Electron Luv is the culmination of years of dreaming and listening.
The heart and soul behind Electron Luv is Josh Stippich, who brings his unique vision to audio. They’re shiny, they’re chromey, they’re lovingly hand-built creations. Prepare to drool.
A Brazilian woman who suffered a brain haemorrhage that left her paralysed on one side has regained her ability to walk and talk after undergoing a stem cell transplant. Doctors injected the stem cells into the brain of Maria da Graca Pomeceno, 54, five days after a brain haemorrhage left her a hemiplegic. The cells had been extracted from bone marrow in her pelvis. The new therapy is being tested for the first time in Brazil
A low-cost antibiotic which has performed well in tests should be given to all HIV children in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths. Dr Diana Gibb of Britain’s Medical Research Council said a trial involving HIV-infected children in Zambia was stopped early because it was so successful
Fuji, a 34-year-old mother dolphin that lost 75% of her tail due to a necrotic disease, is jumping once again with the help of what is believed to be the world’s first artificial fin
Hidden Doors manufactures and installs custom secret doors disguised as swinging and revolving bookcases.
I know what I want for Xmas. One for every door. Satisfying my love for secret doors and eternal lack of bookselves in one fell swoop.
That is called ‘sensitive security information’. She’s not allowed to see it, nor is anyone else,
he said. Thus, in a qualitatively new development in US governance, Americans can now be obligated to comply with legally-binding regulations that are unknown to them, and that indeed they are forbidden to know. This is not some dismal Eastern European allegory — via meta-roj blog
Microsoft has been accused of developing policies stressing the systematic destruction of internal e-mail and other documents crucial to lawsuits it has faced in recent years
Starbucks will begin using paper coffee cups made partially from recycled material by the end of 2005. The move comes as the Seattle-based company is in the midst of an aggressive plan to ensure coffee sold in its stores comes from environmentally friendly farms that pay workers a fair wage
The UK’s Office of Communications is publicly toying with the idea of funding a public service publisher (PSP) to complement the BBC’s role as a public service broadcaster. The idea of a PSP is to publicly fund an entity that publishes books, games, interactive material and other published
items that are commissioned from British creators and that reflect and deliver British values. It’s a brilliant idea, and one that’s ripe for Creative Commons licences — the specs say that Content distributed by the PSP must be widely available throughout the UK, with at least near-universal availability
Despite media reports and industry pundits over the years relegating Netscape to Internet history books, AOL has restarted the browser’s development. The company plans to bring back a refreshed Netscape browser based on Firefox
California’s budget problem has led the state to consider desperate measures: taxing you based on how much you drive. The only problem is the way they propose to do it. California is now proposing to put GPS devices on all new cars to track how far people drive and tax them accordingly
Not content with simply outsourcing their call centre, Optus plans to offshore it to India, claiming the move will supplement
its domestic call centre operations. Considering how poor Optus customer service is at the moment, I doubt this move could make it any worse, but it’s still a bad PR exercise from Optus
Interesting article on Wired about the demise of brands.
The world seems to be disappearing beneath a deluge of logos, corporations are branding like there’s no tomorrow and the brand value of companies like Coca-Cola and IBM are routinely calculated at tens of billions of dollars.
Brand were originally created to protect the consumer. So that when you bought a bottle of Coca Cola you were getting exactly what you purchased rather than a knock-off. Laws were based around a company fighting to protect the consumer from being hurt or misled by products falsely claiming to the real thing.
That changed when companies started attacking the consumer. Disney’s one of the worst, of course, going after day cares that paint Mickey on the walls — even though there’s not an instant’s danger that anyone will mistake a nonprofit daycare center for a Disney operation and be misled into patronising it.
This practice has backfired on corporations with consumers no longer having brand loyalty and actively avoiding some companies due to their aggressive behaviour.
First Samsung and now LG.Philips have worked out a way to create thin CRT displays. Thin CRTs offer the best of both worlds — superior picture quality with a slim size. Thin CRTs are expected to be more expensive than current CRTs, however they are also expected to drop in price rapidly. Both companies plan on releasing Thin CRTs in late 2005
Speaking to an audience of technology entrepreneurs in Sydney last week, Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia revealed he will shortly unleash a new product to liberate in-boxes of unsolicited offers of sex, drugs, and scams
Both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis have been renewed for another season, ninth and second respectively. All of the key cast members are coming back for Atlantis, where as SG-1 stars are in negotiations, with Amanda Tapping expecting a baby in March right as filming begins. Also Richard Dean Anderson might look for an even further reduced role in the show
Police in Peru have seized about 700kg of cocaine hidden in frozen giant squid bound for Mexico and the US. The drugs — worth about $17.5m — were sealed in several layers of plastic and other wrapping material and covered in pepper to divert sniffer dogs
RCA has released its Astro TV, which is styled to look like a classic 1950s set, save that it is built around a modern CRT.
Nothing like having a telly kitted out in bakelite and chrome
The US Marine Corps launched an investigation into possible war crimes after video footage taken inside a mosque in Fallujah showed a Marine shooting dead an unarmed Iraqi insurgent who had been taken prisoner
Microsoft alum Nathan Myhrvold so strongly believes intellectual property is the next software that he’s studying for the patent bar exam. His company, Intellectual Ventures, doesn’t actually make anything — only patent attorneys roam the hallways. Myhrvold isn’t the only true believer. Microsoft, Intel, Sony, Nokia, Apple, Google, and eBay have contributed to a $350M bankroll which the firm is using to buy up existing patents that can be rented to companies who want to produce real products — via Slashdot
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