Invented by Brian Jarvis in 1967, the Dubreq Stylophone has been used not only in a David Bowie song, but as an alien form of communication in Dr. Who‘s “Horror of Glam Rock.” Now, forty years later and long after the original Stylophone has gone out of production, the synth legend is making a come back.

Check out Britain’s Got Talent sensation Brett Domino’s 80′s medley on the Stylophone.

And for a more modern take, Toby Long does a rendition of The Killer’s “Somebody Told Me.”

Now if only the people coming into to AC Gears to play with the stylophone were this good. Get your own stylophone here and do your part in bringing the 60′s back. Just leave the bad hair in the past, thanks.

I don’t normally mine this type of territory, but it is tougher to shrug off the fact that we’re in the midst of dark times. For some, “it’s a depression if we think it’s a depression” — and, true, it’ll take hindsight for historians and economists to properly analyze our current situation sometime after we’ve bumbled and fumbled our way out of the thicket.

The problem as Nick Cavalero explains on The New York Moon is that, once we’re out, it’s too easy to be blinded once again by the sun and wander right back in it.

His solution? A wax museum to capture this moment in time, a striking image like the city of Pompeii, their way of life perfectly preserved under the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

The offices of the 21st century financial collapse would be exactly as they were: a wax figure staring out the window, gesturing wildly and speaking on a Bluetooth headset. For effect, a large cigar could be smoldering in an ash tray near the window (in clear defiance of a citywide indoor smoking ban). Part of a wall hanging might read: “Here was a man who was too smart for his own good. His efforts led to the financial ruin of hundreds of thousands. Yet the effects on his own life were minimal. He lives to this day in a palace in Scarsdale, N.Y.”

And thanks to this feature, I’ve discovered the illustration work of John Lee. Click over and have a look at some of the other great work this kid is turning out.

Hi, Twitterers! We’ve just entered the Twitter world ourselves, but we’re still so new. 4 followers? Is…is that it? And…they’re all US? If this is a social networking tool, why is it that suddenly all I feel is lonely?

Thanks to Lonely Tweet, you might still feel lonely but you’ll feel a little bit less alone. The site exists to comfort and console lonely Twitterers by displaying other lonely tweets — a ‘misery loves company’ kind of thing but, you know, in a good way. These tweets cycle through on screen, appearing out of a fine mist, against a perfectly lonely background of snow as far as the eye can see and one, lonely, isolated, leafless tree. I guess, after all, it’s not so wrong to feel this way…

Japan’s fashion electronics maker Dreams releases the new Zumreed Sfit Graphic, a line of 6 headphones with unique graphic elements. The old Sfit has been one of the first headphones on the market that emphasized on simple design with chic colors. Now the new Sfit is based off from the same platform but I have to say, the new designs are hot. Probably not going to see anything coming close within the next few months – the colors are well balanced (as opposed to, say Aerial 7 Headphones).

Expect to see them in store at AC Gears in a week or two. For now, you can get the first batch from AudioCubes.com.

A new film from Francis Ford Coppola with director, writer, musician, artist and recent H&M model Vincent Gallo in the starring role. These are two guys I always keep an eye on. Click below for the trailer, which showcases a film shot mostly in black-and-white with occasional hits of color.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ_XTIsMKig&fmt=22

And take note of the actor playing Gallo’s younger brother. That’s 19-year-old NYU freshman Alden Ehrenreich, and you can tell he’s got that special something.

How he got his big break? A little homemade film in which he “ran around as a skinny little punk, trying on girls’ clothes and eating dirt.” When he and his friends showed it at a bar mitzvah, turns out Steven Spielberg was in attendance. Check out his interview with New York Magazine here.

Thanks to our friend Zhen Tan tipping us over FaceBook, apparently a Internet driven super computer is about to launch May 2009. Take a look at the WolframAlpha tutorial of what this search engine wil do for humankind, and how the mighty Google pales in the kind of result WolframAlpha can deliver. Prepare to get blown away …

Read a little more review on Telegraph UK, or on Stephen Wolfram, the British mathematician behind this “computational knowledge engine.” This could be a Super Computer prototype we see in Terminator/Matrix that will give us what we need at first, and then destroys us in the end.

That’s if it delivers (and then starts to have its own mind)

I should stop watching those doomsday SciFi movies.

I know, reading one blog posting about another blog feels a bit like slipping into a coma, but this is no ordinary blog. It’s Spike Jonze’s blog.

Well, Spike and a couple other contributors who presumably worked with him on Where the Wild Things Are since that seems, roughly, to be the theme of the site:

In October 2009 Spike Jonze’s feature film rendition of Maurice Sendak’s classic story Where The Wild Things Are will hit movie theaters worldwide.

This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that have converged to make this massive project a reality.

Bookmark it now for daily random gems such as this, posted by Spike today: a frame-for-frame remake of the video he originally shot for the Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR4Y5N211Fo