Tag Archives : Netherlands

Based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, one of the premier design houses in Europe, Ooze, has now designed and developed a marvelous new architecture in the form of ‘Seaside Apartment’ that has been constructed for a Dutch art collector in Belgium, who wishes to be anonymous. The entire structure has been designed to provide the owner with the utmost [...]

One of the foremost mapping and navigation services on the web, Google Maps has now been given an update that will enable it display live traffic coverage in some thirteen countries in Europe. The live traffic information had been one of the most requested feature from European users, where traffic conditions often lead to long traffic jams and the [...]

If all gadgets be like this pen, the world would be less stressed (or not). Built by a student at the University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands, this pen makes writing more difficult if used aggressively. This supposedly makes the writer calmer. But only supposedly. Miguel Bruns Alonso, his creator, devised the pen so that it detects motion rude [...]

The WikiLeaks is directing his readers to an Internet address in Switzerland after being taken down by two providers in the U.S. two days, and France have tried to prohibit servers from the country of harboring sensitive data from the site. Users are being diverted to the site www.wikileaks.ch after the wikileaks.org, who had published secret diplomatic [...]

The inventor of Pac-Man attended a technology event bearing no less than the original drawings of what would become one of the most important titles in the world of gaming. According to Kotaku, Toru Iwatani, the renowned Japanese game designer, was invited to the Festival of Games that took place earlier this month in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands. [...]

The analyzer of happiness in the status updates from Facebook network now serves more than 18 countries. The service identifies the happiness levels of each user by means of specific words and ranks countries on their happiness. The service is known as Gross National Happiness, and was active in the United States since last year. The application analyzes [...]

The contribution of design world to everything that we put in daily use doesn’t need any introduction. Day in and out I come across mind-boggling designs that ooze rich creativity enveloped with sometimes contemporary or futuristic technology. So this makes it inevitable that design schools provide the necessary infrastructure to their students as [...]

For centuries now, the month of February has been known to be the shortest month of the year and it also marks the most loveable day of the year, with the celebration of Valentine’s Day on the 14th February of every year. However, for the year 2010, a new social movement, called The Halo Effect has something quite different in mind, as it is encouraging [...]

The siege against the search engine The Pirate Bay squeezed in Europe after the Netherlands require on Thursday (22/10) that those responsible for the service to remove all torrents that allow anybody to download multimedia content protected by copyright. With the ban applied by Justice Foundation to Protect the Rights of the Entertainment Industry [...]

In the countdown to the much-awaited and carefully-prepared for climate summit to be held in Copenhagen towards the end of 2009, ‘the United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, [...]