“Notchless” is a tape dispenser designed by Yasukuni Kikuchi. “Notchless” comes with a unique blade which leaves clean-cut and straight edges on acetate tape, eliminating zig-zags which can lead to peeling. It is also designed to be safe and children can use it without any risk. “Notchless” is a winner of 2011 Red Dot Design Award, and 2011 Good Design Award.
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How scary is this. A vision piece by Apple in the early 90’s. A tablet, a voice recognition system and Facetime. The scariest thing is that, according to sources, it says Sept 16th 2011. - Rich
They literally scan and then print the object, with moving parts. This is truly scarey. Just thinking about the potential uses and also the impact on manufacturing is insane. -Rich
As someone once said ‘Space… is big, Really Big’ , but that reference is now true about the amount of data we produce. The big question is where is it all being stored, where are these data centers exactly? Which ones are the largest and who owns them? - Rich
Source: Mozy.co.uk
See something or say something by Eric Fischer
this is a visualisation of Flickr image locations and Twitter geographic data for London. Eric has also produced 34 more including New York, Barcelona, Baltimore,Tokyo, Singapore, Jakarta, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Los Angeles, Mexico City,Washington DC, San Francisco, Rotterdam.
So he used red dots for Flickr pictures, blue for Twitter and white for both - all publicly available data in the Flickr and Twitter APIs. Nice and simple maybe a good one for presentations or a background image! - Rich
