Interesting Bits

An e-paper design that shows the time in two

different ways in one watch; digitally and with lines.

The wrist band is made of a thin sheet of stainless steel that wraps around your wrist like a bracelet, the e-paper is positioned beneath this band to form the time and information display.

The watch vibrates to give message, mail and call notifications from your cell phone and these will appear on the screen via Bluetooth wireless technology. With this design, the buttons are positioned at the top of the band.

James Bond posters have become one of the most popular items of film memorabilia. Launched to advertise Dr No in 1962, the posters have continued to become extremely popular and successful.

With some of the rarest original posters reaching thousands of pounds, the world of James Bond posters forever continues to astound, aspire and entertain.

The James Bond movie posters have always captured elements that have made the films so successful. Often featuring scantily clad seductive women, exotic locations and devious villains.

via James Bond multimedia | James Bond posters.

Interesting read.

The Secret Origin of Windows A quarter century ago, Windows wasn’t everywhere. In fact, some were doubtful it would ever ship at all. And Tandy Trower was there.

via The Secret Origin of Windows.

I did an interview with the BBC a few weeks back, you can listen to the interview with me (Jon Atherton) here. I think I said um a bit too much

via BBC News – iPhone developers angry as Apple purges adult apps.

The world champion athletes at the Winter Olympics receive gold, silver, and bronze medals that contain roughly the same amounts of metal as the last Summer Olympics.

A gold medal contains 550 grams of silver and is layered with just 6 grams of gold.
A silver medal has 509 grams of silver and about 41 grams of copper.
The bronze medals likely contain about 450 grams of copper and 50 grams of mostly tin and zinc.

At current market prices, a gold medal is exchangeable for about $494, a silver for about $260, and a bronze for just $3. If the gold medal was solid gold with the same mass, it would be exchangeable for almost $20,000.

Via Town for congress

Levi van Veluw´s photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact.

via Levi van Veluw – Official website | Landscapes.

You gotta check out this guys work – it’s pretty amazing! How he does it below…

For example, this one is “Tornado made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss”

My work involves the construction of small-scale meticulously detailed models using various materials and objects to create emotive landscapes. Every aspect from the construction to the lighting of the final model is painstakingly pre-planned using methods which force the viewers perspective when photographed from a specific angle. Using a mixture of photographic techniques such as scale, depth of field, white balance and lighting I am able to drastically alter the appearance of my materials. For images documenting how these works are made see my facebook fan page Matthew Albanese.

via Strange Worlds on the Behance Network.

Very Neat (via Behance Network…)

Wow… Just WOW!

…. but if the basic product isn\'t compelling, adding more features won’t save it. By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product. Put another way, if your product is great, it doesn’t need to be good.

via Paul Buchheit: If your product is Great, it doesn\’t need to be Good..