Stormtrooper: June 2012

Friday, June 22, 2012

Synology DS1512+

Synology DiskStation DS1512+ offers a high-performance, scalable, and full-featured network attached storage solution that meets the needs of small and medium-sized businesses that require an efficient way to centralize data protection, simplify data management, and rapidly scale storage capacity with minimal time spent on setup and management. The Synology DS1512+ is backed with Synology’s 3-year limited warranty.

194.83 MB/sec Writing, 200.31 MB/sec Reading¹
Scaling up to 15 Drives with Synology DX510
Featuring SuperSpeed USB 3.0
Expandable RAM Module (Up to 3GB)
2 LAN with Failover and Link Aggregation Support
CPU Passive cooling Technology & System Fan Redundancy
VMware^®, Citrix^®, Microsoft^® Hyper-V^® Compliance
Running on Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM)

Z-Bar LED Desk Lamp by Koncept

Positano, Italy

Porsche 356 Speedster

No Globes by Dorothy

Mini Rocketman

Fira Village @ Santorini, Greece

Electric Blue Heels by Chiara Ferragni

Censored Tank by Never Tell Your Tailor

Bay of Naples @ Campania, Italy

1972 Lancia Stratos HF

Thursday, June 21, 2012

1967 Porsche Carrera 910 Spyder Coupe

PH Artichoke Lamp by Poul Henningsen

"Danish architect Poul Henningsen, known commonly by his initials PH was obsessed with light and dedicated his life towards the creation of captivating light fixtures. Widely considered as the first 'lighting architect', the PH Artichoke is perhaps his most lustrous creation. The PH Artichoke was created out of a genuine sense of indignation. Poul Henningsen pronounced that glare - harsh, dazzling light - was a fundamental problem with the electric light bulb (makes us wonder how he would have felt about today's harsh CFL lighting). Determined to solve this problem, he formed the vision that led to the creation of the PH Artichoke. The PH Artichoke is composed of 12 arches with 72 overlying leaves. Designed in a way that you will never see it's light bulb, no matter from what angle you look at it, the PH Artichoke provides a soft glare-free light around 360 degrees.

Poul Henningsen designed the first PH Artichoke lamps for the 'Langelinie Pavillion' restaurant in Copenhagen, where you can still see the PH Artichoke lamps today. Although Poul Henningsen originally named it the 'Pinecone' lamp because of its shape, it was renamed Artichoke in the late 1950s.

We dread cheap knock-offs so if you care about authenticity and have the money to spare, make sure to get the authentic licensed edition made by Louis Poulsen in Denmark, the original manufacturer of all Poul Henningsen light fixtures. The quality of the PH Artichoke Lamp produced by Louis Poulsen is truly unsurpassed, exactly the way Poul Henningsen intended it to be."