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Are You Ready For Your Close Up, Miss Colada?

BevShots have discovered what you’d call a niche: they take your favourite alcoholic drink, crystallise a single droplet of it in an airtight container, photograph it at 1000x under a microscope, and then sell the resulting image on a printed canvas. And man, are these things selling! Since August last year BevShots estimate sales of [...]

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The Weird Inner World of the 3D Fractal

This post is about one of the really cool things that happens when maths I don’t understand and technologies I don’t understand get together to make something awesome. Let us begin: A fractal is a conceptual object that reveals further details about its shape ad infinitum, upon ever-closer inspection of it’s fabric. Think of the [...]

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Philco PC – a steampunk/fifties concept PC design

Steampunk / Fifties PC Concept Design

A quick one today, because the great Xmas wrap-up at work is keeping me busy. PC users, fifties throwbacks & media trendies: meet the computer of your dreams. Or at least, my dreams. Hit fullscreen for maximum HD gorgeousness. Philco PC from Dave Schultze on Vimeo.

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Beautiful Social Media “Book Covers”

Here’s a followup to this post that I thought some of you might enjoy. It’s designer Stéphane Massa-Bidal‘s spin on social media sites, presented as if they were paperback books. Lovely, especially the Facebook one. What’s your favourite? Let me know. via Abduzeedo

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MIT Propose A Digital Cloud for London

London invited the world to build them an addition to their skyline, in time for the Olympics in 2012. Their request has been answered by researchers from MIT. Here are some details of their brave response: The structure, dubbed “the Cloud”, would consist of two 400-foot towers and a number of interconnected, LED-filled bubbles, including [...]

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