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When Fast Company dubbed DeAndre “Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em” Way (colloquially known as “Soulja Boy”) the most creative person in the digital music business , I knew he wouldn’t disappoint. And lo and behold, the 18-year-old rapper who parlayed Internet fame into platinum record sales is back on familiar territory: The cutting-edge. This morning, iTunes started selling the Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em Romplr , an iPhone application that allows people to remix their favorite Soulja Boy songs, including “Crank That” and “Turn My Swag On.” Unlike more professional music-mixing apps, such as Fingerbeat , the Romplr is designed for everyday hip-hop fans: There are only 14 buttons, all clearly labeled (drums = backbeat, microphone = vocals), and you tap them to switch up the sound
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Soulja Boy Cranks Out iPhone Remix App, More Artists Coming Soon
Google’s been busy this last week or so, starting with the excitement of Chrome OS and now with Google Voice for smartphones getting its roll-out. The BlackBerry and Android apps dropped this morning, but iPhoners will have to wait. The Voice app is designed to facilitate using Google’s service instead of your regular cellphone number, making the most of the enhanced facilities Google offers like cheap international calls, call redirection and voicemail transcribing.
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Google Voice Starts Singing for BlackBerrys And Androids
On July 15, 1969, Americans watched on their TVs as Michael Collins, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong took to the skies. “Spacesuits: Within the Collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum” provides an in-depth look into the development of the garb outfitting the crews of the lunar missions. While Americans sat in the glow of their TV sets only dreaming of going where no man has gone before, on July 15, 1969, they watched Michael Collins, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong take to the skies.
In 2008, 26-year-old industrial designer Emily Pilloton founded Project H Design , a non-profit that empowers designers around the world to support, create, and deliver life-improving product design solutions. Chapters now located in nine cities function as volunteer design firms, identifying and developing products that address issues of the four H’s: Humanity, Habitats, Health and Happiness. As Pilloton worked to establish the first chapter, located in San Francisco, yet another H quickly came into the fold, the Hippo Roller , a water-transporting device manufactured in South Africa
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Balancing Tradeoffs: The Evolution of the Hippo Roller
Good news for Windows Mobile users from the Worldwide Partner Conference: by year’s end, Windows Marketplace, Microsoft’s upcoming app vendor, will be open to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1. Previously Microsoft was gearing the site toward WinMo 6.5, debuting later this year, but it seems the company will now include those customers using older phones that won’t be getting an upgrade in the app mania .
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Windows Marketplace Opens for Older Phones, Taking App Submissions Soon
Judging by the number of inquiries we’ve received lately there are quite a few recent graduates who have not landed that all-important first job in the profession. Of the few portfolios I’ve reviewed, it seems that this year’s graduates continue the trend of improvement in skills and capabilities. That said, there are several attributes key to success that don’t always get the attention they deserve in most design schools
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Beyond Design, 10 Skills Designers Need to Succeed Now
We call on peoples from all businesses, countries, and walks of life to work together to build a new economic system based upon equity and justice (EBBF 2009-06). … “EBBF is a network of over 400 women and men, a community of people passionate about bringing ethical values, personal virtues and moral leadership into their w orkplaces….Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainable Development, Partnership of Women and Men, A New Paradigm of Work, Consultation in Decision-Making, V alues-Based Leadership (EBBF 2009-06)….
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Unprecedented economic and financial crisis reshapes thoughts on trust and integrity
Just last week, we reported that the Brammo Enertia officially went on sale at a Best Buy store in Portland , but the Zero S Electric Motorcycle –also for urban commuters–wasn’t going to be left out. The electric street bike is officially available as well. We took it for a quasi test drive
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Electric Motorcycle Competition Revs Up: Zero S Streets Alongside Brammo Enertia
Apple just dropped the official statistics on the iTunes App Store’s first year in business, and they’re astonishing, on all sorts of scales. Turns out over 1.5 billion apps have been downloaded by iPhone users across the world. That’s a pretty amazing number all by itself, and making a conservative assumption that the average app weighs in at 2 megabytes, that means Apple’s pushed over 3,000 petabytes of data through its iTunes servers.
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Apple’s Latest Figures Prove There’s Just One App Store to Rule Them All
Exxon has long denied plans to move into the biofuel market, but the oil company announced a plan today to invest $600 million in the production of biofuel from algae. As part of the plan, Exxon will partner with Synethetic Genomics, a biotechnology outfit, to develop the fuel. Exxon’s algae fuel investment includes $300 million for preliminary studies with Synthetic Genomics, and $300 more if the research goes well
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Exxon, a Longtime Biofuel Holdout, Makes a $600 Million Algae Fuel Investment
Verizon just announced the launch its own app store for smartphones, inspired by the iTunes Store, Windows Marketplace, Ovi Store, and those for Android and Palm. But Verizon’s apps will be locked exclusively to its own store. It’s a tacit move to attract developers, in the hope that Verizon smartphones will get good apps that then help drive sales of handsets and tariffs on Verizon over rival networks–essentially Verizon’s desperately hoping to ape the ridiculous success of the iPhone’s App store, which has over 50,000 apps from big and small name developers and has long-surpassed one billion app downloads from global iPhone users.
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Verizon Jumps on App Store Bandwagon, Misses the Point Totally
New data suggests Microsoft’s Bing search engine is continuing to grow well, weeks after its launch. It’s great news for the team at Redmond…but it started us wondering: Are we in the middle of a Microsoft Rennaissance? Microsoft’s own data, released yesterday, points to an 8% growth in unique visitors in June over the previous month, and the number of visitors who’d “likely recommend” the service to friends doubled in June
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Is This a Microsoft Renaissance?
It’s well know that VC funds take their economic hits with a delay because they work in liquid money, but it seems like their time of reckoning for the great bust of ’08 has finally come. VentureBeat reports that new data from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters show a drop in second-quarter VC fundraising that’s pretty discouraging: between April and June, they raised a collective $1.7 billion, the smallest amount raised in any quarter since 2003, and split between the smallest number of funds since 1996.
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Venture Capital Slows to a Trickle
Tokyo-based shipping company NYK Line has done a lot to boost its green credentials: The company docked its first solar-powered cargo ship in Los Angeles this month, recently released a concept design for a ship juiced up with fuel cells, wind, and solar power, and cut its C02 emissions 10.8% last year. But how green can any shipping company really be if it’s transporting coal? NYK’s JP Caretta bulk carrier ship, which set off on its maiden voyage today, will deliver approximately 800,000 tons of coal each year from Australia to thermal power stations in Japan.
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Can NYK Be a "Green" Shipping Company and Still Build Coal-Carrying Super-Tankers?
LCD waste from electronics is the fastest growing waste stream from Europe. One way to cut down on LCDs heading to the landfill: Turn them into medication. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi flick, but researchers at the University of York have discovered that waste from old LCD TVs can be recycled for medical purposes.
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Will Your Next Prescription Drug Be Made Out of Recycled LCD Screens?
Keyshawn Johnson, ex-NFL pro and current ESPN commentator, wants to make one thing perfectly clear: He might be helping people remodel rooms on his design series (Keyshawn Johnson: Tackling Design, Saturdays at Noon EST on A&E), but he’s a businessman, not an interior designer. “The show is a platform,” says Johnson, 36
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Ex-NFL Pro Keyshawn Johnson "Sorta" Wants to Become the Next Martha Stewart
Honda’s just pulled the wraps off its CR-Z car, and announced it’s due to go into mass production with a launch date of February 2010. It’s an interesting competitor to the Prius and the Volt, and looks sweeter than either. Not much is known about the absolute technical specs of the CR-Z, which stands for the very anime-style name Compact Renaissance Zero.
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Honda’s CR-Z: A Hybrid Car to Get Excited About
I recently overheard a conversation between several design professionals who were debating a product’s environmental sustainability. The discussion ranged from power consumption (carbon footprint) and form factor (material economy) to ease of disassembly (recyclability). In discussing the pros and cons of each, the designers demonstrated two phenomena that beg to be addressed: suspicion of the company’s green claims and the fatigue of trying to comprehend the tradeoffs
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Why We Need a Globally-Recognized Unit of "Green"
A new study by Cornell researchers shows that traditional (old-media) news outlets lead the blogosphere by 2.5 hours when it comes to breaking news. It’s a sign that the old guard should chill out about blogs and how they’re destroying the news world. The Cornell research took an innovative new approach to studying the news cycle
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Old Media Still Powerful: Blogs Follow News Outlets 2.5 Hours Later
Warning: computer overload. The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing is actually 22 different conferences, drawing 2,500 attendees, all held simultaneously at one location and sprawling across topics from bioinformatics to virtual reality to embedded systems. What struck us about the conference, though, wasn’t the diversity but the lack of it: According to the premeeting agenda, not a single one of the 27 featured speakers and instructors is female
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WorldComp ’09