“… Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. (…) New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.”

Read the whole statement here.

Take a peek at a traveling exhibit celebrating the work of Dieter Rams during its stop at the Design Museum London. Next stop for the exhibition is Frankfurt’s Museum of Applied Art (their website needs a makeover by the way) from May 22 – Sep 5 2010. Via

The Confederate P120 Fighter is made of 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum, maximized torque-to-weight with 120-cubic inch radial twin engine with 160 horsepower. Only 50 produced. Via

The Porsche 918 Spyder prototype : Hybrid drive with 718 PS, fuel consumption of only 3.4 litres, 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds, top speed of 320 km/h (198 mph) plus.

Square is a simple and impressive (not new though) way to accept credit card payments and transfer money via Smartphone.

Pentagram designer Luke Hayman shares his insightful list on the ways magazine design and distribution will change in order to adapt to the new iPad.

Can you name them all?

Dexim has launched one of the few iPhone gadgets out of the bottomless pool of pointless add-ons that seems to make sense.

app.itize.us is a great hand picked selection of the best designed iPhone apps. Via

While people all over the world are marking the 75th anniversary of the birth of Elvis Presley, we would like to give a big shout out to a treasure who is still with us – University of Cambridge professor emeritus Stephen Hawking, who turned 68 years old on January 8. Hawking is a theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most intelligent men alive.

BIG

The Sputnik Observatory is a collaboration with New York based Sputnik, Inc., an organization that documents contemporary culture through intimate video interviews with hundreds of leading thinkers in the arts, sciences and technology, covering a wide range of topics. Via

Galpin Auto Tuners along with the United States Air Force have come up with the Dodge Challenger Vapor: Half car, half space ship – and 500 horse power. Features are radar-absorbing stealth-black paint, silent driving mode, night/thermal vision and so on.

Microsoft unveiled the 3D motion sensing and facial/voice recognizing controller project named Natal.

Oldschool printing with a 2.000 pounds of weight Kluge. Via