Vinyl wrapped cord, in-line mic, adjustable fit, the LST12 Headphones in Zebra wood are like BEATS but stylish.
Design Wish - NOCS NS2-110US NS2 Air Monitors V2 Bookshelf Speaker
These stylish and top tech AirPlay speakers will give a lift to any study or living room.
Huscarl, Battle of Hastings, 1066
The Soldier's Kit through 1,000 years of English History
Photographer Thomas Atkinson has created this photo series, Soldiers’ Inventories, which documents the military kits of English soldiers, from the Battle of Hastings in 1066 up to today.
Mounted Knight, Siege of Jerusalem, 1244
Fighting Archer, Battle of Agincourt, 1415
Yorkist Man at Arms, Battle of Bosworth, 1485
Trained Band Caliverman, Tilbury, 1588
New Model Army Musketeer, Battle of Naseby, 1645
Private Sentinel, Battle of Malplaquet, 1709
Private Soldier, Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Private Soldier, Rifle Brigade, Battle of the Alma, 1854
Sergeant, Battle of the Somme, 1916
Lance Corporal, Parachute Brigade, Battle of Arnhem, 1944
Royal Marine Commando, Falklands Conflict, 1982
Close Support Sapper, Royal Engineers, Helmand Province, 2014
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Watching Kids Try to Figure Out The Walkman
What a great experiment! And for each of us who feels a bit unsophisticated next the 6 year old who grew up with iDevices, here is a little payback!
World Cup Football Cam from Adidas
Six HD cameras fitted inside a new World Cup adidas ball, called “brazucam,” will show an entirely new angle on the beautiful game as it tours the world, through Spain, Japan, Germany, and Mexico on its way to Brazil.
Adidas will release one film per week on its YouTube channel in the weeks before the World Cup starts. You can also follow @brazuca on Twitter.
Filip Smart Watch for Kids - Design Wish
This little watch, the Filip, is billed as a kid tracker or a smart watch, and it seems a little of both. It also has a very cool Dick Tracey communicator thing going on too. It can place calls to 5 preset numbers and receive texts from a paired iPhone app.
Growing Images with Bacteria
Both a microbiologist and a visual artist, Zachary Copfer has created this innovative scientific technique to grow bacteria in a Petri dish to create an image: ‘Bacteriography‘.
Find him on Kickstarter where he’s trying to raise $8000, so he can bring them out of the lab and into galleries.
3 - Ice Record
Swedish indie rockers Shout Out Louds wanted to make a splash to introduce "Blue Ice," the first single off their upcoming Optica. The worked tiwhTBWA Stockholm, to make a kit that would make a playable record out of ice.
They sent out only 10 kits to fans and press. Fascinating idea.
Here is the full single.
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4 - Hand Crank USB Charger
Yeah, if I had the money, I would send these rechargeable hand-crank USB chargers to everyone I know and care about.
Not only is it clearly an essential for emergencies but with our dependence on our phones and tablets, seems like a basic travel essential. I am pre-ordering mine.
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5 - With Tablets, Remote Kids Learn to Teach Themselves
"Earlier this year, One Laptop Per Child workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”
4 - Tenori On Used to Great Effect by Little Boots
The very interesting tech--instrument, the Tenori On seems like a toy, until in the hands of a talent. Here, for example, is Little Boots making music all on her own. It is so great to see here layer elements on, and hear it come together.
