When form defines function the experience of a product is better. In this case, Charlotte Van Der Waals’ World Time Clock takes the math and confusion out of time zone hopping. Simply position the clock with the desired city on top and the correct time is displayed.
As gorgeous as it is, it seems it’s a bugger to replace batteries and your nifty clock soon reverts to a paperweight — via Cool Hunting
The wireless replacement for USB, ultra wide-band (UWB), will be ready by late December and without the formal approval of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a leading group promoting the revolutionary technology has promised
A Sydney man, Nick Marinellis, has been sentenced to more than five years in jail for defrauding millions of dollars in an international e-mail scam. The Sydney District Court was told Marinellis was the mastermind of an operation which defrauded people around the world by promising lucrative business contracts, lottery wins or inheritance payouts if people first sent money for expenses
Designer Luigi Colani has created a space-saving house with a six square metre cylinder inside that contains a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. The cylinder rotates left or right bringing the room you want into view of the main living room. There’s a separate toilet and a small hallway, and everything is controlled with a remote. The house was designed for young professionals who need minimal space while they focus on career — via boingboing
Firefox, the finest, most secure Web browser ever created for average-user applications, went 1.0 today. You can download it, toss out Internet Explorer, and be relatively assured that you computer won’t be compromised due to Microsoft’s bad design decisions and lax security maintenance. The Mozilla site was brought to a near standstill as it suffered what one analyst called a success crisis
following the launch
The BBC is on the point of releasing an Internet video viewer for its content, and its CIO has told other companies to stop making excuses and use the bandwidth available to deliver better services online. Media companies must now keep their side of the bargain and deliver content which justifies consumers’ switch to broadband, according to Keith Little, head of IT at the BBC
A UK startup called Dataslide aims to develop hard drives made of oscillating sheets of LCD-screen-like material with piezo-electronic actuators and many, many read:write heads. A hard drive could be the same size and shape as an LCD screen
Symantec has admitted its flagship consumer security application, Norton AntiVirus 2005, has a security vulnerability that allows certain types of malicious script to infect a user’s PC with a virus
Don’t really know what I’d do with them, but I’d love a two foot tall stack of stackable ceramic mugs designed by Tim Biskup.
He’s selling them on eBay — via BoingBoing
Queen have decided to tackle musical piracy by offering fans the chance to legally download up to 100 pirate recordings currently in circulation. Using expert advice, the band has selected the best illegal Queen recordings and will make them available to download on their official web site. The downloads will be available at the rate of three tracks each month, at a fixed cost of £5 per recording. All proceeds will be donated to the Mercury Phoenix Trust, to combat Aids — via meta-roj blog
Eight eBay sellers were ordered to pay nearly US$90,000 in restitution and fines after admitting they had bid on products to inflate the prices
The first human trial of an artificial bio
kidney has shown encouraging results, offering hope of a working implant for patients. Ten kidney patients at the University of Michigan tested the device, which works in the same way as dialysis but is partly made of human cells. Eventually, scientists hope the device will become an implantable long-term replacement for failing kidneys
Coyotes, the rangy animals associated with the American West, have been spotted in the US capital for the first time, sparking gossip in precincts where talk usually turns on politics
Amazing anaecdote from Peter Briggs, the author of the screenplay for Alien Versus Predator — via Wired
I wrote
A vs Poriginally — oh, God… did you hear that? I actually saidA vs P. I hate that thing… it’s likeT2orLXG! Anyway, I wrote it on an Amstrad computer, which was about one step above a Univac Room Filler. In ’92 I swapped to an Apple Mac, which I’ve used ever since. And I ended up losing the Amstrad disk, which was some weird, unreadable proprietary brand anyway. It wasn’t until whoever it was transcribed it and pirated it onto the web years later, that I was able to cut-and-paste it into Final Draft and have an electronic copy again. So, thank-you, Internet Leaker, wherever you were!
The morons at Warner Bros (the same people who canned Angel and now want it back) have passed on Warren Ellis‘ Global Frequency, a wonderfully twisted modern-day SF TV series which may yet air, but the company that owns the series will now have to shop it around to other networks
A careless mistake by someone dropping a case of CDs allegedly containing forged documents used to create fake identities has led police to crack one of the largest and most sophisticated identity fraud rings in Australia
Swirly scratching posts for your cats, leather recliners and wheelie beds for you dogs and other gorgeously designed stuff from Postmodern Pets.
It ranges from the hideously expensive to the easily affordable — via boingboing
The irises I bought last year from Isabella’s Iris‘s Norma Hart have started to bloom.
Next off the mark is Duranus in a dark blue purple.
It’s only put its first flower out and should be flowering for the rest of the week.
The irises I bought last year from Isabella’s Iris‘s Norma Hart have started to bloom.
Second to bloom is Almost Dark in a dark violety purple.
It’s flowering quite nicely.
Robert Andrew Street, a Melbourne financial adviser, caught up in a Nigerian investment scam has been sentenced to five years and three months’ jail after he used AU$1 million of his clients’ money to pay the fees
required by the scammer
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