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Review: Drift HD Ghost Action Camera Billy Brown, wired.com The other strap-it-on-and-get-rad cameras out there are all pretty sick in their own right. But for ease of use, no POV camera is sicker than Drift Action’s HD Ghost cam. Billy Brown Drift HD Ghost Action Camera http://flip.it/GTJeg http://flip.it/HFlF2 Related articles Drift HD Ghost (layersmagazine.com) Drift…
Your Dog Knows To Steal Food When Nobody’s Watching By Colin Lecher, popsci.com Good news: your dog understands you! Bad news: watch the Kibbles ‘n Bits. You’ve probably always felt like your dog understands you, and it does—well enough to work out the best way to swipe some food from you. Researchers from the… http://flip.it/RXobZ…
The State of The Guardian’s SOTU Infographic Is…Dumber By Emily Elert, popsci.com This chart tells you that “the linguistic standard of the presidential address has declined” over time. The problem is, it’s wrong. Yesterday, as a run-up to Obama’s State of the Union address, The Guardian published an interactive… RT @PopSci: Cool infographic about the…
Your iPhone Is A Reliable Research Lab By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com A new study says that smartphones are feasible for use in psychological testing. Josef Bless, a PhD candidate in psychology at the University of Bergen in Norway, was listening to music on his phone when he noticed the similarity… RT @PopSci: Your iPhone could…
By Emily Elert, popsci.com Good guys can use social media to find out all about bad guys, and bad guys can use social media to find out all about you. In this screencast obtained by The Guardian, an investigator at the defense company Raytheon takes his viewers on … RT @PopSci: Raytheon’s terrifying people-tracking software…
A Computer Program Uncovers The Evolutionary History Of Words By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com Software performs feats of historical linguistics. Languages are hard; it takes a trained ear to tease out not just the verbiage but the idiomatic expressions, the tone, the regional trends and ever-shifting insults that make a person trul… RT @PopSci: Software that…
Basis Band Review: The Only Fitness Tracker Worth Buying By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com The first fitness tracker that could actually help you get in shape, thanks to a goals system that works with your life and sensors that actually track your fitness. The Basis Band is the best fitness tracker on the market. It’s the…
5 Terrible Things The Internet Does To Our Love Lives By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com And why that’s good for science. Happy Valentine’s Day! If you’re the kind of person who’s even vaguely aware of Valentine’s Day, you’re probably either Yelping a good restaurant to take your date to or searching Facebook for another… RT @PopSci:…
What The Average American Porn Star Looks Like [Infographic] By Francie Diep, popsci.com One man’s study of 10,000 porn actors reveals their most popular names, roles, hair color and other characteristics. Your average American porn star, it turns out, is likely to be a brown-haired California-born woman named Nikki Lee. That’s … RT @PopSci: Infographic:…
New Study Says Unfairness Really Ruffles Crows’ Feathers By Francie Diep, popsci.com A new experiment found crows and ravens have a sense of fairness, just like people and dogs. People, primates and dogs all react negatively when others get a better reward for doing the same work. Now a small study has found that crows…
Who Has The Best Mathematical Models For Predicting The Oscars? By Francie Diep, popsci.com Choose your favorite data-driven model for predicting Oscar wins. Forget what movie you actually liked. And forget the experts. The hot new way to predict winners is by using quantifiable data and rigorous statistical analyses. As … RT @PopSci: Who has…
Tweets study says Hawaii happiest, Louisiana not so much by Chris Matyszczyk, cnet.com Analysis of geotagged tweets suggests that living on a beautiful island makes for a more uplifted soul, than, say, not living on a beautiful island. Being a long-suffering admirer of research, I am always delighted when a new piece of… http://flip.it/VawOp
Square unveils ‘Business in a Box’ by Daniel Terdiman, cnet.com The online-payment company’s Business in a Box bundle has everything needed to get up and running with Square Register. iPad not included. Square today unveiled its “Business in a Box” package, a bundle including all the components needed… http://flip.it/Z0OIN Related articles Square unveils Stand for…
4 Secrets For Using LinkedIn to Land a Job Chelsea Gladden, mashable.com It’s the largest and most popular social networking platform on the web for professionals, but can LinkedIn really land you a job?More About: contributor, Feature, job search series, Jobs, linkedin Chelsea Gladden RT @mashable: 4 Secrets For Using LinkedIn to Land a Job…
Scan Documents From Your Smartphone With Scandock Anita Li, mashable.com Smartphones are multi-purpose gadgets that organize our lives. While it’s not uncommon to hear of mobile devices doubling as planners, cameras and recorders, what about scanners?The Scandock claims to turn your smartphone into a “professional-grad… http://flip.it/8RTQo Related articles ScanDock, The $500 Stand For Your iPhone…
China now has up to 400 “cancer villages,” and the government only just admitted it Gwynn Guilford, qz.com China’s “growth at all costs” approach to development has meant industries can spew waste pretty much wherever they want. Drinking water sources? Sure. Farmland? Fine. That approach has poisoned entire towns, sending cancer rates… China now has…
The post-job economy Harold Jarche, jarche.com Learning may be the work in the network age, but that does not mean that learning will get you the work. Inge De Waard discusses this in MOOCs change education, but jobs decline in a knowledge … http://flip.it/HNn5U Related articles Introducing the Connected Knowledge Lab (janeknight.typepad.com) Perspectives on work…
Age of Context Draft Introduction Shel Israel, forbes.com [NOTE: I am writing a new book called Age of Context with Robert Scoble. We hope it will be ready at the end of September. This is a draft introduction. It will be changed several times before we publish the book and what we want the m……
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