Chemical Brothers Request Geo-Tagged Content For Music Video
Monday, den 11. August 2008For their forthcoming greatest-hits album Brotherhood, The Chemical Brothers have asked fans to submit short video clips (2 to 20 seconds) or photographs that celebrate the “insanity that goes on at the stoke of midnight.” The clips, which have been requested to be related to the specific point of origin and include geo-tags, suggest that [...]
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Solar Revolution: Copying Plants’ Energy Storage System
Monday, den 11. August 2008Scientists at MIT have developed what may be the holy grail of of solar power. In the past, the problem with solar was keeping the electricity flowing at night. Storing excess energy for use after sundown has traditionally been really expensive and highly inefficient. Now, by mimicking the way plants store energy MIT has created [...]
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Kevin Kelly On The Next 5,000 Days Of The Internet
Monday, den 11. August 2008In this talk from Entertainment Gathering 07, Kevin Kelly says that if we told people 5,000 days ago what the web was going to offer they would say it was impossible so now we have to expect the impossible for the next 5,000 days. His suggests that we’re constructing a single, global machine and that [...]
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Adaptive Path’s Aurora: The Future of User Experience on the Web?
Monday, den 11. August 2008As part of Mozilla Labs’ concept series, Adaptive Path has unveiled “Aurora“, a series of short videos that explore the potential future of browser experience. The videos showcase a web browsing system much richer and more interactive than anything we have now, with touch screen drag and drop, collaborative web browsing, and cloud data organization [...]
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Global Nightlife Trends: Bukowski’s - Prague
Monday, den 11. August 2008As part of our Global Nightlife Trends series, we spoke with Glen Emery, owner of Bukowski’s Bar in Prague. Glen told as a little about his bar, located in the heart of Prague’s bohemian underbelly, Zizkov, and shared his insights on nightlife and drinking trends in his city and how they’re evolving.
1. Tell us about [...]
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Best Buy Brings More Vending Machines To Airports
Monday, den 11. August 2008The carnival of self service automated retail in Japan is starting to rub off on America. Best Buy and Zoom Systems are going to be putting 9 more “Best Buy Express” vending machines in airports around the country. Dallas/Fort Worth was first and as of September 1st Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, [...]
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Ryanair Refuses To Honor Tickets Bought Through Third Parties
Monday, den 11. August 2008Dublin-based European cheap-flight carrier has told customers that it will not accept tickets bought through price-comparison sites and says that the ’scraping’ action of such sites is illegal. Ryanair thinks that they sell more than 1,000 tickets a day through such services. The Sun reports:
The Irish airline claimed the sites, which indirectly book around 1,000 [...]
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Bay Area Innovators Series: Zack Rosen of Mission Bicycles
Monday, den 11. August 2008Continuing with our Bay Area Innovators series, where PSFK chat with Bay Area-based entrepreneurs about their innovative new businesses, we bring you Zack Rosen. We met Zack last month while we were out in San Francisco; he is the co-founder of Mission Bicycles, an online retailer that builds custom fixed gear bikes. We asked [...]
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Tryvertising Wine Becomes A Game
Monday, den 11. August 2008Attempting to capture an audience for the ever-expanding wine market, the newly released (board) game, 4xProeven (Tastingx4) tests your party’s wine-tasting skills with four different brands and varieties of wine. Simply played, the label-covered bottles are shuffled, tasted, then compared to the descriptions of the four single grape varieties (Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and [...]
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Air-Pollution-Eating Sidewalk Tests Begin
Monday, den 11. August 2008Researchers at the Dutch University of Twente have developed a concrete brick capable of converting car exhaust into harmless amounts of nitrates. The special bricks are made with a cocktail of unique chemicals including titanium dioxide, a light-sensitive compound that increases the rate of breakdown of tail-pipe-producing nitrogen oxide. Currently in testing, the Univerisity of [...]
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