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Ever wanted to view your whole world through the earthy optimism of Instagram filters? On the off chance your answer is "yes," then you'll want to check out a new brand of Wayfarer-style sunglasses called Tens.

Calling their creation "a real life photo filter," the makers of Tens set out quite a while back to bring the vibe of Instagram to everything around you. 

"What if there was a way that we could skip all the cameras and apps?" co-founder Marty Bell recalls the team asking themselves. "What if there was a way we could filter everything we see while being disconnected from technology?"

The process clearly wasn't an easy one, as co-founder Kris Reid explains in the video below.

"After two-and-a-half years of exhausting sampling and switching between different supplies, trying to create the perfect lens, we finally have a product that we truly believe in."

The sunglasses are available for preorder on crowdfunding incubator site IndieGogo, where the project has raised roughly 1,700 percent of its goal.

Despite their clear popularity, the sunglasses may leave others skeptical about whether the creators have really achieved their goal of disconnecting us from technology. Is this an example of inspiring people to get out and enjoy the real world, or is it another case of the Internet saturating the rest of our lives?

Via Quartz.

Après plusieurs articles dédiés aux horloges design, voici une série d’horloges comportant des mécanismes de suspensions en fils de fer, reliés à des cadres de contreplaqué réalisés par le designer argentin Daniel Weil. Un rendu impressionnant à découvrir en images dans l’article.

Tired of texts and phone calls, or all those Snapchats from Taco Bell? Find yourself checking your Klout score while walking down the street? Scrolling Instagram for the fifth time this hour with a look like you're solving a calculus problem? Wishing someone you don't even know happy birthday on Facebook while ignoring the human across the table from you?

Or maybe you just want to be totally off the grid anywhere in the world.

Sure, you could just turn off your phone. But that would be too easy. Now, thanks to Trident (yes, the chewing gum) and fashion designer Kunihiko Morinaga, you can repel all cellphone transmissions simply by wearing these hip threads called Focus Life Gear—made of radio frequency shielding fabric.

"While the introduction of the Internet and smartphones has made things very convenient, we are spending a lot more time in this virtual world even when we are with real people," Morinaga says in the video below. "This is why we came up with the idea to create a collection of garments that would help us avoid these distractions, and focus on real life.

"We used fabrication techniques for outdoor gear that protect us from the rain and wind, and applied them to the garments to protect us from the storm of information."

Buy some for yourself, or the virtual-phobe or reality-core friend in your life. This all seems great, but I think chucking my phone in the East River might feel more gratifying.

Via Visual News.

Voici LIX : le plus petit stylo 3D pouvant être alimenté par l’ électricité à partir d’un port USB. Cet incroyable stylo d’impression 3D a la même fonction que les imprimantes 3D, il fond et se refroidit en plastique de couleur, permettant de créer des structures rigides et autonomes. Une création innovante et original.

L’équipe de Fubiz et Blank est fière de vous proposer la nouvelle application gratuite iOS 7 pour iPhone, conçue pour rendre votre expérience plus fluide et vous permettre d’emporter votre dose quotidienne d’inspiration dans votre poche. Découvrez davantage d’informations sur l’application Fubiz dans la suite.

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Découvrez de manière plus fluide les articles du site, le tout trié par catégories et avec un nouveau moteur de recherche. Un nouveau design et une interface pour un accès plus simple aux médias, galeries et aux vidéos HD sur Fubiz. Une évolution accompagnée par l’ajout des partages sur les réseaux sociaux et sur chacunes des communautés Fubiz (Twitter, Facebook et Tumblr).

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Phillip Stearns imagine de magnifiques visuels, à l’aide d’une pratique pour le moins étonnante : il applique divers produits chimiques ménagers à la surface d’un film qu’il enclenche avec 15.000 volts. En un éclair, l’impulsion électrique créée des impressions spectaculaires ressemblant à des réseaux de vaisseaux sanguins dans la rétine.

The Chinese e-commerce giant, which is on the cusp of going public in the United States, is in talks about regaining a stake in its Alipay payment affiliate, a

person briefed on the matter said.

L’artiste Chris McVeigh a eu l’excellente idée d’utiliser les différentes briques Lego afin de reconstituer de façon minimaliste des objets technologiques dépassés mais symbolisant notre époque. Des premières TV à la Nintendo Nes, vous pouvez refaire ces créations chez vous, l’artiste dévoilant sur son site les instructions à suivre.

When you leave people to their own devices, they tend to get nihilistic. When they get nihilistic, they make darkly comic scripts for DirecTV.

Case in point: the satellite-TV company's Twitter-sourced fable—created in the style of Grey's long-running "Cable Effects" campaign—of what happens if you don’t cut the cord.

The satellite giant asked its fans to contribute a story line to the campaign by tweeting one-liners with the hashtag #GetRidofCable. The company then selected the best ideas and made a cohesive, disturbing story—read like a storybook in the video below—of getting addicted to cheese during lab experiments, going back in time and undoing your own birth … all because the protagonist refused to say no to cable.

It's actually a pretty good entry in the campaign, even if the last line is a bit long-winded. Then again, despite the medium's limitations, people on Twitter aren't really known for keeping it short, are they?

Avec sa série de clichés « Relics of Technology », le photographe Jim Golden nous offre une collection d’objets technologiques aujourd’hui obsolètes. Que cela soit pour illustrer des disquettes, des anciens modèles de téléphones ou encore des cartes perforées, l’artiste met en avant ces objets qui rendront nostalgiques ceux qui ont pu les connaitre.