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December 20 to 31, 2005
The iPod photo is helping radiologists manage their medical images. And with iSight, stock Apple technology is enabling teleradiology on the cheap and may one day enable telemedicine from
home
...
The winner of the second Dwell eco-prefab house contest: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2004/12/dwell_
home
_ii_t.ph...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Training wheels, rethought: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TRIKE_BIKE?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=
home
&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
Beautifully photographed abandoned structures in Japan: http://
home
.f01.itscom.net/spiral/research3.htm...
April 11 to 17, 2005
There's something about the TV/DVD player/beer fridge that is strangely compelling: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/
home
-entertainment/displays/gizmodo-japan-asahi-dvd-beer-fridge-039488.ph...
home
s of the billionaires...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The new Breezehouse, a modern prefab
home
designed for "casual indoor-outdoor living"...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
home
land Security is now calling its RFID chips in U.S. passports "contactless chips" because it sounds safer. Unfortunately, without encryption they'll make it easier than ever for terrorists to fin...
Need an industrial solution? Use new biological filters that mimic the natural decomposition of debris. In a successful test the sewage from 25
home
s was used to irrigate a golf course...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Los Alamos National Lab scientists find a way to detect fingerprints via their chemical residue: http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php?fuseaction=
home
.story&story_id=234...
March 14 to 20, 2005
More and more young kids want cell phones these days: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CELLULAR_KIDS?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=
home
&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
March 7 to 13, 2005
The median price of a
home
on Kauai is now $627,000...
The automatic
home
composter...
20% of kids 8 to 18 can surf the Web from their bedrooms. 26% say they can "multitask" different media streams at once...
View the U.S. dollar's secret markings that can only be seen in infrared: http://
home
page.ntlworld.com/geoff.johnson2/IR...
A salmon may be the "first genetically enhanced animal sold for consumption in the United States": http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MODIFIED_SALMON?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=
home
&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
"The most comprehensive video ever made on the design and construction of a green
home
"...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
"A man who recently had received radiation treatment... set off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police to close down a roadway in Escondido while authorities searched for ...
"Dolphin Beaching Came After Sub Exercise" http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/STRANDED_DOLPHINS?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=
home
&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
1,000 patients are getting iSights to enable at-
home
telemedicine. Hands down, the iSight provides the best PC video and audio conferencing quality I've ever experienced...
Bubba, the 22-pound lobster: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LEVIATHAN_LOBSTER?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=
home
&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
February 21 to 27, 2005
New RSS feeds from the Associated Press: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/RSS_FEEDS?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOM...
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
Top tennis stars Andre Agassi and Roger Federer play on the world's highest tennis court in Dubai, about 1,000 feet up...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
The new 1-kilometer high Solar Tower, which could power 200,000
home
s, has found a building site in Australia. This got a lot of press this week...
Stuff For Web Developers http://www.smackerel.net/smackerel_
home
.htm...
February 14 to 20, 2005
A review of the latest
home
made flight simulators from the last few years...
The Weekly Gloom and Doom http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/04/ncoral04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/02/04/ix
home
.htm...
A nice-looking floating
home
s prototype...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Want to make something that can help others? Consult 43 Things first to see what people want to do: http://www.43things.com/
home
...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Sales of $1 million-plus
home
s in San Francisco grew an amazing 73% last year...
Here's a great guide to traveling light: http://onebag.oratory.com/
home
.htm...
The largest climate prediction experiment ever harnessed 90,000
home
computers around the globe. The result? Global warming will be worse than expected...
The McNipple, from artist Casey Weldon: http://www.caseyweldon.com/
home
/page10.ht...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A prototype car by Ford is described as a "rolling urban command center", with bullet-resistant windows, protective shutters, and a mini-
home
theater...
Three new wind farms in Hawaii should provide power for almost 20,000
home
s before 2006...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Another crack in the suburban facade: In the Bay Area, 50% of residents want new
home
s built closer to job centers...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The top ten war profiteers of 2004: http://metronewsnet.
home
linux.com:81/boards/showthread.php?pc...
Before and after tsunami photos, matched up with each other: http://
home
page.mac.com/demark/tsunami...
"Extreme
home
s of Exotic Islands...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A nice-looking
home
made iPod ad is the first true
home
brew ad on the net...
Create your own mini office cubicle hell with the Cubes plastic figure set: http://www.cubefigures.com/
home
.htm...
December 6 to 12, 2004
John Perry Barlow's fight against
home
land Security may set a legal precedent regarding searches...
home
less Iraq vets are showing up at shelters...
Beijing's Watercube, which aims to be a sponge-like masterpiece of biological architecture: http://www.core77.com/core
home
/2004/12/watercube.htm...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Big-time convergence - this new
home
entertainment PC looks like a Tivo on steroids...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Communities offering "zero-energy
home
s" are popping up that allow
home
owners to cut as much as 90% off their utility bill...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Need to hide from
home
land Security? Install a hidden door! However, this item was so popular, everyone knows what they look like by now...
October 25 to 31, 2004
An article on cell-phone video dating: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/30/nvid30.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/30/ix
home
.htm...
home
land Security agents bust a toy store this time...
October 18 to 24, 2004
After decades of continuous military bombing since World War II, the freed island of Kahoolawe is re-established as a native navigational center and crossroads "connecting Hawaiians to the ancestra...
USB flash drives with a thumbprint reader: http://www.starburst
home
page.com/xflashpointx.ht...
Once the Yucca Mountain 40,000-year nuclear waste repository opens in 2010, it will be 1/3 smaller than needed to store all the accumulated waste by then...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Wal-Mart is battling the biggest labels over CD prices. This is basically a lose-lose-lose-lose situation here... Wal-Mart drives the music industry, labels get squeezed, consumers get less choice...
October 4 to 10, 2004
"George W. Bush - Keeping America Scared": http://
home
.earthlink.net/~houval/gopconstrm.mo...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Ever wanted to live on a houseboat? Here's some from Sausalito, CA, one of the best and oldest houseboat communities: http://www.floating
home
s.org/00tour/00tis55.ht...
A beautiful contemporary mobile
home
...
Incredible photorealistic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with how-tos: http://
home
page3.nifty.com/highside/gallery.ht...
September 5 to 12, 2004
"From the time that Hawai'i first became a strategic American outpost in the Pacific, the military has condemned thousands of acres of state and private land for training and military bases...
More nifty pictures of the printed organic furniture mentioned last week: http://www.reluct.com/
home
/solid...
The story of an architect who battled breast cancer to remake a minimalist
home
for $50,000...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
"Despite a strong state economy, the
home
less rate in Hawaii has nearly doubled over the past four years, and the majority of the new
home
less are native Hawaiians and those with some Hawaiia...
Protesters use texting, microradio, and other technologies now: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-carpenter27aug27,1,7839459,print.story?coll=la-
home
-politic...
"What is the face of this place?" http://www.faceoftomorrow.com/
home
.as...
Put your DNA signature on a T-shirt: http://www.catgee.com/catgee/control/
home
/~category_id=CP_1015/~pcategory=CP_PRODUC...
August 15 to 22, 2004
From a Southern California architectural tour: http://www.caboomfest.com/
home
tours.htm...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Some of the most untranslatable words in the world: http://www.todaytranslations.com/index.php/fuseaction/
home
.content/page/pres...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Topic of the Week: Supporting Local Arts and Designs Hawaii is one of the toughest states for those involved in the arts to make a living. The word on the street is that Studio One, a popular galler...
A new building system is making polystyrene
home
s for the rebuilding effort in Afghanistan...
A 11.7 foot high-resolution screen is displayed at a
home
land security conference...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Land http://
home
pages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/publicdomain/PhillipsCumAuthorshipChart.htm...
July 19 to 25, 2004
The demand for larger luxury garages in
home
s is increasing...
July 12 to 18, 2004
"Dwell magazine leads the rebirth of a modernist movement in housing": http://www.boston.com/yourlife/
home
/articles/2004/07/15/fab_prefab...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
The evolution of fractal art. This is the next generation of fractal and mathematics- based design, folks: http://
home
.comcast.net/~fractalsbykeith...
June 21 to 27, 2004
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Photoshop challenge: depict "Americanization": http://
home
.grandecom.net/~bargirl24/velveetafranzia.jp...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Interested in a floating
home
...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
A
home
made movie of a 10-hour drive from L.A. to Oregon in 6 minutes...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Ryan Wieber was hired by LucasArts at 19 for his
home
made lightsaber special effects that rivalled that of Hollywood's...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Topic of the week: More architecture! Architect Michelle Kaufmann is an American hero. She's the first person to finally begin to fulfill Frank Lloyd Wright's dream of cheap quality
home
s, a goa...
A little bit about the Usonian
home
s (1936-1959)...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "Netsky" email virus, infected an estimated million computers last week, 80% of which belonged to
home
users an...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
Before you laugh, try a little thinking outside of the box: Hawaii needs low-cost housing solutions - how about using used shipping containers? Many well-designed structures have been made worldwide...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A new take on an old art form? Nifty
home
made "lava light" movies...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Just by using a white-colored roof on your
home
, you can save up to 40% in air conditioning costs...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
Magazines about
home
s - called "shelter magazines" - are taking off despite an overall decrease in magazine sales, with 40 launched in 2002 alone...
In the Bay Area, multiple offers over 10 are not uncommon. Houses have gone for $300,000 over the asking price. Median
home
prices in San Francisco are $200,000 over that of Oahu and $100,000 ove...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Photoshop of the week: http://da5id.
home
.comcast.net/condoliens.jp...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Add wireless to your business! At Schlotzsky's in Texas, a survey finds that more than 40 percent of customers say that free wireless access is a factor in choosing the restaurant to dine at...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Can technology save us from the future oil crash? "Researchers say they have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor small enough and efficient enough to heat small
home
s and powe...
January 5 to 11, 2004
"Please just tell the Americans to send the garbage closer to my
home
," pleaded Dishar Jaber, 56, squinting through the one eye he was left with after the Iran-Iraq war. "Then I will be happy....
The FBI gathered hotel guest list information on 270,000 in Las Vegas: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_
home
/2004/Jan-07-Wed-2004/news/22934251.htm...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Did you know that 20 billion tampons/sanitary pads went into landfills in 1998? Encourage females to try the Diva Cup: http://www.thedivacup.com/en/
home
.htm...
December 8 to 14, 2003
It's legal (and has been for years) in over half the states to sell your voter registration information - including name, race, email, street address, phone number, birth date, political affiliation...
This Chinese video has been wildly popular this week: A great "new" way to fold your shirts (it's true, I learned too) the way professionals do in retail stores. You may be able to download it her...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Are you a "pack rat"? "Facing jail because his house is filled to the brim, a hoarder finds hope in a woman with a talent for organizing...
A great five-part essay on the
home
less problem in San Francisco, which has the nation's worst problem with "hard-core
home
lessness". What to know what life is really like on the street...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The
home
of New Society publishers, a great publisher of books on sustainable living...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
"Arsonist Burns Peace Activists'
home
...
October 14, 2003
The world's first motorized surfboard This is quite a revolutionary device - it's to surfing what snowboards are to skiing. This August it won approval for U.S. distribution after a 16-yea...
home
land Defense employee has his German fiance detained, handcuffed, jailed, and after 20 hours without food, shipped back to Germany, without being officially arrested, a la "The Patriot Act".....
September 22, 2003
About Stefanie Nagorka, who makes spontaneous sculptures in
home
Depot aisles wihout permission...
September 8, 2003
"Don't Rely On Microsoft, Trade Group Urges
home
land Security...
August 25, 2003
* The Department of
home
land Securit...
August 12, 2003
Slow news week. Most of the new good stuff popped up today. This week's theme: trends on the edge of culture. http://ssshotaru.
home
stead.com/files/aolertranslator.htm...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...