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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…
Hands On With The Node, A Sensor-Packed Smartphone Dongle John Biggs Hands On With The Node, A Sensor-Packed Smartphone Dongle As a scientist practicing actual, bona fide science, I have often found myself in need of immediate g-force readings or barometric pressure analyses for my scientific problems. Whereas before I had to use my sextant and…
Daily Infographic: Which Political Party Really Rules America? By Emily Elert, popsci.com An amazing visualization of America’s shifting political tides Yes, there’s an election coming up, but that’s not what makes today’s infographic worth highlighting. What makes Felix Gonda’s Balance of Power graphic worth highlighting… http://flpbd.it/g5jyO Related articles Are you down with OPEBs? These benefits…
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Samsung patent ties emotional states to virtual faces through voice, shows when we’re cracking up Jon Fingas, engadget.com Voice recognition usually applies to communication only in the most utilitarian sense, whether it’s to translate on the spot or to keep those hands on the wheel while sending a text message. Samsung has just been granted…
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.…
New York Magazine Captures the Look of Post-Sandy New York Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com To the list of New York institutions that saw their operations disrupted by the Superstorm known as Sandy last week, add New York Magazine. With offices on Varick and Canal Streets, it is situated right at the borderline between t… http://flpbd.it/Den3G Related…
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……
Chris Jordan’s Portraits of American Mass Consumption Kaushik, amusingplanet.com American photographer Chris Jordan using large-scale works depict the magnitude of our consumerism and its impact on our environment. Like Edward Burtynsky, Jordan uses large scale photographs to depict scenes of infrastructure a… http://flpbd.it/3sGTD Related articles Midway – A film by Chris Jordan (vinodkumartiwari.wordpress.com) Our Earth,…
Panasonic Lumix GH3 launches on December 13th, but pricing remains a mystery Mat Smith, engadget.com Panasonic’s forthcoming mirror-less multimedia wonder has been given a release date. Yep, the Lumix GH3, with its ‘unlimited recording time’ and magnesium alloy build, will arrive in the Land of the Rising Sun just over a month from… http://flpbd.it/IcIl5 Related…
Infographic: 156 Years Of Election Data At Your Fingertips By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com An interactive chart visualizes party affiliations, congressional and presidential elections, and more, sorted state-by-state, year-by-year, since 1856. Prepare to lose an afternoon. Politics are a game of strategy. And while we often think … http://flpbd.it/d0MWd
Birds with cameras take flight in ‘Winged Planet,’ tonight on the Discovery Channel By Justin Rubio, theverge.com The latest entry in the critically-acclaimed Planet series from the Discovery Channel and the BBC airs tonight at 8:00PM ET. “Winged Planet” — like “Blue Planet” and “Planet Earth” before it — is a nature documentary that utilizes……
Daily Infographic: A Mesmerizing Map Of Water Currents On The Great Lakes By Emily Elert, popsci.com Researchers at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory borrowed some code from the designers who made this incredible wind map to create the world’s first beautiful water current map. The image above is just a snapshot—ch… http://flpbd.it/RccNm Related articles…
Measuring debate performance on Twitter – POLITICO.com Related articles Things Get Rough on Twitter Over Gun Debate (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com) Social Media Strategy for Small Business 2013: A Totally Honest Look at Social Networks (amsterdamprinting.com) Shocking NASCAR Crash Video Raises A Serious Debate (businessinsider.com) Infographic: 2012 Service Desk Industry Round-Up (sunrisesoftware.co.uk) oLyfe Reveals Social Media Sentiment around…
Survey Says GOP Women Are Prettier – The Daily Beast Related articles House GOP Strips LGBT, Native American Provisions In VAWA (addictinginfo.org) You: As House GOP leaves women unprotected from violence, citizens fight back (allvoices.com) The GOP’s sequester messaging muddle (politico.com) Americans aren’t buying what GOP is selling (maddowblog.msnbc.com) Poll: Obama approval hits 3-year high,…
Fast Exercises To Find Your Purpose And Passion For Work | Fast Company Related articles 5 Easy Steps To Make Your Job Descriptions Go Viral (mashable.com) Job Hunting? (RED) and 180+ Others Are Hiring (mashable.com) Why Most Employees Wish They Had A Different Job (forbes.com)
Blacksocks, App For Sorting Socks, Is In Fact A Real Thing Reuters, huffingtonpost.com By Natasha Baker TORONTO (Reuters) – If matching socks is a daily problem a new app that sorts them into pairs and even lets users know when it is time to buy a new pair may help. The free iPhone app called…
Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate by Lloyd Grove, thedailybeast.com The pundits may be calling Denver a slam-dunk for Romney, but David B. Givens, who analyzed the candidates’ mannerisms, disagrees: the governor looked ‘aggressive and manic, simultaneously,’ while Obama was ‘cool.’ The governor was manic and t… http://flpbd.it/uwyKR Related articles Jimmy Carter:…
Bird brains? Crows remember your face Scott K. Johnson, arstechnica.com One of the most enjoyable facets of studying other species is discovering the amazing things they’re capable of. As humans, the things we tend to find most amazing are the abilities that remind us the most of, well,… http://flpbd.it/YObK6 Related articles The social brain hypothesis…
Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? Stack Exchange, arstechnica.com This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites. davidk01 asks: My resume is no… http://flpbd.it/XbZep…
Bills, bills, bills: manage your accounts like a real pro Megan Geuss, arstechnica.com No matter your day job, we all have a second gig that saps a couple of hours from our lives every month: operating the administrative branch of your life (or your household). Personal bureaucracy is a sad fact of life, but there…
Never forget a face? Take the test Gerry Everding-WUSTL, futurity.org WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — A new online experiment tests your ability to remember names and faces, and compares your score with others’. The test, which can be taken from a computer, smartphone, iPad, and other mobile… http://flpbd.it/dn2t5 Related articles Review: Logitech’s Ultrathin…
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