The Cure for Greed

GPS shoes, the cure for greed, a Bad Trip and more in our look at the web this week

Set to the tune of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” an animated short neatly sums up 1,000 years of war in five minutes. Significant battles are signaled with low resolution flame spurts, with casualties reflected by the size of explosions. A bit lengthy, the video is worth watching if only for the massive conflagration that occurs all across Europe in the 1930’s.

The Mast Brothers Set Sail

GPS shoes, the cure for greed, a Bad Trip and more in our look at the web this week

In a world of clouds, data junkies might want something a bit more tangible to store their precious files. The ioSafe N2 syncs cloud storage with a hard drive for double protection—encasing two drives in a practically indestructible package. The box can be set on fire and drowned to no effect, and the encrypted data is also padlocked for protection against theft. Currently an Indiegogo …

LunaHelm

GPS shoes, the cure for greed, a Bad Trip and more in our look at the web this week

Amsterdam-based conceptual (and presumably independently wealthy) artist and inventor Diddo offers an antidote to the Deadly Sin with a 5mL vial of stabilized pure dollar ink mechanically and chemically recovered from approximately $10,000 in US currency. Those in need of more, more, more can shoot up with the set’s 24-karat-gold-plated syringe.