What I’m Reading: Monday

The G-1 Pool Table ($29,000) features a Vitrik playing surface that replicates the physics of felt:

Via Uncrate.

The North Face Mercurial Jacket ($350):

It has a baffled silver side made from Scholler fabric designed to reflect sunlight and vent heat out of the jacket, and because it’s reversible, you can have the smooth black side hold heat in and absorb sunlight to warm you.

The Sony-Ericsson Idou:

A 12MP cameraphone. Hot.

Cool HP PC concept:

Founding Father, Entrepreneur: The overlooked business career of George Washington

Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down – NYT

The Economic Stimulus Bill:

Via LoSC.

Smartphones pay off in schools – Seattle Times