Mostly This:

Orange Crush, making orange juice at the weekend turned into an impromptu jenga/buckaroo game mash up. 

Nice surprise copy inside a t-shirt I bought, I didn’t discover it until I turned it inside out to iron it. Only downside is that it means you have to iron the back rightway round and the front inside out - or not iron it. I placed my ‘95 frogskins alongside for added gratuitous brand endorsement :) I’m nothing to do with oakley BTW.

Fresh Widgets Of Belle Here: Oh I’ve not even got the Anna update for my N8 when belle is announced with three new handsets, all a bit below the spec of the N8 so won’t be replacing my trusty metal mate. But all look nice, esp the diddy 700, shame its camera is low spec or I would be tempted. So how quickly will Belle arrive on existing S^3 handsets? xmas?

Details of the 600,700 and 701 here.

R2-Box - Uber cute Xbox 360 in R2D3 livery with matching C3PO controller, and even more importantly a WHITE kinect (featured on engadget today.) Coming this ‘fall’ hopefully to the UK as well.

Conran Magpie: We just launched a new app initally on iOS. It’s a tool aimed at designer and clients who want to brief designers.  It’s used to collect all the things you love the look of, and collate them into themed ‘magpie’ collection. 

These can then be output as beautifully auto formated PDF’s to email out to clients / colleagues etc. But its really useful for things you just LIKE, I’ve been collating colours though the city and street art, with no particular project in mind, but when the time comes i can pull them out and have lots of great visual examples ready to go.

The first release is now available at the app store - it’s free- click here.

Official Graffiti: Here’s an in progress graffiti billboard in old street, a lovely idea, but only useful in its digital amplification, they were filming its creation, as once it was finished you don’t realise its an original piece rather than a normal ourdoor print.

But the story it creates will live on past the physical installation is gone, and reach far more people.

One of the most important phones ever, No it’s not the iPhone, N8 or Nexus S.  It’s the ideos from hiawei. It sells for $100 with $20 of credit included. In Kenya. They sold something like 200,000 of these in the first month. Its nots super high spec, but it’s far from shoddy.  It runs unmodified android 2.2 - something most western ‘modified’ android devices don’t do yet. 

Mobile is the web in africa, the power that devices like this have for transforming the continent and lives. The futures looking good for a $20 device in the next 18 months. 

Here’s some things I’ve ‘made’. First up was this Light which was made almost entirely by Machines, though there as a manual element to some parts, such as the hand turned decorative screws and the aluminum casting.

The base was designed in 3D and cut in a high density foam using a CNC machine, this foam version was then cast using aluminium, pained and had the hole/threads drilled in.

The main body of the lamp is simply made form lots of the same part, rotated and tuned upside down to give a seemingly endless pattern. One of the parts had  internal spurs to hold the bulb, the wiring ran though the uprights and out of the bottom of the base. The lamp parts were laser cut from acrylic.

Here’s the 3D render:

Major privileges. Done with foursquare? Think again, check out those specials. Last week I became major of the store tateossian. My reward a beautiful pebble necklace. The people at tateossian were super friendly and helpful. Plus when it comes to getting something special for my wife I know I’ll be checking them out. In the same week I became major of the 2012 countdown clock. I’ll be getting two pins as reward. Virtual goods are becoming real rewards.

So check out those specials.