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Tim Cook’s Attention to Culture Will Grow Apple Even More Paul Spiegelman, inc.com THE CULTURE GAP How Tim Cook treats employees may leave him a legacy bigger than Steve Jobs’. Much has been written about the brilliance of Steve Jobs and the iconic company that he built. Many say that it was Steve Job’s laser…
Is Your Doctor’s iPad Good For Your Health? By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Surgeons, doctors, nurses, residents, and other medical professionals all regularly use iPads on the job. The practice has inspired a cottage industry, health care innovation, and privacy concerns. Slowly but surely, iPads are changing the fa… RT @FastCompany: Is your doctor’s iPad good…
20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog By frog, fastcodesign.com From automated cars to smarter smartphones, here are the ideas that will shape the future. Yes, it’s already that transitional time when our current year ends and another begins, and today and tomorrow are quickly changing hands. Rather… RT @FastCompany: The tech…
IBM Imagines Our Five-Year Future: It’s A Touchy, Feely, Smart World By Kit Eaton, fastcompany.com IBM guesses at innovations that will change the world inside the next half a decade, and much of it requires computers that work like your brain. It’s a smart idea to think of IBM as one of the smartest companies…
The GPS-Tracked Life Cycle of Garbage By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new project uses location-based data from a throwaway mobile phone to track the life cycle of New York’s garbage. A New York-based techie’s new product uses mobile phone location data to track the path of garbage from trash bin to landfill.… RT @FastCompany: The…
A Brooklyn Clinic For Freelancers Looks To Change The Insurance Industry BY KATHARINE GAMMON, fastcoexist.com The health insurance from the Freelancer’s Union has been a godsend to the city’s workers in the gig economy. Now it’s opened a brick and mortar doctor’s office where freelancers can go to get cutting-edge health care. In a brick…
How To Find The Best Job For You By David Zax, fastcompany.com Should I really become an explosives worker? Spencer Thompson’s Sokanu wants to be like a Match.com for careers. There aren’t many 21-year-olds you should talk with for career advice. But when that 21-year-old, like Spencer Thompson, has built … RT @FastCoLead: Find the…
How America’s Spies Use iPhones And iPads By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Deep inside the NSA guidelines for iOS, warnings about “juice-jacking,” “hot mikes,” and requirements to cover iPad cameras with tape. Years ago, when spooks and government employees needed a secure smartphone, they turned to Research in… RT @nealunger: iSpy: Inside the #NSA’s best practices…
Infographic: Watch A Company’s Management Team Mutate Over 4 Years By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com What would your corporate structure look like if you tracked every employee, manager, and department over years? Maybe a lot like this. Unless you’re self-employed, we’re all cogs in a larger machine. The problem can be, how do you track that……
A Plan To Hurricane-Proof New York, With A Ring Of Wetlands By Linda Tischler, fastcodesign.com A grassy buffer zone around Lower Manhattan might work better than big seawalls—and look better, too. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, there have been a flurry of ideas on how to deal with the prospect that storms of such…
Worried Workers: BYOD Or You’re SOL [Infographic] Brian Proffitt, readwrite.com It is a common perception around the world that Americans, by and large, have problems relaxing. We don’t take what little vacations we do get and increasingly use technology to blur the line between work and home life. But a new study shows that… RT…
loafersansocks: I don’t watch The Walking Dead anymore. When I did, however, this is exactly how I felt. The large portion that is pink was ultimately enough to make me steer clear for the rest of the series. Related articles Walking Dead continues to Bore us all (reviewsofthetube.wordpress.com)
Antone Gonsalves, readwrite.com IBM believes technology’s future lies in cognitive computing, which essentially means making computers think more like humans do. To IBM, that includes giving computers sensors that enable it to touch, see, hear, taste and smell – sensory input as… RT @RWW: IBM believes technology’s future lies in cognitive computing; making computers think…
Christina Bonnington, wired.com It’s been a few months since Passbook was announced, and talk has died down to almost nothing. Is anyone even using the service? It turns out, yes, and we’re using it a lot. Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers http://flip.it/CjHIO http://flip.it/vOHyS Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers Related…
Who Needs Cable? 3 iPad Apps That Glue Me To My TV John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com The Internet may be changing TV, but it is nowhere close to completely disrupting it.Why’s that? In a word, content.Web videos can rack up millions of views (and millions of dollars), but the Web isn’t yet giving us content…
How Obama Knew How You’d Vote, Even Before You Did Dan Rowinski, readwrite.com Imaging you were a political analyst who time traveled from 1990s to November 5, 2012. A quick look at the national polls for the presidential election, you would probably have thought that Republican nominee Mitt Romney had a pretty good shot at……
Raiding the Medicine Cabinet to Become Superhuman Peter Rubin, wired.com If you’ve read Tim Ferriss’ books, you know he’ll do almost anything to himself in the name of self-improvement. And if you thought he took this too far in The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, just wait until The … Raiding the Medicine Cabinet…
gizmodo.com Usually, when winter is not being a cowardly little bitch, you need a warm jacket to keep from freezing to death. But if you live in a city, like more than half the world’s population, you need something something more versatile—and… The Ultimate Urban Winter Jacket http://flip.it/w2rSm http://flip.it/sxYjc The Ultimate Urban Winter Jacket Related…
gizmodo.com If you’re shopping for a new lens of some sort, you’ve come to just the right place. Here’s ThePhoblographer’s list of the best lenses you can get your hands on without breaking the bank. Canon • Canon 50mm F1.8/F1.4: When I first mo… The Best Budget Camera Lenses http://flip.it/NPHNf http://flip.it/cyFZt The Best Budget Camera…
gizmodo.com For a long time with Canon, if you weren’t dropping nearly three grand on a 5D, you were stuck with a vastly lesser DSLR. The $1700 7D is Canon’s first semi-pro DSLR, and actually it’s my favorite yet. What’s New and Dandy What makes it … Canon 7D Review http://flip.it/KC7vI http://flip.it/4zQSK Canon 7D Review
gizmodo.com It’s been nearly four years since Canon released the EOS 5D Mark II, the camera that turned digital still cameras into affordable workhorses for videographers and indie filmmakers. And this next evolution was definitely created… Canon EOS 5D Mark III Review: The Best DSLR for Shooting Video http://flip.it/ciEu6 http://flip.it/IDS9f Canon EOS 5D Mark III…
gizmodo.com Anyone in the market for a top point-and-shoot camera is probably deciding between Canon’s S100 and Sony’s RX100. But Panasonic is back in the game with the Lumix LX7, a sequel to one of the top shooters of 2010, the wildly popular LX5… Panasonic Lumix LX7 Review: A Lovely Point-and-Shoot For Control Freaks http://flip.it/DnCCe…
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