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The popular Japanese social commerce recycle shop and website Pass The Baton has come up with another great concept of turning the old and used into design desirables. The new idea will see the staff uniforms from Tokyo’s popular cafe Soup Stock, recycled as new t-shirts featuring exclusive designs.
Both Soup Stock and Pass the Baton are the brain child of the Masamichi Toyama, who also runs the neck tie clothes range Giraffe. Pass the Baton works as a kind of vintage flea market, where members can sell there items which they have become attached to but no longer need, putting a note with a story of why they loved the product being sold. Mostly a social web commerce site they also have two stores in the fashionable districts of Omotesando and Marunouchi (both designed by Wonderwall’s Masamichi Katayama).
Toyama is well known for his design and artistic flair having designed all 35 of the Soup Stock cafe interiors himself. The t-shirts, which would normally go to waste as used items, have been redesigned and given a new lease of life by designer Tetsuya Chihara, who has worked on a number of fashion designs in the past. There are 4 different designs to choose form including “Tokyo Borscht”, my personal favourite t-shirt name!
The idea of taking iconic old uniforms and redesigning them into limited edition items is a great idea. This could easily be expanded into other areas such as the delivery companies uniforms or convenience store shirts. Collaborating with famous designers this wouldn’t just be a nice bit of CSR for the companies but actually a decent source of revenue from what would normally just go to waste.
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An Apple patent for a “3D imaging and display system” staggers out into daylight after seven years buried in the USPTO. Its eyes steadily adjust to the brightness of a Kinect-dominated world and its heart sinks. But then a random guy approaches and says,
“Hey little patent, what’s wrong?”
“I’m obsolete,” comes the sullen reply. “I’m all about detecting user movements in three dimensions, but the competition has that covered. Sure, people might *think* I’ve patented some kind of wild holographic virtual reality stuff too, but my paperwork only mentions that in the vaguest possible terms. There’s no way I can threaten Microsoft.”
“Nonsense!” cries the guy. “Follow me. I know a judge in Düsseldorf.”
Apple ‘3D imaging and display’ patent was cutting edge in 2005 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
We’ve been hearing about Qualcomm‘s next generation of 2.5GHz processors for a few months now, but the company’s quad-core future has now become a little bit clearer. Speaking at the Innovation Qualcomm event in Istanbul yesterday, Senior Vice President of Product Management Cristiano Amon confirmed that the chipmaker’s S4 line of silicon will be shipped to manufacturers by the end of this year and should appear in consumer products by the beginning of 2012. Available in single-, dual- or quad-core models, the new, 28nm additions to the Snapdragon family will also support Adreno graphics, 3D and 1080p HD, in addition to 3G and LTE connectivity. If all goes according to schedule, then, we could see a slate of S4-equipped handsets at next year’s Mobile World Congress in February, though we’ll try to contain our excitement until we get a more specific launch date.
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon roadmap, 2.5GHz CPUs coming early next year originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The last time we reviewed the Envy 14, we concluded, by and large, that HP got it right. The company succeeded in delivering good performance and graphics punch, all while correcting a teensy overheating problem and adding an optical drive and backlit keyboard. Then there was that rock-solid, engraved metal chassis that made it one of the most attractive notebooks on the market — a distinction it still holds to this day. So as you can imagine, when HP refreshed the Envy 14 this summer, there wasn’t exactly a lot to improve. What we have here is a nearly identical machine, with the same stunning design — not to mention, $1,000 starting price. Now, though, HP is selling it with Sandy Bridge processors and USB 3.0 — the kind of tweaks laptop makers have been rolling out for the better part of this year.
Normally, that kind of speed bump wouldn’t warrant us re-reviewing a laptop. In fact, we probably wouldn’t be revisiting the Envy 14 if it weren’t for two things. For starters, we’ve received an unusual number of emails, tweets and comments from readers, imploring us to weigh in on the Sandy Bridge version before they pull the trigger. Secondly, in addition to that processor swap, HP has fine-tuned the touchpad drivers, and assures us the trackpad isn’t the flaky mess it was the last two times around. So how much better is the Envy 14 in the year two thousand and eleven? Let’s find out.
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HP Envy 14 review (2011) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Today, we’ve got a pair of Canon point-and-shoots to show you. The S100 is the successor to the highly regarded S95, while the SX40 HS takes on the super-zoom market with its 35x lens. Both cameras use the company’s new DIGIC 5 image processor, which brings high-speed burst shooting and 1080p video to the party. The S100 features improved low-light performance thanks to its f/2.0 lens and new, larger 12.1 megapixel CMOS censor (gone is the CCD of yore). It also has a GPS receiver for embedding location data in your photos. The SX40, more or less, slaps the new processor and sensor into last year’s somewhat disappointing SX30 IS. Hopefully, those internal upgrades will solve some of the SX line’s problems with image quality and noise. Both cameras will cost $430, with the S100 set to ship in early November and the SX 40 HS in late September. Check out the gallery below as well as the PR after the break.
Gallery: Canon PowerShot S100 and SX40
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Canon unveils PowerShot S100 and SX40 HS high-end point-and-shoots originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung Transform Ultra hitting Boost Mobile in October, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Web Browser Wednesday
Secure and safe Web browsing is undoubtedly hard to come by these days. We’ve introduced two great pieces of software that will help keep your browsing safe, and we have yet another. About two-weeks ago Ashley wrote about a nifty little program called BufferZone that prevented things you downloaded from leaving the “buffer zone.” We have also done another post about using Tor-enabled browsers to ensure your anonymity while on the Internet. Both of those solutions are really great…and now we have one that is kinda a cross between the two!
Meet LivePC by moka5! It is a great concept that I am sure will continue to become more popular. LivePC utilizes VMware Player so that you can run a virtual PC on your existing operating system without needing to find, download, and configure a bunch of things. This means you can do a lot more with your Windows machine in just a few clicks!
There is a “Garage” for the LivePC’s that people have uploaded and already configured for you. There is everything from a Kid Safe Desktop all the way to a Fearless Browser. Heck, you can even try out the OS that is shipping on the computers for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
What we want to focus on today is the Fearless Browser LivePC. It has several great features to make your Web browsing safer, more secure, and anonymous:
The Fearless Browser is not restricted to just a Web browser, but also includes a mail client and an instant messenger. So how long will it take you to download this? Well, the download for the actual application is 30MB and then if you’re wanting to download the Fearless Browser, that will be an additional 100MB. However, the initial download for Fearless Browser is only about 4KB because the LivePC will download it when you actually want to use it. This is all done from the application’s main control panel:
Once it finishes downloading you’ll be able to start doing all of the things you love to do the most on the Internet, but a lot safer! Here is a screenshot of what it looked like after I had it up and running:
Even though this is running Linux you can’t actually access any of the Control Panel options or anything that you might be used to. They have really locked it down so that it is both secure and small. I had no problems getting this running since VMware does a great job of integrating the virtual PC with your current operating system, so my experience with using the Fearless Browser was remarkable.
There is also another instance where this could be extremely useful. Think about those people who aren’t very familiar with PC’s and all they want to do is browse the Internet and chat with friends. This is perfect for them because it has everything built-in that they would be using on the Internet…and you won’t have to worry about them getting infected with a virus or spyware.
My only complaint with it is that it still has Firefox 1.5.0.7 installed, and I think Firefox 2 would be much better and even more secure. Since it is so locked down I haven’t found a way to be able to update it, but from the looks of it they do a good job of keeping it updated.
Live PC Homepage
Fearless Browser Homepage
Thanks for the tip Pasch!
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There’s been a fair amount of news on the Photovine front recently — none of it particularly flattering for Google, or its now shuttered Slide branch. But users of the mobile app-based photo service can now continue sharing their pics using Piictu — a slightly different, yet remarkably similar service that launched well before its Google counterpart. What initially began as a fun side project for co-founder Jon Slimak, Piictu has apparently gained quite a following, prompting its creators to add some polish to the service and push it out of beta. We’re not quite sure what to expect for its future, but Google’s involvement with its Piictu competitor appears to have helped the original service gain some traction, despite its indy status. Jump past the break for the announcement from Piictu, or hit up our source link to download the iOS app.
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Piictu survives Google’s Photovine, launches out of public beta originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Back in July, after announcing it would decouple unlimited movie streaming from unlimited DVD rentals and charge more to keep both, Netflix predicted it would end up with 25 million subscribers at the end of Q3. This morning it advised investors that prediction has been slashed by 1 million, however most of that shortfall is predicted to come from fewer DVD-only customers than expected, which is expected to come up 800,000 short. While we’ll still have to wait for the actual Q3 results to see how things pan out, the company still claims its projection of 12 million subscribers to both services is right on. While it backtracked on the total numbers, it also outlined its reasoning for raising prices by improving the DVD business, raising more cash to spend on streaming licensing and ultimately “remain price aggressive” and keep its individual offerings at $7.99 each. Much of the kicking and screaming online indicted Netflix’s streaming library for failing to live up to the new price, anyone surprised many cutters seem to be coming from the DVD-only side?
Netflix admits it will end up with fewer subscribers than predicted, shrinks DVD-only count originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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