Pixelated stolen jewels
Designers Mile and Maaike created a line of leather jewelry by copying low quality images on Google.
According to their site, they’ve extracted the intensity of the jewelry by stripping away the intricacies of the design.
Sounds like something old school gamers would enjoy. Definitely something you could wear at the next Space Invaders party.
[Via Rosenkugel]
White Stripes album to be sold on USB keys
In a bizarre attempt at collectible status, the new White Stripes album Icky Thump is available on two limited edition USB keys featuring cartoons of the bandmates.
Fans of the musical duo can own their very own Jack and Meg. Only 3333 units of each design will be made, preloaded with the album in AAC format.
Specs are quoted at 512MB of storage space.
CuteCircuit Hug shirt
The Hug shirt by Cute Circuit allows wearers to give and recieve hugs by connecting to their Java-enabled cellphone.
Now that’s something I need.
They have been nominated for a Time Best Invention of 2006 award.
Nab a Second Life Nab
Nabaztag, the ubiquitous wifi rabbit, has now branched off into Second Life, with an API hook to the real deal in your boring First Life.
Like most inventive things in SL, this particular gizmo is the creation of an inventive user who decided that his bunny would be better used doing other things than giving the weather and doing tai-chi.
Whenever an action is performed, the Nabaztag can inform the player of this and read out any messages that have been typed. Sounds pretty cool.
Second Life seems to have become the talk of the e-town, with articles being devoted to it in various women’s mag (I have read no less than 2 in the past month) and a bit of highlight due to various elections.
[Via Nabazta(blo)g]
Active Crystals range fail to shine by design
It seems that all the big names of the digital arena are trying to rope in wannabe fashionistas and non-geeks (read: many, many women) by offering girly accessories that will tempt them into buying the wares.
Sometimes, the brands will deliver the goods in an intelligent way: Prada-branded phones offer touchscreen technology, laptops decorated often have decent spec that make them a worthy buy for a fashion conscious individual looking to equip. Unfortunatly, the vast majority of those so-called fashionable technological items are standard at best, made fashion-y by outer design, taking fashion lovers for brainless cash cows.
The latest the Unhinged has heard of?
Philips and Swarovski are collaborating on a range of headphones and USB keys adorned with crystals called Active Crystals.
The first thing that comes to mind is how on Earth are these USB keys going to connect with my computer? Their volume is HUGE. Either they’ll take up multiple spaces -not a particularly welcome idea, or will actually be too bulky to fit in the minute space. Either way, there is the remote possibility of damaging both key and computer at first use.
Overall, absolutely impractical and not even remotely enhanced -other than visually.
Particularly those heart shaped pendants. For the sake of the computers, I sure hope those comes with a USB extender. Now seeing the USB symbol enhanced with crystals would be cool. I admit that they are cute, especially the ones that mimick galuchat with the arrangement of stones but for the price, I would have expected something more.
Priced at 150 euros, it’ll be a resounding pass from yours truly.
It doesn’t help either that the official site’s splash page features an underfed, unhealthy looking model-clone with a dumb expression on her face.
Get a First job on Second Life
Second Life is definitely the talk of the town these days, with no less than 3 articles devoted to it in print magazines and scores of online articles.
Neojobmeeting is a recruitment initiative on behalf five large companies in France (Consulting firms Unilog & Cap Gemini, cosmetics giant L’Oréal, Alstom, Areva) to branch out into Second Life for their real life recruitment.
Potential candidates are invited to join Second Life and visit the Unilog pavillion on the game and explore career opportunities, much like in any real life trade show.
This comes hot in the footsteps of the French electoral campaign where, after having exhausted all other multimedia venues, some candidates attempted to gain popular approval by hosting events on the game.
It seems that France is definitely starting to take Second Life seriously enough for major economical players to take notice of it.
[Via Unilog recruitment newsletter]
