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WIRED FOR BETTER LIVING JOHN MAHONEY

November 2009
Fanfair
WIRED FOR BETTER LIVING JOHN MAHONEY
November 2009

WIRED FOR BETTER LIVING JOHN MAHONEY

ART'S DAILY DOSE

Visionaire' new electric calendar, created in collaboration with Smart car, spotlights a different artist each day. Fifty-two luminaries from around the globe, including Zaha Hadid, Marc Jacobs, and Louise Bourgeois, each curate a week’s worth of images that pop up daily, bringing art into everyday living. $295, vmagazine.com.

O MOBILE MAVERICK

Towable caravans haven’t evolved much beyond the classic 1930s Airstream. But now comes the Mehrz a multi/? cellular luxury camper that’s built to order—pick your ideal interior, and the geodesic-like outer shell is computer£ configured for maximum efficiency, mehrzeller.com.

ONOTEBOOK NIRVANA

Further blurring the line between ⅛ smart phone and laptop, Nokia \ has entered the “netbook” fray \ with the Booklet 3G, a sleek (and surprisingly full-featured) aluminum — ultraportable built specifically for mobile broadband connections, nokiausa.com.

TOUCH UP O

Telecomputers

touch-screenequipped Glass platform breathes new life into the utilitarian business phone

with the Web capabilities and smorgasbord of applications of Google’s Android operating system.

cloudtelecomputers.com.

O FAN-TASTIC

Vintage 1920s detailing and a unique spherical head for 360-degree air circulation turn motion's Fargo desktop fan into something beautiful. $250, fanimation.com.

O SMALL WONDER

With its 90-degree hinge and iPod compatibility, the Cinemin Swivel pocket projector can throw a 60-inch image on just about any surface. $349, wowwee.com.

MOVING PICTURE O

Sony's Party-shot “personal photographer” camera dock swivels and pans through the room looking for smiles, and when it finds one, click! The morning after, a memory card full of great shots awaits. $150, sonystyle .com.