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“WirePod is a grey power pod that begins with a wall plug and branches out into four curled arms, each ending in a three-prong socket. The pod rolls and unfurls as needed to accommodate different functional requirements.” Being a person who’s annoyed by all the wires lying around his house (I suspect I am not alone) this is a nover approach. It’s a bit telling that all product shots I’ve seen so far have noting plugged into the device itself though. That would make for an aesthetically less pleasing image, right?
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A fascinating indie MMOG, with a focus on social colaborative play, and procedurally generated environments and characters. Via Bart.
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“superDraw is a platform for visual expression using drawing. At the most basic level it is a simple line drawing program. The aim is to give the artist super powers by enabling them to do things impossible with pen and paper while retaining the basic idea of a drawing interface. superDraw explores the idea of storing animation within a single line. The artist has complete control of all aspects of the line and it’s visual representation.” The web version alone is lots of fun to play with.
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Getting Scott McCloud to make a comic that explains your product? Smart move. (Although parts of this were, quite frankly, a little boring.) For me, the most notable bit was that they’ve put Quicksilver into the address bar. That’s cool.
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Looks like I’ll be able to have an Availabot on my desk soon. Yay!
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Another Stamen visualisation has gone live and as usual, it rocks. Some interesting changes from previous work, though: “We’ve historically shied away from doing work that’s overly predictive and analytical, preferring to focus on the lyrical and metaphorical aspects of visualization. This is the first time you can make a decision based on something we’ve built, and I’m glad we seem to have crossed that barrier without fretting too much about it.” I am particularly interested in the thinking that went into the predictive part — future data does not look that different from past data. Deliberately so?