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The Library of Congress is putting up images from its collection of millions on Flickr. Each one of the over three thousand online right now have no copyright restrictions.

AMC's SciFi Scanner blog points out this awesome collection of space suit designs from science-fiction of olde (and a few from some research projects, too). It's the kind of page stuffed with so many great images I wish I could show you them all.

Minus the "three-dimensional image screen," the control console looks like it could be found in any recent Bang & Olufsen catalog.Mead's own site has plenty of information about his work, including his staggering film and anime contribution lists—dude got hired to make a Gundam!—but I found this Philips piece at the unsanctioned "Syd Mead Project," a small collection of images mostly scanned from a 1979 book, "Sentinel.

here's a lot more that could be talked about, like how EpiSurveyor team members used Basecamp to evolve data collection forms from country to country, a normally top-down process that can take years; or how continuing medical education programs can be transmitted across the EpiSurveyor system to keep medical workers' skills up to date. But I'd like to instead make a small appeal for conversation for DataDyne and EpiSurveyor

The lid for each was designed to give you a view of your extensive timepiece collection through a window of nearly indestructible poly-resin. Then we lined the interiors (even the inside of the lid) with the softest, felt (imagine the finest Mohair you've ever had the pleasure of touching and you'll have an idea of what we're talking about) fabric available.

The lid for each was designed to give you a view of your extensive timepiece collection through a window of nearly indestructible poly-resin. Then we lined the interiors (even the inside of the lid) with the softest, felt (imagine the finest Mohair you've ever had the pleasure of touching and you'll have an idea of what we're talking about) fabric available.

If that weren't the case, this entire "Faces in Places" weblog couldn't exist—it would just be a collection of random images of gadgets and wires.Faces in Places [FacesInPlaces

.. , although the term itself is actually a brand name used by artist Shimada Humikane to describe his collection of designs, including the animated series "Strike Witches" and his World War II set of designs, in w ..

Each are available for \$550 and include an accompanying "Book of the Five Pens," a collection of the original letters from the authors, who include Nagib Mahfouz, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, José Saramago and Saul Bellow.It's a cute idea, but look at the list of writers above, then try to match them with their pen.

.. ally have a trippy-dippy experience.Music Thing (celebrating its/his third anniversary!) has a nice collection of videos, including the one embedded above.Live from the Tenori On launch in London [Music Thing]Pr ..

The latest collection on Oobject is a treat: retro and modern real-life diving helmets. As an amateur diver myself, I'm enjoying the frisson from two types of lust: wishing I could afford to buy some of the modern full-face masks kits available, like the DSL B-2 Deep Sea Helmet with Welding Lens (because you never know when you might need to weld a cage to catch a mermaid) and amazement that people used to go underwater in this beautiful iron monstrosities like the Carmagnolle suit.

The Arcade Flyers Archive" is pretty self-explanatory, a collection of old advertising posters from the heyday of the video arcade. And if you're a MAME user, the Archive provides flyer packs which can be displayed in many of the front-end software interfaces for the videogame emulator.

Hussein Chalayan's latest collection of dresses incorporate servos and pulleys to transform the shape of the clothing in subtle, ethereal ways. There's no real practicality to these bits, just able showmanship and technical chops.

Today's collection on Oobject, the "Top X" ranking site for gadgets and gear, is ray-guns! I can't say that I liked the top three as much as the next three, which is why I picked them out here, although the the #2 ray gun, a custom-built steel jobber, looks solid and clean.The steampunk models are great, of course, but it's hard to beat the Superman Krypto gun.

Watchismo has assembled a collection of some of the most exclusive watches in the world, those crafted from meteorite metal. As gaudy and flagrantly tacky as they are, I have to admit that if I were going to drop several hundred thousand dollars on a watch, there's nothing that would imply I am more like a god than my fellow man than keeping a little bauble from heaven on my wrist.

Dutch designer Jo Meesters has made this collection of vases and water pitchers made from cast-off waste paper mixed with epoxy and polyurethane. That might affect the ability for these to be recycled again, but I'm actually less interested in them for their environmental impact and more for their rough-edge look

GadgetsNot sure if NASA has this on tap or not, but Benjamin Eimer and Lawrence Taylor of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville just invented a special magnetic collection tube that sucks up lunar soil so we can extract precious resources for use in future moon colonies. The tube, which is sort of like an elephant's trunk or one of those leaf suckers, would suck up lunar soil (not peanuts and leaves) containing water, oxygen and other resources to be extracted by astronauts.

.. Jul 21st 2007 1:51AM by Darren MurphFiled under: Misc. GadgetsIf being able to recharge your future collection of batteries "a thousand times more" than your existing stockpile sounds enticing, a team of NC Stat ..

Amidst the smattering of new surveillance methods being installed and implemented within the nation's border comes a second inquiry into the "constitutional implications" of such invasive measures. If you'll recall, the Commons' Home Affairs committee has already planned its own review, and now the UK's Constitution Committee will be "conducting an inquiry on the consequences of the collection and use of surveillance and personal data by the State.

Aug 30th 2007 7:28PM by Joshua TopolskyFiled under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoIf you've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the sleek little Archos 105 PMP to slide your sweet music and video collection into? Well, this won't technically get you any closer to ownership, but the folks over at ArchosLounge have put together an enticing selection of photos which should have fans of the media player feeling awful excited. On the spec tip, the 105 comes in red, silver, or black, features 2GB of integrated flash memory, can play WAV, WMA, PCM, MP3, and protected WMA files, yet only plays back WMV video (or so we're hearing).