Frends Headphones

A snowboarding band of friends introduce a new headphones line

Hanging with the Frends crew means lots and lots of laughs, as I recently learned over dinner. The “Frends” are actually seven guys who regularly win professional (if not Olympic) snowboarding medals and since banding together in 2006 have become their own sort of self-entertaining traveling circus. Despite their penchant for making videos of each other pulling silly stunts or simply having a good time, …

NCS Colour Scan 2.0

The Scandinavian Colour Institute's new device identifies color from any surface

While the creative world might be aflutter over Pantone’s new color-matching device Capsure, for an alternative widely-used system in a nearly identical package, NCS Colour Scan 2.0 uses the same scanning technology to chose color from any surface and retrieve the closest NCS Colour Notationin a matter of seconds. Packed with plenty of new features, the zoom function combined with a color screen and crosshairs …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Live crab vending, sound sculptures, an app for healthy food shopping and more in our week's worth of links

1. Paris vs New York, A Tally of Two Cities A recent NYC transplant from Paris copes with culture shock by creating a lovely blog of simple graphics showing how the cities compare and contrast. Pitted against each other are Le Pain, La Peste, Le Tip and more in this friendly feud. 2. New York: Portrait of a City From heavenly images of Grand Central …