The Moodwall is situated in a pedestrian tunnel and interacts with people passing by, improving the atmosphere in the tunnel and making people happy and feel less unsafe. The interactive urban wallpaper was first installed in Amsterdam. It is 24 meter long and built out of about 2500 leds behind a ribbed semi-transparent wall.
Im sure you are familiar with the saying jack of all trades, master of
none? Stated differently, we can say that a person who focuses on many things wont be good at any of them.
Inhabitat: While most of us are delighted by the idea of bringing the outdoors in, we are equally excited by the concept of bringing the indoors outside! These lawnge chairs get the job done. Designed by artist Lisette Spee in collaboration with architect Tim Van Den Burg, the playful seats are part of a series of lounge chairs created for public spaces in Valkenberg Park in Breda, Netherlands.
Springwise: Launched earlier this month, Creative Caravan is a property listing service for people working in the creative industries, devised to help film directors, make-up artists, painters, photographers, etc find a place to (sub)let or swap.
Shiny Shiny: Eastenders, Torchwood, the news and oh, that guy with the centre-parting who likes American Pie 1&2 ‘winked’ at you. Yes: meet the future. Match.com and BT are pairing up and bringing internet dating from the quite small screen in your bedroom to the rather larger screen in your sitting room, in an attempt to lure the millions looking for love over the computer back to the television. Why? To make it “easier” for you to find Mr/Ms Right obviously. Kate Taylor, relationship expert at match.com, says: “Being able to search for love on the box, from the comfort of your own couch, means that finding love really couldn’t be easier and you don’t even have to take off your slippers.” Ah! of course, because you *do* have to take your slippers off to go on your lap-top. Other benefits of this move as suggested by BT include: you don’t have to switch on your computer & you can go on match.com from your living room.
OrSiSo was started with the main goal of helping people Organize and Simplify the way in which they Socialize with their friends online, no matter what social network or online community they belonged to.
Wired: How do you find a new search engine if all you know is Google? Typing search engine into the usual box might lead you to Microsofts newly launched Bing, the combined search at Dogpile, or the former king of search, Altavista.
