Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1

Some of the stuff that I have posted on is in progress, this is some future now. This camera is the next step in photography, a step that should have been thought of before now. The camera utilizes two lenses working in unison and separated by about the same approximate distance as the human eyes to add depth and the 3rd dimension to your pics. I little pricey right now at about $600 retail I'd wait a bit and this price will drop.

Philips LED 60 watt light bulb

Philips Electronics designed this light bulb in a response to the Energy Department's $10 million competition to create a superior 60 watt bulb, a competition that also includes lucrative federal purchasing agreements for the winner. The bulb emits the same amount of light on only 10 watts of power and lasts 25 times longer than halogen (about 25 years!). The expected price tag is $40, which will be totally worth it for a money saving light bulb that lasts 25 years.

Floor

This installment at the IMA titled simply "Floor" is one of my favorite pieces in the Indianapolis Museum. Found in the contemporary art gallery this work by Korean born Do-Ho Suh is a large 32 panel installation that is, as the name suggests, a floor. The floor when standing on it looks like it has vibrantly colored speckles, with closer inspection the colored dots are seen to be tiny hands with the panels of the floor held up by a small plastic people of many varieties all working in unison to support the weight. It is awesome and took from 1997-2000 to create, go check it out.

Sacred Spain at the IMA

The Indianapolis Museum of Art is hosting a painting retrospective called "Sacred Spain" that is based on the religious iconography of 17th century Spain. Many of the pieces in the collection have never been scene in the US before. The Clowes Charitable Foundation helped fund the project, which to those who have it available an iPhone or ipod touch app. is available called tap that give the user an interactive multimedia interaction with the collection. For someone who doesn't have access to these devices ipod touches are available to rent. I didn't use the multimedia portion, mainly because I am not really interested in any religious interpretation (especially one that mostly pictorials suffering). The app is a cool idea however. If you want to check it out the exhibit is running until January 3, 2010.

"The four best days in gaming"

GenCon 2010 is happening in Indianapolis, In. from August 5th through the 8th. It has almost everything gaming related and hundreds of exhibitors. The event (website aside) is great. Info can be found at gencon.com and a mobile iphone app is available from itunes. Approximately 30,000 will be attending. If you like gaming and gaming culture check it out.

Royal Enfield

I have always loved the design of classic Triumph style motorcycles and the more retro of the Harley lines, but the price is crazy. Looking at bike designs I came across a brand that to me was surprisingly the oldest motorcycle company still in production, Royal Enfield. The lines on the bike are classic, and my favorite is the oldest running model the bullet which has a very reasonable price of $4500 base and a reasonable mileage at 70+mpg highway.

Candy and other obvious products.

Snickers has been around since 1930 and 72 years later they get the idea to try a second kind of nut, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups took about the same amount of time before they came up with a spin off product. These are not giant innovative leaps by any means, especially when you take into account that these are companies that pretty much exclusively make candy. Maybe it is just that people in the past didn't care about options, but that clearly isn't the case now with every kind of candy having a white chocolate version, a crunchy version, and dark chocolate version. There are even candies that Frankenstein 5 kinds of candy to quench those that can't even commit to a candy bar. When I see these candies stacked in the checkout lane I always think back to a trip I took the the GM car design studio that I went to when I was a little kid. They had cars designed out to 20+ years into the future. I looked at these cars that were meant for decades out and I thought those are the cars I want now, comparatively the lame little changes they had for the next year sucked. Even as a kid I thought that though the future design was great they were designing like cowards, acting like they would run out of ideas if they just through them out now. You can always think of something new. I know that there aren't a lot of ways you can configure nougat, carmel, chocolate, and nuts but 70 years is a bit to long to start to innovate.