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November 28th, 2008
New streetlights for NYC
It’s a little hard to tell from this picture but these look like they could pretty.
After half a century of walking their dogs under the same old streetlamps, New Yorkers are ready for a new age of enlightenment. Gotham’s own Office for Visual Interaction won an international competition to design a replacement. Its inspiration: LED headlights. “We took the same idea and made it vertical,” OVI’s Enrique Peiniger says. The new lamppost’s 4-to 6-foot head boasts up to 100 LEDs with multiple lenses that can be configured to dial in specific lighting “footprints” of uniform brightness. For New York, the coverage patterns will be tailored for three distinct situations–park, street corner, and mid-block.
How many workers will it take to change the bulbs? A lot fewer. LEDs last twice as long as the current high—pressure sodium bulbs. Oh, and they burn 30 percent less energy. Plus, the fixture’s modular design makes it easy to swap out chips as LED technology improves. OVI is putting the finishing touches on its prototypes, and if tests go well next year, the lamps will soon start lighting up the city that never sleeps.
November 27th, 2008
Japanese gizmo site
Where you can find things like this:
Poking Box
Tuttuki Bako translated directly from Japanese means: Poking Box. As you are poking the box, your finger nudges the digital character. It reacts appropriately.Enjoy.
(Gizmine)
November 22nd, 2008
New Burger King campaign
Burger King is apparently leaving wallets around certain cities with some goodies inside.
Yep, the wallets include notes telling the individuals who find them to go ahead and keep the wallets. Time Out Chicago reported on November 12th that Burger King planned to drop 5,000 of these wallets around urban hot spots in Chicago. A handful of bloggers have found some of these wallets, and are reporting that they contain actual cash, ranging from a $1 bill to a $100 bill, a gift card to Burger King, a “Drivers License” featuring The King, and a map of Chicago or Orlando area Burger King’s.
Perhaps just making decent food would work better, though.
November 21st, 2008
Ray Loewy bathroom
Ray Loewy’s (considered by many to be the father of Industrial Design as we know it) bathroom, c. 1949.
About 60 years ahead of his time.
November 21st, 2008
The story behind the Obama campaign logo
The New York Times did a great piece with the designer of the now-ubiquitous Obama campaign “O” logo.
In other Obama-design related news, I just scored me a HOPE poster. Woo!
November 21st, 2008
Ooops.
“this blog is awesome. sweet
don’t drink and blog. blog. BLOG. blaaaaaaaaaaaahg
you can delete this probably.”
So apparently I got drunk last night and wrote the above post — go me! So, to apologize (a little bit to readers, but mostly to my fellow 50ft. staffers) I’ve gotta do some real posting! First up? Awesome lamps!
