Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • Why project proposals are a waste of your time

    (via Stop Writing Project Proposals | Smashing Magazine) Related articles Smashing Magazine (alks663.wordpress.com) Psst! Smashing Magazine Is Hiring! We’re Looking For A Senior Editor (smashingmagazine.com) Psst! Smashing Magazine Is Hiring! We’re Looking For A Senior Editor (remelehane.wordpress.com)

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  • Cloud tech jobs in highest demand

    (via Almost 1.7 Million Cloud-Related Jobs Went Unfilled in 2012: Estimate – Forbes) Related articles Forbes reveals how cloud computing is revolutionising the manufacturing Industry, by AppsCare – Google Premier Enterprise Partner (prweb.com) The Great Cloud-Induced Job Implosion That Never Happened – Forbes (1bedouin.wordpress.com) TechEd 2013: Microsoft sheds light on cloud skills shortages (itpro.co.uk)

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  • Tensile canopy tent

    Tentsile’s New Stingray Hanging Tent Lets You Sleep Comfortably Suspended in the Trees! Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Forget about soggy sleeping bags and competing with rocks and debris on the cold, hard ground on your next camping trip – Inhabitat favorite Tentsile just launched a brand new suspended tent called the Stingray that lets you rest…

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  • Kanga sustainable design portable room kits

    Kanga Room Systems Offers Tiny, Portable Eco-Friendly Kit Buildings | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough TweetShare on TumblrEmail INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough:…

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  • Concentrations of toxins in outerwear

    Greenpeace Detects High Concentrations of Toxic Chemicals in Popular Outerwear Brands ecouterre.com Photo by Shut­ter­stock Wide-open vis­tas are fre­quent­ly used to adver­tise out­door cloth­ing, yet the tox­ins many weather-resistant fab­rics con­tain may actu­al­ly be detri­men­tal to nature and … http://flip.it/ZPpMG

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  • Eco cabin on stilts

    Olson Kundig Architects’ Prefab Sol Duc Cabin Rests Lightly on Four Stilts | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough TweetShare on TumblrEmail INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle…

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  • Buckwheat hull pillow won’t go flat

    Hullo: A Simple All-Natural Buckwheat Pillow Designed to Help You Get Your Zzs George Neilson, inhabitat.com Is your current pillow flatter than a pancake? Rather turning to your local superstore for a replacement made from questionable fibers (and probably treated with retardants), go the all-natural route and rest easy come bed time. Hullo has created…

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  • Baby’s cells found in mother’s brain

    Scientists Find Children’s Cells Living In Mothers’ Brains Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com Image Courtesy of ShutterstockMany would argue that the mother-baby bond during pregnancy is the strongest human connection possible. During pregnancy, a mother is connected physically and psychologically to her child, and her baby… http://flip.it/PaGHz Related articles Dads-to-be Sob As They Feel Babies Kick With…

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  • 10 year old boy starts recycling business

    10 Year-Old Boy Launches His Own Recycling Business, Donates 25% Of Profits To Homeless Children Lana Winter, inhabitots.com “It’s so easy to do nothing. But it’s really good to do something!” This is the philosophy of wise beyond his years Vanis Buckholz, a 10 year-old boy who launched his own recycling business in his home…

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  • Adventurous Couple Meanders Down the Pan-American Highway in a Solar-Powered 1967 VW Van

    Beth Buczynski, inhabitat.com Read the rest of Adventurous Couple Meanders Down the Pan-American Highway in a Solar-Powered 1967 VW Van Beth Buczynski http://flip.it/GQzSr Adventurous Couple Meanders Down the Pan-American Highway in a Solar-Powered 1967 VW Van Related articles The Beauty that is Arenal, Costa Rica (truelovesjoy.wordpress.com) This Hot Pink VW Camper Van Is Blowing My…

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  • Stackable urban beehive

    Stackable Urban Beehive is Perfect for Beginner Beekeepers | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building mrspie, inhabitat.com Seek­ing to help restore the world’s declin­ing honey bee pop­u­la­tion, design­er Rowan Dun­ford has cre­at­ed a sim­ple, stack­able bee­hive that makes it easy for any­one to raise bees. Dun­ford’s … http://flip.it/N2bTd Related articles Inhabitat is…

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  • GSK adopts standing desks

    (via Standing desks and walking stations replace office chairs at GSK’s new Philadelphia offices | MedCity News) Related articles What to Look for in an Ergonomic Office Chair (lifehacker.com)

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  • Portable HDD streams content

    (via Seagate’s pocketable, self-powered Wireless Plus HDD streams content to multiple iOS devices) Related articles Seagate Debuts New Breed of Hard Disk Drives for NAS Market (xbitlabs.com) Eye-Fi Mobi Promises Non-Ridiculous Setup For iOS Devices (cultofmac.com) How to get started with AirPlay (macworld.com)

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  • How to Build a Legacy

    Les McKeown, inc.com THE SYNERGIST This isn’t about people just remembering who you were. Here’s how great leaders build a legacy that goes beyond fond memories. One of the strange bewil­der­ments of busi­ness is why so many entire­ly com­pe­tent lead­ers fin­ish…   RT @Inc: Leave behind more than just memories: How to build a legacy:…

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  • Visualizing global water risk

    An Incredibly Detailed Map Shows The Potential Of Global Water Risks BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com Aqueduct, a new tool from the World Resources Institute, lets you see all the bad things that might stem from water, from droughts to floods and beyond. Remem­ber the drought that hit the U.S. in 2012? It was a big…

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  • Bio mimicry and resilient design

    Creating Resilence By Following Nature’s Lead BY ERIN LEITCH, fastcoexist.com The natural world has found ways to work and live in harmony for a long time. If we want to also survive and create sustainability systems, biomimicry may be the key. The oper­at­ing con­di­tions of life are lit­er­al­ly sym­phon­ic: They are a… RT @cosekoski: “We…

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  • Shipping container hotels

    This Hotel Is Made Entirely Of Shipping Containers BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com Sleeping Around is a traveling boutique lodging that’s so fancy, you won’t even know you’re sleeping in the detritus of the global economy. When future gen­er­a­tions look back on the archi­tec­ture of the early 21st cen­tu­ry, will our time be… RT @FastCompany: This…

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  • Ikea and the anthropology of sofas

    How Ikea Creates Massive Demand For The Ektorp Sofa: It Thinks About Moms By Gregory P. Shea and Cassie A. Solomon, fastcompany.com IKEA has made very clear choices about who they will be and to whom they will matter, and why. Can you say the same for your brand? Göran Carst­edt, pres­i­dent of IKEA North…

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  • Apple’s trademarked stores

    Take A World Tour Of Apple’s Newly Trademarked Stores By Addy Dugdale, fastcompany.com First it won ownership of a rountangle—that’s a rectangle with rounded corners—and now Apple has patented its store design. You know, lots of giant glass, pale wood, and nerds in royal-blue tees. Apple has won itself a trade­mark for its retai… RT…

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  • Re-imagining the words of work

    Why Tweaking Your Career Vocabulary Can Radically Improve Your Life By Amber Rae, fastcompany.com Reimagining the words we use to define work—and ourselves—is a powerful exercise. Words are pow­er­ful. The lan­guage we use influ­ences how we think, feel, act, and inter­act with the world. That’s why I pro­pose a new kind of dic­tio­nary. O… RT…

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  • The year of car sharing

    Is This The Year We Ditch Our Cars And Start Sharing? Markus Barnikel, fastcoexist.com The CEO of Carpooling.com discusses what’s going to make 2013 a huge year for ridesharing.2012 marked a big year for the sharing economy with new launches, explosive growth rates, and millions spent in venture capital funding. In 2013, the growth ……

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  • Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing Economy?

    Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Are you gonna eat that? Here are four social networks that want to take food sharing way beyond photos.Globally, 30 to 50 percent of all food produced is lost or wasted between crop and plate—that’s between 1.2 and 2 billion tons. Personally, eac… RT @FastCompany: Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing…

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  • UX design info graphic

    Infographic: The Intricate Anatomy Of UX Design By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com This mega graphic attempts to tackle the relationship between UX and all other aspects of design. We toss around the term “user expe­ri­ence” (UX) a lot, most­ly as a short­hand for some­thing like “where indus­tri­al design meets inter­face… RT @FastCompany: Infographic: The Intricate Anatomy…

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  • Hypnotic time lapse videos

    Watch: Days Pass In Minutes In These Hypnotic Beach Videos By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com An L.A. artist attempts to capture the passage of time within a single video frame—no drugs needed. Xárene Eskan­dar wants you to feel awe. The Los Ange­les media artist, whose past work ranges from tree pods to a Google mar­riage pro­pos­al,……

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  • Visualizing top cities for bicycling

    Biking and Walking to Work idvsolutions.com Bicycling.com came out with a rank­ing of the top US cities for bicy­cling. I took their top ten cities and dot mapped every com­muter in and around them, col­ored by their method of com­mute, to get … UXBlog | IDV Solutions’ User Experience: Biking and Walking to Work http://flip.it/VHCFZ…

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  • With $1 Trillion at Stake, Enterprise Technology Gets Its Star Turn :

    Big Tech: With $1 Trillion at Stake, Enterprise Technology Gets Its Star Turn Michael V. Copeland, wired.com Every 10 to 15 years the enterprise market goes through an upheaval where the next generation of technology replaces the old. We’re in the early stages of one of those big displacements right now, where huge companies are…

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