January 2011Remove Filter

Remember these subtle, distortion free, battery eating, tape chewing, pavement blocking sound machines.

GhettoBlaster Wall

Well Reminisce no more as TDK have just released this beauty...

TDK BoomBox

Out of Molehills

JAN 27, 2011

3D graphics have been possible in Flash for a good few years now thanks to add-on libraries such as Papervision3D but the performance and visual quality of these solutions hasn't generally been up to much.

The next version of Flash Player, codenamed Molehill and due for release in 'the first half of 2011', looks like it's going to provide a massive step up in 3D performance for Flash sites. The main reason for this is that Adobe are finally including a hardware accelerated API in Actionscript that provides direct access to the 3D capabilities of the graphics card in the host computer.

Here's an example of 'Molehill' in action:

Pinteresting Stuff

JAN 26, 2011

To all designers, photographers and lovers of all things arty. Not sure if you are aware but there is a lovely resource for creative out there called Pinterest. Find out more...

localDistance.org

Awesome art pieces based on finding like perspectives in photographs......

Captcha if you can

JAN 19, 2011

Recaptcha Library

If you want to leave a comment on this post, or on many other sites that accepts user input, you'll first have to type in a couple of deformed looking words like this

This is called a reCAPTCHA and it's there to make sure you're human and not some spam-crazed 'bot' looking to fill up our pages with hundreds of adverts for knock-off trainers and hooky medicines.

But by typing in these words you're not only helping to frustrate spammers...

I know we're still in recession but this has to be the most feeble attempt at trying to lure customers in I have ever seen!

Shop Front

HTML5 Gets a face!

JAN 18, 2011

The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has unveiled a new logo for HTML5 - and along with it, a new way of framing the conversation about newer web development technologies.HTML5 Logo

Every designer loves their desktop toys eh! These lovely crafted blocks have to be added to the list. What would make a parent more proud then to see their children playing with these hand screen printed wooden pieces of cool...

 

Eames Blocks One

Transcend the slopes!

JAN 12, 2011

Ok, the snowboarding season is upon us. Our boards are getting waxed ready for a week of piste bashing. Check out these tech specs that come with a inbuilt digital speedo!

Transcend Goggles