The disgrace that is politics of the @Olympics

After a spectacular opening ceremony to the XXX Olympiad in London, I felt rather compelled to share some news of a disappointing nature. For the whole week, I've been Tweeting patriotic messages about my birth country of the Republic of China, also popularly known as Taiwan. But, at every Olympic Games, I always feel a sharp pang of sadness when my team walks into the arena with a "fake" flag. That is because the International Olympic Committee ruled back in 1980 that Taiwan is not a country in the Olympics sense and cannot compete using its own flag, anthem or, indeed, the proper name of the country at the Olympics.

Anothony Davidson at Le Mans [Video]

Just noticed, I've just reached 300 posts and 50,000 pageviews. No time to waste. Here's a really cool video of Anthony Davidson from Toyota Racing at Le Mans this year.

Turn the volume up. Put on full screen. Enjoy!


Anthony Davidson // Le Mans 24 Hours from thirtyfive on Vimeo.

Incredible waterfall rainbow at Yosemite [PIC]

I saw this picture just a few minutes ago on Huff Post Good News. It's simply incredible and I can scarcely believe its not been CGI'd somehow. But... Well here it is!

Augmenting reality with interactive car windows

Toyota unveiled a rather interesting car concept last year at an ACEA (European automaker's association) event in Brussels. The concept, coming from the company's European division, uses augmented reality to turn car windows into drawing canvases and information display. The concept was extremely popular, gaining over 1 million hits on YouTube quite quickly. It was also widely reported by CNN and even made it on Jay Leno's talk show - albeit as a bit in his monologue. Have a look at this video (and the CNN + Leno reports) after the break.

Toyota Europe's innovative concept recently won this year's Core77 Design Award in the Speculative category.



CNN report


The Tonight Show with Jay Leno