If you use Twitter at all, you’ve probably seen plenty of people lobbing questions to their followers– when they could have easily just gone to Google and searched for the answer.  This habit actually has its own hashtag, #lazyweb, and InboxQ and Column Five Media created an infographic laying out exactly the types of questions people tweet out when they’re too lazy to search. But it reveals a lot more than the depth of people’s laziness — it also betrays the types of things that current search technology just doesn’t find very well.

via Infographic Of The Day: How Twitter Exposes Google’s Limits | Co.Design.

Vintage Classics, an imprint of Random House UK, has republished five sci-fi novels in gorgeously kitschy covers full of splashy colors and eye-popping typography and camp illustrations on the order of a tentacle embracing an improbably phallic submarine (for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, natch). The kicker: They’re all rendered in 3-D. Nerdgasm!

[Jim Tierney illustrated the covers for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea andJourney To the Center of the Earth.]

via Wanted: Sci-Fi Classics With Retro 3-D Covers | Co.Design.

The Royal Dutch Mint has produced what is the first QR coded coin to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the mint in Utrecht. For those who know not about QR code , read up on Wikipedia here– it’s a brilliant technology that is definitely going to change the world we live in. A lot of you may already have had a brush with it without knowing. The coins will be limited edition and will be produced in silver as well as gold. The silver 5€ and gold 10€ will be issued on June 22, 2011. The code scans as http://www.q5g.nl

via QR Codes set a blingin – Is this the coin of the future? | The Rich Times.

Digital design prodigy Mike Matas combines the ease of navigating the physical world to create lifelike interfaces that feel so unobtrusive you hardly notice you’re using complex technology. Motivated by the desire to do things on a computer more like in reality, Matas set out to create virtual interfaces driven by touch. “If you want to do something [on a computer] you should just be able to reach out your hand and do it, no buttons, and no user interface required,” concludes Matas.

via Mike Matas.

To launch three new “extreme!” flavors of Mountain Dew in New Zealand, Mountain Dew and its agency did the extreme — they launched a giant pinball machine-shaped skate park.

via Mountain Dew And BBDO Make A Skate Park/Pinball Machine | Co.Design.