“… 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?

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.

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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

Ever wondered how a CD-Player, Alka-Seltzer and peanutbutter with honey behave under microgravity conditions?

While Google is great for plenty of stuff, Wolfram Alpha uses built-in models to compute answers to fact-based questions, basically making it an enormous calculator. Endowed with over 10 trillion pieces of data and 50,000+ algorithms encompassing vast areas of human knowledge (science, math, etc), the initial focus is on quantitative information, meaning it can do everything from graph up complicated calculus equations, to pump out historical sports statistics, to map the duration/magnitude of the next total eclipse. The search acknowledges it’s currently limited to hard facts, so don’t bother asking anything subjective.

On Saturday, a man in Maryland successfully launched a 1:10 scale model of a Saturn V Rocket. The launch of the 36 foot tall rocket breaks the record for the largest model rocket ever launched. Via

Last Saturday, 4th of April at the San Jose Motorcycle Park the first electric motocross race took place. Even though i really appreciate electric motors find their way into motorsports, it feels a bit strange those bikes sound like a rc toy car.

Filmed from the front of a trolley, this shortfilm evokes what life must have been like in a European country 100 years ago, before automobiles dominated the streets.

Installation at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. More

A very nice Canon 5d Mark II test in Chinatown, London by Dan Malpass, soundtrack by Fink.

If you are into Apple products you will like this movie. If you hate Apple it will probably give you even more ammo to fuel your hate.

The Lightlane system from Altitude Inc. projects a virtual bike lane using lasers on the ground around the cyclists, providing drivers with a recognizable boundary they can easily avoid. The idea is to allow riders to take safety into their own hands, rather than leaving it to the city. Via

Awesome flickr photoset of Syd Mead‘s work.

French cable provider Canal+ has collaborated with Yves Behar of Fuseproject to create Le Cube, which is their new HD cable box with DVR and video on demand functions. Via

Nortorious prototype designed by Roger Goldammer.

ACRONYM SS09: Besides the usual outstanding jackets and bags there will be a 3RD ARM solar panel which can be attached to the TEC SYS webbing to charge your USB devices. Currahee!

Everyday tasks can always be made easier, faster and more pleasurable. By blending material-science into simple machines, fusionbrands does just that.

Swedish automotive design graduate Jon Rådbrink presented this concept for a catamaran-shaped car at the Royal College of Art graduation show in London last month.

The VW 9.150 ECE is powered by a 4750cc inline four-cylinder turbodiesel mated to a five-speed transmission. Power is a modest 150 horses, but peak torque is a stout 405 lb.-ft., delivered between 1,600 and 2,000 rpm.

Carbon Fiber x Featherlight Helium = Skateboard? I miss those days when skateboards were made out of wood and bikes had brakes. But the graphics on those things are just awesome.

Some of you might remember the ‘Penis Propeller’ print by Metrofarm back in the days. Like Da Vinci’s helicopter drafts it came true.

The way the street feels may soon be defined by what cannot be seen with the naked eye.