Author Archives: mrbenjaminhobson

Alex Poole – Literature Review – Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility

http://www.alexpoole.info/academic/literaturereview.html Mr Benjamin Hobson

Hairy Pop-ins

This wonderful hairdresser/ barber is in Wokingham. Very nice name and equally wonderful styling!

The Gravité wonder app was a precurser to the fu

Well, for me it was I recall discovering this and upon installing it being completely wowed in every way. The ability to throw your icons around; grab them on an edge and spin them around. Well I realize this is sounding dull but it is/ was not. It turned your interface into a plausible physical [...]

50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland // WellMedicated

Some of these posters contain ingenious lateral thought on the content others simply do not. Makes you wonder how, or if, the artist was briefed about the movie. For exampl when describing ‘alien’ it looks like the description started and ended with ‘it is an odd alien that lives in the chest for a bit’. [...]

30+ Awesome Sites for Streaming Music

http://mashable.com/2008/07/09/streaming-music-sites/

Art with a purpose.

“Two nyc artists, Christine and Justin, started painting pictures of things they wanted. Visualizing, them, as it were, on canvas. Then they started selling those paintings for the exact price of that item. And voila, the item manifests.” I like the fact that the purpose of the art is so obvious. Art is a means [...]

minivmac [No Thick Manuals]

http://nothickmanuals.info/doku.php?id=minivmac

Music on demand, free music without download | Deezer

http://www.deezer.com/ Benjamin

The RIOT Wheel – Single-Wheeled Vehicle

http://www.theriotwheel.com/index.html

Hacking of Oyster (RFID) Ticketing Systems

I am not going to write a description of this only pose the question – do you think the London system is similar or the same as this? It would be interesting to be able to mod/ jack oyster cards . http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/08/banned_slides_the_anatomy.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

Slide rule clock prototype

This creation makes me wonder if anyone has made a similar clock but with rotating drums, this making the 0 next to the 60 and the minute/ hour transitions smooth and simple. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/08/slide_rule_clock_prototyp.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890