The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums. Powered by a broad, connected suite of Google technologies, the world’s great works of art and museums are now within reach to an unprecedented global audience.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleArtProject

The convenience promised by the Internet often seems to evaporate when you log in every morning. First comes the user name and password needed to boot up your smartphone or computer. Next, a different password to access your e-mail. Want a book at Amazon.com (AMZN)? Another password (what was your first pet’s name again?) and often your credit-card information and address. Buying boots at Zappos.com, reserving a plane ticket, or checking your bank balance after all that spending? Get ready with password after password.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_06/b4214036537462.htm

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Smartphones might one day replace laptops, desktop CPUs, and the like — except for the fact that the displays remain insufferably small. One designer’s solution, envisioned with community input through Mozilla Labs: project the interface clear off the screen.

READ FULL ARTICLE AND WATCH VIDEO – http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662373/with-an-interface-like-this-a-smartphone-might-replace-your-laptop

Another cool phone concept, watch video -
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/01/20/video-this-concept-phone-is-pure-madness/

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“THE point of books is to combat loneliness,” David Foster Wallace observes near the beginning of “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” David Lipsky’s recently published, book-length interview with him.

If you happen to be reading the book on the Kindle from Amazon, Mr. Wallace’s observation has an extra emphasis: a dotted underline running below the phrase. Not because Mr. Wallace or Mr. Lipsky felt that the point was worth stressing, but because a dozen or so other readers have highlighted the passage on their Kindles, making it one of the more “popular” passages in the book.

READ FULL ARTICLE – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/business/20unbox.html