Sunday, November 8, 2009

Famous Paintings Reproduced In Coffee

3:15PM November 8, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Sure this reproduction of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam is a little bit perverted by the inclusion of a coffee cup, but look closer. The entire masterpiece was painted using only coffee More »

Gadgets

MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads And More

1:30PM November 8, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Diana Eng, who you might remember as Project Runway‘s premiere nerd designer, took a look at MIT’s Media Lab and found some pretty cool stuff, mostly run off of Arduino microcontrollers. Check it out. More »

Geek Out

64% Of Men Don’t RTFM Before Calling Tech Support

12:30PM November 8, 2009 | Chris Jacob

Gadget Helpline, a UK tech support service, found that well over half of their male customers didn’t even bother to read the manual before calling tech support. C’mon guys, is that the best we can do? More »

The Cité Du Design Certainly Lives Up To Its Name

11:30AM November 8, 2009 | Chris Jacob

This gorgeous building in France is more than just a pretty complex. The Cité du Design does one of the best jobs I’ve ever seen at concealing the solar panels that help power the structure. More »

Software

Latest Snow Leopard Developer Build Breaks Hackintosh Again

10:30AM November 8, 2009 | Chris Jacob

Enough with the back-and-forth already, Apple. If you’re going to kill Atom support then just kill it. Don’t toy with us, taking and giving like some sort of some sort of merciless god. More »

Computing

Nokia Booklet 3G Landing Nov. 15 At Best Buy

9:30AM November 8, 2009 | Chris Jacob

We knew the the place and the price, we just needed to know when the party was happening. You can grab a pre-order for the $US600 netbook ($US300 with two-year contract) and pick it up on November 15. [Engadget]

BlueBeat’s Innovative Defence That Will Never Hold Up In Court

8:30AM November 8, 2009 | Chris Jacob

Hank Risan was ordered to pull The Beatles’ catalogue from the BlueBeat website this week, but those weren’t the actual recordings. The tracks were “psycho-acoustic simulations” of the songs. Too bad that defence will never hold up in court. More »

Watch Jonathan Ive’s Segment In Objectified

7:45AM November 8, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Objectified, Gary Hustwit’s look at the world of industrial design, featured a lengthy section on Apple Chief Designer Jon Ive — and now that clip is online for impatient Apple fans to see. More »

Learn Your Way Around A Cow’s Rectum With A Robot

7:00AM November 8, 2009 | Chris Jacob

The ‘Haptic Cow’ may have recently won Sarah Baillie the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, but did she ever consider the real cow’s feelings? Imagine the rush of emotions: jealousy, relief, maybe even arousal. More »