Foosball goes minimalist with "Eleven"

I like foosball. It's the pastime where one can get together with his friends, drink , and play soccer without tripping over the ball.(though people still can get hurt,my left eye can attest to that.) I also like minimalism, and Eleven brings these two together in an amazing way .Hand crafted by GRO design and TIM modeling, because they thought foosball was "lacking serious design attention in recent years", it's just beautiful.
The players are machined in brass and chrome, the table itself is meant to be a bit architectural, like real stadiums, and minimal to not distract from the game. It's on show at the upcoming Milan Design Week, 16th to 21st April, and tsadly it's just a working model. I'd travel to Italy just to play with this. Here's their website for more details.
Eleven

Postmachina's Project E Trades Business Cards and Personal Info Wirelessly

This wireless data exchange concept is very similar to a few designs that has been seen already, but Postmachina is going to be manufacturing a wireless device called Project E that holds your personal information and swaps it when it comes into contact with another, similar device. In essence, it can hold all the info on your business card, plus other data (maybe even social networking information) and transfer it to other people you meet at trade shows or other events.


After doing tests with Bluetooth, Postmachina's director, Renato Valdes Olmos, decided to make their own set of wireless protocols in order to swap information—which can then be synced with a computer and imported into various social networking sites like LinkedIn or Twitter. If Project E can be made into a more robust and foolproof system, that it will work without even thinking about it, we could see a huge market for it everywhere. But if Postmachina can take this tech and insert it into cellphones, something people already carry on them, that would truly be a revolution. Here's their website for more information.
Postmachina's Hompage