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So here we have Rhino who (at least the costumed version) was a mystery and Electro who was not. Also, flying above everyone, the Green Goblin.

We knew this movie will set the stage for the Sinister Six but seeing the Goblin all suited up and in action came as a surprise.

We still can’t really see Rhino clearly but a better version of the poster should hit the Net soon. Only 6 days until the trailer premiere, after all.

Spidey 3 tried to pull multiple enemies and failed, do you think Mr. Webb will succeed or not? Tell us below.

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With its latest project called Timelapse, search giant Google has found an interesting and visual way to show us how different parts of the earth have changed during the past 28 years.

On their official website, Google explains more about how NASA and the U.S. Geological Society have been gathering high-res images of the earth for 40 years through their Landsat satellites.

You can watch the trends in deforestation in the Amazon from year to year, shrinking of the Columbia Glacier, or see just how much the city of Las Vegas has grown in a little more than two decades.

Overall, it’s a tool that perfectly shows the impact of human activity on the planet, either for exploring the dramatic and sometimes scary changes happening in the world or just to see how much a place you know may have changed or not since 1984 through 2012.

But they’re not. Flash drives are a way for PR companies to consolidate information into a compact package so we can pay attention as we try a new product, instead of taking spec notes. Unfortunately, after the article is said and done, the USB drive goes back into a drawer where many of its cousins reside, never to be touched again. It’s a waste of plastic and perfectly good technology.

To combat this uneconomical practice, Andrew DePaula and team have invented the intelliPaper. With intelliPaper, promotional USB sticks can be recycled, reused, and mailed without the bulk of physical plastic drives. At first glance, it looks like your average cardboard paper with silver prints at the end. But tear this perforated edge out and stick it into your computer’s USB slot and you have a functioning, flash drive. It’s an ingenius response to the increasing use of USB technology in a recyclable, disposable way. And in turn, we no longer have to feel guilty for hoarding little plastic drives.

“We’ve been selling the product to a handful of companies since April. These are real projects that companies paid us to do.”

I find intelliPaper quite intuitive. For disposable, one-time-use purposes, intelliPaper is an excellent way to curb manufacturing costs on drives. Not that there is a mobility issue with USB drives, but flattening it to the thinness of paper also makes it mailable in a regular envelope. Why is this important? Let’s be frank: People are curious. Even if you don’t care about the info kit that was sent to your house, if it comes with a paper USB, you’d at least want to stick it in your computer and see what’s up. From a business card standpoint, this is also a unique way to program your portfolio, website shortcut, or resume into the intelliPaper strip instead of where QR codes may currently be.

Designed as a deliberate counterpoint to the cold metal, plastic and glass aesthetic of most modern technology, Robbie Tilton’s take on Apple’s wireless keyboard is instead fabricated from wood and moss. The production methods used are bang up to date, however.

Though the materials used for the one-off keyboard may harken back to a bygone era (if, that is, you pretend for a moment nothing is made out of wood any more), there’s nothing archaic about the production techniques. The project was designed by Tilton, with fabrication partner Danny Rozin, as a demonstration of digital fabrication. An Apple wireless keyboard was chosen for its relative simplicity. Its parts are few.

Tilton began by creating a CAD model of a standard version of the keyboard. Tilton would have to set about replicating the parts in woods, laser cutting the parts from only two sheets of wood. Having an intricate injection-molded design, the keys presented something of a challenge, and an alternative means of keeping the keys elevated needed to be found. Rubber springs, ahoy.

The main body of the case is made from 1/32″ (0.8-mm) plywood, which was soaked in water in order to achieve the curved form.

Unfortunately Tilton was forced to turn to fake moss to complete his design, apparently because “growable moss is quite hard to find in NYC”

“I was passionate about creating this because I feel the aesthetic of modern technological objects are cold and lifeless,” Tilton writes. “Surrounded with tech gadgets made of glass, metals, and plastics—I believe that as a society—we are constantly removing ourselves from nature and have drawn ourselves into a motif of objects that are visually very clean, but also visually bland and tactilely inept. What if our technology lived and breathed? If it required us to water it at night in order to allow it to bloom? If it were both visually and tactilely stimulating would user interactions change and would their relationship toward the object change?”

Source: Robbie Tilton, via Treehugger

In itself, it will conserve water, stitch together a previously divided neighborhood, protect the ocean from runoff and provide a vibrant pedestrian and bicycle avenue to and from the beach. As a template for change, it will show how streets designed for automobiles can be transformed into inviting parts of the urban landscape

Designed by John Kaliski Architects, in conjunction with Lawrence Moss & Associates, Landscape Architects, and Kimley-Horn & Associates, Civil Engineers, the Ocean Park Boulevard Complete Green Street recently broke ground on December 12, 2011. It’s expected to be completed in early 2013, and once it is, it will be the longest complete green street in the City of Santa Monica, and one of the longest in Southern California.

Images courtesy of John Kaliski Architects

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