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  • Lifesaver jerrycans water filter

    LifeSaver Jerrycan purifies 5 gallons of water for drinking and showering C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com The LIFESAVER Jerrycan is a large water purification jug that could be of great use to everyone from campers to inhabitants of remote villages. The Jerrycan incorporates a built-in filtration system which can purify 18.5 liters (4.9 gallons) of wa… LifeSaver…

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  • Formaldehyde in wrinkle free clothing causes health problems

    Formaldehyde in Wrinkle-Free Clothing May Cause Skin Problems ecouterre.com Pho­tos by Laura Pedrick for the New York Times Wrinkle-resistant clothes are a boon for folks who’d rather never see the busi­ness side of an iron again, but the permanent-press fin­ish we so covet com … RT @inhabitat: The awful truth about “wrinkle-free” clothing http://flip.it/aHAB5 http://flip.it/lG9GS…

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  • Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap

    April Joyner, inc.com Inc. magazine Apr 2, 2013 What if anyone could go take to the Web to learn a job-getting new skill, at $20 a pop? Michael Karn­janaprako­rn believes that edu­ca­tion and learn­ing are two dif­fer­ent things. And when it comes to… Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap http://flip.it/odFq6 http://flip.it/my0Ik Skillshare Takes On the…

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  • The Employment Law You Are Probably Breaking

    Suzanne Lucas, inc.com EVIL HR LADY How you pay your employees is governed by federal law. Violating it is easy, so be careful. Dear Evil HR Lady, If an exempt employ­ee had to go to the doc­tor and missed an hour to three hours of work, can an… The Employment Law You Are Probably Breaking…

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  • Thinking of Starting a Business? Check Out Consumer Health Technology

    April Joyner, inc.com Inc. magazine Apr 8, 2013 New apps and devices are bringing diagnosis and treatment straight to the end consumer. fea­tured com­pa­ny Well­frame brings arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to heart care. The Afford­able Care Act put a… Thinking of Starting a Business? Check Out Consumer Health Technology http://flip.it/DF2GI http://flip.it/mkzag Thinking of Starting a Business? Check…

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  • Oil eating bacteria fixed the Gulf disaster but might not save you next time

    Oil-Eating Bacteria Fixed The Deepwater Horizon Disaster, But They May Not Help Next Time BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com It turned out the Gulf was filled with bacteria that loved to chow down on exactly what was spilling out of BP’s destroyed oil well. How fortuitous! But hoping that hungry bacteria will help in the next…

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  • Your reputation will be the currency of the future

    Your Reputation Will Be The Currency Of The Future BY MARINA GORBIS, fastcoexist.com In The Nature Of The Future: Dispatches From The Socialstructed World, Marina Gorbis argues that as more and more of our activities are quantified online, your actions could become a new currency. But what happens if good behavior is… Your Reputation Will…

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  • Why aren’t there more women in engineering? Because they’re sane.

    Why You Can’t Find Women Engineers: They’re Too Well-Rounded By: Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com “Not lack of ability, but more choice,” say researchers. Sil­i­con Val­ley’s hottest com­pa­nies are hurt­ing for women engi­neers. And many pix­els have been spilled try­ing to fig­ure out why. The answer, accord­ing to a study released by Pitt… Why You Can’t Find…

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  • Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life

    CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects. After he grad­u­at­ed from UCLA with a degree in phi­los­o­phy, Sahade­va Ham­mari emailed one of his… CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons…

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  • Finally you can get into ECommerce with no skills, no stuff and no money

    Retail | Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com Forget software as a service. Welcome to the age of stuff as a service. Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money http://flip.it/1CXcC http://flip.it/S9uwB Related articles Software As A Service…

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  • Shopify: finally ECommerce you can do from your couch

    Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates Tim Maly, wired.com Say you finished your Kickstarter campaign for some product or other, and after the inevitable growing pains, you’ve gotten all the rewards out to your backers who are gleefully emailing you to say what a great thing it is that … Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to…

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  • Building a startup still means buying or selling SOMETHING

    Startups | The Easiest Path to Online Riches Is Good Ol’ Buying and Selling Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com While Google and Facebook might be transformative internet technologies that mint their inventors money, your consumer internet startup is more likely to hit that billion-dollar mark if it’s in the business of digital transactions. http://flip.it/6o25v Related articles Google…

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  • A bracelet that sends kidnapping alerts for human rights workers

    Bracelet For Human Rights Workers Sends Kidnapping Alerts to Facebook, Twitter By Francie Diep, popsci.com When activated, the device sends “Help!” messages social media accounts and nearby aid workers. Activists and aid work­ers who doc­u­ment gov­ern­ment abus­es or mon­i­tor elec­tions often risk abduc­tion by those who oppose their work. Now one… RT @PopSci: Bracelet for…

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  • Virgin mobile overdrive 4g mobile hotspot is best deal

    Get a Virgin Mobile Overdrive Pro 3G/4G mobile hot spot for $83.99 by Rick Broida, cnet.com That’s the lowest price to date for this no-contract hot spot, which offers unlimited 4G service (where there’s coverage) for as little as $35. Remem­ber back on Mon­day when I said I was the vic­tim of flaky hotel Wi-Fi?…

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  • Samsung’s WiFi Home Security SmartCam — Easy Setup, Works Great | GeekDad | Wired.com

    On sale a BJ’s Samsung’s WiFi Home Security SmartCam — Easy Setup, Works Great | GeekDad | Wired.com Related articles Gigabit Wi-Fi: 802.11ac is here: Five things you need to know (stellartechnews.wordpress.com) GeekDad prescribes a weekend free from mobile data (wired.co.uk) Global WiFi Hotspot Market 2012-2016 : Latest Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Trends And Forecast…

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  • Elizabeth Kolbert: The Anthroplogy of Sleeplessness : The New Yorker

      Wolfe Meyer is an anthropologist of sleep Elizabeth Kolbert: The Science of Sleeplessness : The New Yorker Related articles Science & Tech in The New Yorker (reintegratenewhaven.com) Elizabeth Kolbert: Graham Hill’s micro-apartment. (newyorker.com) Elizabeth Kolbert Who Decides Who Fuels the Future (guardianlv.com)

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  • How do entrepreneurs answer the question: what do you do?

    (via What Do You Do? An Entrepreneur’s Answer – Forbes) Related articles Nivea Print Ad Doubles as Solar Charger in Brazil – Forbes (lumpyproletariat.wordpress.com) Aliko Dangote Is Africa’s First $20 billion Man- Forbes. (soundsmusicstudio.wordpress.com) What Tech Can Do For Your Health And Your Government – Forbes (1bedouin.wordpress.com)

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  • Visualizing camera sensor size and what it means

    (via Camera sensor size: Why does it matter and exactly how big are they?) Related articles Differences Between CCD and CMOS Camera Image Sensors (lockergnome.com) New Camera Sensor Eliminates the Need for Flash (gadget.com) Graphene camera sensors said to be 1,000 times more sensitive to light (engadget.com) Graphene Camera Sensor Has 1000 Times More Light…

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  • Why Your Kid Can’t Get a Job

    Michael S. Malone, forbes.com This arti­cle was co-authored by vet­er­an Sil­i­con Val­ley mar­ket­ing exec­u­tive Tom Hayes, cur­rent­ly founder and CEO of MePedia.com Accord­ing to the US Bureau of Labor Sta­tis­tics, one out of every two Mil­len­ni­als—age 18 to 32… http://flip.it/Dipv8 Why Your Kid Can’t Get a Job Related articles Self employments 2 (indomitablewoman.wordpress.com)

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  • Sustainable manufacturing hubs arise

    America’s New Sustainable Manufacturing Hubs Will Breed Creativity And Jobs BY SARAH KRASLEY, fastcoexist.com Will this be how we revitalize the economy? Across the country, new multidisciplinary spaces for people to learn, experiment, and make are popping up, creating a new surge of jobs with them. Obama’s State of the Union Address this year was…

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  • How much does T-Mobile’s contract-free iPhone plan save over two years?

    en Lovejoy, 9to5mac.com Now that T-Mobile offers the iPhone, how do the four nation­al car­ri­ers com­pare in terms of costs? A cou­ple of web­sites have done the sums. Our friends over at Zagg did a blog post that sug­gest­ed three of the four net­works come out at… http://flip.it/8HvEU How much does T-Mobile’s contract-free iPhone plan…

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  • Cultivate your power users if you want to succeed

    If You Want Your App To Take Off, Learn To Reward Your Power Users By Lars Albright, fastcompany.com Yikes: 70 percent of the people who download your app will never, ever look at it again. So you better learn how to create and coddle power users. Mobile apps are boom­ing by all the basic mea­sures,…

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  • Uchek: replace expensive doctor visits and lab tests with an app that analyzes your pee

    Replace Expensive Doctors Visits With An App That Analyzes Your Pee BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com Just make sure you don’t pee directly on the phone. uChek lets you use your phone’s camera to analyze test strips you’ve dipped in your own urine without having to shell out for a test or make an appointment. In…

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  • DIY traffic monitoring

    Take Traffic Into Your Own Hands With This DIY Car Counter BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The TrafficCom lets you measure how many cars drive on your street and figure out traffic patterns. And you can now get one via Kickstarter—just like the guys at NASA. There’s some­thing about the moment NASA places an order that…

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  • Docracy: sequencing the genome of legal documents

    Sequencing The Genome Of Legal Documents To Make Them Readable BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com Unless you’re a lawyer, you probably don’t understand a lot of the agreements and contracts you sign. But Docracy hopes to even the playing field by letting you easily see which parts of a document are standard and where you might…

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  • Mustang Ukranian takes photos while dangling from buildings

    Crazy Guy Dangles Above the Earth at Terrifying Heights Mario Aguilar, gizmodo.com “Mustang Wanted” is a crazy Ukrainian guy who loves having his photo taken as he dangles from buildings at preposterous heights. The resulting images will stop your heart.At first you wonder what compels somebody to want climb to these high pla… http://flip.it/4h9xW Related…

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  • Vamp Bluetooth audio device recycles your old speakers

    The Vamp: A Bluetooth Audio Device That Actually Does Something (Besides Streaming Music) core77.com Photos by Mark CocksedgeI won’t pretend to be an expert in the ever-expanding category of bluetooth audio, but I understand the appeal: After decades of being tethered to all variety of boxy, clunky or otherwise cumbersome hardware, technol… http://flip.it/LOCxc Related articles…

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