This is pretty rad: Los Angeles-based AETHER APPAREL’s refurbished Airstream trailer-turned-mobile-pop-up-shop. Designed by Thierry Gauguin, Philippe Starck’s head of design.
(via NOTCOT)
See also: Earlier Unconsumption posts on refurbished vintage trailers here.
Apple’s new data center to begin storing iCloud information and iTunes Match information. This is serious. (via WWDC 2011 liveblog: Steve Jobs talks iOS 5, OS X Lion, iCloud and more! — Engadget)
This robot can juggle 5 balls better than you can (by ServoJuggler)
Tube map of Microsoft’s Acquisitions and Investments.
Do students eat like prisoners? (via GOOD.is | School Cafeteria Food vs. Prison Food (Raw Image))
Take a look at the video below and focus your eyes on the white dot in the middle of the screen. You’ll notice that the surrounding dots are changing color. Once the dots begin rotating, however, they seem to STOP changing color, but in reality, they’re still changing. (via 2011 Best Illusion of the Year: Silencing Awareness of Change by Background Motion (VIDEO))
Does this Dieter Rahms-designed German transistor radio remind you of anything? It was the inspiration behind the first four generations of iPods, which were designed by Jonathan Ive.
The Crazy Old Gadgets That Presaged the iPod, iPhone and a Whole Lot More
(via jaymug)
U.S. military observers watch the explosion during Operation Crossroads Baker, a nuclear test conducted on Bikini Atoll on July 25, 1946. This was the fifth nuclear explosion ever, after two other tests and the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.(U.S. Department of Defense)
