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2010-08-13 13:42:42

The idea in this series is to show beau­ti­ful and inspir­ing houses. Houses that are remark­able for its design, ele­gance, ele­ments, con­cept or sim­ply because they are beau­ti­ful. So if you like archi­tec­ture, inte­rior design and beau­ti­fully designed houses, you are at the right spot

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Beau­ti­ful Houses: House in Ubatuba, Brazil

2010-08-13 11:37:33

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as The Com­bine 2010 and Par­tic­i­pa­tory Politics.

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Sites of the Week #115

2010-08-13 04:25:16

32 design con­tests & com­pe­ti­tions EDITOR’S PICKS • MAX­topia T-shirt Design Con­test — 29 August 2010 Mother nature meets moth­er­board in this amaz­ing new chal­lenge brought to us by the won­der­ful folks at Adobe. Your chal­lenge is to design an awe­some tee inspired by MAX­topia: the cel­e­bra­tion of nature + tech­nol­ogy! Win­ner gets Adobe CS5 Design Pre­mium, Thread­less voucher for $500, and $2K

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The Best Design Com­pe­ti­tion List on the Inter­net — Sep­tem­ber Edition

2010-08-13 01:44:02

(TrendHunter.com) We live in a world that is depen­dent upon tech­nol­ogy, and even art can be dig­i­tal­ized to bring more life into it.

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Cre­ative Illu­sion Por­traits — Dan Esco­bar Con­structs Amaz­ing Dig­i­tal Art (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 22:53:01

(TrendHunter.com) Save your wet cell phone from a watery grave with the Dryer Box. The Dryer Box is a mys­te­ri­ous piece of tech­nol­ogy from JMC Risk Solu­tions that can report­edly reverse the effects of water dam­age on a phone.…

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Cell Phone Dry­ers — The Dryer Box Sal­vages Soaked Cellulars

2010-08-12 22:00:31

Sus­pended like mod­ern chan­de­liers, these multi-sized light­ing designs com­bine the tech­nol­ogy of a dig­i­tal pho­to­graph frame with the multi-directional light sup­plied by a more typ­i­cal fix­ture. The result: an ele­gant mix of dynamic mem­o­ries and use­ful lights. The small size fea­tures two cir­cles com­posed of six frames, each stor­ing a giga­byte of pho­to­graphic (or other image) mate­r­ial that can be dis­played as a sta­tic series of rotat­ing set of visuals.

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High-Tech Hybrid: Hang­ing Lights + Dig­i­tal Photo Frames

2010-08-12 21:10:05

This has got to be the weird­est ocean­go­ing ves­sel I’ve ever seen: The FLIP (Float­ing Instru­ment Plat­form) was a ship appar­ently built in 1962 as a research plat­form. After being towed to its tar­get site in a hor­i­zon­tal, nor­mal ship posi­tion, bal­last tanks begin tak­ing on water–and the ship piv­ots 90 degrees, send­ing the bow some 300 feet below the sur­face, while the tail end rides above the waves, bristling with cranes pre­sum­ably used to lower equip­ment. Why the pivot

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Crazy FLIP ship designed to change its orientation–from hor­i­zon­tal to vertical

2010-08-12 12:00:31

Check out this cool Retro TV inspired iPad dock by frog Cre­ative Direc­tor Jonas Damo. What is even more inter­est­ing is his ratio­nal behind his design

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Will Prod­ucts Dis­ap­pear Because of Technology?

2010-08-12 03:23:05

In twenty-five years we’ve gone from clunky slide pro­jec­tors to grace­ful walls of high res­o­lu­tion LED video blocks.

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The graphic designer’s great­est chal­lenge: no barriers

2010-08-12 01:04:45

High­lights from the IDSA 2010 Con­fer­ence The Indus­trial Design Soci­ety of Amer­ica held it’s annual con­fer­ence in Port­land last week. I had the great for­tune to present Ponoko’s response to “DIY: Threat or Oppor­tu­nity” . Of course we love DIY here at Ponoko and we strive to bring pow­er­ful man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nolo­gies to peo­ple of all mak­ing abilities.

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DIY is not so threatening.

2010-08-11 23:28:01

(TrendHunter.com) Novague Studio’s ‘Eco Lau­rin and Kle­ment’ is a unique con­cept car which inte­grates mod­ern tech­nol­ogy in a retro pre-war Czech car. The idea behind the design of the ‘Eco Lau­rin and Kle­ment’ is to create…

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Sus­tain­able Hot Rods — Novague’s ‘Eco Lau­rin and Kle­ment’ Com­bines Inno­va­tion with Retro Design (GALLERY)

2010-08-11 20:06:17

Tes­sel­lated Man­i­folds was cre­ated by stu­dents from Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity in St.

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Stu­dent Works: Sta­lac­Tile, Tes­sel­lated Manifolds

2010-08-11 17:37:59

(TrendHunter.com) iPod kitchens, upcy­cled stereos and mold­able music. Today we hunt: AUDIOSCOPIC INNOVATION — Sprint firsts in Musi­cal Technology.

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Audio­scopic Inno­va­tion — Sprint Firsts in Musi­cal Tech­nol­ogy (THTV)

2010-08-11 16:00:44

For­get designer expla­na­tions and archi­tec­tural the­ory for a moment, skip augmented-reality buzz-art and over-hypedAR gam­ing … then take a look at the ‘real­ity’ on the ‘ground’ as it is: move around this series of white cubes and cre­ate your own shad­owy won­der­land at the inter­sec­tion of art and archi­tec­ture. This light table looks like it is some­how cast­ing shad­ows, and the result is an inter­ac­tive illu­sion that puts you in the design-driving seat. Shadow-puppet struc­tures emerge as you move around the blank boxes

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Shadow Cubes: 3D Art of Aug­mented Real­ity Architecture

2010-08-11 15:51:06

Two places where I will never touch my cell phone: In a bath­room and at the edge of the sub­way plat­form. I’ve heard too many tales of peo­ple drop­ping their mobiles onto the tracks or into the toi­let, and I’d rather wait until I’m well clear of either of those envi­ron­ments before check­ing voice­mail or send­ing a text. For the bathroom-butterfingers among us, a Japan­ese com­pany called JMC Risk Solu­tions has invented a ” Dryer Box ” that will report­edly remove the mois­ture from a soaked phone, restor­ing it to life in about 30 minutes.

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Solu­tions for sav­ing a wet cell phone: The Dryer Box machine, or plain ol’ rice

2010-08-11 10:55:55

I already men­tioned that I sim­ply love pack­age design. I do believe that, depend­ing on the audi­ence, a prod­uct can stand out for its package

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Beau­ti­ful Pack­ages: Bottles

2010-08-11 04:59:02

Design­ing A Dif­fer­ence: Small­bean Part 1 from Design Museum Boston on Vimeo . Sam Aquil­lano and Derek Cas­cio, and their team at Design Museum Boston , are col­lab­o­rat­ing with Small­bean to develop the next gen­er­a­tion of some­thing called The Solar Suit­case. The Solar Suit­case is part of an energy gen­er­a­tion and stor­age sys­tem being used in a school in Koala, Tan­za­nia to power com­puter based learning

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The Solar Suit­case, pow­er­ing schools in Africa

2010-08-10 17:46:04

Jef­frey Kapec, prin­ci­pal of Tanaka Kapec Design Group , has a fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle up on Ortho­pe­dic Design & Tech­nol­ogy called ” Dig­i­tal Man­u­fac­tur­ing Oppor­tu­ni­ties in Ortho­pe­dics .” In the piece, Jeff describes sig­nif­i­cant advances in the processes and mate­ri­als, and how their firm was able to lever­age the tech­nol­ogy in a client engagement.

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Jef­frey Kapec on the state of the art of dig­i­tal man­u­fac­tur­ing in orthopedics

2010-08-10 11:40:00

The idea of touch­screen vend­ing machines has been kick­ing around since the CES in 2009. You might remem­ber the impres­sive dis­play from the col­lab­o­ra­tion between Sam­sung and Coca Cola (on YouTube here ) with their highly inter­ac­tive 46-inch LCD slapped onto the front of their new machine. Safe to say, how­ever, this hi-tech solu­tion for sim­ple cold bev­er­age vend­ing has, as yet, failed to take off

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Touch­screens go main­stream for Tokyo vend­ing machines

2010-08-10 10:49:42

In an answer to the ongo­ing debate about whether next gen­er­a­tion tele­vi­sion will be pow­ered by the inter­net or exist­ing tele­vi­sion infra­struc­ture, Irish design stu­dio Notion have pro­posed MetaMir­ror , a vision of liv­ing room media that com­bines broad­cast­ing tech­nolo­gies with the power of meta­data, streamed via the inter­net to smart, hand­held devices and super­im­posed over the exist­ing image. Devel­op­ments in IPTV, the ubiq­uity capac­i­ta­tive touch sen­si­tiv­ity, and advance­ments in smart object recog­ni­tion are cited as dri­ving tech­nolo­gies. The con­text photo above, depict­ing a very famil­iar scene of screens upon screens , con­vinced us that this idea (or a ver­sion of it) is not so far fetched at all

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MetaMir­ror: Notion’s vision for the (near) future of TV

2010-08-10 06:34:03

? You know what tempts you in going into a retail out­let or a shop­ping store? I bet it’s the colos­sal and strik­ing ban­ners out­side the store, espe­cially the sign shout­ing SALE that lure you into going into a shop­ping frenzy. With­out doubts ban­ners and sig­nage play a vital role in pro­mot­ing your business.

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Esigns.com – Signs to build your business!

2010-08-10 05:48:28

A laser cut sub­sti­tute for a tra­di­tional vinyl record. Every year iPods and other mp3 play­ers push CDs fur­ther into obscu­rity, so it’s get­ting harder to remem­ber when vinyl records were stan­dard. Of course, vinyl records are still con­sid­ered the true stan­dard by many musi­cal purists.

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Laser Cut Record

2010-08-09 18:23:54

prizes in human­i­tar­ian inno­va­tion Per­sonal Man­u­fac­tur­ing and Water Lib­er­a­tion are the sub­jects of two Human­i­tar­ian Inno­va­tion Prizes cur­rently offered by The Fore­sight Insti­tute. The goal of the Kar­tik M

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Can You Design a 3D Printer To Change the Lives of 1 Bil­lion People?

2010-08-09 17:00:02

[ By Steph in Gad­gets & Geek Art , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism , Urban­ism . ] When the world wide web first came into pop­u­lar use in the ’90s, it wasn’t pretty

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Tac­tile Tech: 15 Beau­ti­fully Tex­tured Websites

2010-08-09 16:59:03

(TrendHunter.com) Com­bin­ing your house­hold bath­room with vehi­cle tech­nol­ogy, the ‘Bath­mo­bile’ is an amaz­ing hybrid which will undoubt­edly draw some stares. Con­sist­ing of two bath­tubs and a toi­let bowl seat, the vehicle…

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Restroom-Inspired Rides — The Unique ‘Bath­mo­bile’ Gets You to Your Des­ti­na­tion With Styl

2010-08-09 04:43:30

We’ve seen some great gad­gets and equip­ment for design­ers. So many cool stuff, that we could actu­ally assem­ble infi­nite per­fect office spaces! Every week we’ll assem­ble a per­fect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equip­ment would the per­fect office have

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The Per­fect Office #49

2010-08-08 23:42:18

Award­ing rac­ers with the lat­est tech­nol­ogy. 3D printed tro­phies were pre­sented to the win­ners of the recent Moto GP in Ger­many and For­mula One Grand Prix in Hungary .

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3D Printed Grand Prix Trophies

2010-08-08 17:00:00

[ By Steve in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism , Urban Images . ] Blob Archi­tec­ture – some­times referred to as Blo­bi­tec­ture, Blo­bism or even Blo­bis­mus is a exceed­ingly organic type of archi­tec­ture that exhibits pro­foundly soft, rounded and curved dimen­sions. Orig­i­nat­ing in inflat­able build­ings, pre-fab plas­tic struc­tures and computer-assisted design exer­cises, Blob Archi­tec­ture has given the world some of its most dis­tinc­tive and mem­o­rable buildings

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Blo­bi­tec­ture: 11 Cool Ways Archi­tec­ture Gets A Round

2010-08-08 17:00:00

[ By Steve in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism , Urban Images . ] Blob Archi­tec­ture – some­times referred to as Blo­bi­tec­ture, Blo­bism or even Blo­bis­mus is a exceed­ingly organic type of archi­tec­ture that exhibits pro­foundly soft, rounded and curved dimen­sions. Orig­i­nat­ing in inflat­able build­ings, pre-fab plas­tic struc­tures and computer-assisted design exer­cises, Blob Archi­tec­ture has given the world some of its most dis­tinc­tive and mem­o­rable buildings

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Blo­bi­tec­ture: 11 Cool Ways Archi­tec­ture Gets A Round

2010-08-08 16:17:01

(TrendHunter.com) We have the tech­nol­ogy to cre­ate a rev­o­lu­tion in read­ing, and Matthew Talbot-Kelly is using it. He’s bring­ing inter­ac­tive books to a new level with his com­pany, ‘Mov­ing Tales,’ break­ing the PDF flip-page…

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Inter­ac­tive Children’s Books — ‘Mov­ing Tales’ is a Clever Approach to Read­ing on the Go (VIDEO)

2010-08-08 16:17:01

(TrendHunter.com) We have the tech­nol­ogy to cre­ate a rev­o­lu­tion in read­ing, and Matthew Talbot-Kelly is using it.

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Inter­ac­tive Children’s Books — ‘Mov­ing Tales’ is a Clever Approach to Read­ing on the Go (VIDEO)

2010-08-06 17:00:23

[ By Delana in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Envi­ron­ment & Nature , Tech­nol­ogy & Futurism .

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Now and When: The Rad­i­cal Future of Urban Australia

2010-08-06 14:03:56

The idea in this series is to show beau­ti­ful and inspir­ing houses. Houses that are remark­able for its design, ele­gance, ele­ments, con­cept or sim­ply because they are beau­ti­ful. So if you like archi­tec­ture, inte­rior design and beau­ti­fully designed houses, you are at the right spot

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Beau­ti­ful Houses: Con­crete House II in Madrid

2010-08-05 15:38:22

The Shen­zhen Hashi Future Park­ing Equip­ment Co. of China has a pro­posal sit­u­ated some­where between Super­stu­dio and Plug-In City: An ele­vated megabus/subway hybrid that slides over the traf­fic instead of going around it, or cre­at­ing con­ges­tion itself.

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This is insane! A subway-bus hybrid that goes over traf­fic, not around it

2010-08-04 19:29:01

(TrendHunter.com) Per­fect for the ath­letic smart­phone user, this Adi­das ‘miCoach’ Per­sonal Trainer app will leave you on your hands and feet. Com­bin­ing tech­nol­ogy and per­sonal train­ing tech­niques, this app pro­vides an in-depth…

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Ath­letic Train­ing Apps — The Adi­das ‘miCoach’ Per­sonal Trainer Helps Keep You in Shape (GALLERY)

2010-08-04 17:00:06

[ By Delana in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Green Tech­nolo­gies , Urban­ism . ] It’s a real­ity that sneaked up on some of us, but oth­ers saw it com­ing for decades.

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Build­ing a Bet­ter Burb: How to Fix Fail­ing Sub­ur­ban Towns

2010-08-04 16:43:01

(TrendHunter.com) Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios Japan is bring­ing 3D multi-touch tech­nol­ogy to its newest ride, Space Fan­tasy. Using tech­nol­ogy devel­oped by Ges­tureTek, the ride promises to be a truly immer­sive expe­ri­ence and will…

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Inter­ac­tive Tech­nol­ogy Coast­ers — The Space Fan­tasy Ride is Get­ting the Multi-Touch 3D Expe­ri­ence (VIDEO)

2010-08-04 15:56:08

Here’s a nice lit­tle tid­bit from Frog Design, out­lin­ing a talk Jan Chipchase deliv­ered to the US State Depart­ment about mobile money. The talk is part of a series of dis­cus­sions enti­tled Tech@State, part of Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Clinton’s “21st Cen­tury State­craft” initative

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Jan Chipchase on Mobile Money

2010-08-04 15:22:17

What kind of dead tech­nol­ogy do you have in your cup­boards? I recently found two old instant cam­eras in the back of a drawer– with half-advanced rolls of film still in them. The local photo devel­oper was able to develop only some of the shots (the film was around a decade old) and I was treated to some grainy, red-tinted pho­tographs of my old apart­ment in Japan

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Best Buy will take your e-junk, and the DVD’s start­ing to go away

2010-08-04 15:07:02

(TrendHunter.com) We have the tech­nol­ogy to cre­ate a rev­o­lu­tion in read­ing and Matthew Talbot-Kelly is using it. He’s bring­ing inter­ac­tive books to a new level with his com­pany, ‘Mov­ing Tales,’ break­ing the PDF flip-page…

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Inter­ac­tive Children’s Books — ‘Mov­ing Tales’ is a Unique Approach to Read­ing on the Ipad (VIDEO)

2010-08-04 14:00:26

Every week we take a look at a new web­site and ana­lyze the design. We’ll point out both the areas that are done well as well as those that could use some work

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Web Design Cri­tique #11: Scott Block

2010-08-04 12:35:23

This year I’ll have the chance to attend an FITC event: FITC San Fran­cisco . It will take place from August 17th to 19th in San Fran­cisco and it’s going to be awe­some, espe­cially since there’s going to be so many fan­tas­tic peo­ple attend­ing and speak­ing at the event

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FITC San Fran­cisco 2010 — $200 off for Abduzeedo Read­ers [Update]

2010-08-04 07:13:01

(TrendHunter.com) Some com­pa­nies inno­vate with tech­nol­ogy, but a com­pany in Ore­gon has an inno­v­a­tive bribery scheme to silence poten­tial wind tur­bine noise com­plaints. Rather than wait­ing to see if noise from a planned…

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Eco Power Hush Money — Inno­v­a­tive Bribery Scheme to Silence Poten­tial Wind Tur­bine Noise Complaints

2010-08-04 04:35:58

Last week, a daz­zling dis­play of pix­els, tech­nol­ogy, and ideas filled the Los Ange­les Con­ven­tion Cen­ter for the 37th SIGGRAPH 2010 Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence and Exhi­bi­tion. The world’s fore­most con­fer­ence on com­puter graph­ics and inter­ac­tive tech­niques brought together almost 23,000 artists, gam­ing experts and devel­op­ers, film­mak­ers, sci­en­tists, and stu­dents from around the world, with more than 160 indus­try orga­ni­za­tions exhibit­ing this year

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Core77 Gallery + Video High­lights: SIGGRAPH 2010

2010-08-04 03:00:30

Video by Paul Fraser. Another video from this year;s SIGGRAPH 2010 Expo: A demo of Organic Motion’s motion cap­ture tech­nol­ogy that doesn’t require a spe­cial suit (“No Mark­ers” technology).

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SIGGRAPH 2010: 3D motion cap­ture, with­out the suit

2010-08-03 21:13:20

The tick­et­ing machine of the new Mel­bourne Bicy­cle Share scheme. Mel­bourne, Australia.

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The Strate­gic Arc of Inter­ac­tion Design: Mov­ing Towards Holis­tic Sys­tem Design, by Steve Baty

2010-08-03 17:00:22

[ By Marc in Gad­gets & Geek Art .

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Cake Art: Over 25 Awe­somely Dec­o­rated Cakes

2010-08-03 13:53:21

Man-oh-man, here’s one killer task light. Amanda Lev­ete show­cases the new tech­nol­ogy of OLED light­ing in a twist­ing, flat rib­bon of steel, with only the cord to off­set the pow­der coated (or pol­ished) sur­face. What’s so spe­cial about OLED light­ing, you might wonder.

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Edge Light

2010-08-03 02:50:57

This year I’ll have the chance to attend an FITC event: FITC San Fran­cisco . It will take place from August 17th to 19th in San Fran­cisco and it’s going to be awe­some, espe­cially since there’s going to be so many fan­tas­tic peo­ple attend­ing and speak­ing at the event. Below you can see a list with some of the speak­ers, and I also know that James White, Vitor Lourenco and a lot of other guys I admire are going to be there too.

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FITC San Fran­cisco 2010

2010-08-02 23:20:01

(TrendHunter.com) Auto man­u­fac­turer Nis­san has announced a new sys­tem in their upcom­ing cars that will emit vit­a­min C to mois­ture dri­vers’ skin. The sys­tem relies on Plas­maclus­ter ions, a tech­nol­ogy devel­oped by Sharp that…

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Skin-Moisturizing Cars — Nissan’S New Sys­tem Emits Plas­maclus­ter Ions of Vit­a­min C