Josh Rubin

Josh Rubin is COOL HUNTING's founder, editor and executive creative director. He brings his background as a photographer and expertise as a user experience designer to his point of view on what makes a good story for CH—this most often include some kind of intersectionality between art, culture, technology and design. Josh is a bit of an urban hippie, obsessed with most things Japanese, a Sealyham Terrier lover and very food motivated.

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Cheol Yu Kim

Cheol Yu Kim (above) is a Korean artist who’s work is currently being shown at the CUE Art Foundation . His drawings and watercolors combine incredible skill with abstracted imagery of flying …

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Control Chaos

I know what art I’m going to see this weekend… Phunk Studio's Control Chaos. 25 Sept – 25 Oct 2003 THE REED SPACE 151 ORCHARD STREET (B/W RIVINGTON & STANTON STREET) NEW …

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Mobile HCI, Visions of the Future

Chris Heathcote recently attended Mobile HCI in Italy. He’s shared his notes on the Visions of the Future panel discussion featuring: Mathias Schneider-Hufschmidt, Siemens Harri Kiljander (director of UI), Nokia Boris de …

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Feedster

Feedster, despite the not so cool name, is the hottest new thing in the RSS world. They index all the RSS / XML feeds they can find and provide you with a …

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Galvin Steps Down

Ok, this is not my usual type of post, but it is the coolest thing to happen to Motorola in years. CEO Chris Galvin is stepping down! As a former Motorolan, I’m …

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Nike Laser

Crooked Tongues has a great feature on the Nike Laser Project. Basically, they’re using laser etching to burn designs in to shoes. To launch the project, Nike recently featured 6 models in …

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Iced Green Tea

ITO EN makes the best iced green tea that I have ever had. I’m hooked. It’s tasty, simple and natural. Not sweetened, nothing added. Just tea. Yum.

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Nokia 6850!?

It looks like my tech lust prayers have been answered… Nokia will be announcing an upgrade to the 6800 (above) that will include Bluetooth and a camera. It also looks like an …

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ASCII Rock

C404 Presents ASCII Rock… Judas Priest, Motley Crue, and the like all seen in monochrome ASCII text animation and heard in MIDI. I guess this is what happens when a rocker gets …