New York City’s subway lines now available in Google Maps

November 6, 2009 @ 8:55 pm

It’s been available as a layer on Google Maps for BlackBerry devices for a while, but it looks like Google formally announced the MTA NYC Subway transit layer for the standard version of Google Maps. Rather than simply showing the station stops like Google Maps has been doing, the new layer actually shows you how each line travels from point to point.

Looks like there will soon be no use for this digital version of the official MTA NYC Subway map.

La Strada coffee cups by Transformer Studio

November 4, 2009 @ 1:23 am

Russian design studio Transformer Studio designed this wonderful coffee cup for La Strada cafe. I wish my local deli carried coffee cups as good looking as this.

Head on over to the Transformer Studio website to see the entire La Strada design concept.

Eisenhower Interstate System in the style of the London Underground map

November 2, 2009 @ 10:20 pm


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An Australian designer (living in America) has taken it upon himself to create this great looking map of the Eisenhower Interstate System with an obvious homage to the classic London Underground map.

You can read more about Cameron’s map design here.

Long exposure shows Roomba cleaning path

May 8, 2009 @ 12:59 pm

roomba-movements

Signaltheorist did something really neat with a new Roomba he got. He shut off all of the lights in his room for 30 minutes and captured a long exposure of the path that the Roomba makes when it goes about cleaning the area. The resulting photo is a mess of circles and lines that somewhat resemble flight paths. I wonder what the paths would look like in a bigger room. I should get our Roomba out and see.

The Eyeballing Game: test your visual perception skills

October 14, 2008 @ 3:27 pm

How well can you eyeball straight lines, angles, and circles? Don’t know? Well, test yourself with the eyeballing game. FUN FUN FUN! I’m an average eyeballer.