A Wearable Camera To Record Every Single One Of Life’s Precious Moments BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The Memoto is a “lifelogging camera” designed to capture and then re-stream everything that happens to you. Does this mean the end of memory as we know it? The cyborgian future that awaits us is full of enhancements to…
Scanadu’s Medical Tricorder Will Measure Your Vital Signs In Seconds BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com No more searching the medicine cabinet for the thermometer or being worried that your blood pressure is too high. Just hold this device up to your temple for a moment and you can start to track your health. It was less…
Meet the Guy Who Owns Only 15 Things Yuka Yoneda, ecouterre.com If you’re thinking of adopting a more minimalist lifestyle for 2012, take a page from the playbook of Andrew Hyde, an itinerant blogger-cum-interface designer who owns only 15 items. Currently residing in New York City—he’s lived… http://flpbd.it/JE2Br Related articles Minimizing My Life (undeniableruth.com) 15…
Seven Questions To Ask Before Buying A Tiny House Steven Harrell, businessinsider.com Finance 1.) Do you plan to move anytime in the near future? Or does a traveling lifestyle fit best with your vision of a tiny house lifestyle? If so, you might consider purchasing a tiny house that sits on a trailer. Some… http://flpbd.it/smHcK…
Flash Steinbeiser, inc.com Inc.com staff As more young entrepreneurs find success from their business accelerator contacts, the usefulness of traditional business school is put into question. Turns out, more and more young entrepreneurs favor the business contacts… http://flpbd.it/tBMY1 Accelerators Are the New B-school Related articles Brad Feld to write foreword for the book Accelerate (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)…
Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence Adam Popescu, readwrite.com Measuring social influence online is becoming a more sophisticated, refined and granular process. While the much-maligned early leader in the market, Klout, has scooped up a lot of headlines over the past few years, there’s a better… http://flpbd.it/7Qp5t Related articles Is Klout Gaining…
Gesture analysis reveals what Obama and Romney care about By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Science An analysis of the body gestures of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the presidential debates suggests that how candidates speak could reveal what they really care about and affect whether or not voters believe what they… http://flpbd.it/HeO5x Related articles Mitt…
Infogr.am Launches To Kill The Careers Of Struggling Infographic Designers Mike Butcher, techcrunch.com Infogr.am wants to create a sort of Adobe Illustrator in the Cloud, allowing anyone to create cool info-graphics on the fly. Back in February European accelerator HackFwd invested in the startup from Riga, Latvia, and now it’s fully… http://flpbd.it/t9zRD Related articles Latvia…
Shareist Is A Content Management System For Your Content Management System (That’s A Good Thing) John Biggs, techcrunch.com As a major media figure on the Internet, I often find it difficult to manage all of my content outlets. I have a Twitter feed connected to my Facebook connected to my Tumblr. I also have a…
Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com In the past half-century, computing has evolved from the mainframe to the desktop to the shoulder bag to the pocket, and now it’s taking over new frontiers: our physical bodies, and the physical environments that we inhabit.…
Still more reasons why all HDMI cable are the same by Geoffrey Morrison, cnet.com People still have questions about HDMI. Here are more answers. Even after two articles, and a tremendous amount of page hits, there still seems to be lots of questions about HDMI cables. I credit this to the complexity of the top……
LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke Timmerman Mark Levin’s business is biotechnology, so it’s no surprise he knew zilch about a tech company called LinkedIn as recently as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can barely do his job without… http://flpbd.it/TIANz Related articles LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…
The Perks of Working From Home Jennifer Shore, mashable.com If you’re part of the 86% who drive to work every day, you can devise ways to lower your gas costs, save time and improve your health — by telecommuting. The current workforce totals more than 128 million people, and while eight out of 10… http://flpbd.it/nTXRQ…
In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY As soon as Sherry Turkle arrived at the studio for her Fresh Air interview, she realized she’d forgotten her phone. “I realized I’d left it behind, and I fel… http://flpbd.it/lzBmU…
$40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net I can’t sleep for more than 30 minutes or so on a plane. After that, I’m awake for the duration of the flight, no matter how long it is. I wonder if this neck-propper-upper would help?…
MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com MoneyTalksNews: Tech companies will go to amazing lengths to recruit talented employees – and keep them from jumping to competitors. An increasingly important part of the equation is benefits. A recent New York Times… http://flpbd.it/fG8hC 50 Amazing Job Perks Related articles Get Creative with Job Perks (business.time.com) Looking for a Lesson in Google’s…