Missing those rebooting screens of old? No? Me neither, but The Restart Page have recreated several vintage rebooting screens. From the old Apple Mac to Next through to Windows 2000. For the mega geek at heart.
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By Gareth Coxon, 11 Jan 12
Time lapse view of the Aurora Borealis from space
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
This is a stunning video made up of time lapse images taken from the International Space Station shows the Aurora Borealis from space. It’s incredible, so incredible that I originally thought it may be CGI.
By Gareth Coxon, 3 Nov 11
iThermostat – shaking up the home heating world…
So what does the designer of the original iPod do years after shaking up the music world?
Well shake up the home heating world of course!
Tony Fadell and the people at Nest have re-inventioned the humble thermostat. It ‘learns’ your heating habits, what temperature you choose for what time of day and also actively tries to keep your heating costs down. (more…)
By Gareth Coxon, 9 Sep 10
The future of screen technology
Spotted this video over on the SwissMiss blog which shows how stretchable transparent screens, e-ink displays and touch screen technology could be integrated into our lives in the future.
It’s a video produced as a result of TAT’s Open Innovation experiment it shows great potential for these technologies in environments such as the bathroom and also how the office could be more interactive with collaborative screens etc.
All very Minority Report in its ideas and styling but with the recent rise of touchscreen technology maybe this isn’t as far away as we think.