SteamSHIFT

Perhaps a little passé but you never know when the need for will arise!

Really neat hanging solution. Love it!

toda: “

i like creative storage and hanging solutions and so…i like toda.”

(Via design*sponge.)

Quartz Composer Programming Guide: Introduction to Quartz Composer Programming Guide: “Introduction to Quartz Composer Programming Guide

Quartz Composer is a development tool provided with Mac OS

X v10.4 for processing and rendering graphical data. (more…)

The project looks interesting, but to me the nicest thing about this is the diagram! I absolutely love diagrams like this!

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PoE (Power over Ethernet) How To - NYCwireless: “A number of Access Point manufacturers (Lucent, Symbol)

are now offering Power over Ethernet add-on’s for their Access Points.

A PoE module inserts DC voltage into the unused wires in a standard

ethernet cable (pairs 7-8 and 4-5). The idea is to supply the AP’s

power and UTP ethernet connectivity requirements via a single ethernet

cable. This works great in areas where you may not have power and/or

ethernet easily accessible, like a roof. This also allows you to more

easily place the AP closer to the antenna, thus reducing signal loss

over antenna cabling. Ethernet signal travels well over CAT 5 cable;

2.4ghz signal doesn’t do as well over antenna cabling. Also ethernet

cabling is much cheaper than antenna (LMR-400) cabling. There are

currently two types of PoE adapters: a module jack or hub-like device

for multiple access points. The following hack creates a simple PoE

module pair.”

A few technologies I have come across that seem an obvious match for doing ubicomp (tdf) etc.

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Bubble House for sale: “Inspired by Finnish architect Antti Lovag (see his own Palais Bulles) in the mid 70’s, the Bubble House with its an indoor river, bubble kernel and cactus garden is for sale.

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SmarterChild: “SmarterChild is an interactive agent built by Conversagent, Inc. Interactive agents are software applications, often called ‘bots,’ that interact with users on Instant Messaging or other text messaging services. You can ‘chat’ with an interactive agent, whether on the web, over IM, or on a wireless device, the same way you talk to any other contact. To talk with SmarterChild, just send him a message saying ‘hi!’”

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Just saw these and thought they were pretty funky looking!

Materialise, well known in the industry for its STL correction software Magics, now has a line of lights produced using SLA machines called MGX. The rapid prototyping process allows designers to produce complex geometries such as spheres within spheres with a push of a button.

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A few neat javascript/css techniques, posted here as much for my records as anything else; but someone may be interested!!

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