Enter the next trend for the fixed gear scene. Taking baseball cards in the spokes to the next level is this LED adapter for your bikes wheel. Simply screw the battery powered LED tube onto your bikes air valve and you will be riding like your in Tron.
Registered to vote? If not, you should be, because the celebrities in the video below say so, and we all know you base everything else in your life on what you see in a rap video. Find out all the details for your state and register at declareyourself.com.
In an attempt to continue the ugli-fication of NYC, about three weeks ago, the MTA began installing raised sidewalk grates along Hillside Avenue in Queens. The intention of the project is to prevent catastrophic flooding of the subway system, like that which occurred in August of this year, crippling the system. The grates in Queens were designed by Rogers Marvel Architects along with di Domenico & Partners, with the aesthetic of a flowing wave, referencing the problem the grates are there to deter. In addition to the grates role of holding back the tides, a built in bench is included in the design, to encourage all your loitering needs.
As if that wasn’t enough, the MTA continued beating the beauty of NYC with a sock fulls of buffalo nickels, when yesterday, it installed the second flood prevention grate prototype, in TriBeCa. Designed by Grimshaw Billings Jackson in conjunction with Systra/HNTB, these flood barriers also incorporate benches, like it’s Queens counterpart, with the addition of much needed bike parking.
See and judge the sidewalk eliminating, toe stumping, graffiti canvas providing, make you trip over people sitting in the middle of the sidewalk, designs for yourself. The Queens prototypes are installed along Hillside Avenue, between the 140’s and 170’s. The TriBeCa version is located in front of 151 West Broadway.
After choosing the ten finalists for the City Racks Design Competition, to develop a new bike rack design for a greener and cleaner NYC, the DOT has installed the prototype designs around Astor Place. In addition the racks can be viewed at the The Cooper-Hewitt Museum. The winning entry will be chosen on October 24th, during Design Week. The winner will receive $5k, in exchange for the city to have complete ownership of the design, concept and the designers first born son.
See all the installed rack images after the jump.
Axel Peemoeller is responsible for a new take on parking garage design, an area typically dominated by dull and drab architectural structure. By removing the small, difficult to read and often hidden directional and informational signs, and replacing them with large scale and brightly painted lettering, both great design and user friendliness are achieved. All of the images in this post (including more after the jump) are of the Eureka Carpark, in Melbourne, Australia. The brilliance of the design is how the lettering can only be properly viewed from the correct angle, thus eliminating the confusion typical garage signage creates.
In the first part of my review of Chrome, Google’s new web browser, the aesthetics, functionality of the design and download process were covered. This week some of the key features of Chrome will be covered. Let’s get into the meat and potatoes of it, shan’t we?
First off, let’s begin by saying that Google set out to make Chrome not as a totally different program then the web browsers that have come before it. As a result, Chrome contains many of the features that appear in competing browsers, such as private browsing, that Google calls ‘Incognito’, and the ability to restore all tabs from a previous session (but this is not done automatically like in other browsers in the event of a crash). Like other browsers Chrome allows you to rearrange your tabs by clicking and dragging them into your desired order. Chrome also allows you to drag a tab into its own window and then back again into the into a tab.
Keep reading part 2 of the Chrome review after the jump.
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