Product designer Hanyoung Lee has come up with an innovative concept to make sure cars and pedestrian obey the traffic light signals. Virtual Wall provides a barrier made up of plasma laser beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do best and any car that crosses that barrier suffers the consequences. via Iconglobe Considering that the [...]

Here is something for the buyers of the upcoming Australian release of the iPhone. You can go back to the ye olden times of a rotary dial when making a call. Ummm…it looks kind of cool but would have to be freaking annoying as it would be much slower than just pressing the numbers on [...]

Online social networking etiquette is hard enough for people. Now it seems that online social networks need an etiquette guide for interacting with each other. Search engine Google has started up a new service called Friend Connect. It basically allows smaller sites to set up their own online social networks that pull profile data like [...]

With so much powerful hardware and software sitting on people’s desks it is cool seeing it being put to creative use by musicians when they are putting together their videos. Here are two tops examples: CCTV Music Video Unsigned UK band The Get Out Clause know you don’t need a to have a proper camera [...]

For a few hours this week New York gossip blog Gawker noticed you could find out who has been viewing your profile or searching your name on Facebook. I captured a screenshot of my  stalkers  over-inquisitive friends below (have smudged out their names for cyber embarrassment reasons, I’m nice like that). ‘Twas certainly surprising to see the [...]

Parody of the Macbook Air advertisement

Brandtags is a new user-generated map of people’s thoughts about major brands. Just click on a brand name like Red Bull, Google or Pizza Hut… …to see what people think about that brand. You can also add you own ‘tag’ – a word or phrase that sums up what you think of the brand, to [...]

Remember when Tom Cruise was using his hands to control the the user interface of his computer in the Minority Report? ‘Twas fan-freaking-fantastic! Well, now you can have something similar at home: Microsoft has an enticing alternative to the Surface called the TouchWall—a rear-projection system constructed from just a few hundred dollars worth of readily [...]

Last year 16 million gallons of oil were consumed to make plastic water bottles. One of three adverts for a water filtration pitcher company that is taking a shot at the bottled water industry. It’s a USA campaign. You don’t see competitor activism much in Australia. Our defamation laws scare copywriters away from doing anything [...]

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