Jul 21st,
2010

Everyone is somewhat familiar with Twitter. We all see various updates and statuses from our friends, family and co-workers. Many times there is a link posted in a tweet too. This is happening more and more with companies jumping on the social media bandwagon. In most cases, we have to go to each link individually, jumping back and forth between the twitter feed and the posted link.
Enter Flipboard. This iPad app takes care of that jarring experience and creates a digital magazine style output of your Twitter feed. No matter what type of content is shared via a tweet, Flipboard displays it appropriately. It is also possible to pull your Facebook account into Flipboard. At the writing of this post, their servers were having issues so I could not test the Facebook part. In addition to your own Twitter feed, Flipboard also has some nice built-in sets of feeds (design, style, tech, etc.)
The overall interface is great. Great typography, very intuitive. The price – FREE!
This is the sort of app that makes having an iPad justifiable.
It is also important to note that Teehan+Lax out of Toronto have a similar idea in the works too. It’s called TweetMag. Knowing Teehan+Lax, this app will be great and will give Flipboard a run for its money.

Check out this conceptual video (after the jump) by 
BMW Art Cars have been going on since the mid-seventies. The task for the artist is to take a production or race-spec BMW and create an artistic outer appearance. It is fascinating to the see the transition of art styles over the years as well that the design of the cars. This years artist is 
