Category: Cognitive Science UX Research

  • Memoto records every minute of your day

    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…

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  • Visualizing all public transit in NYC

    Watch One Mesmerizing Day Of All The Public Transit In New York BY MORGAN CLENDANIEL, fastcoexist.com This video, made using MTA data, shows the city as defined by its subways, buses, and trains. New York is a city defined by its pub­lic trans­porta­tion sys­tem. It’s why, when large parts of it were taken out dur­ing…

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  • Scanadu tricorder

    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…

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  • Andrew Hyde only owns 15 things

    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…

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  • Are you ready to downsize to a tiny house?

    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…

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  • Accelerators Are the New B-school

    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)…

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  • Klout and other ways to measure your influence

    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…

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  • Linguistic analysis decodes true messages of Obama and Romney

    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…

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  • Inforgr.am makes everyone a graphic designer

    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…

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  • Shareist helps you manage your content

    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…

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  • Why your body is the next target for social technology

    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.…

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  • Do not believe the marketing about fancy HDMI cables

    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……

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  • Why Pharma conferences need to be about what patients really need

    Let Patients Create- A Rally Call Jon Gwillim, eyeforpharma.com Précis: There’s an old say­ing; “if you want some­thing done prop­er­ly, do it your­self”. My back­ground is as a con­fer­ence researcher and organ­is­er – for phar­ma, with phar­ma. I focused on dig­i­tal oppor­tu­ni­ties, case-studies and… http://flpbd.it/CdnZ6 Related articles ePharma Summit Top 5 (portal.lillycoi.com) Bad Pharma Audiobook…

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  • LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

    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…

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  • Why telecommuting saves costs, time and your health

    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…

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  • The anthropology of why constant contact makes you alone

    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…

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  • Upright sleeper: How to sleep on a plane

    $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?…

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  • 50 Amazing Job Perks

    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…

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  • 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb

    Erik Sherman, inc.com TECHTOWN It seems like smart just-in-time staffing: You hire for big projects and then let people go when they wrap up. But here’s why it hurts more than it helps. For the most part, there aren’t many par­al­lels between the cutting-edge… http://flpbd.it/wfdkE 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb Related articles AFL-CIO’s Trumka:…

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