Grandma is always right.

More Canon 5Ds will be on eBay soon.

Steven Paul Jobs, * February 24, 1955, † October 5, 2011. The future we imagined as kids is closer at hand thanks to his efforts. Thank you, Steve Jobs.

Technical demo for a face swapping technique – coming with one of the next OSX updates (I guess).

The invisible airbag bicycle helmet Hövding has received the worlds largest design award, INDEX. The design award of EUR 100.000 was received during a formal ceremony in Copenhagen’s Opera House in the presence of the Danish Crown Prince and Crown Princess, during Thursday evening. Hövding was the sole winner from Europe.

NASA released a video of the final launch of the space shuttle ‘Endeavour’ shot from multiple cameras on the solid rocket boosters.

Trailer for the new GRACE ONE Electric Bike. Video by Henning von Krosigk, Sound by Moritz Degen.

The Danish Documentary Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between mobile phones and the civil war in Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo’s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones.

For every person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die due to coal, adjusted for the same amount of power produced. Not included are deaths due to global political instability involving oil fields, deaths from coastal flooding and deaths due to environmental impacts yet unmeasured, all of which skew it even more if you think about it. Read more.

Every day, radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels that must last 100.000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

Creepy.

145 km/h. What?!

Transmediale 11, Festival for Art and Digital Culture Berlin, February 1 to 6, 2011.

Streetlight Films UK animatronics designer and director John Nolan created this UNKLE robot based on Futura’s Pointmen. The robot itself formed part of the ‘Daydreaming with …James Lavelle‘ exhibition along with an accompanying video sound-tracked to the instrumental re-working of ‘The Runaway’ (Lupe’s Revenge). The original track appears on UNKLE’s most recent album ‘Where Did The Night Fall’ with its vocal driven counterpart on The Answer EP.

By The GE Show.

US Department Of Defense engineers and Sony built the most powerful computer in the Department’s inventory by linking 1.760 PlayStation 3 gaming consoles.

I sometimes really wonder how people come up with their ideas.

A New York Times’ photoset celebrating the 106th anniversary of the New York City Subway spanning all the way back to 1916.

The extreme nature of the Antarctica environment combined with its bizarre statelessness, provides the location for a freezing architectural expo, with each country having its own icy pavilion.

Thanks Mo!

Linotype: The Film is a documentary about Ottmar Mergenthaler‘s amazing Linotype typesetting machine and the people who own and love these machines today.

“… 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.

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