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Concept: DJ on the go with this turntable PMP

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Touchtable, designed by Thomas Mascall.

This concept portable media player prominently features a controller wheel that works just like a turnable.  “It’s even sensitive to touch and pressure and when you use it in combo with the surrounding function buttons, it facilitates absolute user control over a track, through precise position, timing and pitch manipulation.”  Not only can you manipulate your favorite songs on the go but you can also attach it to your computer as a MIDI device and create tracks of your own.  Oh, to live in a “concept” world.

[Via Engadget; Yanko Design]

Nokia unveils a revamped Symbian user interface

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Nokia, Nokia, Nokia.  My first phone was a Nokia.  Granted, it was what they now call a “dumbphone.”  It made calls and sent texts on a colorless screen.  Ever since then I haven’t been a big supporter of the cell phone manufacturer.  Though their modern devices are very sleek and quite beautiful, their user interface is very clunky and not very intuitive.  Think of it as anti-iPhone OS, if you will.  It takes many clicks to get to a simple destination, etc.

This past week Nokia surprised us with a peek into their future user interface that promises to be three times faster than current Nokia Symbian OS devices and much more user friendly.  In fact, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo calls the new experience “magical.”  Nokia just might be able to pull this off because they finally understand that their problem lies in the user interface, not the Symbian OS.  Skeptics might advise Nokia to start from scratch but this would be wasteful; the Symbian OS structure has good intentions, it’s just been the way it relays information via the complicated no good user interface that has had users frustrated.

In addition to this major software upgrade coming sometime next year, Nokia also promises new devices with multitouch support on “large capacitive displays.”

Check out the gallery below for some screenshots of the new UI and be sure to look after the break for a video of the announcement and a simulated guided tour.

[Via Engadget]

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Museum of Modern Art features Tim Burton artwork

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You’ve seen the video that takes you inside Tim Burton’s brilliantly creative mind.  Now here’s the artwork he was talking about.  The Museum of Modern Art will be featuring a Tim Burton exhibit from now until April 26.  If you’re in the NYC area you should definitely check it out.  If you can’t make it, be sure to look in the gallery below to see what you’re missing; it includes over 40 Burton pieces!

[Via KanyeBlog]

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A skyscraper called Aqua

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Aqua Tower, designed by Studio Gang.  Located in Chicago.

The design was inspired by the striated limestone outcroppings common in the Great Lakes area. But this sinuous shape is not just a mere formal gesture, but it is also a strategy to extend the views and maximize solar shading.

– 82-story mixed-use residential tower (819 ft, 250 m tall):
– 215 hotels rooms (floors 1-18)
– 476 rental residential units (floors 19-52)
– 263 condominium units & Penthouses (floors 53-80)
– 55,000 square feet (5,100 m2) of retail and office space
– 6 levels of underground parking
– 8-story base (140,000 sqf, 13,000m2) with a a 82,550 sq ft (7,669 m2) terrace with gardens, gazebos, pools, hot tubs, a walking/running track and fire pit

[Via Gizmodo; Arch Daily]

360 degrees fireplace warms every angle

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TURN fireplace, designed by Schweiger & Viererbl.

TURN is the answer for open living. This fireplace can be rotated round 360 degrees and can also be locked in position at set increments. The cosy view of the fire can now be enjoyed from every conceivable angle. This means that fireplace planning is no longer tied to the living room environment and offers the desired scope for change. In its form, the horizontally located fireplace communicates the lightness of the free-floating fire. The requirement for heat takes centre stage. TURN is always involved.

[Via Gizmodo; Conmoto]

First official Iron Man 2 poster

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BOOM.

The trailer is likely to hit theatres (and presumably the interwebs) sometime this month.  For now, be sure to check out some leaked stills from the movie below.  Images include Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Pots, and Don Cheadle as Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes/War Machine.

[Via IGN]

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Door with a simple, elegant design hides “complex machinery” within

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Created by Matharoo Associates (for a diamond merchant in India).

…the door is a whopping 17 feet high and five-and-a-half feet wide, and comprises 40 sections of Burmese teak, each of them nearly a foot thick. Each section revolves around some pretty complex machinery: The door’s single pivot hides a counterweight, 80 ball bearings, and 160 pulleys.  But they all work together invisibly. Push on any one plank, and all 40 sections reconfigure themselves into a sinusoidal curve, revealing an opening into the house.

That’s just freakin’ awesome.

[Via Gizmodo; Fast Company]