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A WiFi-enabled hard drive serving computers and mobile devices alike

Launching today, the new GoFlex Satellite wireless hard drive from Seagate enables users to wirelessly stream movies, music, photos, and documents directly to their mobile device or computer. While the drive comes with a companion app, it also works seamlessly through any web browser. Five hundred GB of storage, up to five hours of streaming battery life and the ability to serve content to multiple connected devices at once make this hard drive great for families and workgroups alike.

The beauty of the GoFlex Satellite is that it creates its own Wi-Fi network, so there’s no outside internet source required, allowing users to connect to their media wherever they may find themselves. Just set your network to “GoFlex Satellite” and type in any URL to be automatically redirected to the GoFlex Satellite media browser, once there you’re set to browse all of your media freely. Plus, with a range of 150 feet, you’re welcome to move about freely without being tethered to the satellite itself.

To help make everything run more smoothly Seagate offers a free app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. The GoFlex Media app makes for an easy, user-friendly way to browse your media library by category or keyword search. To load to the Satellite, you can connect it to a computer like any other hard drive using USB.

Selling for a respectable $200 the GoFlex Satellite comes with a 3 year warranty and both wall and car chargers that while not in use can charge your USB compatible smartphone as well. Take a look at Seagate’s wheretobuy search to find one for yourself.

The African diaspora’s style magazine launches its second issue

Following a debut issue that was warmly received in the press and beyond in 2010, Pop’Africana, a publication “dedicated to delivering a rejuvenated image of Africans,” is rolling out its next edition with features on the likes of fashion designer Duro Olowu, chef Marcus Samuelsson and model Nina Keita. The New York City-based art and fashion glossy strives to break clichés that continue to corrupt thinking about the second-most populous continent.

Editorial director Oroma Elewa, who founded in 2008, is working hard to change popular thought cultural vehicle showing the vibrant contemporary side of the diaspora rarely seen or appreciated in the West.

Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, the magazine’s Nigerian-born communications director (also a recent Cool Hunting contributor), explains it as “our opportunity to share the inclusive vision we have for Africa and Africans wherever they may be,” adding “a vision that we hope will continue to engage and inspire.”

The magazine is currently available in eight cities in five countries. Copies can be pre-ordered online, but only until 20 January 2011 for $15 each.

Un travail de l’entreprise californienne DRDS Architecture pour le nouveau centre des médias KNN à Busan. Situé dans le quartier Centum City, cela comprend l’installation de bureaux, de plusieurs boutiques et d’un musée. Une ouverture du bâtiment prévue pour 2012.

Previously on Fubiz

• Quants
• Meet Meline
• Chopin Museum

All images by Gerard Smulevich

On the heels of Via, the latest project to hit Los Angeles’ public spaces is How Many Billboards?, an earnest strategy by MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House bringing art into the everyday discourse. Until the end of March 2010, L.A. will see 21 artworks on billboards spread across areas in and around Hollywood, West Hollywood, Culver City, Westwood and Silverlake.

In the works since 2006, for the project to happen MAK Center relied on prominent billboard companies to donate space and then commissioned artists like Michael Asher, Kenneth Anger and Renee Green to create thought-provoking images.

In a city where conflicts between the local government, residents and billboard companies are ongoing, “How Many Billboards?” co-curator and MAK Center Director Kimberli Meyer points out that the difference between public art such as murals and image heavy advertisements is not clearly defined. L.A. has gone through temporary bans keeping new billboards from going up, and outdoor artwork gets lumped in.

The show will be accompanied by guided bus tours, film and video screenings, as well as panel discussions and lectures. Check the website for more details, including a map of where each of the billboards is located and the artists’ statements about their work.

Milan 09: The Incidental is a Twitter/Flickr/blog hybrid reporting live from Milan all this week and then publishing the highlights in a daily print sheet, which is distributed round the city. Thursday’s print version is downloadable here. The cartoon above is by Oscar.