Great Semantic Web mini-documentary from  Kate Ray, recently-graduated NYU journalism/psychology student.

John Hebeler (0:02): The core problem is, our ability to create information has far exceeded our ability to manage it. It’s kind of like we’re drowning in our richness, that’s kind of what’s happening, cause you have all this data, all these access points, and there’s really no way to really help you deal with it except for stuff you can pull into your human brain. And you can only pull in so much. So you’ve got this massive amount of potential, but there’s not any real tools to harness it.

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

That’s why I don’t have TV set in my house, computer is absolutely enough:)

Television is a drug. from Beth Fulton on Vimeo.

Well we’re nearly there, tomorrow (today?) in San Francisco we should have the official introduction of the Apple tablet.

We’ve all been waiting around, some twiddling our thumbs, others writing about it, a select few however, like young Polish student Patrycjusz Brzeziński, have set to work designing something I’m certain we’d all love to see in Steve Jobs’ hands within the next 24 hours. While he is likely to be glorifying his “most important” product ever (as he’s called it), just think how much cooler it would be to get something like Brzeziński’s MacView.

The MacView is his dream, a multimedia tablet with two touch screens.
I have seen a whole load of tablet concepts over the last few months, but this is certainly one of the best. Great work Patrycjusz.

Some initial sketches

Keyboard on the second touch screen

Above description says:
An ultralight personal computer which will display everything you need during the day. Wherever you are, you have your favourite books and text files with you. You will most certainly discover the magic of reading on this specially designed screen, which doesn’t cause eye-strain even in the darkest of environments.
Wherever you are, you will always have access to your resources in the WWW. You will be able to open movie files and listen to music. Designed for those on the move. Hundreds of functions make life easier in today’s contemporary cities. All this in the small-form factor MacView, which has a thickness of just 7mm.

Desktop with mini player music on second screen

PDF with thumb pages on second screen

MacView support, that solution reminds me one scene in Avatar

Box, so everything is packed right

Via Behance

via Flickr

All of you iPhone lovers will adore this, incredibly professional customizable iPhone cases from Uncommon.

The process called 3D TATT™(Thermo-Active Transdermal Technology), is a sublimation technique that embeds an image, any image, deep in the plastic case which means that it won’t smear or scratch off.

“We were tired playing by everyone else’s rules. It sucked. We created Uncommon so that we could do whatever we wanted. Now we are giving you the power to do whatever you want. That is Uncommon,” says Scott Wilson, Uncommon Brand Director and Co-Founder.

If you don’t have an image to hand that you’d like to use, their website stocks over 70 artists with amazing portfolios, so even if you aren’t interested in a case (cause you might not have an iPhone), it’s worth visiting the website to check out the graphics!

Uncommon’s first products are the ultra-slim protective iPhone and iPod Touch Capsule Cases and Blackberry Storm 2 Trooper Case (all $39.95), with MacBook and Blackberry Curve cases, watches and other blank canvas objects soon to follow.

Products are customized in the US but deliverable worldwide.

Have a watch of this video, it’s worth it.

This Is Uncommon from Scott Wilson on Vimeo.