I’m in the mood for smart fabrics
Nora talks about moody, a little app for iTunes that lets you tag songs by colour to suit your mood. Nora thinks it bodes well for a future of more ambient displays. (Via Wired’s Compiler blog)
Cathi, meanwhile, tips us off to the latest creative design from Japan: smart fabrics packed with vitamins to nourish your skin (via JC Report). Plus, speaking of smart, new waterless urinals in Australia. At least, we think it’s smart….we don’t really know how urinals work
May 24th, 2007 at 9:49 am
wonderful discussion of the mysteries of urinals. old school ones had constant streams of water - normally these are much taller, with the drain on the ground, and are about 4 feet tall; newer ones you flush (these are the classic Duchamps urinals); new new ones have automatic (motion sensor) flushing; and most - esp the flush ones - have chlorine pucks (or mothballs in cheap bars etc) to combat smells … fancy ones have some kind of antiseptic stuff mixed in with the flushing.
just so you know.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Thanks for the enlightenment, Hugh. When I lived in Montreal, there was a bar in Mile End…I think it was Whiskybar, where the men’s washroom had a non-stop curtain-wall of water, but I figured that was non-standard!
May 25th, 2007 at 7:23 am
the watercurtainwall set-up is found, often enough, in the bathrooms of fancy bars - usually stainless steel.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:49 am
That’s what I like about doing thesniffer…It’s so educational!