The Way i Go

FaceCash: The New Credit Card

Greenspan demonstrated FaceCash today for VentureBeat, by using it to demonstrate how he could pay for a lunch he had at the Indochine Thai restaurant in Palo Alto, Calif. (See videos below for short demo). Here’s how it works: You can download the FaceCash application on any leading smartphone — it will be available on iPhone, BlackBerry or Android phones beginning next week. Then you type in...

Winscape: Apple-Powered Fake Windows

Here’s a technology that’s arrived before its time, I think. Winscape is a set of two plasma televisions set up behind window panes, and hooked up to a Mac Pro. The Pro is running the custom Winscape software, which controls the “view” out of the windows according to a sensor (they show it in the video below attached to a baby, and it actually looks really large and pretty...

EVOL Transforms Electric Boxes into Miniature Apartment Buildings

EVOL is a berlin based street artist that transforms banal urban surfaces, into miniature architectural surfaces through pasting. using pasted paper, EVOL transforms electric boxes, small planters and other geometric city forms, into miniature apartment buildings and other structures. each piece of paper is printed with a repetitive pattern of flat gray walls dotted with plain window frames. once...

The Ultimate Hi-Tech and Interactive Mirrors

The Interactive Mirror at the DIESEL GINZA Store (Japan) is what every girl dreams off! It is able to take high-resolution shots of you and then you can decide whether your butt looks fat in a dress or not! Check out the super cool video below. Philips is all about designing for the future and that is why we simply love them. Check out their Interactive Mirror, which even makes chores like brushing...

The Most Important iPad Question Of The Day

Days after the launch of the much-lauded iPad, the various merits of its very existence are still being debated. Will it change the face of computing? Will it save the publishing industry? What does it mean for video games? What about comics? Should you even buy one, or is Cory Doctorow just being a killjoy? Frankly, I could give two good shakes of an Etch-a-Sketch about all that. Everything...

This is Not a Spiral

The blue elements in the image above appear to be a arranged in a continuous spiral, but in fact they form a series of concentric circles.  Your brain will argue so strongly for a spiral that you may need to run your mouse cursor around the circles a few times to convince yourself.

Wet And Wild: 10 Bizarre Public Water Fountains

Water fountains are a unique art form combining sculpture, engineering, and more than a little imagination. While the world’s most famous fountains are a delight to the senses, others range from weird to wild to downright bizarre… like the ten described here. Now, let us spray. The Car Fountain, Italy The Car Fountain – nothing fancy, just a Seat Ibiza hatchback (a Spanish car) looking like...

14 Most Beautiful Fountains and Water Sculptures

The grace and beauty of flowing water, along with its ability to induce calm, are the biggest reasons we’re drawn to artful displays of H2O.  From simple gravity-driven fountains to elaborate displays of dancing water and lights, these fountains, waterfalls and water sculptures are among the most celebrated, the most beautiful and the most interesting in the world. Dubai Fountain – Burj Dubai,...

iPhone Desk Phone

The Desk Phone Dock is set to first appear at the China Sourcing Fair taking place next month. With a nod to retrospective design, the dock allows users to sync and charge their iPhones while being enclosed in a polished housing complete with traditional desk phone handset.

Mario and Luigi Own Restaurants in Manchester

Guess what? Mario and Luigi have real restaurants in Manchester, England! Mario’s is red and short and Luigi’s is tall and green.

Tokyo Cherry Blossom Season

Do you want to visit a Japanese cherry blossom festival during the 2010 cherry blossom season? Cherry blossoms can be viewed from January to June in different regions in Japan, but most of cherry blossom festivals fall between March to May #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2...

Samurai robots serve humans in Hajime restaurant, Thailand

These are the robots of the Hajime restaurant in Thailand. The owner, Lapassarad Thanaphant, decided that she wanted a Japanese restaurant, and instead of hiring a wait-staff, she set her place up for samurai robots. That’s right, robot samurai, and not like the robot samurai like the ones in Robocop 3. No, these robot samurai are very cute with their big round eyes. Not only do they deliver the...

Law Abiding Engineer

Team Fortress 2 is a team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. You probably have heard of or seen the “Law abiding citizen” movie (better if not). So what if our tf2 heroes were included in the cast? The maker has uploaded a comparison reel, for those who didn’t see the original trailer or who just wanted to be even more blown away by the...

Facebook’s Amusingly Cruel CAPTCHA

Literally laughed out loud. We’ve all seen our share of amusing CAPTCHA’s – if you haven’t, you simply haven’t seen enough of them in your life – but this one takes the cake. Way to depress people, Facebook.

Walking with Dinosaurs in Japan

Walking with Dinosaurs will be touring Japan in July and August. To help promote their arena tour, they sent one of their dinosaurs to appear on Fuji TV’s morning “Mezamashi TV” show earlier this week. Watch as announcers react with fear: