The swooping arm holds interchangeable light fixtures, and while there’s a chance someone sitting near the center might bump their head on the arm, I’d be willing to watch my guests do that time and again just so I could have this thing in my house.

PlasmaVis is a music “visualizer” that turns sounds into graphic works of art.  It features high resolution hardware-accelerated graphics combining texture, color, and advanced mathematics such as real-time fractals.  Simply put, PlasmaVis is something to look at while you listen to music.  Beyond that, it can be used as background effects at concerts, dance clubs, parties, etc., a screen-saver to decorate your computer, or an advertising venue to draw attention to a message.

PlasmaVis consists of 3 main applications:

• Windows Media Player “Visualizer” (runs inside of the Microsoft^® Windows Media Player)
• Stand-alone visualizer (runs from microphone input, or if no microphone is present it runs from internally generated data.)
• Screen Saver (generates visualization based on internally generated data, or microphone input if a microphone is active.)

These 3 applications are available as a free download with some features disabled.  Purchasing & Registering PlasmaVis Pro unlocks additional effects and features.  For an exact description of what is included in the free and pay versions, visit http://www.plasmavis.com.

The TeamWox collaboration software is designed for the optimization of management and production processes in a company. Using it, you can organize management processes inside a company, make them more transparent, quicken decision making based on full and authentic information.

Besides, all the information about your clients and history of the cooperation with them, various documents, tasks and discussions are stored in TeamWox. Now all this information is concentrated in one place and available to you from any point of the world.

TeamWox contains everything to provide the efficient operation of your company by achieving well-organized teamwork and collaboration.

All info ; http://www.teamwox.com/

Conceived by French designer Josselin Zaïgouche, the “Wheely Talkie” is a new walkie talkie concept that not only lets you remain connected but also helps in sustaining the environment, for the users can charge it on the go without any energy source. In case the device runs short of battery in an emergency, all the user need to do is run it on your pants to juice up its battery once again. Featuring speaker + microphone and battery level indicator, the ecological walkie talkie can be clipped to your belt for safe and easy transportation. You can roll the built-in nonskid wheel of the Wheely Talkie with one hand to charge it with ease anywhere, anytime.

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FIXED BEHIND OR ON THE DESKTOP, EVEN ONTO A FACING WALL
Anywhere in fact where you wish to have cables temporarily held yet easily removeable or extended. CableDrop gently grasps your power and peripheral cords so they do not fall off your desk every time you unplug your laptop.
Multi-purpose Cable Clips
Cabledrop’s unique design makes cable management fun and can also be used as a general purpose clip in a multitude of creative ways.

Perfect In Any Environment
Cabledrop can really blend in with your decor, use them hidden under ledges with the muted colors to match your furniture or bring them to light by using the bright ones. Beyond just preventing cables from falling off a desk, they make great cable clips on furniture legs or walls to control unruly cords.

These modules have been designed specifically for group use and include shared calendars, customer relations management, projects, files and e-mail. Users can use their preferred web browser to access their business information from anywhere in the world.

More information about Group-Office can be found on the special website of Group-Office.

colaab offers any business or organisation secure, real time collaboration through a rich, simple user interface that streamlines work and cuts down wasted hours spent in meetings.

Tired of sending emails back and forth with no audit trail and versioning nightmares? colaab is for you.

The real-time collaboration that colaab has to offer allows you and others to work on a Resource, much in the same way as if you were all sitting together at the same table – even if you’re at opposite ends of the world.

For example, if someone makes a comment on a Resource you are viewing, it will appear straight away in front of you. No need to refresh the page or go backwards and forwards. You can also view Resources as they are being created, use our Discussion Hub to chat to each other, or even annotate images, video and text documents – all in real time.

more info : www.colaab.com

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With Vyew you can give a presentation to a hundred people online or post a document you’ve been working on for review by your colleagues at their convenience. Vyew is extremely flexible allowing you to bring online collaboration and conferencing into your workflow on your terms.

All info : http://vyew.com

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Not that McCarthy hasn’t paid tribute to the twisted pop-mythological deities of the American psyche. “I’m interested in caricatures — from Miss Piggy to Popeye to Santa Claus — that are cultural fabrications,” observes the 63-year-old artist from his LA home. “Santa is one that I’ve hung on to longer, that I repeat more. There’s the whole thing of Christmas and consumption and commodity, and its relationship to capitalism and Western culture and Americana. The character itself is this roly-poly patriarch with a beard — almost a godlike figure.” In fact, he notes, one of his earliest childhood drawings is of Santa Claus.

The old elf has surfaced often in McCarthy’s oeuvre, from the outrageous fecal-smearing bacchanalia of the mid-’90s Tokyo Santa (1996) and Santa Chocolate Shop (1997), to an entire series of recent sculptural works based on a Santa figure holding aloft a tree-like butt plug. This latter series culminated in Chocolate Santa (2007), McCarthy’s warped take on entrepreneurship in the form of a fully functioning “Chocolate Santa with Butt Plug” factory, churning out $100 gift boxes at a rate of 1,000 a day in New York’s Maccarone Gallery.

 whole thing in two months,” recalls McCarthy with disbelief. After refitting the gallery so that it passed the Board of Health, he made the mold, found a chocolatier, set up a company, and found people who “knew how to make this stuff.” Then, he says, “I hired an ad agency and put ads in Vanity Fair and other magazines.” McCarthy laughs. “It looked like success, but I always thought it would be a company that would fail financially — and it did. There was this thing in Artforum about how much money I was going to make and how I had sold out. They calculated that I was going to sell 30,000.” He ended up selling around 1,600. “I have about 12,000 in storage, packed in shredded Artforums.”

Around the same time, McCarthy turned his venture-capital attention to an even larger yuletide commercial failure. “Last year I tried to buy a Santa’s Village by Lake Arrowhead,” he says. The dilapidated village — part of a ’50s-era franchise of Santa theme parks in California and Chicago — opened in the mountains just outside LA in 1955, six weeks before nearby Disneyland opened its doors. “I was planning on just treating it as a sculpture,” McCarthy says. “I had plans for making films there, then operating parts of it.” Although he did sneak in to take photographs, the project was never realized.

“I was in negotiation for almost three months. At one point it was $6 million. I probably could have sold off enough of the property to pay for it, while keeping the village separate,” the artist says. “But then they said, ‘$12 million.’ So I found an abandoned RV park up in the mountains, and I’m building stuff up there.” A planned labyrinth of interlocking windowless, prisonlike structures (currently navigating the equally mazelike zoning laws) disguised with old saloon facades, McCarthy’s substitute sculptural environment has an institutionalized Wild West theme — but may intersect with the Santa Claus vector in the future. “I own the whole chocolate factory — the equipment, the molds. I think next year I’ll start it up again. Ultimately, I’d like to buy a house in LA and paint it red and green and run the factory for 10 years. Or maybe it could end up in the RV park.”