We first saw the press shots for Urbanears a few weeks ago and were blown away by the imaginative scenes created from a simple concept of color. The simple, uncluttered concept is a very accurate portrayal of their actual product, which we just received yesterday. A simple colored box, devoid of excessive branding.  A pair of headphones that is pure and simply: just headphones.  This is not to say that they are too focused on just a simple branding approach (they are Scandinavian, after all). The headphones themselves are great.

The Plattan headphones sound excellent, and the details which make them even better are so simple in form that you would have expected them to be commonplace already, like an extra jack on the headphones that allows you to plug a friends headphones into your headphones to share your music.  They call this the “Zound Plug”.  It’s a brilliant idea, and amazingly simple.  It dawned on me that not only is this jack useful for a friend, but if you ever end up breaking your cord on accident (hey, it happens to us all), it actually allows you to keep using your headphones by simply plugging a male-to-male mini jack into the socket, and you can keep on rocking.

They also fold up nicely, and have a very solid feel when clicking into place, which feels like a magnetic lock, but I haven’t disassembled them to check if that’s the case. The fabric cord which matches the fabric-encased headband is a very nice touch, and the cord has a built-in microphone and click-button for iPhone/BlackBerry/Droid usage.

These headphones were truly designed to meet the needs of today’s casual headphone user, and at a great price ($60), available in a plethora of colors, these guys are highly recommended.  In stock now, online and in-store.

PANTONE® 15-5519

Well, here we have it.  The color of the year.  Pantone has announced that color number 15-5519 is officially the color of the year, and, well, I guess we have to take their word for it.  We’re not really sure how they arrive at such a conclusion, but interestingly enough, our new webstore was designed around a similar shade of blue, and this was done completely without knowing anyone at Pantone.  Looks like we’re a little bit ahead of the curve, once again.

We have them! Get colorful with us!

All colors and styles available!

They’re baaaack!  And our little friend has gone through some internal changes (my, my, they grow up so quickly):

- Video with sound

- Black & white mode

- Resolution: 2 MP 3 MP

- Macro: 10 cm 4 cm

- Camera face: White Mirror (ideal for self-portraits)

Now in stock!

Digital Harinezumi 2 "mood in Central Park" from 2122748828 on Vimeo.

Okay, there is no headphone company out there that is more with it than AiAiAi.  There are a few headphones out there now that are clear homages to skinny, minimal old school Walkman headphones: Koss Portapro, WeSC Pick-Ups – and of course there are also the authenticists I’ve seen around that rock the actual Walkman headphones.  AiAiAi schools all of those guys and takes sound+design+pizazz to the next level!

In collaboration with Danish design studio, Kilo Design, they took the rad 80s look and added their own spins on it that would make even Marty McFly covet a pair.  You know how when you normally get headphones, all you do is take it out of the box and that’s it?  No fun with customization.  With these, it comes disassembled (in a fun way) and you get to put it together yourself: the clean, brushed steel brace + 3 sets of sliders of various colors, to connect the ear cups to the brace + ear cups themselves.  Included is a drawstring carrying case, because  these headphones are just that easy to take apart and throw into a purse or murse.  Another important feature of the Tracks is the built-in microphone for iPhone users, available in 3 out of the 6 available colorways.

Specs:

Driver: 40mm

Plug: 3.5mm

Impedance: 32 Ohm

Sensitivity: 112 +/- 3dB

Max. Input: 40 mW

Mic Operating Voltage: 3-10V

Check out the gallery below and get in on the good stuff.  Shipping and in-store now!

]]> http://www.dijitalfix.com/blog/2009/11/aiaiai-tracks-are-in/feed/ 0 http://www.dijitalfix.com/blog/2009/11/serge-gainsbourg-x-3d-graffiti/ http://www.dijitalfix.com/blog/2009/11/serge-gainsbourg-x-3d-graffiti/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:53:52 +0000 Amelia http://www.dijitalfix.com/blog/?p=1566 One wall in Paris. 5 years of graffiti. Whipped into a 3D animation by Serge Gainsbourg.

40 years after his sex symbolism, and he has still not lost his cool.

Serge Gainsbourg - animation des graffitis sur 5 ans du mur rue de Verneuil from Arnaud Jourdain on Vimeo.

It’s that time of the year again when Field Notes Brand releases their new colorway for the season, and this time, it’s called JUST BELOW ZERO and features three beautiful icy-cold colors with special metallic inks.  They’re en-route to us now and we should have them any minute, but as always, you can make your pre-orders now for shipping (select JUST BELOW ZERO in the drop-down) or pickup in-store.

Also, we still have a few packs of the Mackinaw Autumn colorway left!

The internet seems to be the world’s hard drive.  Bye-bye photographs – there’s a copy on Facebook; bye-bye documents – there’s a copy on GoogleDocs.  Zach Gage sought to play with the seeming permanence of web data by creating a site that marginally changes with every unique visitor – ultimately becoming a blank page:

Unlike personal data however, data on the internet has a seemingly infinite shelf-life. Between search-engine caching, cloud-hosting, re-blogging, plagiarizing, and the way-back machine, the net collects and eternally stores vast amounts of information.

Temporary.cc eschews this paradigm. For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website’s code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be truly indexed, as any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modifiy it.

Eventually, like tangible media, Temporary.cc will fall apart entirely, becoming a blank white website. Its existence will be remembered only by those who saw or heard about it.

As Heraclitus observed, “You can not step twice into the same river” – the river is constantly flowing, constantly changing, therefore the water flowing past your feet 1 minute ago is not the same water as right now.  There’s also that part of all of us that likes to make our presence known to future frequenters of a location (e.g. “Tony wuz here 6/12/98″ etched into a park bench)  Of course Zach Gage has a much cooler, more interactive way of demonstrating the ever-changing river/bench that we know as the internet.

Make a difference here:  Temporary.cc