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This new lampshade is responsive to heat, and when turned on, creates the illusion of the sun rising over the London skyline. And London has one of the prettiest skyline's imaginable. Ergo, this is one of the prettiest lampshades imaginable.
Yeah, I said "ergo."
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Sometimes, people have an overwhelming desire to create art. This desire is so strong that they will use any means necessary to achieve it, even the entirely unconventional. And that's what makes me love this themepark ride-cum-spirograph so, so much. Not only are the designs it generates incredibly cool (not to mention enormous!), but it's a prime example of human innovation.
Check out the homepage of the creator, Rosemarie Fiore, here. And definitely click on the videos, because seeing these things in action is not to be missed.
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I basically already live in headphones, so I'm all kinds of stoked about this new chair all the kids are talking about. Not only is it a cozy little nesting environment to crawl into with a good book, but it's filled with speakers specially placed to make you feel like you're experiencing a live performance.
And all those other people in the room? They'll barely hear a thing.
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Borrowing CPU cycles is becoming quite popular these days. Like the
earlier post on discovering planets, and the original SETI@Home, a company in Japan is taking initiative to render an animated film via
the desktops of volunteers.
>>Japanese animation studios Shirogumi and Buildin have announced that their next feature will be partially rendered using spare cycles on volunteers' PCs, using NTT Communications' Cell Computing Birth system. Participants download a piece of client software and register; the software is intended to make them feel "part of the process" as they see the frames that are being worked on cycle across their screen.
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There's a growing trend in bars around the world to hold designated
nights allowing patrons to bring in their iPods and spend a limited
time playing DJ on the house music system.
[(link)](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/23/ibar_ipod_iheadline/)
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Remember the post we put up the beginning of this month on Podcasting?
Now Wired would like to give you their take on it, via an interview
with Adam Curry.
Curry, 40, is the brains behind iPodder, a tiny application that he believes has the power to challenge commercial radio. iPodder is the bastard offspring of the blog and the Apple MP3 player. It combines the hyperactive talkiness of blogs and the hipness of iPods into something utterly new: the podcast. iPodder uses the blog syndication tool RSS to automatically download homebrew radio shows, podcasts, directly into a portable MP3 player.
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For the last few months I have been listening to a number of Podcasts on a regular basis (some even daily) and talking about them to whoever will listen. Now that podcasters are beginning to show up on CNN and other news media I figure it's time for a formal introduction for the Fabulist.
Continue reading "
What the hell is a Podcast?
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Google has a new mapping service that's similar in spirit to
[mapquest](http://mapquest.com/) but with it's own Googleisms of course. I haven't gotten a
chance to use it for real driving directions yet, but it looks very
nice.
[(link)](http://maps.google.com)
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These guys turned an Atari 2600 game console into a Mac running OS X
and posted videos of the transformation online.
[(link)](http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=1928) [(via)](http://www.slashdot.org)
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A while ago we posted about the retro cell phones available from Pokia. Jason commented what we really needed were rotary cell phones.
Ask and the door shall be opened.
Spark Fun Electronics has posted instructions on how to build your very own rotary cell phone.
(link) : via
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