For Electrabel, Belgium’s Famous installed the world’s hottest billboard at Brussels Airport. Thermal imaging cameras filming the passing travellers, their energy is directly shown on 42 lcd screens.

In Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine Michael Keferi and Sven Kilian describe how the Japanese are using their mobile ‘phones’. How important is the ‘phone feature’ really these days?

Check this new technology presented on the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009.

Check this out! Of the 10.000 (and more) apps available for your iPhone or smartphone, this is by far the most useful for your coming holiday or to take home a beautiful tourist!

Sometimes you come across an object where you just know instantly you’ve got to ask it for your next birthday. In some situations your wish is a realistic one. Wishing for a Seabob, with a pricetag starting at 7.340,00 euros, isn’t. But damn, do I want one…

A nifty computer interface designed by Free Flow: 5 electrical and computer engineering students, about to graduate from Northeastern University in Boston. This system allows you to use an interface by simply moving your hand above a divice, in three dimensions. When developed further, this could be something big.

For all those who think swine flu is just a hype, check out this pandemic monotoring system daily and see how H1N1 spreads the wor(l)d. Also, an interesting game - especially these days - is called The Great Flu and made by Ranj; showing how to react as a government on world wide virus attacks - with limited budgets. 

Everyone knows those panoramic images where you can look around, like in Google Maps. A dutch company called YellowBird pushed it to the next level. Panoramic video, giving you a 360 view, which in return gives you far more sense of ‘being there’. I only miss a fullscreen function in the demo, that would make it even better.

Here’s another link that will make your workday less productive. Cubescape is a little Java tool that lets you create isometric drawings by simply dropping cubes onto a grid. Or blow them up. Rather useless but fun to play with. Who will be the first to make a NewWork drawing?!

Not very new, but new to me and hopefully you: New Works own Jeroen (JvH) just showed me this nice iPhone/iPod Touch game (he has more, post up J!). This meditive puzzle game is addictive and as far as apps go, the 3D graphics are impressive. The App Store has a free lite version and the full version goes for € 3,99.

A new cool mashup of Wii technology and Google StreetView that allows users to take a virtual jog through the streets of Tokyo.

Get your logo up in the sky. Foam filled with helium.

You may know the Tenori-on. A small electronic device on which you can create music by pushing small led lights on and of. Andre Michelle created a digital version of this device in flash. Many minutes of fun guaranteed!

We know it, they know it. All media consumption will be on demand. OnLive launched an attack by killing the console. Instant delivery of the latest games over the Internet to the TV and entry-level PCs and Macs. EA, CM and Ubisoft are backing it. How it performs when 1000s of users are active we’ve to see, but it’s an exciting move.

Artist, designer, programmer, DJ, VJ and composer Daito Manabe used electric stimulus to his friends’ faces for this musical composition/video. I like the idea as well as the execution.

A free game for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, by Amsterdams own superstar Piet Parra and Incase. They have worked together before on laptop sleeves and iPhone cases. The game is pretty simple, but please try it out for yourselves and reply with your opinions.

Collecting baseball cards goes all Obi-Wan Kenobi with this cool webcam trick!

I think I’m not the only one here who dreamed about fast broadband wireless internet when he was a kid. Well, part of it is starting to become reality with Aerea introducing WiMAX in the Netherlands now. No data limit!

Apple keeps producing NewWork too. Safari 4 adds some cool eyecandy like Coverflow and Top Sites, but the cool stuff happens under the hood with CSS3 and the superfast Javascript engine ‘Nitro’.

New worker and straight up gangsta bitch Jan Willem Wisman has recently launched his blog. It’s here for all your action script based, creative development tips and tricks from the ground up. Sounds like a bookmark or RSS feed to me.

After years of not really successful plugins there finally seems to be a serious candidate on the horizon to be- come the 3D standard on the web: Unity 3D. First of all the development area is updated and constructed care- fully. Second, there’s an ever increasing community. Projects like Fusion Fall seem to bring inbrowser games to a next level. Also check out the tech demo’s.

Skoda is running a fun and interactive campaign to promote their renewed Octavia models. Achtung! made it possible to control a car from behind your computer. Nice!

The Obama circus is getting too much for me, but this tech is quite interesting. CNN collected all the pictures that were taken at the moment of inauguration. And combined them with a Windows-tool (aaarrgghh) to create a very special 360 experience. 

Hmm. I want this. A two seater airplane with folding wings which makes it as portable as a jet ski. It’s the result of a collaboration between an F-16 pilot and a skateboard designer.

Japanese scientists have a nice breakthrough. Some heavy stuff if you ask me.It’s now possible to create images from your brain activity.The next step is ‘a videotape of your dream’…Thanks for mentioning Tom.

A sweet Firefox add-on called ‘Pirates of the Amazon‘ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but instead of ordering there the add-on integrates links to ‘free’ copies on The Pirate Bay. Made by a dear friend & his mate who I loved to promote but seeing that it’s Amazon which considers good lawyers among its friends I’ll pass…

3D objects in  your webcam view. Seems pretty basic for now, but imagine the possibilities. Anyway, it’s working, it’s fun so go and try.

Easyweb is a company in France projecting visuals on buildings, while creating a 3d experience. And altough not everything is that spectacular or beautiful, there are some cool items in this vid (e.g. after .45)

Check out Time’s best inventions of the year list. You got to love the number one. And as you’re checking lists now anyway, check out this one to. As a New Work reader it’s must see material!

Another reason for me to wish I was French…