The Tastemakers Society

From the Poor designers comes another take on the USB there’s already about 100 different USB designs floating out there. Atleast this one can double as a clip, upload those mp3 tracks to your laptop while outside doing laundry and then when you’re done uploading use the clip to hang up some sheets. Nothing better than a 2 in 1 device, well gummi bears are better but you get me.

Time wasters is really what the internet is all about that and porn, the 2 bases of the backbone of why the internet exist. Today I don’t have any new porn sites for visit but I did happen to stumble upon a “time wasting” site that can do you and your job some justice. Go, go be with Crappy Cat, join his adventure and earn that hard earned paycheck today by clocking in an hour of “over playtime”.

http://www.crappycat.com/

Mr. Fancy pants is what I’d like to refer as that guy who still wears plaid pants, with white cotton socks (you can see while he’s standing), a tee shirt tucked in and a pair of chuck taylors on. But today it’s what I’m calling this list from 17 things, that shows some pretty cool looking gadgets, all in the name of Mr. Fancy pants.

SoundCloud should change how we handle music which I will greatly appreciate because, we live in a internet based music world now but we haven’t yet created an easy flowing system to handle the flow of music. Or as SoundCloud says, how we “move music”, we have many upon many places to listen to music online or download but no real solution on how to transfer that music easily, mp3 downloads fucking kill me.

via: the elitaste

Spotify – the story from Spotify on Vimeo.

Another online music website (record labels should start waiving their white flags) has emerged debuting only a few weeks ago is Spotify. Spotify allows users to stream music on demand using Spotify’s specific technology. Spotify has linked Licensing deals with Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, EMI Music, Warner Music Group, The Orchard, Merlin and Bonnier Amigo. Spotify will be giving out invites over the next few months for people to join otherwise you have to signup for their premium access to get Spotify’s service, premium access is advertising free. The video above is just the story of Spotify summed up in 1 minute.

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A new form of travel has a new form of marketing. A peer-to-peer travel website AirBed & Breakfast has created these limited edition cereal boxes to help show your support for which ever candidate you like. Have you’re Obama O’s in the morning to kick start things or if you’re feeling a little McCain-ish then grab a box of Cap’n McCain’s. And yes, the cereal is real. The peer-to-peer travel site itself is a new concept in travel staying, instead of using hotels they have setup a system where someone like yourself could put up your extra room or couch for rent on a per night rate for a would be traveler to stay at. Or vice versa you could be a would be traveler looking to save a few bucks or just have a more ‘home like’ atmosphere and stay at one of the individuals places to stay. Now I’m not big on strangers but I do like the concept, something worth exploring into, and you might get someone who knows how to make great bacon and eggs, that’s a deal sealer right there.

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I think Dubai is trying to get the guinness world record for most records broken in one city. They seem to just look up all the information on whatever is the tallest or largest of anything and then goes out and builds it biggesr. So now they’ve moved onto making the world’s largest LED screen, the screen will be the facade of 33 story building being built by Tameer Holding company. The “podium” which is what the screen is called will not block light from coming into the building and its technology is coming from Dactronics a leader of simulation and synthesis systems. Just give it a few months and I’ll be posting up something new about the next biggest or tallest or largest something being built over in Dubai, the fantasy world.   

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I’ve never heard of this game LevelHead before but from what I can see it looks pretty cool. The basis of the game is you take these little cubes that have little computerized rooms on the screens that make up the walls of the cubes, a person appears in one of them and by tilting the cube at various angles you make that person walk, it’s your objective to find the exit out by having the person go through all 3 cubes. The game was created by Julian Oliver and the video above shows the game in action, even though I guess it’s also a spoiler of some such, don’t know what it’s spoiling exactly but you get to see the LevelHead game in live action mode. If this is a glimpse of the future of gaming, I’m liking what I see, I could spend some very good quality time playing this game instead of doing something maybe a little more productive like reading.    

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Don’t you hate when you go to setup an account on a website but it terms out someone else already has the username you’ve been using for ages. Like how you have to add numbers or extra letters or one of these “_” things to make your username something like, cool_kid013, instead of just coolkid like you have at like 4 other sites. Now you can check your username to see where it’s already registered at and its availability. Just go to usernamecheck.com to check on any of your usernames, any future ones you want to use or maybe just be bored and type anything in just to see what pops up.

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MSTRPLN in collaboration with Ubiq created a wearable sneaker with wi-fi detecting technology built in. I heard about this shoe a while back, and thought it was a pretty good idea, but haven’t much heard of anything else since. So in the spirit of not letting things die, I’m talking about it again, and maybe some other cool tech inspired shoes will hit the market more. The ASRD (A Step In the Right Direction), as they are called can detect wi-fi frequencies the closer you get to them, and the stronger the signal the more the lights light up on the sneakers. So if you want to be fully tech-ed out, just rock your ASRD’s, have your blackberry in one hand, your iPhone in the other, while wearing your jaw bone earpiece, carrying your mac book in your raf simmons eastpack.

Dripbook is an online worldwide community that helps showcase, promote and distribute the work of visual artist. The website allows you to create different ‘books’ that you can use to promote a specific project or selection of work or your entire portfolio. You’re also able to make custom websites through Dripbook to further help promote and show your work to other artist, fans, and potential clients.

The Olympics that just passed was highlighting athletes the Chinese history and LED’s. Greenpix is 2,200 sqm LED media wall powered by solar panels. The media wall was built by Simone Giostra & Partners in coordination with engineering experts ARUP. The above is a film in which Simone Giostra talks about the Greenpix media wall, its engineering he even discusses how he’s trying to convince the Chinese government to allow the wall to upload user generated content from Mac’s and PC’s.  

via: arch daily