Keyboards are a bit of a forgotten peripheral, usually something we tend to ignore. A while back I was thinking it would be cool to know how to type DVORAK instead of QWERTY because apparently it's faster and it's always nice to know new things. Anyway, what about a keyboard without any symbols? The keys can mean anything you want or need them to mean. It makes learning to touch type super fast (you remember placement rather than symbols) and it's not even that expensive — but it is kind of ugly. I think all the purists prefer an old IBM Model M anyway.
Via DasKeyboard
It's inevitable that living in any town or city you're going to have to pump up the volume on your headphones to drown out the sound of traffic and stabbings. Until now the alternative has been noise cancelling headphones.
Outi – these headphones work by vibrating part of your ear bone, completely bypassing your ear drums and heading straight to the party in your head. Entirely removing any worries about going deaf in your old age you can listen to your music seriously loud, throw in some earplugs and you're well and truly ignoring everything around you in a sea of sound inaudible to the surrounding elderly. Amazing!
Via Engadget
The photo above is the inside of a ‘child friendly’ train in Japan. The trains contain hundreds of toys, clean wooden floors and cots for the younger ones.
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Denim jackets are only cool when the sleeves are ripped off and there's an impressive piece of artwork / patch on the back (I rocked a White Snake one back in th'day). Check out the images from this Aussie exhibition.
Pingmag have some of the best articles on Japanese design that I’ve read. This one is no exception — it’s a collection of logos featuring animals for delivery companies. The classic cat and kitten is in there along with a few others. This hard working pair of delivery ants made me chuckle.
Just want to wish you all a great time over the holidays. Eat, drink and be merry! For those who want to boost the number of gifts under their tree, download the following DIY gift template below. Enjoy!
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We’ve been sitting on these sticker pictures for quite a while. The intention is to put the archive back online as an inspirational resource but finding time to do this is real difficult. Apologies.
So, the next best thing is to make yourself a brew, sit back and view a random selection from the ‘best of the StickerNation archive.’
There’s some truly great pieces in there, very inspirational and a complete document of the sticker scene from 2000 — 2005.
View the archive slideshow
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Chris Keenan aka Prime Objective was honored for his photography and VJ work with a 4Talent Award recently. The award is given to new talent within the creative sector and is part of Channel 4’s 4Talent programme. You can read more about Chris and his missions with cameras over here.
Chris wanted us to give him a mention here and to say thanks to us — he thinks the site we designed for him played a part in him winning.
Nice!!
Robots. I don't really need to say more. Just have a look.
This is quite a nice idea — if a little saddening. Does your live / work space lack windows? Fear not, put up a Bright Blind and dream of what lies beyond.
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Are these Adidas Star Wars sneaks real? Looks like it...
(Thanks to Mrs. for the link)