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The Art. Lebedev Studio is the largest design company in Russia, founded in 1995 by Artemy Lebedev. This company has it’s fingers in a lot of pies including industrial design, graphic design, web design, and interface engineering. I found about this site by accident when try find some interesting desktop background on Google images. When looking around the site I found it very interesting. As a design company it has lots of really cool ideas for real world products and has a very different view on product design. With lots of different things the company makes, I was shocked to find out that they also make computer parts.
Most interesting is a product called Optimus keyboard (pictured left). Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment. Personally, I don’t think that I am going to be rushing out to get one just yet as, looking at the Art. Lebedev store, the prices that seem to start at $1400, which is a little out of my range. It is still very interesting to look around the everything part of the site and see all the idea they have.
There is also I never nice set of desktop backgrounds, which are entitled posters which are free to download and use on your own computer. Personally I love the background called, New directions and I used it as my background for many months.
It is nice to see stuff like this, with some much of the internet full of rubbish. Hope you enjoyed the site.
I am sure that many of you are starting to think about Christmas, as the adverts seemed to have already started on TV. Many of you will be thinking about getting yourself a nice shinny new 5.5G IPOD that were released a month or two ago. But have you heard about the Red IPOD Nano?
Choose the iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition and Apple will give $10 of its purchase price to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa.
The IPOD is the same price as the other IPODs, at time of writing, £129, from the Apple store. I mean, if you are going to be treating yourself to an IPOD this christmas, you might as well, cut into Apple’s profit to help a good cause. There is more info of the Apple website.
Microsoft’s new OS, Vista, includes a new speech recognition. At a very public demo of this new software, unfortunately it doesn’t quite go to plan. It is fun to see Microsoft Vista being knocked off it’s high horse.
10. Runs on 200 D batteries
9. In the morning you have to defrost it
8. Runs on Windows 78
7. Box reads Pre-loaded with hundreds of viruses!
6. Tech support number is a Silicon Valley burger king
5. For better internet reception, salesman includes pair of rabbit ears
4. You move the pointer around by licking the screen
3. It’s made by IBN
2. The mouse bit you
1. When you tell it to print, it tells you to go screw yourself
We have all seen pictures made out of set of characters. Lots of them are very simply made but there some more complexed ones out tehre. Personally I always wondered how it was done. I thought there simply must be a piece of software that does it for you out there. Turns out there is and it is completely free and online. The site is called JPG2TXT. I have tried lots of different pictures and some work better than others but give it a go. Here are some I have tried.
An interesting video that I found on the internet it. It is spoofing the MAC vs PC advert with the new games constoles the Wii and PlayStation 3. It spoofs the advert well but behinds up lots of interesting points. This advert has an interesting sexaul element which I know a couple guys who will buy a Wii because of this advert and sadly, a couple more that will buy a PS3 because of this.
The fact it is a little sexual, it has been taken down off you tube and displayed the following message.
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The world has truly gone firefox crazy, becuase believe it or not, this picture is real.Made by some local fans of Firefox, the Firefox Crop Circle project shows that we have so much passion for the web browser that the logo can now be seen from visible from space.
Quote from the offical web site.
Planned in under two weeks and completed in under 24 hours, the crop circle had a final diameter of 220 feet. We constructed the circle in an oat field near Amity, Oregon, where it was completely invisible from the road but unmistakable from the sky. Our team consisted of 12 people, mainly OSU students, and we carefully stomped down oats from 3:30pm Friday afternoon until 2:30am, putting on the finishing touches between 7:30am and 11:00am Saturday, August 12.
Read the article of how it was done at http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle.
You have to be very careful when picking your domain, it it what people will must remember about your site. But check out these muppets..
- A site called Who Represents where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name wait for it is
www.whorepresents.com
- Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at
www.expertsexchange.com
- Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net
- Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
www.therapistfinder.com
- Then of course, there’s the Italian Power Generator company
www.powergenitalia.com
- And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
www.molestationnursery.com
- If you’re looking for computer software, there’s always
www.ipanywhere.com
- Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Their website is
www.cummingfirst.com
- Then, of course, there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website:
www.speedofart.com
- Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at
www.gotahoe.com
Thanks to Will Setters for the list
