The folks over at Good Magazine created an unsurprisingly clean and clear graph to put the recent bankruptcy of GM in perspective over the past two decades.  The design is a collaboration with Always With Honor and a full sized version can be found here.
[via Good Magazine]

Minsh is a unique site that visualizes Twitter users as fish in a 3-dimensional, underwater world. Schools of fish gather based on their tweets. The site is in Alpha now with the Alpha 2 version to be released on July 13, 2009.
Richard Banks explains:
The concept behind the virtual world is that the social behaviour of fish will represent what people are talking about online. In the world of Minsh, people writing about a given subject find themselves swimming in the same school. When a person updates his or her Twitter status, the fish swims away to join people with similar [...]

The Body Check Ball is an intriguing personal health monitoring device that calculates your body fat, bone density, and muscle ratio by sending electrode currents through your hands as you hold it. Users can store up to 10 profiles to monitor their health and those of family members.
[ CNET via OhGizmo ]

Signaltheorist took a long exposure photo of a Roomba vacuuming his room in the dark, and the image above shows the beautiful results. It’s a wonderful visualization of the seemingly random, but effective path the cleaning robot takes over time.
Engadget via Doobybrain

HOK pointed us to this eye-opening way of looking at the $780 billion stimulus package. The pictures speak for themselves.

… And you’re not even halfway there.
[via Life at HOK]

3.5 inch floppy disks are just a nostalgic memory for some, and not even a blip on the radar for the kids out there. But back in the old days of computing, floppies were the primary way to transfer bits of data and programs between computers. We were intrigued by Antrepo Design Industry’s (who’s Time Tuner Clock we featured yesterday) humorous poster graphic that visualizes just how many floppy discs it would take to handle today’s computer programs. The image is a striking reminder of the rapid rate at which technology has advanced, and compressed physically. The poster set will [...]