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Tomy LumiPAD glowing message board actually looks really cute! http://tinyurl.com/f9xx9 # Best little (and I mean little) concept shop in Sydney. VA Concept – http://www.viaalley.com/ #

Hey wow, we have a twitter account now. Social networking party. Lala W00T Real Fandom – Comic Book Tattoos http://www.degourget.com/?p=843 LaCie USB Key. Actually looks like a key. Is brilliant. http://www.degourget.com/?p=2090 Studio Schulab Lightpot. Clearly for stoners who have a thing for aesthetic design. http://www.degourget.com/?p=2126 Literally vinyl scratching with your Ipod. Brilliant short video. http://www.degourget.com/?p=2252

Google earth is amazing. Honestly, why bother travelling anymore? Especially when you can find crazy weird stuff like this. Oh and it’s worth updgrading to the latest version of Google Earth – the 3D is pretty impressive. They’ve even mapped out some major cities in 3D. Go to GoogleSightSeeing for more fun stuff. More videos [...]

News report from 1981 – discussing a crazy new form of “electronic journalism”. This pre-internet technology is quite amusing. Still, I find it of poignant interest that this was already available to consumers in the year I was born. Apparently it took an entire two hours to download the electronic version of the newspaper over [...]

So you guys use it everyday, but how many of you actually know your history of the internet? I remember some of this from Year 11 Computer Studies, but this is told quite well. And it’s not long. In a mere 8 minutes it goes through all the important breakthroughs – from time-sharing to filesharing, [...]

Okay, so flipclocks are way cool. Every ‘creative’ type I know, seems to be running the uniqlock or fliqlo screensavers on their work computers. Now, you can have this same feeling of creative superiority on your iPhone! Get your artistic props, ON THE GO! Seriously though, this is pretty cool. What makes this one special [...]

Videos after the jump. via waxy

2009 is closing in, and this years nearly over and its time get organised for the new year. So what’s happening – new gear? events? shows? goals? brirthdays? – damn, you are going to need a good calendar. And if you are a bit of a sucker for sweet graphic design – then look no [...]

With all the screaming and shouting about The Economic Crisis – or as I like to call it the American Econopocalypse - it’s hard to get away from hearing all the fear-mongering sensationalist headlines and the general chit-chat of people who pretend they know basic economic theory which really they just stole some quote from an [...]

Usernamecheck.com is a simple online tool that will let you avoid encountering unfortunate messages like the one above. There’s nothing worse than getting to a new site only to discover some other fool has taken your beloved handle/alias/nickname and forced you to create a new identity or stick a range of stupid numbers on the [...]

Wooster Collective has launched a Facebook application that lets lovers of the nebulous and much maligned concept that is street art send each other Facebook ‘gifts’ in the form of street art photos. Regular DEGOURGET visitors may have noticed a few links from Wooster regularly popping up in posts on Banksy, Above and other great [...]

This is an interesting video from Japan based mobile phone app developer, Tonchidot. The video demonstrates a prototype application (running on an iphone) that challenges the way we interact with the internet. Using the the iphone’s camera and GPS, the application overlays links, images, information etc over the picture on the screen to give a [...]

Those mourning the loss of Muxtape can breathe easy, Favtape another online music sharing platform has been given a rather large update that has turned it into “Muxtape on Steroids” by their own reckoning. The look and feel of the site is very similar to Muxtape with a spartan layout and features in the minimalist [...]

AirBed&Breakfast is a new site that gets all Web2.0 on the Hostel and Hotel trade. Basically its a paid version of couch-surfing – people offer a spare room/mattress on the floor/kennel all over the world for a nominal or astronomical fee, depending on their commitment to capitalism. Essentially the idea is to provide a viable [...]

Billed as the simplest weather report ever, Umbrella Today? gives you the most important information that can be gleaned from a  weather report – whether or not to take your umbrella out with you. You simply punch in your zip code, (unfortunately it appears to be US only at the moment) and you get a [...]