Cool Hunting
| 07 January 2008view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Philippe Starck's Walter Wayle Wall Clock
by Watchismo
Philippe Starck, designer of half-a-million dollar Richard Mille watches as well as the mass produced models for Fossil, created this wall clock for Alessi in 1989 and it's part of the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) Design Collection. Two propeller/flipper style hands tell hours and minutes.
Young Lovers T-Shirt Giveaway
by Lost At E Minor
Our friends over at the hot Sydney-based t-shirt label Young Lovers have just launched their third collection of prints, which "celebrates the madness of midnight love and all that surrounds it." Made from the finest cotton and strictly limited to 100 of each, Lost At E Minor has two of the shirts to give away to randomly selected readers who leave a comment below the post on the Lost At E Minor site telling us which tee from the collection you'd most like to have hanging in your wardrobe and why. Entries close 12 January 2008.
Greener Gadgets Call For Entries
by Tim Yu
Greener Gadgets, a conference on the topic of greening consumer electronics, partnered up with our amigos at Core 77 in hopes of seeking out design innovations for more eco-friendly electronics. The design competition will engage established design firms and students alike to come up with new solutions for consumer electronics addressing energy issues, health and toxicity, new materials, product lifecycle and social development. The best will be showcased at the Greener Gadget Conference on 1 February 2008 in New York City, where they will be judged by an esteemed panel and the audience.
Awards will be handed out at the end of the night and be showcased on GreenerGadget, Core77 and Inhabitat. The grand prize winner will receive $2,500 while two runners up will each get $1,000.
Entry deadline is 27 January 2008, so it's time to get those gears turning. For more information on the competition and conference visit Core 77 and Greener Gadgets.
Motorola ROKR E8
by Josh Rubin
The lastest in Motorola's line of music phones, the ROKR E8, has a new feature that (believe it or not) rivals the iPhone. The innovation is a little piece of tech called "localized haptic feedback," which makes pushing a button on the touch screen feel like actually pressing a button. This is achieved by a small vibration under the spot where you touch, and feels like the solid surface really is a button. It's a tactile capability that we at CH have often wished for and the experience of using it is nothing short of amazing—upon demoing it, I really thought it was a real button (and I'm not easily fooled).
Other features that make it a contender in the range of music phone devices include a touch-sensitive scroll arc (meaning you can use a touch wheel to scroll through songs, contacts and photos) and keypad buttons that automatically switch between numbers and icons depending on which feature (phone, camera, music player) is in use.
The E8 also adds a built-in FM radio with song recognition and other than the usual expected hardware, the phone has a 3.5mm jack, 2GB of internal memory and up to 4GB more with a card.
It's due to hit the market within the next few months.
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Keetja Allard: Art Basel Miami Beach 2007
by Josh Rubin
For CH's fourth annual look at Art Basel Miami Beach, we decided to take a different approach. Rather than shoot videos as we've done the previous two years or report on the same old sights and sounds that the hundreds of other media outlets cover anyway, we opted to bring a different sort of visual stimulation.
Instead we enlisted NYC-based photographer Keetja Allard armed with a couple of Lomo's new Diana and a couple of their Holgas (as well as her own cameras) to see what she would find. The result is a look at the art, the people looking at art, the queues in front of the clubs and the parties. At times absurd, at times beautiful and at times everything in-between, it's a general impression of "the scene" that transpires over the long weekend in Miami. Keetja also manages to capture some of the moments that are truly off-site, visiting beaches, catching some epic views and even boarding a private jet for a day trip to Turks and Caicos.
Browse through the gallery below for a taste of what Art Basel was like this year.
