Articles in the style Category
What, it wouldn’t be a camera convention without Nikon (and everyone else, for that matter) showing off a basket of new point-and-shoots. We knew what the company was bringing — selections from its “Style” and “Life” series , as well as the P100 superzoom we covered earlier this week — and now we’ve gotten our hands on the L22, S4000, L110, and S8000. There isn’t much to say, frankly — a collection of pocket shooters of various feature sets and various price ranges to cater to various demographics and psychographics. Still, we know you need to get that “fix” when it comes to pictures of gadgets, so let’s get on with it, shall we?
Small flat-dwellers are accustomed to having one object perform two functions (my coffee table also stores bed linen, for example), but I’ve never seen a lamp become a garden. While you can’t grow a crop of tomatoes in Marko Vuckovi ’s Grass Lamp , the grass will flourish under the lamp’s light and remind you the grass is always green—in a country house. [ Yanko Design ]
Ultra-trendy fashion designer Henry Holland held his London Fashion Week show on Saturday, where the BlackBerry-using front row sitters could buy the clothes straight from the catwalk using the House of Holland app. It’s the first time a fashion designer’s allowed their clothes to be purchased from an app during a show—in the UK that is, but in Japan they’ve been doing this kind of thing for a while on their cellphones—with the slogan t-shirts painted with internet acronyms like FFS, CTFO and HML. Don’t ask me to explain what they mean, otherwise I’ll tell you to KMT. Here’s me attempting to blend some knowledge of fashion with slightly more knowledge of tech: maybe “next season” Henry Holland will be offering an augmented reality app where the camera will recognize each “piece” and let you purchase them on the spot with your credit card, using the inevitable Square BlackBerry peripheral? The app is a free download, and available now, where you can still buy the (overpriced) t-shirts for £55 / $85. [ House of Holland BlackBerry App ]
Inject some cool ’50s style into your home’s veins, with the Arne Jacobsen reissue of the AJ wall light. First designed in 1956, it was part of the Louis Poulsen range which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The light yellow green color is a new shade for the lamp, but based on the original colors the Danish designer used. It’s a design classic with its asymmetrical shape and tiltable head, perhaps not as well known as the Anglepoise, but should impress any design buffs. Rather pricey at £357 ($552), sadly.
Slaves were creating mosaic objects thousands of years BC, but I bet they never dreamed of a bathtub covered in glittering photo-luminescent mosaic tiles. In fact, I bet they never even knew what a bathtub was. The tiles come from Italy, and while the bath is a custom job, it wouldn’t be too difficult to superglue them to the side of your porcelain tub, so they soak up the light during the day (better have a window in your bathroom then), and then glow in the evening. It does look like it’ll throw a nice blue glow onto your skin, so it’s an EXTRA-MUST for those with a Na’vi fetish. [ Lucedentro via Trendir via DVICE ] Bad Valentine is our own special take on the beauty—and awkwardness—of geek love
You have to break open an egg to get to the edible goodness—so it makes sense you’d have to take a hammer to an $800 lamp to make it work. Wait, what am I saying? It may look very cool in its “I’m making a statement” type of way, but to spend $800 on a lamp you need to break open in order to make it work is absurd. Only at the MoMA store, obviously. [ MoMA via Technabob ]
So last week the New York Times Magazine published a piece called “Against Camel Case” which argues that intercapped product names like iPhone and TiVo are “medieval,” because they harken back to a time in which people mostly read aloud, slowly sounding out each word as they tried to understand them. Proper word spacing, says the Times , “eventually made possible phenomena like irony, pornography and freedom of conscience.” That’s sort of a crazy coincidence — while we’re not so sure word spacing and porn have anything to do with each other, we did just re-do our style guide when we launched our jazzy new redesign , and we actually thought long and hard about how to handle intercapped, all-capped, and otherwise non-standard product names. This is something we deal with a hundred times a day, and we simply weren’t going to let Motorola tell us to write MILESTONE over and over again, completely contradicting our own sense of style and taste — as the Times says, “Writers of the world, fight back!” Well, we can’t say no to that, so we thought we’d share our four newly-minted rules for writing out non-standard product names: Product and company names that are regular English words shall be treated like proper English nouns, complete with proper capitalization. Example: DROID becomes Droid and nook becomes Nook.
Outside of factory keyboards, there’s hardly anything more boring than a set of PC speakers. They’re typically unsightly, add to the rat’s nest of wires behind your rig and force you into a life of dependency. And then there’s Bowers & Wilkins , a company that excels at pumping out products with lust-worthy designs. Somehow or another, the outfit responsible for the dirigible-inspired iPod sound system has produced a set of standard computer speakers that are actually rather inspiring, as the Zeppelin MM-1 touts no extra subwoofer, a simple USB connection and an inbuilt headphone socket.
There’s really little point to this now, but a solid week after consumers in the US began picking up the Wacom Bamboo multitouch tablet, the outfit has come clean and confessed that it actually approved the production of that very device. Granted, there’s still some merit to the release, particularly since a foursome of new wares are being introduced. The second-generation Bamboo line will initially consist of the Bamboo, Bamboo Fun, Bamboo Pen and Bamboo Touch, some of which (we’ll let you guess) are the company’s first to support multitouch functionality as well as pen input. Prices are said to start at
Some of you were wondering how the homeless charge their cellphones —maybe they do it Chechen-soldier style and created their own wooden, dynamo-powered cellphone charger out in the untamed wilderness. Chechen soldiers devised the charger to keep their cell phones charged. Turning the crank will pull the strings and activate the pulleys. As a result, it generates electricity in the capacitor (the blue thing), thereby charging the phone. You’d probably have to put in a bit of a workout to see any results, but hey, at least it’ll allow you to phone home just like E.T. did

