Category Archives: Tech

We Used to Wait

Aug 30, 2010 – 8:51 am

The Arcade Fire have teamed up with, of all partners, Google to release an official video for “We Used to Wait” off their new album The Suburbs. The tech savvy video uses the emerging web standards of HTML5 to deliver a complex and highly interactive experience to help personalize the sense of nostalgia inherent in [...]

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The Hello Wall

Aug 27, 2010 – 12:46 pm

Wasted Spaces is a non-profit organization created to help stem the decaying effect of empty and disused buildings on local areas, while also providing artists with free exhibition space and a chance to reach a wider audience. By recycling disused buildings, Wasted Spaces animates local areas, brings local artists together with new communities and encourages [...]

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Modern Extinction

Aug 24, 2010 – 2:09 pm

There are moments that occur that make you realize you’re getting old. This is one of mine. Christopher Locke has created fossil sculptures out of archaic technology that was once cutting edge. These are things we used to play with what seems like yesterday, but in reality, decades ago. In a special process, Locke reproduces these [...]

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iSummer

Aug 20, 2010 – 2:07 pm

The iPhone and Summer pretty much go hand-in-hand – to call your girls to go to the pool or your boys to meet for a movie. And JD Hancock has brought the two together in a series of photos that creates the ultimate summer scenes with miniature figures, using the ultimate gadget, the iPhone. Hancock transforms [...]

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10 Amazing iPhone Photos

Aug 17, 2010 – 3:32 pm

This ain’t your parent’s hipstermatic… The good folks over at Mashable put together 10 really amazing pictures taken from folk’s iPhones. take a peek. Via

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Canon 7D vs. Barbie Video Girl

Aug 12, 2010 – 10:59 pm

Came across this super funny video comparing two very not so comparable cameras.  I mean the Barbie Video Girl has to be way better in quality than the Canon 7D =] It just has to!  Barbie is a master of all trades, and I am glad to see she has now mastered a camera implant [...]

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Oh my Hello Kitty

Aug 8, 2010 – 3:13 pm

OMFG have you seen these yet!? The perrrfect thing for a nerdy Hello Kitty fan EVER! Metropark just got thes Mimobot Sanrio character shaped flash drives in that are just beyond perfect and cool.

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iCRUNK’d

Jul 8, 2010 – 2:46 pm

What’s a night out without gambling on a drink you’ve never had, stumbling through awkward silences and the occasional drunk dial-text-tweet?  With three new apps, BarCards, iSwig and iDrunky, Apple challenges you to find out. BarCards presents a series of “cards” with dares and trivia questions that require social interactions from within and outside your [...]

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MenuPad

Jul 6, 2010 – 12:22 pm

In a restaurant, the word “app” usually refers to an “appetizer.” But at Global Mundo Tapas, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia, “app” has a slightly different meaning. The restaurant’s menu has been replaced with the MenuPad app for the Apple iPad. It was only a matter of time until this happened somewhere. You can already read a book [...]

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Who Needs People When You Have Robots and Chimps?

Jul 5, 2010 – 10:08 pm

Although once the stuff of Hollywood films and science fiction lit, robots and chimps seem to be slowly phasing out the needs for people to do important stuff, like playing easy tunes on the violin, hustling fools at pool, and making stupid movies and posting them on the interwebs. Toyota’s line of “Partner Robots” is [...]

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