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April 02, 2004
UXA Vandals
Sneakers

Those rad skater designers at UXA have created a dozen of these crazy custom bear hugging Nike Vandals. Check out their site for some fresh T-shirt designs as well
Available exclusively at:
Dave's Quality Meats
7 East 3rd Street
Manhattan
212-505-7551
**though for 4 more days you can bid on a size 10 pair on ebay
via Beinghunted
April 01, 2004
Puma Irie + Fass
Sneakers


Puma is sponsoring the Jamaican relay team at this Summer's Olympic games. Inspired by these runners comes a new line of sneakers and track suits. The Irie (left) and Fass (right) are definitely the best of the lot.
more at the puma store
March 30, 2004
Newsmap
Design

Marcos Weskamp has completed his most recent project, Newsmap-- the most impressive news headline visualization software I have ever seen. Many designers have attempted to create new formats for communicating recency, relevance and volume for news headlines, and the results have often been pretty. Newsmap is visually stunning, but it goes a step further than the others by being useful and usable as well. Newsmap content comes from a live Google News feed, so you know it's accurate. The visualization includes horizontal, color coded bands for categories and larger font sizes to indicate the number of related stories. This treatment not only illustrates the hottest topics of the moment, it also reveals underlying patterns in news reporting.
Thanks, Kent!
March 28, 2004
NEC Resonantware
Future

NEC is sharing some of their 'near future' concept work. The Resonantware collection includes a flexible cell phone, a dual screen laptop, various storage concepts, a personal area networking pen and a 360 degree video communication device. Some of these concepts are more far fetched than others, but all are somewhat thought provoking.
Tim Bavington
Art

The latest series from Vegas based artist, Tim Bavington, is up at Mark Moore. Bavington's luscious air brushed stripes are said to be derived from rock and roll guitar riffs-- as such, they are an abstracted data visualization. Rockin-techno-fab!
Adidas Decade RFL
Sneakers

What says Spring better than slime green and reflective white kicks? These Adidas Decade RFLs are the perfect transition from the cold and gray to the warm and blooming.
$69 at coolestshop.com. While you're there be sure to check out their entire collection of fab sneakers.
March 26, 2004
House of Ingri
Street Wear

Ingri turns glum into cute-- in the form of vinyl plush dolls. They are produced by hand taking about 3 hours each, which renders them pretty limited edition. All of the designs on her site, as well as some new ones are available exclusively at Koimarket in Brooklyn.
Koimarket and Gallery
125 Havemeyer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
koimarket@aol.com
Upoc's New BREW Application
Mobility

Upoc is now available on Verizon's Get It Now! BREW service. You can download the application to have a full featured interface to all the Upoc messaging services.
What's Upoc? It's an easy-to-use wireless service connecting you to your friends, your interests, the world - whenever and wherever. With Upoc, your mobile phone is more than a phone. You can use it to send text, picture and voice messages to groups and individuals, and you can get up-to-the-second information on the events, places, and people you're interested in.
Carb Calculator
Devices

The Robi Nutritional Calculator is a device dedicated to helping you count calories, fat, protein and of course, carbs. I'm all for health and nutrition, but the low carb fad is getting a bit out of control. We all love carbs... admit it! Buy a T-shirt to tell the world.
via carbwire
March 25, 2004
Lazy Afternoon
T-Shirts

Lazy Afternoon is a Sydney based T-shirt maker with fresh, fab designs. All their products are hand made, sweatshop free and printed on Australian cotton.
Digimood PED concept
Future

The Digimood PED (which stands for Personal Emotion Digitizer) concept is kind of like a digital mood ring. Worn on the wrist, it reads the owner's mood, changes color and shows words on the display. The concept intends for all communicators to have a device. Though I also think the PED can be removed from its bracelet and given to a loved one so they always know how you're feeling.