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As a digital environmentalist I just started a series of protest against the ignorance of digital and visual pollution. For a few weeks I will upload tons of pictures that are probably not worth being saved.

The movie was recorded this morning at around 5:30. I brought Klasomat to the airport. He was the first person to use our brand new service: The Flughafenholundbringdienst (mit Driveyourself-Option).

Give me a call if you need a ride.

P.S.: Thanks for the second helmet, Mr. Yeah!

This is the first inofficial web-preview via Mowecam of the IKEABagHack.

The IKEABagHack is a hack of the famous IKEA bags that serve as shopping baskets inside IKEA stores. Outside the stores these bags are widely used by young people to transport great amounts of laundry and/or emtpy bottles.

The basic idea behind this hack is to transform a huge inconvenient bag into a small fashionable bag. This should not be achieved by complex cuts, but by folding the IKEA bag. (The working title was iFolder). Only two straight cuts have to be made.

Instructions:

• Remove the bottom of the original bag by opening the seam.
• Also remove the seam on the side.
• Fold the bag (aka the long piece of blue plastic) in half. The handles of each side should be opposite of each other.
• After the process of folding two seams have to be made on the left hand side and ond the right hand side of the handles.
• Then remove the two loose remaining pieces behind one of the seams. (This is the ugly but quite simple part of cutting.)
• Turn the cloth through the open pocket in the middle and add another seam at the bottom.
• Twist the bag completely and your done.

The bag has three pockets that are big enough to hold the essentials of the semi-digital urban coffeehouse visitor: A small laptop, a power supply and a magazine.

A big thank you to Carolin, the goddess of sewing-machines.

[UPDATE] I published some picture of the IKEABagHack at flickr.
[UPDATE2] A lot of readers of the IKEABagHack kept on asking if we sell it. For those are not familiar with DIY this is your chance to get your BagHack.

There are a few things I wanted to mention:

• If you happen to have a Sony Ericsson cell phone with the Walkman option and a Mac, you should get Ilari’s iTuneMyWalkman script. It let’s you synchronise your cellphone just like an iPod.
• Another great script is Kevin’s Street Spirit Fade Out: It gives iTunes a sleep timer and optionally shuts down your computer after the time ran out.
• I am selling one of my bikes because I want to buy something else (check out the one-man-hochkant-makes-me-sick version below). Contact me either if you want to buy the bike or if you can sell me a nice old scooter. Thank you.
• I am traveling this week. Luckily the weather slot is perfect.

Motorola just filed a patent (the patent has been moved and I can’t find it at USPTO) for a mobile that makes suggestions for your apartment based on Feng-Shui principles. The mobile analyses the dimensions and colors of your room via a camera, factors in the noise level via a microphone, and the location of your apartment via GPS sensors. Wonderful.

(via futurezone)

Here’s some nice equipment for tech-savvy rockers!

I wonder if they can think of a better name than Music and video creativity console …

This is our last entry from Warsaw, Poland. On our way from Paparazzi to the Lemon Club (that was where we started) it was way too cold to get out the camera. So we decided to make an audio recording with the cell phone. Some pictures will be posted as soon as we’re back in Hamburg, Germany. Now Listen!

Now we tagged it. We will proceed.

Ahhh, we want to tag a new plaze and now we can’t…

We’re back at Oki Doki, tired y un poco borracho. This is the last entry for today. So far, we’ve seen a lot (due to extended walkabouts in the city, approx. 15 km). Tomorrow we’ll see even more. We got great plans and more sights to explore.