Hope App

Hot Wheels' Camaro, Google's tribute to Bob Ross, the Hope app and more in our look at the web this week

Sandy’s recent devastation brings up the important question of how to prepare for and respond to disaster situations first asked in 2011 after the oil spill in Japan. Design firm RKS partnered with InterFUEL on the Hope App to address the issue of half the population’s lack of preparedness, and offer a tool to stay connected to loved ones and the world at large during …

Grass-Mud Horse Style

London's Sound Taxi, Ai Weiwei's Grass-Mud Horse Style, COMUNE's last ride and more in our look at the web this week

In a remark on Chinese Web censorship artist Ai Weiwei mocked PSY’s ubiquitous Gangnam Style video with his own version, Grass-Mud Horse Style. Still online outside of China, the video shows Weiwei in handcuffs, which he says “should belong to law enforcement but in many many cases in China people are arrested or taken away without any formal charge.”

noPhoto

London's Sound Taxi, Ai Weiwei's Grass-Mud Horse Style, COMUNE's last ride and more in our look at the web this week

Speed demons will definitely want to help fund inventor Jonathan Dandrow’s newest idea—a license plate that deflects the flash of traffic enforcement cameras. Called noPhoto, the advantageous tool will likely be banned once discovered by the fuzz, but you can pretend every road is the Autobahn until they do.