To design psychohaptic’s logo, I searched a visual identity for the research. The logo that I ended up creating visually represents a mix between therapy and artificial comfort: a cross pink. The pink reminded me of artificial candy’ sweetness, and the cross aimed to connect to medical care. Creating an artificial sensation of touch with Psychohaptics for therapy, the pink cross logo worked pretty well.

I recently discovered Happy Pills, a sweet shop in Barcelona designed in homage to traditional pharmacies. The logo is exactly the same one than the one I made for our project at MIT. I started to be interested in the common points between projects with similar logos. I envision a database of logos with a few keywords on the rationale for their design choices and their corresponding projects. As for a navigation system through design works, that would be very exciting!

M designed the branding and packaging as well as the interior of the store. “When you get candy in your mouth, your mood lifts, you feel better,” says M partner Marion Donneweg. “It’s like a bite of happiness.”

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Filed under: Restaurants, Trends, On the Blogs, Health & Medical

I’ve never heard of the chain of restaurants named Max, probably because I live here in the U.S. The Swedish chain is one of the vital ingredients in the mission taken on by a guy named Johan, who has lost a lot of weight eating food from the chain (and exercising!) and is trying to lose even more (there’s a few days left in his 90 day experiment to lose 20 kg - I have no idea how much 20 kg is. Readers?).

The blog’s name is MinimizeMe, a takeoff on Morgan Spurlock’s SuperSize Me movie, where he ate nothing but McDonald’s food for a month and ruined his health (though I have serious problems with the way he did it). Max Restaurants are actually known for trying to get people to eat healthier.

[via The Grinder]

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The SitePoint file server crashed overnight because of a massive influx of traffic due to our FREE download offer of “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications”. In fact, we were getting over 200 simultaneous download requests when the server crashed!

We’ve now setup a copy of the eBook on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud environment, ensuring that we can handle many more download requests at the same time.

Grab your free copy of our Ruby on Rails Book today and spread the word!

This article provided by sitepoint.com.

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Word out of Asia is that the LG KH1600 is the new must-have phone for the jet set…set.

You can use the thing in over 120 countries, including previously tough-to-use-your-cell-phone-in Japan (who know there were so many countries out there?!), thanks to its WCDMA system (which is like 3G, with really good social skills and lots of frequent flyer miles).

So far, all Akihabara News knows about the thing is that it should be selling for 300,000 Korean Won, which translates to about 232 green pieces of paper with George Washington’s face on them. Unfortunately, you’ll probably have to live in Korea to get one.

The site does have some steamy pictures, though.

From Akihabara News

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Filed under: Audio/Video, Columns, Reviews, Editor’s Picks, Slideshows

Going to the gym is such a drag for most of us that the only way to make time pass (and exercise more bearable) is to blast some tunes while we work out. Unfortunately, many of the headphones we like to wear on the street (because they’re stylish), at home (because they’re audiophile-quality), or while we travel (because they block out airplane cabin noise) just don’t cut it on the treadmill. Headphones have a tendency to fall off our heads while we jog, for example, or just hurt out ears. But have no fear: We put five highly-touted, gym-friendly headphones to the test by taking them with us on some recent workouts. Here’s what we found.

H2O Sport Headphones

The only over-the-ear pair of headphones we tested, the H2O Sport is a pretty good option for budget-conscious athletes: For 30 bucks, these things actually provide decent bass response and get plenty loud. The neckwrap helps keep the headphones in place while you get your sweat on, and the coiled cord conveniently retracts to three feet (six feet when extended). That said, the plastic construction is a bit chintzy, and the cord feels like it might rip if you tug it too hard. The phones are a bit bulky and feel like they may give out after a year or so, but until then, they’ll definitely get the job done whle you work out.

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If you’ve ever considered installing an inflatable dummy in your passenger seat so that you can use those temptingly fast-moving commuter lanes on the highway, you might want to think again — at least if you live near Washington D.C. There local officials are installing infrared cameras to identify cars with too few passengers on board. The cameras will take body heat readings of a car’s interior to determine how many occupants are inside. Too few people and a ticket will be automatically generated.

So, if you are going to use that inflatable dummy, at least make sure you fill it with warm water before hitting the highway. Just don’t blame us if it springs a leak and gets your fancy new dash unit all wet.

Just for fun:

• Man stopped for dressing up kickboxing dummy to ride in commuter lane
• Drivers dressing up dogs and sex dolls to ride in the HOV lane
• Vintage male mannequin on sale for $1,895 on eBay

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Amir Khan is back in action with his new movie Taare Zameen Par. What’s so special about this Movie- it’s an Amir Khan movie and it’s a remake of the Telugu hit movie Gajjini. The Tamil version of the movie was a huge hit and then the Telugu version. Amir has not just taken the […]

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They say that Japanese and American gamers have different taste in games. Well, that certainly appears to be the case in Japan. Lair (or Rise from Lair, as it’s called in Japan) has been getting a serious push by Sony’s Japanese marketing team. They might have an easier job of selling the game in the territory, thanks to the fantastic critical reception of the game. Famitsu, Japan’s leading gaming magazine awarded the game an impressive 34/40, which is far more generous than the current critical average of 55/100.

Will Lair be able to dominate the Japanese sales charts next week? With Halo 3 taking the top spot this week, it seems anything is possible.

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The Sprint Palm Centro is not on the shelves yet, but the interest is switching to the Centro for AT&T that will work on GSM networks. If the photo is legitimate, this would suggest that the AT&T Centro will have Push-to-talk. There is not direct mention of a 3G data connect, but I doubt that AT&T will use their AT&T Music service on a 2.5G device, although that’s always a possibility. According to brighthand, Sprint will have the exclusivity on the device until Jan 2008, which is similar to what Palm offered to Verizon in the past.

Palm Centro for Sprint
Palm Centro first image

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