The iPad is topic du jour, and initial excitement seems to be around shaking up the long time stagnant world of publishing (various eg’s posted here previously). Here’s another example, this time focussing more on content opportunity rather than interface:

Another great example of publishing interface design by Wired magazine.

For other noteworthy examples , see this, and this.

ASCIImeo is a project by Peter Nitsch. It’s a video player which renders Vimeo videos in ASCII.

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Amsterdam-based artist Peter Schuyff takes ordinary objects like baseball bats and colored pencils and carves them into intricate and delicate works of art.

More optical illusions inspired by ‘Gallop‘ the childrens book.

Clever interface prototyping brought to you by Jack @ BERG

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From The Dark Past, once again a great animation by Rafaël Rozendaal. Don’t forget to click on it. Via.