For iPods, cell phones and I would imagine, just about anything else that gets “juiced up” via usb power. Peep the product page for full details.

The Kindle eBook Reader, by Amazon. eBooks and eBook readers have never really made a huge amount of noise up to this point, but all of that may change after today’s launch of the Kindle. This could very well be the iPod of the book world. Seriously. Books, magazines, newspapers and blogs…anywhere, anytime. Crazy!

Peep some of its features:

-Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.

-Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.

-Includes free wireless access to the planet’s most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org.

-Email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to Kindle for easy on-the-go viewing.

-Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes—all auto-delivered wirelessly.

-Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times.

-More than 250 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN’s Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post.

R-E-A–DA–BO-OK!

Chris Glass brings us “Pantone Autumn”. Real leaves, each taken from the same tree. Nice!

(via Core77)

Private-equity firm Terra Firma, the company that acquired record company EMI in May, is now trying to attract investors by floating a plan that includes drastic cost cuts at the struggling label, according to a story in The New York Post. The paper said that according to a “confidential investor presentation,” Terra Firma is considering slashing EMI’s fixed costs by $223 million.

Under the proposal, EMI would slice $58 million from its A&R and marketing budget. The savings would come from requiring talent scouts to rely more heavily on sites such as MySpace to find talent, the Post reported. The company would also use social-networking sites to promote acts. The plan is only under consideration and final decisions have not been made, one of the label’s spokesmen told CNET News.com.

We’ll have to wait and see how this whole situation unfolds. Should be quite interesing if everything goes down as planned.

(via CNET)

Now you can get that good, wood grain action poppin’ off on your iPhone, with these cases from Miniot. They look quite spiffy, I must say. Oh, and it doesen’t just stop there, no sir! They also make cases for iPods. Coordinate, you must!

 

Fiascogate aside, I’m actually looking forward to Lupe’s sophomore album, “The Cool”. Here are a few excerpts taken from a recent article on Billboard.com…

Rapper Lupe Fiasco embodies multiple characters and concepts on his sophomore album, “Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool,” due Dec. 18 via 1st and 15th/Atlantic.

Among the characters are Michael Young History, the Game (described as “a male personification of a hustler’s damaging influences”) and the Streets (”a female embodiment of an urban area’s corrupt allure”).

Fiasco makes at least two allusions to quitting the music business after one more album, “LUP End,” but he ends “The Cool” on an up-tempo note with “Go Baby Go.” “Congratulations ladies, this one’s for you,” he says.

At this point, I’m no longer surprised or amused by the “wackness” that some of these street wear/t-shirt labels are flooding the streets with today. Just peep this story out of Los Angeles, where one group has made a mentally ill, homeless man the “face” of their up and coming street wear/t-shirt label. Along with a few “original” catchphrases (e.g. No Money, No Problems), the man’s face appears on a collection of t-shirts and sweatshirts, which range in price from $33 to $75. The real kick here, the man gets %5 of the label’s profits, food and drawing paper.

(via WSJ)

Talib Kweli ft. Res - “Everything Man”
Produced by Madlib.

This is the handy work of artist, Billy Chasen. He disassembled a 4th generation iPod, suspended it in a cube of resin…AND…it still works!

Billy says…

I love exploded diagrams of objects where you see every piece of the thing. I had the idea to try and make a real life version of one, and picked my iPod to be the victim. The catch was, I wanted it to work even in its exploded form.

I was a bit unhappy with the result because of the clarity of the resin. There were too many bubbles (and was an error on the last pour). At first I was just going to shelve it, but yesterday decided to at least put the photos online.

The most incredible thing about it is it still works perfectly. I encased the internals of the dock too, so it can be controlled, charged, and listened to, by a wire underneath (that sticks out a bit, hence the lego support legs).

Pretty cool. It sort of reminds me of another dope piece of submerged/suspended artwork that I came across not too long ago. Peep…crazy, right!? In the meantime, you can see more photos of the “Exploded iPod Cube” here.

(via Engadget)

Classic.