As soon as Apple announced iPhone 3G would feature GPS support a mental image of Nike + iPod sans the iPod came to my mind. About a month after the arrival of the iPhone App Store the first applications to keep track of your running workout are available:
Path Tracker is an inexpensive tool to map [...]
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Read Article »Apple’s iPhone started a new era of mobile internet usage:
Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset [...]
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I’m watching Sigur Rós’ Heima right now — a documentary film about their free 2006 Iceland tour. It is a great DVD for everybody who likes Sigur Rós or Iceland.
Last year, in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and [...]
A Scanner Darkly — the movie adaption of Philip K. Dick’s great novel.
What does a scanner see? I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner … see into me — into us — clearly or darkly? (Bob Arctor, A Scanner Darkly)
Great dystopian novel and fantastic movie adoption. [...]
Read Article »Finally I’ve found the time to upload about 50 of more than 400 photos of our trip to Iceland this summer.
tags: 2007, Iceland, photos, trip, vacation
Getting cozy with an Airbus A380 during the first-ever visit of an A380 to San Francisco International Airport. Great close-ups and pictures of the inside of Airbus’ new flagship. (by telstar)
tags: A380, flickr, San Francisco International Airport, SFO, telstar
Prepping a Space Shuttle for launch is a lot of work. “After looking at the pictures you will know why there’s a good period of time between shuttle launches.” (link)
tags: Discovery, pre-flight, Shuttle, Space Shuttle
Visiting Iceland this summer was wonderful. Seeing the impressive landscape lets you understand the origins of Sigur Rós’s music. Listening to their music while driving on Icelandic roads is just perfect.
On November 5th Sigur Rós is planning to release the documentary Heima (at home) about their 2006 tour on Iceland. Watching the trailer makes me [...]
This has to be the worst product name ever: TrekStor sells an MP3 player named i.Beat blaxx.
Via Daring Fireball
TrekStor removed the i.Beat from the player’s name. That was quick.
tags: bad product name, i.Beat, iBeat, TrekStor
That’s what I was wondering when I heard about the exploding steam pipe in NYC today. Transportation of heat, granted — but during summer?
Luckily those pesky interwebs have the answer to this question: Why the heck does New York have steam pipes, anyway?
tags: explosion, New York, NYC, steam pipe
Spacializer is a flash animation of slowly moving clouds of different colors by Sébastien Chevrel, an artist, designer and programmer focusing on interactive media.
The animation itself creates a faint background noise when left alone. Moving your mouse cursor above different colors and the spots where different colors mix results in changing sounds all very spherical. [...]
Found via digg because of its 3D menu Screenvader’s flash-based site had a lot more to offer: Interactive graphics and random audiovisual animations using vector graphics, images and short video sequences of Looping Housewife’s Duties. If you thought The Ring’s video sequence was scary take a look at Easy to Open; fullscreen, in the dark, [...]
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