internet cool?!

“3.16 Billion Cycles” is a clock designed by Che-Wei Wang. 1 cycle takes 1 seconds, 3.16 billion cycles will take 100 years. After that time the clock will fall apart due to the gap in the outer arc.

3.16 Billion Cycles from che-wei wang on Vimeo.

from the site:

A 60 rpm (revolutions per minute) motor drives the entire mechanism. It rotates once every second. The following pulley rotates once every 5 seconds (1:5 ratio). The next rotates once every 60 seconds or 1 minute. Then 5 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 month, 1 year, and 1 decade. The decade wheel carries the load of the large arc. The large arc rotates once every century. The final ratio between the 60 rpm motor and the large arc is approximately 1:31.6 billion.

Each wheel is marked with a black nut to highlight a position that could be tracked over time. Along the arc, 100 lines mark the divisions of each passing year. When the clock finally reaches the end of a 100 year cycle, the arc falls off its track onto the floor.

enjoi.

Having a virtual personality and social network online is as important for todays and especially tomorrows Netcitizen as having a physical presents in this world. The line between online and offline is getting blurred with todays communication tools that allow us to stay connected almost everywhere, anytime.

Meet the “clickable” dress.

Nadya Peek, an MIT Media Lab student, created a unique interactive dress to close the gap between our presents in the physical and virtual world. Her project Caché aims to bring interactivity, a virtual poke into the physical presents via clothing.

And it’s awesome.

But how cool would it be if you rigged up a lil’ arduino in there and automatically posted a Tweet or a “Poke” to the person on Spacebook or MyFace just by touching them. Ok, now I’m just crazy. Enjoi!

Meet AudioBoo.
That is all.

While it turns out this NES-inspired mouse is just a foam model, somebody needs to put these into production now. Nintendo, are you listening? For now, I guess you’ll just have to settle for one of these.

[via zeniouz]

Wow. The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by IA, Inc. This doc maps the 333 most influential web domains and the 111 most influential internet people onto the Tokyo Metro Map.

Intense. Yet - wonderfully simple.  Download the original here.

Meet TinyAsk, a tool that provides simple access to the worlds best internet search engines and information resources RIGHT FROM YOUR ADDRESS bar. :) Pointless? No. Brilliant. Read on.

Just type tinyask.com/ in the address bar followed by yodur search term, hit enter, and search!

Ex: tinyask.com/where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

You can also use it in page links: Carmen Sandiego

want more options?

But wait, there’s more. The follwing lists a extension of short-cuts for the TinyTask tool. TinyTask, by default, searches all these resources. But what if you only wanted to focus on one? It does that too! :) For example:

To search Digg ONLY - use tinyask.com/d/
To search Google ONLY - use tinyask.com/g/
To search Live ONLY - use tinyask.com/l/
To search Mahalo ONLY - use tinyask.com/m/
To search Netscape ONLY - use tinyask.com/n/ (Not sure why you’d fucking bother, though?) :)
To search YouTube ONLY - use tinyask.com/t/
To search Yahoo ONLY - use tinyask.com/y/

TinyTask was Developed by David LeMieux