Two years after their theft from an Oslo museum, Edvard Munch’s famous paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" have been recovered. The police aren’t saying how they got the paintings back but both are in pretty good shape. Good work!
Month: August 2006
Memory Liquid Crystal Display
I’m not sure if this is an ultra low power LCD display or if it’s doing the same trick that ePaper/eInk can do. That’s consume no power to keep an image on the screen. If so this is going to be one hell of a handy device for portable electronics.
[via Fosfor Gadgets]
Authentic Radiomann Kit
I like a radio that you have to build parts just to get it to work. It makes the sounds sweeter when you know exactly how much work you put into it. I used to have a crystal radio that I listened to when I was working in my garage that I made from a paper towel tube. It was great! This kit isn’t a crystal radio but it does have a vacuum tube in it. Oh yeah, nothing says cool more than a glowing valve! This kit will make any home tinkerer happy, heck it will make tech bloggers happy too (hint hint, oh brother of mine!).
[via red ferret]
New York Sky Cloud
Cool, I’ll be in New York when they start putting this up.
London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor, famous for Chicago’s 125-ton stainless steel "Cloud Gate" sculpture in Millenium Park (looks like a trippy mirrored jellybean), will install his 3-story tall "Cloud Mirror" in NYC from Sept. 19 to Oct. 27. To be situated at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the dish-like sculpture’s concave side will show an inverted reflection of the skyscraper.
NYT (you need to register)
Bastard Japanese Toliet Prank
The Japanese have a strange concept of humor. It must be because of the lack of land available for living on or all the anime that is over there. Whatever it is, it produces this:
TV crew sets up a porta-loo (toilet) at popular locations in Japan and booby traps it with a uplifting surprise! Users get caught absolutely off guard with the ten second trap… Absolutely hilarious!!!A must see is at the end of the video, where a fast boat trip absolutely finishes off all the poor victims!
I mean, if you did this in the US you would become lawyer fodder faster than you can say whiplash.
Credit Card Money-clip
I like this a lot. What more could you need while out on the town? Ok, your ID would be handy but in this post 9/11 world your never without it anyway, right? You have credit for the dinner and cash for the tip. Classy.
[via Core77 Design]
(The link is a Flash site so you have to dig for the goods. Silly designer, you think they would know better.)