If you have been reading the blog then you know about my obsession with Cassette Tapes, i just can't help it, love them. Now here is another fantastic link for all you retro fanatics like me. :)

SuckUK, a British design company has just introduced a USB memory stick that comes packaged in a cassette tape type boxing. Absoluteley Fantastic!
Make sure you also check out some of their other products ...very cool stuff there.

Mix Tape USB

This is what they say:
Remember back in the days before digital music players and MP3s?
If you do, then you probably made compilations of all your favourite music, to share with your friends and loved ones, on good old fashioned blank cassette tapes.
If you miss making mix tapes this product will inspire you again!

If you recall our post about Cassette tape Nostalgia few months ago...here is something really cool on designboom: cassette tape culture

Extract:
these days it is hard to avoid the continuing debate that surrounds the 'future of music' and the formats that bring it to us. however this so called 'digital age' isn't the first time that new music formats have created such a stir, some time not too long ago it was cassette tapes that were causing the music industry concern.the design of the cassette tape was resolved in the 1960s by the dutch electronics company philips
as a portable alternative to the large vinyl formats...read more

Anymails is a project representing emails as microbes in a graphical form. Very interesting..especially how these emails suddenly develop a life of their own. I just love the way they move and almost interact. It would be even more interesting if suddenly they would evolve or merge...in the form of tasks we undertake after reading emails.

ANYMAILS

About:
Anymails is a visualization of my received emails.
I have investigated how I can use natural metaphors to visualize my inbox, its structure and attributes. The metaphor of microbes is used. My objective is to offer the user another experience of his email world.

The project was developed during the MFA thesis “Natural Metaphor For Information Visuzalization” (thesis.zip, PDF, 7mb) at the Dynamic Media Intitute Boston in 2007.

(via Make)

The favourite toys of the 80's, the Transformers, are making their cinema debut this summer! What a good occasion to revive the toys of the past and give them the update they need for this millenium:

Once they used to be fitted with a cassette player... the logical follow-up for today is the mp3 player (including an SD Card memory slot, headphone jack and audio controls).

It's great to see that all time classics like the transformers can make their revival and will once again fill the shelves in toystores! Some things are too good to be forgotten ;)

I'm sure this will make kids and grown-ups alike very happy :)

you can buy them here...

Continuing in the spirit of Big City Life, here are few photos of the incredible Tokyo Storm Water System.

About:
Brainchild of Japan Institute of Wastewater Engineering Technology (JIWET), this "sci-fi"-like installation consists of "five 32m diameter, 65m deep concrete containment silos, connected by 64 kilometers of tunnels 50 meters deep underground. The system is powered by 14000 horsepower turbines which can pump 200 tons of water a second into a nearby river."

See more pictures here and here

Also check out other Abandoned Tunnels & Vast Underground Spaces at darkroastedblend.com

here's something weird: the iCat is a robotic cat developed by Philips.
In their own words the iCat "interacts with the user in a natural way by understanding spoken requests, giving replies, recognizing faces or everyday objects and by using body language such as facial expressions, nodding and other head movements."

Apart from this electronic pet being no new feature (remembering the Sony Dog years ago), I am missing any real revelations here: it's more or less static, the features strongly remind me of the Wallace & Grommit characters, and the speech sounds like very early computer speak. Ok, it can play tic-tac-toe with you and there appear to be multiple personality options (one smoother, nicer one and one that is more outspoken and direct) but apart from that I see no real pioneering in the field of robotics...

I think it will still be a long time until we can say to our electronic pets: "stay...good boy".

check out a presentation film here...

You are probably living on Mars if you haven't heard of iPhone but we are glad you are reading Allmightys :)
It's been very hard to deter ourselves from posting anything on iPhone because:

1. There has been way too much info on the net, news, papers, everywhere about the iPhone
2. Everyone is f* talking about it!!
3. We don't have one ..as we are Europeans and god knows when it's going to be released here and its gonna cost €A,LOT.00
4. We want it! so better not talk about it and pretend as if we don't care!

But we finally give in ..

So here are three best iPhone links yet:

1. iPhone singalong
2. Europeans and everyone else who hasn't got one, you can get one here - absolutely free
3. .... or iNOPhone

Now back to looking at iPhonegraphy ....”hmm...there must be more reviews out there i haven't read , let me look”. “ ahhhhhhh.....”

Have a great weekend all!!

From Stewart Smith comes this video for Grandaddy's song "Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)".

"Programmed entirely in Applesoft II on a vintage 1979 Apple with 48K of RAM, the music video is a beautifully mesmerizing experiment that reveals the capabilities of this vintage technology. Using a computer so old it only types in all caps and lacks a hard drive, a mouse and even up and down arrow keys, Stewart Smith was able to create an elegant type-based video utilizing code and techniques that today seem ancient."

Being an avid Grandaddy fan myself, I was thrilled to see this video that uses this antique technology in such a simple and beautiful way, capturing and transporting the mood and the essence of the song...

Well done, Stewart!

see the video here...

"Does the idea of leaping out of a spaceship with just a specially-adapted spacesuit and parachute thrill you? Thanks to a group of space scientists, the day you find yourself awaiting the order to jump 120,000 feet above earth could be closer than you think. And it's not just an idea for extreme sports fans, as the two men behind the idea reckon that Space Diving could be used as a safety function for astronauts whose ship has malfunctioned.
Orbital Outfitters, run by Rick Tumlinson and Jonathan Clark, has already started to develop the equipment it thinks is needed to achieve the feat. The 120,000-foot jump is seen as mere baby (space) steps, as Rick and Jonathan are aiming to make the 150-mile survival jump reality. This would involve falling at speeds of over 2,500 mph before a special drogue chute opens to stabilize their descent on entry to the Earth's outer atmosphere.
By the time the jumper reaches our planet's denser atmosphere, he or she will be travelling at more manageable 120mph. Then the conventional chute opens, allowing the brave individual a more-or-less normal landing back on land, and it's back to the bar for a celebratory beer with your friends - that is, if you landed close by where you told them you'd meet up..."

...well, sounds like that gives you a lot of time to think your life over...

(via Gizmodo)

read more here...

There is something really wonderful about images captured by high speed cameras. Capturing a fraction of a moment gives the event a life of its own. Its as though these events co-exist within events we can see with naked eye. We are not talking of any kind of microscopic imagery where any sense of reality is lost. The reason why these are so wonderful is because we understand the event but do not comprehend the complexity of physics that go on. The less we understand the more interesting it becomes?

Check them out here:

(Video) High-Speed Camera Captures Lighter Ignition (via techeblog)
and
(Pictures) High-Speed Camera Captures Milk Droplet Splashing on Coffee (via techeblog)