Art Lebedev sees the future

The forward thinking guys at Art Lebedev have offered us a glimpse of what I think is a highly probable future reality - they call it the Flashkus. Click here to see it! The idea is that usb flash drives will become so cheap and plentiful that they'll be made from cardboard and sold in batches (all electronics will be miniaturised and contained in the tip of the device). You can then tear off a usb stick, fill it with photos from your trip to Shanghai, label the drive accordingly with pen/pencil and give it to yer mate. Mark my words we'll be seeing something like this very soon.

Their website is well worth a look, it's stocked full of ideas as well as actual products they've produced. Some are a little barmy but some are just brilliant.

Lighting up @ 1052fps

Lots of Phantom Camera videos have been doing the rounds these last few months. At present it seems to be a handful of incredibly rich people indulging in some very high fps experiments (we're talking thousands of fps here!). Can't wait for some nature program directors to get their hands on some of this kit.

Anyhoo, here's a magical video of a lightbulb turning on @ 1052fps


slow burn from frazerchurchill on Vimeo.

Search "Phantom Camera" or "Phantom Flex" to have a look at some of the nutty things people are filming in super slow motion.

Get British Business Online...and that's it

Hmm, so when I heard from a friend that BT & Google had teamed up to provide .co.uk domains for 2 years for free, I thought that it was a great idea! However, upon registering hotcalamari.co.uk, (which was available - hurrah!) I've spent the last few hours tearing my hair out!

It turns out that this whole thing is a disgusting Google marketing exercise, where they force you to use their absolutely god-awful website design tools. So I have a great-looking website that I have made independently and I can't actually upload it to a domain that I own - FANTASTIC. Their FAQ is literally brimming with people desperately trying to transfer their domain because they've found out exactly the same thing. Call me a cynical old Google-hating bastard, but this has got to be one of the most back-handed attempts at "helping" businesses to get online ever! If it has helped some businesses get online - fab. But don't dress it up like it's a fully-fledged web solution for someone that wants to publish a half-decent website.

Have a glance through some of their "Success Stories" to witness some eye-raping websites that make the internet look as if it was created yesterday.

On the bright-side, it's the cheapest way to park a domain for 2 years, thanks Google! Now all I've got to do is find a nice cheap host and make the transfer.

Insania!

Click here to the see the bloody future! Basically these guys have filmed stuff using a panoramic camera so that you can choose where you look whilst watching the movie! This technology has already been put to extremely good use HERE where you can watch the intro to one of Muse's concerts and HERE where you can watch a 360 video of a helicopter flying over Nimmo Bay.

Great little house groover from those Crazy P's

Crazy p presents syndromes-the hit by ricotavares

Heeeeey Tell

Saw this over on Gizmodo and it looks great. Imagine using you're iPhone/Android like a walkie talkie. Sounds good to me, though time will tell if people take to the App/whether it becomes annoying as hell.

HeyTell's Website

Download the iPhone app

A cheeky lil' track that (dare I say it?) is an absolute banger!

BeatauCue - Disque Oh! (Eumig & Chinon remix) by BeatauCue

SoundCloud App

Just updated my computer and Apple decided to plonk it's new App Store down on me dock so I thought I'd give it a spin. Stumbled across the new SoundCloud App.

Right now I'm in the process of getting together a series of finished tracks to put on the net and the new app more than facilitates me doing this. I can upload tracks with the program, add artwork etc. just like in iTunes, but one of the coolest features is the recording function. If I want to post up a work in progress chunk of a track I can just play the tune and use the SoundCloud app to record the part I want. It means that I don't have to worry about mastering or anything, just shove it on the web a-sap. Obviously when the track is finished I'm gonna while away hours making sure it's absolutely bloody perfect.

Another great feature is that you can grab all those tracks and mixes from other artists that you've been listening to and group them all in one place so you can listen to them offline like Spotify/iTunes. Which means I can listen to this beauty over and over again!

Caribou - Sun (Okinawa Lifestyle Remix) by Okinawa Lifestyle

So yeah, check it out

Headphones!

Shame they do them in basically every other colour apart from ORANGE!

When my current headphones perish I reckon I'll grab a pair of these from Swedish Company - Urban Ears