Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Air2 Wireless Speaker
The
Air2 (Air Squared) floating Bluetooth speaker from Axxess CE is displayed at
CES Unveiled, the opening event for the media preview days at the 2015 Consumer
Electronics Show, January 4, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The speaker which
levitates over its own base is one of the winners for the CES Innovation Awards
and is patent pending. 2015 International CES, the world's largest showcase for
the latest in consumer electronics, runs on January 6-9.
Friday, December 5, 2014
Coldplay Working on 'Final' Album, 'A Head Full of Dreams,' Says Chris Martin
Coldplay is at work on their seventh studio album, frontman
Chris Martin revealed Thursday, and it will likely be their last.
Choose Your Own Adventure in Coldplay's Interactive 'Ink'
Video
The set is tentatively called A Head Full of Dreams, Martin
said on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe, celebrating the band's Ghost Stories track
"Magic" being named the "hottest record of the year."
"It's our seventh thing, and the way we look at it,
it's like the last Harry Potter book or something like that," Martin said.
"Not to say that there might not be another thing one day, but this is the
completion of something."
Watch Coldplay's WWI-Era 'All Your Friends' Video
He added, "I have to think of it as the final thing
we're doing. Otherwise we wouldn't put everything into it."
Martin also said the band will tour after the album's
release, something they did not do for Ghost Stories.
Listen to the full interview below, Martin speaks of the new
record around the 3:15 mark:
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
First glowing Van Gogh-Roosegaarde bicycle path in the world
The new Van Gogh-Roosegaarde bicycle path is made of
thousands glowing stones inspired by 'Starry Night'. It charges at daytime and
gives light at night. The path combines innovation with cultural heritage in
the city of Nuenen NL, the place where Van Gogh lived in 1883.
This is the second Smart Highway Project which are
interactive and sustainable roads of tomorrow by designer Daan Roosegaarde and
Heijmans Infrastructure. The goal is to make smart roads by using light, energy
and road signs that interact with the traffic situation.
As we reported last week, another Dutch town, Krommenie,
installed solar panels on a bike commuter path outside Amsterdam. The power
generated by the panels will be funneled into the national energy grid
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL LIGHT 2014
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The NYFOL is a non-profit art group whose vision is to
create and provide a unique and delightful experience for residents and
tourists; enhancing NYC’s architecture through interactive, static and
projected lighting installations. The experience will be free and open to all
ages.
Dates & Times
Thursday November 6th: 7pm-11pm
Friday November 7th: 5pm – 11pm
Saturday November 8th: 5pm – 11pm
Location: Archway under the Manhattan Bridge and Pearl
Street Triangle (Pearl & Water St)
Thursday, October 23, 2014
The Meatball Shop
The Meatball Shop in NYC, just opened in the heart of the
party district on the Lower East Side.
With a 40-minute wait on a Sunday night, the feeding at
The Meatball Shop, a neo-retro Lower East Sider dressed in vintage photos and
meat-grinder parts, is so frenzied it feels Pavlovian. Say “meatball” in this
town, and everyone’s inner child comes out noshing.
The Meatball Shop in NYC, just opened in the heart of the
party district on the Lower East Side.
This meatball
specialist on the Lower East Side offers the signature fare in a half-dozen
flavors and all sorts of permutations: with one of four sauces in a bowl, on
variously sized sandwiches, over pasta or even over a side of vegetables or
salad. Best is the spicy pork with the spicy meat sauce or the mushroom-rich
vegetable ball with the mushroom gravy. A homemade ice cream sandwich for
dessert might be an even better reason to stop in, though
84 Stanton
Street (Allen Street), Lower East Side, (212) 982-8895,
If you're into
the brioche, a more substantial option is the Smash—two meatballs of your
choice, with sauce and cheese (either provolone or mozzarella from
Connecticut's Calabro). It's a big, filling sandwich for $8, though by the time
it hits your table—more than 40 minutes, in our case, on a weekday
afternoon—the sauces have already started to soak into the brioche bun, and
three minutes later, that bottom half may have liquified entirely. Your better
bet?
Any of the six
meatballs can be ordered in their purest form—four balls to a dish, smothered
in sauce, served with a slice of focaccia ($7). Of the six options on offer,
the classic beef, spicy pork, and chicken are your best bets.
As good-looking
as it is cosmetically predictable, The Meatball Shop has already attracted
crowds both daytime and night, and it's been written up in New York, Time Out,
and twice in the Times—but not a single one of those writeups told how the
meatballs actually, well, tasted.
From one red wall stares down a family of
photos—black-and-white portraits of mustached and bouffant-ed individuals who
could be someone's Italian great-grandparents. All those hard surfaces (plus a
lively bar) make for one mighty din, even at mid-afternoon on a weekday.
When you've had
your fill of meatballs, there's a short and equally customizable dessert
list—cookies, ice cream, and the two stuck together. On either side of a scoop
of salty, creamy caramel ice cream—an almost-as-delicious version of Otto's
salted caramel, and that's high praise indeed—they made for one of the best ice
cream sandwiches ($4) we've had in recent memory.
With a 40-minute wait on a Sunday night, the feeding at
The Meatball Shop, a neo-retro Lower East Sider dressed in vintage photos and
meat-grinder parts, is so frenzied it feels Pavlovian. Say “meatball” in this
town, and everyone’s inner child comes out noshing.
It’s particularly zingy bathed in the spicy meat sauce.
The mushroom gravy paired satisfyingly with the mushroomy vegetable balls, but
the Parmesan cream sauce clashed with everything.
Forgo the pasty white beans, oversteamed broccoli, and
undercooked polenta (each $4), and enjoy a brisk baby arugula and apple salad
on the side ($4).
It’ll cleanse your palate nicely, but not nearly as
nicely as the homemade mint ice cream. Wedged between nutty brownie cookies
Such is the case with The Meatball Shop, opened recently on Stanton Street. Co-owners Michael Chernow (general manager, formerly of Frank in the East Village) and Daniel Holzman (executive chef, former co-owner and exec chef at San Francisco's SPQR), have built a menu based entirely around meatballs—on top of spaghetti, on top of polenta, as heros or as sliders.*
There's beer and wine, and ice cream sandwiches for dessert, but other than
that, it's all meatballs, all the time.
Open until 4:00 AM Thursday through Saturday, and until
2:00 AM every other day of the week, the bar and restaurant slides seamlessly
into the Lower East Side: tin ceilings and communal tables, Passion Pit blasting,
Brooklyn Lager on tap, comfort food at all hours.
These pliable meatballs want firm contrast, so if you order them on a sandwich instead of over pasta ($11) resist the soft brioche “smash” ($8) and sliders ($3) and go for the crusty baguette hero ($9) instead.
From one red wall stares down a family of photos—black-and-white portraits of mustached and bouffant-ed individuals who could be someone's Italian great-grandparents. All those hard surfaces (plus a lively bar) make for one mighty din, even at mid-afternoon on a weekday.
Sit down, grab a felt-tip pen, and mark your order on
these wipe-away laminated sheets. Though the basic menu is quite simple—pick a
meatball, pick a sauce, pick a delivery vehicle—the combinations add up
quickly. Salmon meatballs with parmesan cream?
Those who like to design their own way through a menu will appreciate the creative freedom, but others may find it all a bit overwhelming. Let us help you narrow it down.
It’ll cleanse your palate nicely, but not nearly as nicely as the homemade mint ice cream. Wedged between nutty brownie cookies
The Meatball Shop
200 9th Avenue
New York, NY 10011
(212) 257-4363
themeatballshop.com
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The Meatball Shop has several locations around the city.
To find one closest to you, click here., click here.
In TURKEY 2014
In April 2014, Stefan, Clemens & I went on yet another
journey with our trusted Defender, this time from Istanbul, passing the Black
Sea Coast, to the vastness of Eastern Anatolia, then returning over
otherworldly Cappadocia and enjoying the sun at the Turquoise Coast. In Short:
all over Turkey with it's beautiful landscapes and wonderful people in 4 weeks.
Thanks, Turkey, for for a memorable adventure!
Filmed by: Clemens Krüger & Vincent Urban
Edit, Sound Design, Color: Vincent Urban
See pictures from the trip: instagram.com/vincenturban
Filmed with Canon 5D Mark III and GoPro Hero 3.
Lenses:
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS USM
Canon EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM
Sigma 24mm F1.8 EX DG ASP
Tamron SP AF 10-24mm F/3.5-4.5
Music:
“Only The Winds”
Written by Olafur Arnalds
Published by Nettwerk One Music Limited
Sub-Published by Fintage Publishing B.V.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
HEDON - Dopa Collection
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shades and finishes in matte or gloss, all helmets are trimmed and lined in
genuine calf leather and features our distinctive logo plaque in copper and
brass.
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