off.
Yesterday, I tried to like a video on YouTube. I tried to like a video on YouTube. I wasn’’t signed in to my Google Plus account, and this is what I saw…
Where the thumbs up and thumbs down used to be, there is now a big G+ Like button. When you go anywhere near it, you get a little popup that tells you to upgrade to Google Plus
for some reason that I don’t remember, because the instant I saw it, I made a rageface — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A state judge granted a reprieve Tuesday to a wolf dog hybrid he ordered destroyed for aggressive behaviour, instead sentencing
the animal to serve a life term as a guard dog in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Judge James Best of 18th Judicial District Court signed an order releasing custody of Chief to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections at the request of prison officials who want to use the animal as a guard dog at Angola — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The owner has been found of a Harley-Davidson that drifted to Canada after being swept out to sea in the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
Details from the motorcycle’s licence plate helped to locate Ikuo Yokoyama.
According to CBC News, Mr Yokoyama lost his home and three family members in the tsunami.
The shop that sold the motorcycle to Mr Yokoyama is now hoping to ship the Harley-Davidson back to Japan and restore it.
The motorcycle is among the first items in a wave of debris heading to the west coast of North America. Most of the debris is expected to arrive in 2013 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream has sold at auction for $120m (£74m), making it one of the most valuable works of art ever sold.
The 1895 pastel was bought at Sotheby’s in New York City. Bidding began at some $50m, and lasted for just 12 minutes.
The work is one of four in a series by the Norwegian expressionist artist and was the only one still owned privately — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A neighbourhood dispute over loud music and erratic driving has escalated into a bloody brawl in which a chainsaw partially severed a man’s arm.
Doctors are attempting to reattach the arm of Mark Jorgensen, 29, after the altercation in in Fenton Close, Minto, last night.
Another man, Troy Thornton, 26, lost a finger in the dispute. His sister, Nicole Thornton, claimed he was attacked with a samurai sword — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For a new line at work, experimenting with a style similar to some band posters I saw for the Black Keys etc that looked that bits of paper made into a mosaic. These are pretty time consuming but fairly fun — via deviantART
The basket is adorable, but the real magic is in the tutorial. It’s in-depth and well presented. Let the tiny basket weaving begin! — via CRAFT
Suzuki’s T500 was a rare beast: a large-capacity two-stroke road bike that sold in big numbers in the US. And it’s not hard to see why. For a late 60s motorcycle, it was light, fast, and blessed with agile handling. And more reliable than most four-stroke twins. I.ve always thought that the stock T500 was a good-looking bike, but this replica racer is … quite something else.
The machine comes from the collection of Boris Bob
Guynes, a hugely skilled fabricator and model-maker based in California — via Bike EXIF
Not just any old rental property, this is a 1930s Connell, Ward and Lucas-designed grade II-listed modernist house in Worcester Park, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey.
A team of architects that worked in the modern house market of the 1930s, Amyas Connell (the first of those names) was also responsible for one of the most famed modern houses in Britain prior to that — the High & Over house in Amersham, which was up for sale a couple of years back.
More images on the listing, with a price of £3,250 per month, should you want to rent it — via WowHaus
In December 1999, Sotheby’s made watch-auction history. The auction house sold the so-called Henry Graves Supercomplication — a pocketwatch originally commissioned from Patek Philippe by noted watch collector Henry Graves, Jr, and which featured 24 complications — for an astounding $11,002,500, still the world record for any timepiece at auction. Last week, Sotheby’s announced that it will hold a single-owner sale on 14 June 2012 in New York that will include more rare watches from the collections of Graves and his grandson, Reginald Pete
H Fullerton, Jr, a noted collector and connoisseur in his own right — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, NY; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.
But all these dramas were facilitated by the FBI, whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hells yeah, more iPad tentacles, enjoyed this one. I should really do a more polished version though, with a Wacom and everything. Hope you enjoy — via FuzzFace
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