The Tastemakers Society

Designer Sungwoo Park created the Voice Stick which uses optical recognition of characters that allows the words on the page to be translated and read into the headphones. The Voice Stick’s purpose is to help those individuals who are visually impaired, so they can read books, magazines, newspapers, etc. with much more ease and comfort.

via: fubiz

I’m sure you’ve all seen images of the Nokia 888 concept cell phone design created by Turkish student Tamer Nakisci, but the above video shows how the Nokia 888 would functionally work if you had it and show some of the capabilities it would handle. If you want to see more concept cell phone designs like a maple wood cell phone or a scroll cell concept (also pictured after the jump) you can just click here.

Apparently some kids actually go to college and do something besides get drunk and party, junior Jake Loniak is trying to move up the ranks to be on the level with the guy who invented this. Loniak’s exoskeleton motorcycle, Deus Ex Machina is the future of human travel, and definitely the future in cool movie vehicles. The vehicle (hard to call it a motorcycle) would be in an upright/stand up position when parked so the rider could step into the suit/exoskeleton of the vehicle to start it, then it would lower itself in the 3 wheel drive position. With the use of 36 artificial pneumatic muscles the vehicle is able to move with the body movements of a driver, topping off at 75 mph and powered by lithium-ion batteries. There’s a video demonstrating the vehicles proposed movements and how it how would look like being used, you can watch that video here. I’m going on record and saying I think you will see this in a movie soon, probably Batman’s or James Bond’s next vehicle of choice.   

Jaudible is a new website dedicated on bringing you “true video stories”. Jaudible allows individuals from all over the globe to tell their stories or testimonies they want to share with the world. All the videos are prescreened, approved, then filmed by a Jaudible camera man or home video amatuers, edited and translated (if need be) before it airs on Jaudible. Will this be the next wave in internet video, you had Current TV, then Youtube, and maybe soon in a year or two you might be saying you have Jaudible.

BBH (Bartel Bogel Hegarty) an international ad agency has just redesigned their website. BBH is one of the largest and best agencies in the world who’ve created some of the most rememberable campaigns over the years, working with clients such as Axe, Reebok Classics and Miller Lite. And while your at it check out their Blacklist, very cool.

Ryz has taken the threadless concept of making t-shirts and moved the format to the footwear industry. Ryz allows anyone to design a shoe and lets it get voted on by its peers, the winning design will get produced and then sold online. The winning designer gets $1,000 and $1 royalty on every shoe sold online. I’m not exactly the spokesman for Ryz, so watcht the video it explains things a little better.

www.ryzwear.com

Check out Diesel’s new website, the homepage has this video with this women, and it’s sorta weird/odd/I don’t really get it. But it does make the site a little more interesting.

StrawberryFrog has gotten an upgrade and I’m loving the frog action. If you haven’t yet read the interview with Scott Goodson, StrawberryFrog’s founder.

Tokyo Flash has limited edition watches that you aren’t gonna see on your average joe walking down the street. And keeping with the whole tech savvy-ness of Tokyo the watches are part tech gadget part watch, using everything from lcd’s to led’s. So after standing in line around the corner for your new kicks and camping out for 2 days to get your new iPhone, just hit up TokyoFlash to buy a watch to match that whole new, “yea I got these” look you’re going for.

The Viktor & Rolf website is like visiting a magical wonderland, even the music they have playing in the background adds to the illusion. But instead of following the yellow brick road you follow the black ribbon to take you through the land of Viktor & Rolf. While you’re exploring go ahead and take a gander at the video of their last fashion show, “DREAM”, “WOW” and especially “NO” seemed to be major themes for the show.

The day of the web video is so robust (that would isn’t used enough) and lively, just full of spirit like a cheerleader at cheerleader camp. And the great thing about internet videos is most of them are trying to bring some joy into your life the Judd Aptow way of pure laughter (does this post sound funny yet? ha). Ok, enough with the semantics  findthehumor.tv is this site I found out off the fluke one day and it did the unlikely it made me laugh. Now the site is a by weekly show meaning it doesn’t update that often with new sketches, but that’s ok you can just wait for the next episode to come like you did for The Office during the writer’s strike. Free Willy! I just felt like saying that.  

Who would have thought reading those most likely fake but highly entertaining nymag sex diaries would actually turn out giving me any real info I could use in the real world. In the last diary which might have possibly been paid for by some websites made mention of a pantygram. So I did some research which means I googled the word “pantygram” and wala low and behold pantygram.com pops up. The gist of the gram is pretty simple you send a heart shaped sexy thong (not one’s you own ladies) that comes from the site, attach a little note to it and send it to that lucky man or woman (if that’s what you prefer) that’ll be delivered in a black package. So if you’re trying to figure out how to surprise that guy in your life with something he’ll actually appreciate this is it. Not that the watch wasn’t appreciated or a bad idea this just speaks more to the heart, at least in the aspect that it will get blood pumping much quicker than telling time.