Floating Puzzle Cars | Chris Labrooy

Auto Aerobics sounds slightly better than Floating Puzzle Cars right? Well thats the title of UK based Chris Labrooy’s digital car sculptures. His project feature a host of cars interlinked and manipulated to create a mind puzzle. He gained his inspiration from wintry walks in Brooklyn i believe.

Playful and mesmerising – you still think they are real dont you..

Money Is Material

Artist <a title=”Mark Wagner Inc.” href=”http://markwagnerinc.com/” target=”_blank”>Mark Wagner</a>’s brings destruction to the dollar bill only to create one of a kind collage pieces that depict the issues that surround money such as distribution of wealth, capitalism and the American identity, titled “Money is Material”.

The intricate detail of every piece is mind blowing and each piece is a visual masterpiece that gives the saying “rebel with a cause” a whole new meaning.

Dre’s Beats Brings Us Wireless

Dre’s Beats have been a sensation since their release in 2008. Recently, I was walking around the airport in Zurich, Switzerland and saw a gentleman around the age of 65 catching up on ’60 Minutes’ with a pair of Studio Beats. I wondered if he actually knew who Dr. Dre was. But that is beside the point.

Beats have released their Studio Wireless edition that connects through Bluetooth technology and allows for a range up to 30 feet from your device. Even better, the headphones are rechargeable so no more buzz kills when it comes to dead batteries. The headphones come with a volume control and a gauge that shows how much battery is left so you know how much time you have before you have to actually listen to the person next you on the plane.

No doubt you are going to pay a bold price for these ($380) but then again, life is too short.

Live a little and noise cancel the world.

Apple Couture

Woah, hold your horses. What with world domination of the consumer electronics sector pretty much bagged with a pretty and colourful bow, it is reckoned that its only a matter of time until Apple, maker of ‘couture computers’ makes the small step and giant leap into the world of luxury apparel and accessories Scott Galloway, founder of L2, said during the digital thing tank’s Ted Talk style conference in NYC last week.

Expecting Apple to expand into product categories such as apparel, handbags, jewellery, watches and even luggage, the clinical professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business is strongly linking the reason behind the recent press release regarding the high profile move of Angela Ahrendts, formerly CEO of Burberry and her move to Senior Vice President of Retail and e-commerce last month, as a ‘giant head fake’ he told Forbes.

Despite Apple saying differently Galloway maintains that ‘There’s abosultely no way a women running the most iconic brand in fashion is going to leave {Burberry, simply] to run Apple’s stores. Ahrendts Burberry direction was, in a nutshell, a huge success making $26m with the fashion house tripling revenues after undergoing a massive brand revival.

When Apple started prowling, Galloway insists “my guess is that the following conversation happened: ‘We’re planning on being the most formidable prestige brand, and we want you to lead that effort,’” which, suitably differs from “the ‘come run our stores’ conversation doesn’t get a second call.” he added.

That Apple want to continue their global domination makes perfect sense and with Ahrendts on board alongside former Yves St. Laurent CEO Paul Deneve as Vice President working on unnamed ‘special projects’ prestige fashion brands should watch this space with baited breath as to the next step of application and fusing of fashion and technology.

Full article here

Intense Self-Guided Wingsuit Video Will Awh

The founder of Tigers Blood Parachute Services, Scotty Bob uploaded this video to YouTube of his first person view of him swooping through the canyons of the Utah valley.

Sliding passed gigantic rocks and trees, this trip would make any normal individual piss their pants. The possibilities of these self guided wings would be Buzz Lightyear’s dream. “To infinity….And BEYOND!”

Put this one up on any IMAX screen and watch the hairs on your neck wake up like Scotty Bob was an espresso for hair follicles.

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