New York City’s (Many) Toxic Sites, Mapped For Your Avoidance Convenience
fastcoexist.comAn interactive map of every bad pollution situation in the city creates a history of our urban development.
Take one look at this interactive map of New York City’s toxic sites, and the city appears to be one giant minefield loaded with…
Meet Pencil: The Best iPad Stylus Yet, From the Makers of ‘Paper’
Kyle VanHemert, wired.comAs Georg Petschnigg, one of FiftyThree’s founders, puts it, a stylus gives you the chance to “think with your hands.”
Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data
Brandon Keim, wired.comWhen Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological data visualization. Now his distinctive aesthetic is synonymous with the informational…
Can Facebook Tell When Your Relationship Is Doomed? | Popular Science
popsci.comA Facebook Employee’s Network
The circle in the middle represents the Facebook user. In the lower left, one circle serves as a bridge between two more sparse clusters. That’s the user’s spouse.
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David Hockney’s iPad drawings go big, 12 feet big
by Leslie Katz, cnet.comA giant exhibit at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum highlights the influential artist’s foray into iPhone and iPad art, as well as films he made using multiple digital cameras.
There are iPad drawings you look at on a screen, and there are iPad…
Dropcam trades silver for black with its new, smarter Dropcam Pro
Ricardo Bilton, venturebeat.comTickets On Sale Now
Dropcam has come a long way from selling someone else’s hardware.
The home surveillance hardware company, which started out by selling cameras made by Axis, is updating its product line again with the $200…
Even grandma can be a graphic designer with DesignMantic’s HTML5 tools
Eric Blattberg, venturebeat.comTickets 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…
Tech companies produce fascinating data on the government shutdown
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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…
You can use Google Street View to see the dead
Jess Zimmerman, grist.orgWow, 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…
iSketchnote: The iPad cover that digitizes your doodles
gizmag.comMany 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 …
New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less)
Derrick Harris, gigaom.comThere’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 is pretty simple: You paste data…
Where the City Meets the Wild
Adrian Kinloch, slate.comCar 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…
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