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Music in a Bottle

Bit, a German beverage company has an interesting website. Music in a bottle allows customers to discover new artists after they have purchased their drink. Much like Delicious library a webcam becomes a barcode scanner. Simply hold your bottle up to the camera, let them scan and the music starts playing. Somewhat of a gimmick but I can see plenty more promotions of this sort coming. Maybe I can buy products from Amazon by scanning an empty bottle?

Twistori

Twistori uses feeling words to filter tweets from twitter.com. The tweets roll by live. It’s a pretty cool idea.

“this is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs.”

Twistori

Aperture 2 is here

Aperture 2 Box
Ordered!

via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Shopping List Tattoo

List Tattoo

OFF collective made a cool temporary tattoo set. Blank lines for you to fill in your lists right on your skin. I can’t imagine that you could wash off the ink and salvage the tattoo. Someone needs to really get this inked on their skin. It is a clever idea.

OOF
via core77

command shift 3 teaser


Command Shift 3 Teaser from Adam Varga on Vimeo.

I’m not sure exactly what will be going on here but it sounds like they may be on to something. The internet is becoming more and more visual.

Get your FBI file

fbi files
The FBI will give you the first 100 pages of your file for free. I suppose that if you have more than 100 pages in your file you have been keeping some interesting company or saying some catch phrases on the telephone. The forms are easy to prepare onĀ getmyfbifile.com