-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The Internet By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com What is the future of the cloud-connected interface? How about a simple pen and ruler? This week, Adobe announced that the Creative Suite was becoming the subscription-based Creative Cloud. It didn’t go so well. But amidst the bad news, we ma……
Dream Of A Future Where You Don’t Have To Waste Time Sleeping BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com Scientists are working hard on finding ways—pharmaceutical, neurological—to end the tyranny of eight hours a night. Think about what we might do with 50% more “conscious lifetime”? You could spend more time with the kids, visit Africa, or st……
Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Melon explores an interesting new frontier of the quantified self: your noggin’. Does checking Twitter during the workday really leave you scatterbrained? Could taking up meditation help you tune out the noise and focus better? Melon… Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental…
Students Build A 22-Foot-Tall Home For Local Bees By Sammy Medina, fastcodesign.com The Elevator B tower is part of a larger effort to regenerate a historic district in Buffalo. It’s not a good time to be a bee. In the last several years, unprecedented numbers of honeybees have been killed off, and no one is…
Want To Be Happy? Live Near A Park BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com New research finds that the effect of green space on personal well-being is more than you might guess. As urban planners debate the merits of, say, a new shopping center versus maintaining the local park, they might consider this: over… Want To Be…
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com Munchies aside, new science indicates that getting high might have shockingly beneficial effects to your health and weight. The stereotype of pot smokers as people who wolf down Cheetos, brownies, and whatever else happens to be in the r… Not Smoking Weed Is Why You’re Fat http://flip.it/tWgqn http://flip.it/P9HMl Not Smoking Weed…
Is Amsterdam The Global Seat Of Cool? A New Tourism Spot Says Yes By: Jennifer Miller, fastcocreate.com And tells us how to say “Van Gogh.” Are you looking for a vintage, hip, indie, artisanal, open-minded vacation? Welcome to Holland. A new ad, Holland, The Original Cool, created by the Dutch government to lure American… Is…
A Grand Plan For Feeding The World With Insects BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com We need more protein for the developing world, but we really don’t need to be raising more livestock. The solution might be buzzing around your head right now. How do you feed 9 and half billion people without destroying the planet? Accord……
How To Tweet Your Way To Your Dream Job By: Lydia Dishman, fastcompany.com Three out of four people are in constant job-search mode and, increasingly, Twitter is their tool of choice. Here’s how to make 140 characters work for you. Can a tweet—or three—land you a dream job? That’s a question Taylor Aldredge now… http://flip.it/ZMN7U…
See Humanity’s Effect On Earth In These Stunning Time-Lapse Satellite Photos BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com From growing Vegas to chopping down the Amazon, these Google photos of the last three decades of the Earth from space let you see both human ingenuity and our destructive power. The booming economies of Gulf oil states. The rise…
Kickstarting: An App That Turns Your Digital Photos Into Hyperactive Music Videos By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Eternal Light lets you actually do something with all those snapshots you’ve amassed over the years. The great thing about having good cameras on our smartphones isn’t necessarily that we can take pictures whenever the inspiration… Kickstarting: An App…
Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com One of the more interesting projects to emerge from Evernote’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blogging platform that turns your Evernote notebook into a content management system. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based… Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog http://flip.it/vOkRS http://flip.it/IV8va…
Open Your Mind to the New Psychedelic Science Greg Miller, wired.com In recent years, a small cadre of scientists has cautiously rekindled the scientific study of psychedelics. At a recent conference, they reported new findings on how these drugs scramble brain activity in ways that might help explain their… Open Your Mind to the New…
Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be Easier Than Hailing a Taxi Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com San Francisco-based RelayRides just announced a deal that puts new corporate and technological weight behind its vision of ubiquitous mobility. Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be Easier Than Hailing a Taxi http://flip.it/N6Z4N http://flip.it/nT1vk Related articles Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be…
Researchers Trace Languages Of Billions Back To One Ancient Ancestor By Colin Lecher, popsci.com At the end of the last ice age, a single language fractured, until it became the languages we speak across Asia and Europe. At least 15,000 years ago, a single language started to break up. It broke into about seven different…
(via SylvanSport Go Camper Review) Related articles Five people RESCUED from Hudson River after helicopter makes emergency … – New York Daily News (nydailynews.com)
(via Dan Pink’s Idea Economy | WGBH News) Related articles More Genius from Dan Pink: Rhyming Matters (bobsleanlearning.wordpress.com) Why Selling Yourself is the Most Essential Skill for Your Career with Dan Pink (livingformonday.com) Dan Pink: The Importance of Purpose (tscedutech2013.wordpress.com) Motivation by Dan Pink (laurentchatel.wordpress.com) Dan Pink on the New ABCs of Selling (inc.com) Drive:…
10 Million People Watch Netflix Without Paying Rebecca Greenfield, theatlanticwire.com All that anecdotal password sharing we’ve been hearing about is more than just a few media savvy friends passing around their logins: One analyst estimates that something like 10 million people watch Netflix Instant, gratis,… 10 Million People Watch Netflix Without Paying http://flip.it/WGPOG http://flip.it/yLNqF Related…
Get a 27-inch AOC LED monitor for $199.99 by Rick Broida, cnet.com With its HDMI input and built-in speakers, this monitor works just as well with game consoles and media players as it does with PCs. Nothing beats a big monitor. Got spreadsheets? Gotta go big. Going tomb raiding (see bonus deal)? Gotta go… Get…
Airbnb starts verifying user profiles by Donna Tam, cnet.com The company that matches property owners to travelers looking for a place to stay now tags vetted users with verified ID badges. Airbnb, which helps people find vacation rentals all around the world, today will start verifying the identit… Airbnb starts verifying user profiles http://flip.it/apNTw http://flip.it/o4knQ…
Want to be a world-class growth hacker? Then get out of the building! Gagan Biyani, venturebeat.com I’ve spent the last two years learning everything I can about “growth hacking.” I co-run the Growth Hackers Conference with Erin Turner, led efforts to build Udemy’s user base, and consulted/advised companies like Lyft, Wedding Party, TenderTree a… Want…
Lean startups and 4-hour bodies: How Eric Reis and Tim Ferriss tell stories on the web John Koetsier, venturebeat.com If you want to highlight a product, build a landing page. If you’re an internet marketing guru, make a squeeze page. But if you want to start on online movement — and maybe sell a few…
gizmodo.com Digital copyright is broken. We know this inherently, and wheeze exasperation whenever the latest nonsensical DRM news crops up. But fixing it’s not as simple as tossing the whole system out the window. So here’s a breakdown o… Everything Wrong with Digital Copyright (And How to Fix It) http://flip.it/PP8S5 http://flip.it/5WNKP Everything Wrong with Digital…
The Tech That Helped Take Down Marathon Bombing Suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev Casey Chan and Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com The second suspect in the brutal Boston Marathon bombings has been apprehended, after five days of uncertainty and fear. And while all credit for Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s capture goes to the men and women of the many, many agencies…
Anthrocode 
You must be logged in to post a comment.