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But we now live in a highly mediated world with easy access to images from all eras and places. All fads are now in flux. They’re in and out at the same time; retro at the same time they become new. As such, fashion cannot be relied on. Neither avoiding nor conforming to its rules will show any sort of taste. In five years one will not look dated due to their button count, their tie width or their suit color. They will simply look good or they will look bad. Deeper principles than fashion are now at play.

Death of a Few Fashions | The Grumpy Owl
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Implantable, “e-tattoos” are almost here

Word up cutting-edge body-mod enthusiasts! Or should I say bleeding-edge? Either/or. For the long wait for implantable, “electronic tattoos” is nearly over.

Via PhysOrg:

Researchers in the…

Implantable, “e-tattoos” are almost here

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Resource Furniture’s Space Savers – highly designed and engineered multi-function furniture

From Bruce Willis’s capsule apartment in The 5th Element straight to you.

Meet Resource Furniture’s Space Savers:

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Perfect not just for …

Resource Furniture’s Space Savers – highly designed and engineered multi-function furniture

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Pioneer’s prototype windshield HUD

Pioneer have prototyped windshield HUD technology:

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It uses lasers. Therefore it is Science!


Pioneer’s prototype windshield HUD

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My current musical obsessions

Ayshay (Fatima Al Qadiri) I’ve been obsessively listening to Ayshay since discovering a video of hers, so far the only one, on a friend’s Facebook wall. Born in Senegal, raised in Kuwait and currently based in Brooklyn, New York; her music is about what you’d expect given that. Am I the only one detecting a […]

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Companies like Huwei are already refiguring the Android phone equation to suit second-time phone buyers, and bringing prices for unsubsidized touchscreen smartphones well under $200, edging ever closer to $100. Nokia’s C3 series has Wi-Fi, a 2.0MP camera, a full, metal-keyed QWERTY keyboard, microSD storage and an App Store. It comes with Facebook and Twitter access out of the box. Depending on tariffs, it sells for around $100 worldwide. It’s coming to America, soon making an appearance on Wal-Mart’s shelves. The price? $80. It’s the anti-N8: Fairly simple, very cheap, and so far, wildly popular.

This is what the next generation of the mega-selling phone will look like. They’ll be rough facsimiles of the high-end smartphones forged for well-heeled buyers, stripped of fat and excess—an embodiment of compromise. They’ll be 90% of the phone for 20% of the price, with FM radios instead of digital music stores, and flashlights instead of LED flashes

(via The Most Popular Phone in the World)

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