Sexy species

"The ugly redheaded stepchildren of the animal kingdom don’t get much attention compared to the perennial endangered animal favorites like pandas, polar bears, and owls" says Sara in a feature on webecoist.com. This particular feature hosts a handsome collection of "the world's weirdest endangered species".

Having checked out the showcase, I'm once again amazed by the everlasting power of looking at... freaky beasts. It certainly is a hard to match pleasure, and also vaguely educational. Who would have thought the below amphibian, technically half-snake half-man, would usually live to 100?


Mr. Olm

Here's another, less informative, site that exhibits some of the world's even better looking creatures. There's genuinly something for everyone, if you like cute check out the komondor, if you're more of a 'eugh' girl then knock on this Star-nosed mole's door, and who wouldn't want to go to the disco with this little shaker:


Mr. Axolotl

But if this is all too contemporary for your freaky beast needs, there's a collection of ten extinct animals here, some charming illustrations.

Theo Jansen

Re-invention of the wheel
&
New forms of life
= A youtube definitely worth watching.

+ A million other talks worth listening to on www.ted.com

Walk Along Glider

Tyler MacCready shows how he can use his head to fly a paper aeroplane. Completely controlled by the air your body moves in, this gliding toy seems like a trick at first.

Some tips - 1, 2 - for building your own.

Johnny Lee

Meet Johnny Chung Lee, a PhD Graduate Student from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Pittsburgh. We stumbled across his work having found one of his projects on YouTube, where he seems to have fashioned a home virtual reality display that bests anything currently on the shelves of HMV or even Woolworths. The resulting effect not only looks great but the technology is also stylish, check out the "sporty safetey goggle" chic:



His site is full of great ideas that explore the possibilities of modern technology and attempt to increase their accessibility. Good luck Johnny, you're doing a great job so far..

What's the worst that can happen?

One of the best arguments on climate change I have heard. The only real, honest way to look at our future. No preaching, no confusing numbers or words, just simple common sense.

Nick Veasey

We found out about this guy while at BDH\TBWA, someone had left his mini book on our desk and it simply amazed us. If i can remember correctly from the book, this is the largest ever XRay.
Nick Veasey .com

Students today

Interesting video asking the relevance of some of the current teaching methods in Universities.
Are they really relevant to the way we live our lives today? Should we have ditched the chalkboard years ago? Has some nice Facebook stats.
Check it out

Fluorescent light tubes

Fluorescent light tubes powered by the electromagnetic field emitted from the overhead power lines. By Richard Box. Absolutely crazy, and very scary.

Kevin Warwick - Cyborg

Some scary predictions from the man who firstput a micro chip in his head, then went on to wire his nervous systom up to a computer. The first real cyborg. 
Read up a little more:
archives.cnn.com
kevinwarwick.com

D3O

If you havent seen this stuff before its absolutly amazing! Just think of the videos you could make with this.

Fleethorse

This has to be some kind of viral. It cannot be serious. Just image 10 ton of horse flying towards you as you slam head on into another car & just think of the smell.
Please please please look at the site.
fleethorse.com

Draw your own ad.

"Marc Ecko wants to promote his roots and love for graffiti. Digital citylights are created that consists of an LCD and a bluetooth interface. People will get the possibility to access the citylight via bluetooth with their cell phones and spray their own graffiti with the cursor of their phone."
Things are getting interesting, maybe i need to get a mobile that works so i can get a piece of the action.

Soho no-go

" SOHO NO-GO
PEOPLE walking past three rogue strip clubs are getting TEXT MESSAGES warning them to stay out.
Westminster council started the scheme yesterday in a bid to close down Soho's "clips joints". Anyone withing 30 meters gets a text on their mobile via Bluetooth, saying: "Dont enter." [The Sun, 01/09/07]

Thought this was a very interesting yet invasive use of new technology. Will everyones texts be full of ads the same as our emails from now on?

Heatmap Generator

Find out how people view your website or image and which areas are getting most of the attention. Enter your url, heatmap generator will create a heatmap for you.

"The ViewFinder Heatmap service creates a Saliency attention heatmap.The salience map creation is based upon neuro-science studies of visual Attention, Perception and Cognition of humans."

feng-gui.com.