Stimulus goes viral
Stimulus is in the air, and not just in the form of optimistic government handouts.
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Dots Gloves: Just the thing for an iPhone winter
Thinking back, those old gloves with the fingers cut off were a triumph of rationality over common sense. Useful, but kinda pointless. Fortunately, glove designers are more switched on in the iPhone era. Take Dots Gloves: knit or woollen gloves that have nickel and brass dots sewn into the finger tips so wearers can operate…
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Breathing life into deceased digital estates
Having one’s head crammed full of digital passwords is a fairly recent phenomenon. So it’s no surprise that almost no one has considered the difficulties that can arise when someone dies, leaving an extensive representation of their life online that no one can access. This is the premise for new San Francisco-based startup Legacy Locker….
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Assisted-walking with Honda’s new ‘Robolegs’
The global economic crisis might have ravaged the once mighty Japanese auto industry, but it’s good to see that Honda continues to flex its R&D muscle in atypical areas. On Tuesday, Honda introduced a New York City audience to its ground-breaking robo walking assist devices. As the Wired Science blog noted, the devices, which “combine…
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Assisted-walking with Honda's new 'Robolegs'
The global economic crisis might have ravaged the once mighty Japanese auto industry, but it’s good to see that Honda continues to flex its R&D muscle in atypical areas. On Tuesday, Honda introduced a New York City audience to its ground-breaking robo walking assist devices. As the Wired Science blog noted, the devices, which “combine…
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Top 10 Social Networks for Entrepreneurs
Mashable recently posted a terrific summary of the Top 10 Social Networks for Entrepreneurs.
Some of these you will have heard of – perhaps you even use one or two regularly (LinkedIn is the obvious example). But it’s worth exploring all ten, if only to peruse the voluminous amount of business tips and links to further useful resources and people.
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Apple dispenses with Macbook keyboard
A recent ONN story broke news that Apple was replacing keyboards on its popular Macbook range a big iPod-like scroll wheel. (video embedded below).
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Google releases the gBall… eh herm
Gotta love Google. It’s not enough that they have a kick-arse global business. They have a wicked sense of humour, too. In October last year, Google released “Mail Goggles“, a Gmail Labs feature that acted as a sobriety test by forcing users to solve maths problem before it would let them send potentially drunken missives…
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What your business should learn from Iceland’s collapse
The great Michael Lewis is probably the best and most readable chronicler of the current financial crisis. In this fascinating piece, he investigates the collapse of Iceland, and finds that mass delusion and lack of dissenting voices, products of Iceland’s provincial and isolated culture, were keys to this “perfect bubble” and ensuing disaster.
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What your business should learn from Iceland's collapse
The great Michael Lewis is probably the best and most readable chronicler of the current financial crisis. In this fascinating piece, he investigates the collapse of Iceland, and finds that mass delusion and lack of dissenting voices, products of Iceland’s provincial and isolated culture, were keys to this “perfect bubble” and ensuing disaster.
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This is what happens when you start laying off Arts graduates
Some unusual signs have begun appearing taped to lampposts and other streetside objects in Melbourne’s trendy St Kilda/Chapel Street areas. The efforts of a deranged man named Craig in search of meaning in a troubled world? Unlikely. But this is what we should expect when people with liberal arts degrees have too much time on their hands.
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Hip! Sneakers made from London Underground seats
Eco-conscious footwear company, Above+Below London, is now selling shoes made from material that once adorned seats on London’s transport system. The shoes’ leather upper parts are made from discarded wallets and the soles from used car tyres. They are assembled in Portugal in non-sweaty shop conditions.
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One man’s trash is another man’s shelter
Twelve-year-old Max Wallack recently won Grand Prize at the recent Design Squad ‘Trash or Treasure’ competition for his “Home Dome” design – make-shift shelter for the homeless made out of trash.
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One man's trash is another man's shelter
Twelve-year-old Max Wallack recently won Grand Prize at the recent Design Squad ‘Trash or Treasure’ competition for his “Home Dome” design – make-shift shelter for the homeless made out of trash.
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Online game lets you slap a corporate fat cat
American and European banking executives have been on the receiving end of far greater public criticism than here in Australia. And for the most part, it has been well-earned.
Tapping into this anger, online games site addictinggames.com has used the recently passed US stimulus package as the premise for a new flash game entitled Trillion Dollar Bailout.
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Surf the Alps with Wii and Google earth
Some technically-minded Germans from the Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence have managed to mashup a Wii balance board to Google Earth and enable you to “surf” the globe. The mind boggles at where this will all be in a decade or two.
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Building a Death Star… one dollar at a time
Gadget blog Gizmodo is reporting news (yes, it’s certainly news) that one Ryszard Gold went one step further than merely pondering how much a Death Star would cost to build – he calculated it. With an extremely large abacus.
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Google Australia adds recent imagery to Victoria Fires Map
Google has just added recent imagery to its interactive map of Victoria, which contains updates on the status and locations of bushfires based on RSS feeds from the Country Fire Authority. The page also contains the latest Google News headlines about the fires and a facility to donate to the relief effort via the official 2009 Victorian…
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Ant Bytes — AA29
With everyone scrambling to figure out exactly what works online – what makes people’s mouse-trigger finger itch and why – it was only a matter of time before IT companies looked to the realm of cognitive psychology for assistance. Melbourne-based Geek IT Group (CITG) is one of a number of online consultancies using cognitive theory…
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Ant Bytes — AA28
CREATIVE ESPRESSO By Stephen Sammartino ************* ANT BYTES CrackBerry, with benefits While entrepreneurs typically relish a 24/7 relationship with their labour of love, many professionals have been dismayed by the encroachment of work on their personal time since the introduction of email-enabled mobile devices. Even the staunchest advocates of the liberating properties of new technology…
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