Driftwood Decor: 24 Dramatic Art Lamps & Lighting Designs It is as if these designers set an insane challenge for themselves: see just how many there are to craft pieces and parts of every kind of lamp and lighting fixture ever created – all from recycled scrap and found driftwood. One of the fascinating results of this design experiment: a number of lights in which the wood takes on opposite rolls from one object to the next – acting as the suspension cable for a ceiling light or stalk of a table lamp in one case, then as their respective shades in the next. Likewise, the contrasts within a given kind of light – such as the series of simple table lamps shown above – is particularly stark when you set them next to one another.
Facebook access becoming mandatory part of job, college applications It's been a trending story for years that employers have been known to look at the public Facebook profiles of applicants as part of their decision process. Now, though, it seems the new trend is taking that a whole step further, as some employers and even colleges are asking for completely unfiltered access to the entire account. Such was the subject of an expose on MSNBC.com, which found that, as an example, the Maryland Department of Corrections asks potential new employees to log into their Facebook account during in-person interviews. HUB09 Keyboard Shortcuts Timeline SShuffle JNext KPrevious FFancy AAdd to List CComment HShare EnterView Thing 50 Creative MacBook Decals and Stickers The Sifter spent last night looking through hundreds of Macbook decals and stickers. Below you will find a collection of our 50 favourites. There are thousands of options online, with many original designs on Etsy and other online retailers. The images below were culled from various Google image searches. As we began to try and source the original designers of the decals we found many online retailers offering identical versions of the same design. We got hesitant crediting one designer/retailer over another.
5 Signs of a Great User Experience If you've used the mobile social network Path recently, it's likely that you enjoyed the experience. Path has a sophisticated design, yet it's easy to use. It sports an attractive red color scheme and the navigation is smooth as silk. It's a social app and finding friends is easy thanks to Path's suggestions and its connection to Facebook. In short, Path has a great user experience. That isn't the deciding factor on whether a tech product takes off. Binary - it's digitalicious! How binary works: The binary number system (aka base 2) represents values using two symbols, typically 0 and 1. Computers call these bits. A bit is either off (0) or on (1).
Star Trek Enterprise coffee table is the stuff of geek dreams I would wager that there are a bunch of you out there that like Star Trek as much as I do. I'm not dressing up in pointy ears or anything, but I can appreciate some awesome Star Trek gear when I see it. Take this coffee table for instance. If there was ever a cooler project for a geek with a wood working background, I haven't seen it. He must have a wife that likes Star Trek too since it is in the living room. When I wanted to put my Star Wars Wampa rug in the game room, the wife shot me down.
BIG JAMBOX Review Jawbone's JAMBOX personal speaker put music and hands-free calls in your backpack, messenger bag, your briefcase and on your nightstand. Now, with the BIG JAMBOX by Jawbone, it's time to take your music out into the backyard, poolside or park and do some sharing. Bigger all round - more power, more battery life and more heft in your bag - the BIG JAMBOX comes at a $100 premium over the $199 original, but is it worth it? Check out the full SlashGear review to find out. Hardware
Cose che mi prendono da fa di botto Welcome to YouTube! The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results.To change your location filter, please use the links in the footer at the bottom of the page. Click "OK" to accept this setting, or click "Cancel" to set your location filter to "Worldwide". The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results. To change your country filter, please use the links in the footer at the bottom of the page. iOS Rock Band app unplayable after May 31 If you're a fan of the music game Rock Band and have the app on your iPhone or iPad you may notice a pop-up that has been showing on the game. According to the pop-up, the mobile game won't be playable after May 31. I have a feeling since this was a premium purchase app when it was new, there will be unhappy people who lose access to the game.
Lumus DK-32 wearable display hands-on Technology made by the Lumus group has been applied to a pair of glasses shown at CES 2012, and today we're getting our first chance to take a peek at a demo unit. These glasses are not a consumer product, instead being shown off here as a demonstration piece of equipment so that the Lumus technology can be picked up by a manufacturer and made into a real deal for-sale piece of equipment. The video below is also your rare chance to see your humble narrator without glasses on in the interim, only to move on into the 3D world with Lumus. Google Project Glass spills more prototype secrets Another public outing for Google's Project Glass has spilled even more details about the wearable augmented reality headset, including some of the first indications of just what's visible through that single display. New glimpses of the prototypes have been shown courtesy of a Google Glass Walk that took place earlier this week in San Francisco, including what seems to be the first shot of the headset not actually being worn. That reveals a small power button recessed into the rear of the body of the eyepiece, over a microUSB port presumably for charging and flashing software. The label, meanwhile, flags Project Glass as having not passed FCC testing; it's unclear if the protruding section just next to it is a cushioning pad of some sort or a button, triggered by pushing the body of the headset in against the wearer's head. The image below shows what's believed to be a camera button on the top edge of the eyeband. [Thanks Steve!]
Voyager 1 Has Entered 'Cosmic Purgatory,' Where No Probe Has Gone Before More than three decades after launching from Earth, Voyager 1 is about to leave the solar system. The probe, which was originally launched along with companion spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1977, has entered a new and uncharted region of space between our solar system and the interstellar space beyond that NASA is calling a kind of "cosmic purgatory," the Telegraph reports. The Voyager missions were launched to study Jupiter and Saturn, but thus far they have just kept on trucking toward the far reaches of interstellar space. Each has enough fuel on board to keep going until 2020, when it is estimated Voyager 1 will be some 12.4 billion miles away from the sun.
Can a Windows Phone Web demo win over iPhone and Android users? Keen to get consumers to take a look at Windows Phone, Microsoft has released a browser-based demo of its smartphone operating system for iPhone and Android users. The Web site gives users of these competing platforms a taste of the Windows Phone look and feel. The Web site is not an "application" in any sense; it's an HTML and JavaScript mock-up of the Windows Phone user interface, populated with dummy data. There are eight sections in total: phone, people (contacts), messaging, e-mail, calendar, a pinned contact group, Local Scout, and pictures. Each section gives you a brief walk-through, with on-screen prompts showing where to tap or swipe next to see the next screen, and each shows off some of the features that makes Windows Phone a little different from Android or iOS: the Facebook integration, face tagging, application integration, inbox linking, and so on. At the end of each walkthrough, you can return to the Start screen, or click through to see a list of phones to buy.