Mattebox

Plane sex, David Lynch's coffee, the world's beautiful bookstores and more in our look at the web this week

Lifting inspiration from the 1993 Konica Hexar point-and-shoot, a new camera app called Mattebox aims to bring prosumer control to your cell phone. The semi-opaque interface allows users to adjust ISO, white balance, saturation and vignetting among other effects. To top it all off, the app can adjust settings using gestural commands.

Clear

Plane sex, David Lynch's coffee, the world's beautiful bookstores and more in our look at the web this week

A new iPhone app that is currently in the making aims to add some simplicity to your life. Clear appears to have a simple and clean user interface with gesture based interactivity to easily create, manage and accomplish tasks.

Triumph Speed Twin Concept

Two budding designers turn a classic motorcycle into a modern work of art

For their final year project while studying transport design at Northumbria University in Newcastle, budding English designers Roy Norton and Tom Kasher wanted to create a bike that would borrow from the past while looking to the future. The result—an exceptionally sleek take on the classic Triumph Speed Twin, kitted out with girder forks and signature quilted Barbour fabric on the seat. The duo met …