Even grandma can be a graphic designer with DesignMantic’s HTML5 tools Eric Blattberg, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Forget Photoshop and 99designs — DesignMantic could be the next big thing in graphic design for the common man. Or woman. Or grandma. DesignMantic offers a do-it-yourself design studio built with HTML5, so you c… http://flip.it/0U5ws Related … Continue reading DesignMantic automates web design
Tech companies produce fascinating data on the government shutdown Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Tech startups have taken advantage of the data scientists and engineers on their staff to produce some interesting studies on the impact of the government shutdown. On its blog, fancy car-sharing service Uber… http://flip.it/16kq1 Related articles Zipcar, Getaround, Uber: … Continue reading Tech companies visualize government shut down
You can use Google Street View to see the dead Jess Zimmerman, grist.org Wow, is there nothing Google can’t do? Street View can take you under the ocean, to the surface of Mars, around the South Pole, inside an abandoned Fukushima town, and up some difficult hiking trails. And now, one Oregon man’s experience suggests… … Continue reading Google street view shows dead people
iSketchnote: The iPad cover that digitizes your doodles gizmag.com Many people are now using an iPad or other brand of tablet as a tool for writing notes and drawing sketches. Doing so makes a lot of sense as the form factor is built with such tasks in mind. It … http://flip.it/aFFQh Related articles Get started … Continue reading ISketchNote: digitizes your doodles
New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less) Derrick Harris, gigaom.com There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it really easy to do some advanced visualizations on data in just a few minutes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of FlowingData for pointing it out.) The way it works … Continue reading Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste
Where the City Meets the Wild Adrian Kinloch, slate.com Car and chair, Marine Park, BrooklynPhoto by Adrian KinlochWe’ve been to the moon and just about everywhere on Earth. So what’s left to discover? In September, Future Tense is publishing a series of articles in response to the question, “Is… http://flip.it/fHg9B
Passionate About 3D? Become an Evangelist for Lagoa in Boston core77.com wants a 3D Evangelist in Boston, Massachusetts Who are they? Lagoa is the world’s first web-based platform for photoreal 3D visualization and rendering. They provide both designers and artists an exciting and innovative interface t… http://flip.it/whcnw Related articles Montreal's 3D Photoreal Rendering Startup Lagoa … Continue reading Lagoa web platform for 3d designs
From spooky to sublime, these Street View pics are hard to forget by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com Montreal artist Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes project collects some of the craziest Google Street View images you’ve ever seen. If you’ve never taken a random walk through Google Street View, the experience can feel like a dream in slow… … Continue reading Sublime Google street view photos
Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Google Glass competitor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for athletes and professionals, has secured an investment from Intel Capital. In perhaps bigger news, the company announced that is has already shipped 50,000… http://flip.it/x80lA Related … Continue reading ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections
How to get your demo right Brad Feld, venturebeat.com I get demos every day. Multiple times a day. I don’t want to see a PowerPoint deck — I want to play with something. I don’t want to hear a description of what you do — I want to see a demo. I don’t want you … Continue reading Skip the PowerPoint and do a demo
10 Things you Should NEVER Say During Presentations Boris, thenextweb.com At our TNW Conferences we see a lot of presentations and I have given a fair share of presentations myself. I often see people making the same mistakes and cringe when I hear the same excuses or basic errors when people get on… http://flip.it/iwgHO
Meet Your Future Memory, The Internet BY SARAH KESSLER, fastcompany.com Wearable technology could help provide a near-perfect memory of your life. But that might not be a good thing. “Mom, what was your first date like with dad?” Mom: “Let me show you.” That’s how Lee Hoffman, the cofounder of an upcoming app… http://flip.it/UQgj2 Related … Continue reading The Internet is your new memory
This Art Is Cool: Imagining a Dystopian Sweden Full of Robots and Dinosaurs Devon Maloney, wired.com Swedish artist Simon Stalenhag explains the strange, futuristic world he built by accident in his paintings – and premieres a new one with us. http://flip.it/guodV
Must-See Video: 3-Sweep is the Fastest Way to Get 3D from 2D That You’ve Ever Seen core77.com It’s not often I’m sitting in front of the computer with my mouth hanging open, but the video below is literally jaw-dropping. Researchers Tao Chen, Zhe Zhu, Ariel Shamir, Shi-Min Hu and Daniel Cohen-Or have developed software called … Continue reading 3 sweep converts 2d to 3d on your couch
Visualized: Canon 35mm CMOS sensor captures fireflies in HD (video) Melissa Grey, engadget.com Canon impressed us back in March when it unveiled its 35mm full frame CMOS sensor, which is capable of recording footage in extremely low-light situations. This time around, the company set its sights on the Yaeyama-hime fireflies on… http://flip.it/Ymdt6
3D Printing Is a Matter of Life and Death Matt Petronzio, mashable.com When Kaiba Gionfriddo was born prematurely on Oct. 28, 2011, everything seemed relatively normal. At 35 weeks, his doctors’ main concern was lung development, but Kaiba was breathing just fine. Doctors deemed him healthy enough to send him… http://flip.it/Q7Lvi
The Future of Handwriting Paul Sawers, thenextweb.com This is the second in our Future Of series, where we analyze and dissect one facet of life that’s been impacted by digital technology. Today, we look at handwriting. From the ancient scripts of Sumerian 3,000 years before Christ, through the da… http://flip.it/5Q7Dz
Google Glass: Surgery Tool Of The Future? By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com A surgeon transmitted the first Google Glass video of a live surgery to colleagues and med students across town. We’ve been waiting for a while to figure out what practical uses will come out of Google Glass, besides, of course, making dude… http://flip.it/pwI4B
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