The Little Black Dress of the Future Doubles as a Cellphone

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The Little Black Dress of the Future Doubles as a Cellphone

London-based fashion company CuteCircuit has just upped the ante in the Little Black Dress category.

The company recently released images and a few details about its forthcoming M-Dress, a dark, richly textured, form-fitting silk jersey dress that also doubles as a cellphone. That's right, you can make and receive calls with your current mobile number. From your dress.

Simply slip your SIM card underneath the garment label and you're all set. The dress has special gesture recognition software that makes picking up a call as simple as raising a hand to your ear. (And yes, the dress rings. We were told that the default ring sounds like "Dilidilidilidliin dliin dliin." Make of that what you will.) Dropping your hand will end the call, the manufacturer claims.

The dress will only be able to call a couple of numbe...

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Typekit, a company doing its part to help bring better typography to the web, has just announced an new partnership with Adobe.

The partnership means that Typekit users can now integrate famous fonts like Myriad, Cooper Black and Adobe Garamond into their own sites and designs.

Adobe took the time to optimize and hint its collection of fonts for the screen, ensuring that type looks its best. The web fonts support the same languages and scripts as their counterparts on the desktop.

We spoke with Bryan Mason from Typekit and he expanded more on the process of making these fonts web-ready: "Adobe has been working on the hinting and screen rendering of these (and others to follow) for months. On a pixel-specific level, Adobe reviews each font character-by-character, weight-by-weight. It is amazingly meticulous work — and the results show." Mason also said new Adobe fonts will be added to the service as they are web-ready.

We also spoke with Jeffrey Veen from Typekit about what the company — which is celebrating its one-year anniversary — has planned going forward. He said in part: "We're also adding more and more features that help designers focus on creativity and not compatibility. Soon, we'll be launching some amazing CSS3 tools that not only focus on webfonts, but all of the new browser capabilities."

These are the Adobe fonts that are now available to Typekit users:

• Adobe Garamond
• Adobe Text
• Bickham Script
• Caflisch Script
• Chaparral
• Cooper Black
• Cronos
• Garamond Premier
• Hypatia Sans
• Minion
• Myriad
• Myriad Condensed
• News Gothic
• Poplar
• Rosewood
• Rosewood Fill
• Trajan
• Voluta Script

Not all fonts and weights are available for all user plans, but select Adobe fonts are available at every tier.

What do you think of Adobe and Typekit's announcement? Do you plan on integrating Myriad Pro in your designs? Let us know!

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Wave Goodbye To Google Wave

via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on 8/4/10

Maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or maybe there were just too many features to ever allow it to be defined properly, but Google is saying today that they are going to stop any further development of Google Wave.

Wave, a real time messaging platform, was unveiled in May 2009 to an enthusiastic crowd of developers at the Google I/O event in San Francisco. It would "set a new benchmark for interactivity," said Sergey Brin.

The product is part email, part Twitter and part instant messaging. Users can drag files from the desktop to a discussion. Wave even showed character-by-character live typing. It fully launched this last May.

And while the service has many, or at least some, passionate users (including TechCrunchers), it "has not seen the user adoption we would have liked," says Google.

The service will remain live, says Google, although they say they it may eventually come down. Google has also open sourced parts of the code and say they will create tools to let users "liberate" their data: "The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave's innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users easily "liberate" their content from Wave."

What happens to the Wave team, mostly located in Australia? Google won't say, other than that they will be given new projects. Our guess is many, or all, of them will soon be working for Vic Gundotra and his new WWF (war with Facebook).

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