The conceptual Power Pirate by Wim Goossens ambitiously aims to collect as much sustainable energy as possible in international waters. Info about weather conditions will guide the Power Pirate to navigate towards the most beneficial climate area to collect power. Energy can be collected in gulf streams, wind or solar. Once the batteries are fully charged the power pirate will set direction towards the nearest harbor or platform to replace full batteries by empty ones. Power Pirates have no staff. It fully operates by info received via GPS.

Global Positioning System receivers determine one’s position on the surface of the Earth by trilateration of microwave signals from satellites orbiting at an altitude of 20,200 km. Tracks of a journey can automatically be recorded into the GPS receiver’s memory and can now be downloaded onto a computer as a basis for a drawing, sculpture or animation. This journey may be on the surface (e.g. walking) or taken in 3D (e.g. while flying). 

The Adidas Exclusive store I spotted in Stockholm, sells gear they sell nowhere else in the world.
Exclusive Adidas exclusive for you. Also on show here the collection they designed together with Diesel. Including 10 ways to waste your time. When you buy these exclusive shoes you’ll get an Adidas cd with it. And a hip lady will help you to get into your exclusive Adidas.
 

Shan Zhai Ji(山寨机), or ‘bandit cell phone’, refers to cell phones manufactured by unauthorized or small-scale factories often located on the South East Coast of China. They usually copy the designs and the functions of branded cell phones and sell it for a much lower price. In fact, Shan Zhai Ji appeared years ago, but starts to gain huge attention only recently. Although at first glance Shan Zhai Ji seems to be vulgar and sometimes ‘out-dated’, compared to Apple, Nokia and the other big names, Shan Zhai Ji is actually considered cool with future growth potential, especially amongst the edgy part of Chinese youth.

Kia motors in Korea recently introduced a new brand called Soul as a new type of car using the acronym CUV (Crossover Utility Vehicle). The CUV integrates the functions of city hatchbacks with the ruggedness of a SUV. To promote the hybrid characteristics of this car, a massive crossover campaign was launched using both traditional media and advanced new media, such as strategically placed sign boards that had sensory components. Customers were encouraged to participate in the sign boards using a special remote control to navigate the different advertising contents that appealed to their specific interests as well as to receive special promotional gifts and even the car itself.

www.Zopa.com is the first social finance company. Since 2005 it pioneers a way for people to lend and borrow directly with each other online as part of a continuing mission to give people around the world the power to help themselves financially at the same time that they help others. Right now www.zopa.com is taking off. In Italy, Japan, UK and US to start with.

Simple Video stories/adventures that empower the viewer to make choices throughout the video. The viewer can choose his or her own paths through the video story. These choices will ultimately determine the outcome of the story.

This unofficial Israeli group specializes in not taking anything too serious. Ever thriving on creativity, the group was formed a few years back, and has been active ever since in organizing humorous events, parties, and other “puzzling” occasions - from an annual Water War taking place during the hot Tel Aviv summer, to other events such as a demonstration against passion fruit. Passers-by react with anything from confusion to delight. The majority is quite entertained.

Rick Riordan’s recent children’s book, The Maze of Bones, allows readers to follow the plot of the book by searching for clues online, adding game playing to the reading activity.
Twilight series author Stephenie Meyer is among a handful of authors recommending music playlists to readers so that they can concurrently experience the printed word and an appropriate musical atmosphere.
TV Series Heroes gets more involving than “TV-only” when you go to the (fake) Myspace of Claire Bennet (one of the characters in the serie), or to the (fake) campaignwebsite of Nathan Petrelli, or to the (fake) website of the corporate firm that plays a big role in the serie. Search there for secret inlog codes and telephone numbers that help you to solve the series’ mysteries.
What is new in all this, is the fact that entertainment content creators start to produce content that allows for interaction with a range of different media.

In coöperation with Albert Boswijk: The French region of Limoux boasts many medieval clock towers ( “clochers”). Some are famous, others modest or even tiny. Many of them exist in a deteriorated state. In order to reconstruct or redecorate them every year a very special event is organized in which celebrity cooks (“tocques”) prepare delicious meals and wine tasting after which an auction follows of the region’s most magnificent wines. The bottles come in limited editions – because they are the best – and are named after the clock tower (“clochers”) the event is sponsoring (“clocher de Gaya”, “clocher de Touvrelais”, for instance.)

Kazakhstan has everything imaginable, but you will not see many fast food outlets here. No McDonald’s, apart from the new Shopping Centers in urban areas. They’re not bad, but they simply are not that successful. Why is that, given that Kazakhstanis are ready to embrace and pay for most Western trends with gusto? First of all, eating here is taken very seriously, and quality matters: quality ingredients and quality time. For Kazakhstanis every meal, however brief or frugal, must be an occasion. And there are really satisfying alternatives for western fast food. First, there are the “Rotisserie” sections at supermarkets, providing families with a range of pre-cooked dishes from a simple starter to the most complex main course to salads, desserts, breads etc – local and international alike. Take it home, heat it and enjoy it almost as if it had been prepared in the traditional way. Second, there are the “El Patio” -”Planet Sushi” - “American Bar Grill” chain of restaurants, offering reasonably priced diversity with service, ingredients preparation and atmosphere that has become a “hang-out place” of choice with youngsters and families alike. There one will find quality Italian, Japanese and American food.

Minimally designed yet fully equipped, modern, creative office spaces for use on hourly basis. More on: http://hivecoop.pbwiki.com/

This is graffiti work by the Milan artist Bros. Bros loves to work with pop-symbolisms that do not reveal themselves too easily and often have a critical and at the same time humorous undertone. Idea what this graffiti wants to say? Blood Diamonds. Two more examples below: can you solve the artful riddle?

Jeff Staple, leading streetwear designer and with his STPL products in many of the coolest shops around the world – has been commissioned by the affordable-but-comfortable cobbler Airwalk to create a line for Payless Shoes, a discount mass-merchandiser with over 400 stores in the USA.

Joost Bakker is without a doubt one of Melbourne’s most resourceful men, creating incredible industrial flower displays, furniture, installation art and other mind-blowing pieces from detritus he finds out and about in his daily travels. Conceiving a building made from straw bales - one of the world’s biggest and most problematic waste products - set into a 100% recyclable steel framework (uncoiled and cut on site), he has created a ‘Greenhouse’ that whilst serving as a platform for Spring to Summer entertaining (day-time café morphing into a night-time venue) also serves to instruct a city on how simple and straightforward sustainability practice can be if each individual gives a thought to the life-cycle of the things they consume.  Highlights include: floors of deconstructed shipping crates, a rooftop garden that grows some of the products served from the kitchen, a feature wall of wild strawberries planted in old plastic palettes, tables fabricated from redundant fire hydrants, chairs of re-structured street signs and shade-cloths woven from tiles discarded by the Melbourne Cricket Club.