Cassette Scribblers
via designboom.com
The analogue compact cassette lives on if only as a retro fashion icon. Here cassette sized notebooks housed in a plastic case that makes them look very like the real thing when not being used.
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Gotta Use It Up And Wear It Out
via crenk.com
A design concept by Je Sung Park envisages a laptop case made from pulp and reprocessed materials. Practical or is the waste problem more the bits inside than the shell? Didn't Asus make a wood shelled laptop with easily upgradeable parts a while ago?
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Dreamt the world was full of 2D cut out people on a 3D landscape
All a bit Paddington Bear TV really. Everyone was happy but equally frustrated with the whole 2D status thing (as perhaps one might).
Picture by kathryn_rotondo under this creative commons license
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Digital Boombox
via ubergizmo.com
Do you know I think I only ever owned one boombox/ghettoblaster. I'm sure it was badged as a Ferguson so compared to these retro-digi updates mine was typically dour and understated in a very British way (making a big show of things was just not the Brit way). These updated item however derive their sound from an iPod (which may or may not have cost more than these units) rather than a cassette and include an SD memory card slot and USB input.Oh and they have an AM/FM radio too. Now that is retro.
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Falling from a wall to a glassless bureau and struggling with a shape-shifting phone
Dreamt I was hiding with others in a run down castle. I fell from the wall where I was sitting but unexpectedly landed softly on grass. Opposite me was some kind of advice bureau with no glass in the windows. I took a ticket number and decided to walk into the nearby picturesque town to kill some time. I saw someone across a road sitting on a wall. I needed to call my partner on the phone but my phone kept shape-shifting thus making it almost impossible to call up a number.This situation quickly became one of those 'stuck loop' moments in a dream where I couldn't progress forward.
Original picture by akeg under this creative commons license
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Had the usual anxiety dream filming in a large cathedral only for a change I wasn't anxious...
Though the other dream participants were not coping very well.
Usual huge cathedral. Large distances to traverse. Much juggling of metaphorical plates. Third party point of view (cut away shots?) sometimes but I was very blurred and indistinct like a poorly taken photograph.
A decidedly strange noise woke me up.
Photo by René Ehrhardt under this creative commons license
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Dreamt I controlled all household functions via a rickety old musical keyboard
Answering the door, starting the cooker or turning lights on and off were all triggered from a musical keyboard. Each triggered function was accompanied by the sound of a short intake of breath each one a different musical tone on each key.
The air was full of dust caught in shafts of sun filtered through the gaps in long heavy curtains.
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Woke up with the word 'magpie' imprinted as a persistence of vision image when I blinked
curiouser and curiouser...
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Had another parallel dimensions dream only it all looked more akin to a moving 3D anaglyph
The previous dream had slightly past and future time-lines stacked above and below me like a game of 3D chess. This was all much like those red and green 3D pictures only each colour was delayed slightly during motion which made the whole dream akin to when your voice is fed back to you slightly delayed and you find it hard to speak (oh yeah like everyone's experienced that?Another minority analogy from moi. Mary had a little lamb? No just me then). Anyway it made progress through the dream somewhat challenging.
3D anaglyph by jimf0390 under this creative commons licenseComments [1]
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