Whether dangling from a push pin or suspended on a wire these tiny PhotoHangers, designed by +d’s Juuta Kan, are a preciously different way to display your favorite snapshots. They’re also good for postcards, notes, and, well, anything that’ll fit in them, really.
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(Via core77.com’s design blog.)

Sloshing Cellphones Reveal Their Contents: “holy_calamity writes ‘UK researchers have developed software that represents a handset’s battery life by using a phone’s speaker and vibrator to make a device feel and sound like it contains liquid. You give it a shake to find out how much is left. The same technique can be used to […]

The 110 Million Dollar Button: “Reservoir Hill writes ‘The ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button on Google’s search page may cost the company up to $110 million in lost ad revenue every year according to a report on American Public Media’s Marketplace. Tom Chavez says that since the company makes money selling ads on its search results […]

One of the first lessons in Entrepreneurship 101 is to find an underserved market and serve it, and that’s just what BreakAway Games and Quirkat have done with their Arabian Lords PC video game.
Inspired by the rise of Islam between the 7th and 13th centuries, Arabian Lords is a bilingual strategy game targeted specifically at […]

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