PicoCool

Hulger’s first new phone design in three years is ”the PAPPA phone, the world’s first wooden VoIP phone. Made from sustainable American walnut and brass.”

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”PicoP is an ultra miniature projection module capable of producing full color, high-resolution images but small enough and low power enough to be embedded directly into mobile devices such as cell phones, portable media players, digital cameras, portable computers and more.” PicoP is a project by Microvision and is not available for consumers yet, but hopefully we’ll see this technology in use within a couple of years. [via maiab on Twitter]

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"A Capsule hotel is a unique style of accommodation in Japan, inspired by the pursuit of efficiency of space and functional comfort, originating from the adaptive, creative spirit of the Japanese mind. A typical Capsule Hotel is composed of two major sections; a public lounge space including bathing, and the other is a private space where the sleeping rooms (capsules) are arranged. The actual sleeping room is a capsule unit made of reinforced plastic and designed in the image of a jet airplane’s cockpit. In the capsule unit, all the required amenities are provided; TV, radio, alarm clock, adjustable lighting… almost everything is provided! Every device is within your reach and you can control everything in a sleeping position.” The Capsule Inn Akihabara is located right in the digital and electronics hub of Tokyo - the Electric City.

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With this USB turntable, you can “take your old vinyls and convert them to CD in minutes with a few simple steps! Enables the recordings of all those old albums into digital high quality format and sound. Easily interfaces with a USB port on any computer.” [via emilychang at Stylehive]

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UPDATE: Wired reports that ClearChannel says the Skullphone ads are not a hack, but a paid ad.

“Southern California is all abuzz the hijacking of digital billboards. Silenced Majority Portal, reports that last Thursday, 18 year old graffiti artist Skullphone hacked into 10 of ClearChannel’s digital billboards in Hollwood, Culver City, and elsewhere around LA, putting up his logo in between the more normal ads.” [via textually]

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Photo by C HAD, Creative Commons

Stunning photos from the Japan HDR group on Flickr. From Wikipedia, “in computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.” (via Miyagawa on Twitter)

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Chetan Sorab’s Modular Mp3 player is playful and practical. “The central console of Bloc forms the core unit of the mp3 player with the interface and display. When it runs out of its built in 50 GB memory you can add another 50 GB or more as a modular storage on any one side as an additional block. You can share songs, data by removing one of the blocks and giving it to your friend or close ones to listen or download them. Bloc also helps you to customize the colors according to your liking as they would be available in vibrant colors.”

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Digital artist Evgeny Kiselev creates stunning illustrations. Explore his site and treat yourself to one of his posters for sale.

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