Microsoft is getting into the design business. With Adobe's purchase of Macromedia, the war is about to begin. Expect Expression Suite to catch up with Illustrator and PhotoShop very quickly. View full entry

Vogler and Vittori's Desert Seal, currently on view at MoMA's Safe, gets an in-depth look from ESA. (Another archigram project finally realized?) View full entry

Rotterdam based designer Wouter Geense couldn't have made a better impression on me. His press package was handmade and was packed with small promotional gifts and a CDrom with his work. His work is very experimental and intelligent. My favorite design is this gasoline propelled record player... View full entry

Siemens has announced that it has developed a new type of computer display that is paper-thin at a disposable cost, scheduled to hit the market in 2007. Read View full entry

Here 's how big digital mapping companies like Navteq and Tele Atlas stockpile Yahoo and Google with stree-by-street city-maps. See how these researchers keep up with the constant chaging landscape, and chase after "the holy grail" of the $3 to $5 billion digital mapping industry: finding their... View full entry

'Minimizing Einstein' by Studio Demakersvan. Judith de Graauw of Demakersvan introduced an amazing radio recently, titled 'Minimizing Einstein'. You can change the volume by removing part of the speaker horn. The slider attached to the antenna is used to adjust the channel. RE. View full entry

An intriguingly bizarre exhibit at the Science, Industry and Business Library reveals the differences between television, radio, print and online advertisting. NYT View full entry

Hundreds of delegates met in Belfast this week to attend the annual World Toilet Summit. Experts discussed toilet-related issues including anti-social behavior in rest rooms, portable toilets, and facilities for the blind.CBC World News View full entry

Regine, best known for We Make Money Not Art launched a new blog that's off the eggshell, and it also has a cryptic title to boot. I'd best describe it as a blog about affective pieces. Regine also blogs for one of my other favorite blogs, Smart Mobs, among several others. www.no-garlic-please.com View full entry

When Mr.Michael Carroll won £9.7 million in the national lottery in Enland, no one knew what they were in for... NYT View full entry

Emilian Dan Cartis, Romi Hefetz, and Cameron Sinclair talk about finding ways of testing new prototypes for humanitarian design in post-disaster areas in this article about designs aimed to bring safe drinking water to affected areas. Read View full entry

Henryk Tomaszewski, whose animated and witty posters for cinema, circus and theater led to the distinctive postwar Polish Poster School style, died on Sunday at his home in Warsaw. He was 91. NYT | related: Paula Scher: Remembering Henryk Tomaszewski View full entry

In a growing trend among big corporations, young talents are sought after for research projects such as this one. Enjoy! View full entry

If you couldn't make it, click here and check out some pics of this event which took place over the weekend. Unlike most design conferences that tend to focus on technology, Semi-Permanent delves into the creative side of design. The conference's main focus is on the passion that creative people... View full entry

Xeni Jardin has just put up some photographs on flickr of military tech devices capable of pointing a sound to an exact location ("a "laser-like" beam of sound") up to a mile away. View full entry