80′s Electronica – the epitome of euphoric synth pop

As far as I’m aware this was never released. It’s a 12″ from brother and sister Sophie and Peter Johnston’s wonderfully optimistic and passionate debut and only album. This is the B2 remix (why were the best mixes always the 2nd track on the B side?) and to my mind is the most innocent, uninhibited bit of euphoric 80′s synth pop. Love it.

Sophie and Peter Johnston – Sold On You (dance remix)


Sophie and Peter Johnston – Sold On You (dance remix)

Tron Legacy online cartoon strip

I really like the way this free sample of the Tron Legacy online cartoon strip has been put together. It’d look lovely on the iPad (and it will work on that platform as it’s built in HTML5 and not Flash). Check out the cool interaction over at http://disneydigitalbooks.go.com/tron/

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See through monitor screen [video]

A definite highlight from CES this year is Samsung’s new see-through LCD monitor screen – Smart Window. Total Recall & Minority Report here we come!

What is The Internet of Things?

Here’s a really good video from IBM answering the question: What is The Internet of Things? It serves to remind us of how transient our current grasp on technology is, and how close we are to a type of Skynet reality!

PR stunt/celebrity endorsement of the year

Digital Trends in 2012

I know – you are probably as fed up as I am with people saying stupid things like “it’ll be the year of mobile” (it will be honest!) but here is my favourite of the bunch as it is by far the most useful resource from a strategic planning point of view (IMHO).

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Hover Scalextric!

JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Here is a short footage on our recent work on quantum levitation. We were inspired by the game Wipe’out to do our work. With this new technology, we hope to revolutionize the world of motor transport; Maybe in a near future we could assist to a real Wipe’out race.

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Brighton Panoramas

All from brightonsarchitecture.com

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Inside Out: awesome HD mountain biking [video]

From the Inside Out Trailer from SecondBase Films on Vimeo.

Konstantin’s cable & Google’s tethered space station

Konstantin's cable & Google's tethered space station
NASA artists impression of Konstantin’s cable

Surprisingly it was not a science fiction writer who came up with the idea of tethering a space station at a point on the equator via a hugely long cable, but a Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895. A real stretch for anyone’s imagination the idea has lasted, and thankfully now has some serious backing thanks to Google.

Google has always encouraged it’s great minds to spend plenty of time on innovation (20% of their paid working week in fact). Now it has been discovered that Google have a secret innovative laboratory called Google X where ideas like the tethered space platform get progressed. Read more »

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