Probably old news, but I just discovered AIGA has published many of its lectures online as audio pod-casts.

Barcode Beats is a system that converts barcodes into music through an interpretation of the numbers on the barcodes.
Check out the video

Bunch of Aussies moved to San fran to get on on the web app start ups…they have been living off nothing for the last 5 months and developing a new video web app which has already had a write up on the industry blog Techcrunch. check out Omnisio
Via Design Is Kinky

Today, a handful of soldiers with advanced gear can see a few digital maps, through helmet-mounted monocles. Some pilots can get data about their world, on heads-up displays. But one day, troops could see an info-”augmented” reality all around them, with contact lenses that provide “first-person shooter-type video game” environments to those that wear […]

Leah Buechley designed this using LED’s and her self-developed wearable e-textile technology, LilyPad Arduino. The controls are located on the wrist.
Via swissmiss

A Businessweek article reports on an interesting presentation at the SXSW conference by Apple senior engineering manager Michael Lopp. He describes Apple’s design approach in coming up with their products

Download the PicLens plugin for Firefox and take your image searching full screen. A small button gets added to your browser bar and when you click it you get a beautiful fullscreen wall of the images on that page. You can even image search directly from PicLens by typing in the search field. The results […]

MoMA - February 24-May 12, 2008

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve […]

Alex Dragulescu
Title: Spam Architecture
Software: Maya, Mel, PHP
Website: www.sq.ru
Dragulescu presses the spam he receives into service as a blueprint for digital sculptures. First a script breaks the message into chunks of text he calls tokens. Each token is assigned a value (based on the sum of its characters), which triggers different modeling operations-adding elements to the […]

The Newton Virus by Troika is a Mac ‘virus’ that turns on gravity on your desktop. Great video of it in action.
Via FormFiftyFive

Has anyone tried this?
I have been running Leopard since its release. At first I hated it but after a few months of use, I can deal with the Bugs in Leopard because I can’t imagine not having Quick look or Spaces. It drastically speeds up productivity and I depend on it as much as […]

Apple Multi Touch Expose Preferences
This would no doubt make it pretty hard to not consider a new laptop

“In case there were any doubts that Apple was exploring the use of advanced multitouch gestures under Mac OS X, a recent Apple patent application authored by Wayne Westerman (of Fingerworks) shows mockups of a Mac OS X […]