Photo: Genaro Alva. With the goal of recovering the historical center of Peru’s capital city, a group of organizations put together an event called Gran Semana de Lima or Lima’s Great Week, which aimed to create new life in the streets. Among other activities, there was a contest for urban interventions and one of the winners was this amazing project called Green Invasion by architects Genaro Alva, Denise Ampuero, Gloria Andrea Rojas and industrial designer Claudia Ampuero…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Nexus S for T-Mobile gets brief Best Buy Mobile nod: there and gone again
November 11, 2010 No Comment
Well, this was rather unexpected. Earlier today, Best Buy Mobile published a humble (if not incomplete) ad for the “Nexus S for T-Mobile ,” touting both its “pure Google” experience (i.e. vanilla Android) and holiday availability exclusively from Best Buy. It’s gone now, saved only by the grace of Google cache. To be honest, all we can do is speculate beyond that. An anonymous tipster to RadioAndroid pegged the Nexus S name late last month and claimed it would feature Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, and a Hummingbird processor. TechCrunch later described a Samsung-borne “Nexus Two” that has since been delayed due to some serious hardware issue. Is this a placeholder from the online devs? Does / did the S stand for Samsung, or something else entirely? And most importantly, is this presumed follow-up to Nexus One actually coming out, or did you just get your hopes up for nothing? Nexus S for T-Mobile gets brief Best Buy Mobile nod: there and gone again originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Does the time you spend at work away from your e-reader leave you crippled with the E Ink shakes? Well the good news is that Seiko’s gorgeous atomic clock-syncing ‘active matrix’ E Ink watch we covered a while back is now available for pre-order via Amazon Japan. The bad news is that it’s priced at ￥84,000 (on sale) — which equates to roughly $1,022 based on current exchange rates. That’s about five times more than Phosphor’s latest 24 hour time zone mastering E Ink watch , or nearly enough cheddar to a buy one of Amazon’s latest Kindles for everyday of the work week. Really, though, the price isn’t too surprising coming from a respected watch company like Seiko, especially when you take into account its schmancy 180 degree viewing angle, geek-chic looks, and radio-controlled movement. Don’t be misled by the ‘active matrix’ terminology however, because a matching leather trench coat isn’t part of this deal. [Thanks, P-A] Seiko’s ‘active matrix’ E Ink watch now up for pre-order originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Comedienne and actress Tina Fey on Tuesday thanked former Alaska governor Sarah Palin as she accepted this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. According to the Washington Post, she then mocked conservative women “first to nervous laughter and then to not much laughter at all”: read more
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When they’re not too busy building creepy little humanoids or lizard-like sand swimmers , researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology like to concern themselves with helping make healthcare easier. To that end, they’ve constructed the Cody robot you see above, which has recently been demonstrated successfully wiping away “debris” from a human subject. The goal is simple enough to understand — aiding the elderly and infirm in keeping up their personal hygiene — but we’d still struggle to hand over responsibility for granny’s care to an autonomous machine equipped with a camera and laser in the place where a head might, or ought to, be. See Cody cleaning up its designer’s extremities after the break. Continue reading Robo-nurse gives gentle bed baths, keeps its laser eye on you (video) Robo-nurse gives gentle bed baths, keeps its laser eye on you (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Image source: Livedoorbiz Ever since Archigram presented the Suitaloon in 1968, (shown below fold), ideas have been put forward for minimalist shelters that one can carry on their back. This looks like just about the simplest one yet- a poncho designed to turn into a tent, from a Japanese source via Geekologie . … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Just a few weeks ago, we got word (by way of a few Tweets) that Jolicloud was seemingly — if the images were any indication — in the final stages of developing a netbook of its own . Well, we’ve just gotten some official news on just that topic. The Jolibook, as it’s going to be known, is of mostly unknown specifications at this point, but here’s what we do know: the Jolicloud 1.1-powered laptop will boast an Atom N550 CPU, and a 250GB hard drive. Jolicloud also says that the netbook’s display will boast a “gorgeous” screen and an affordable price. Sadly, that’s all we know for now, though the company is promising that all this is going down this month, so we’re going to keep our eyes peeled for you. Jolibook is the official netbook of Jolicloud, coming this month? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Just in time for Christmas, Hanukkah, and a variety of other religious holidays : Just in time for the holiday season, Americans are about to be hit with a spate of advertisements promoting the joy and wisdom of atheism. Four separate and competing national organizations representing various streams of atheists, humanists and freethinkers will soon be spreading their gospel through advertisements on billboards, buses and trains, and in newspapers and magazines. The latest, announced on Tuesday in Washington, is the first to include spots on television and cable. This campaign juxtaposes particularly primitive — even barbaric — passages from the Bible and the Koran with quotations from nonbelievers and humanists like Albert Einstein and Katharine Hepburn. The godless groups say they are mounting this surge because they are aware that they have a large, untapped army of potential troops. The percentage of American adults who say they have no religion has doubled in the last two decades, to 15 percent, according to the American Religious Identification Survey, conducted by researchers at Trinity College in Hartford and released in 2008. But the ranks of the various atheist organizations number only in the tens of thousands. That is one reason for the multiple campaigns: the groups are competing with one another to gain market share, said Mark Silk, founding director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, which is also at Trinity College. “There’s a competitive environment for ‘no religion,’ and they’re grabbing for all the constituents they can get,” Mr. Silk said. If you don’t believe in anything aren’t you already part of their group? Well, not if you’re not paying dues to their organizations. THAT they believe in. Atheists are starting to become their own cult.
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South Korean labour and civic groups joined with international activists on Thursday to stage protests against the ongoing G-20 summit in Seoul. (Seoul, 11 Nov)
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