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RT @Techmeme: Restaurants Turn Camera Shy (Helene Stapinski / New York Times) http://flip.it/0A1K6 http://flip.it/3O9zY http://flip.it/jJpeX Related articles Should Restaurants Ban Food Photography? (neatorama.com) IHOP Franchisee Selects DTT for Enterprise-Wide Roll Out (prweb.com) Restaurant Charging $200/Person Has The Gall To Tell Diners They Can’t Take Photos (businessinsider.com) Weekend reads: Restaurant food photos get controversial (mnn.com)…
This device tells your phone how gross the air is to breathe By Sarah Miller, grist.org Do you remember in The Big Lebowski when TBL himself says to the Dude, “You told Brandt on the phone, and Brandt told me?” Well, that’s kind of the same way that this device, called CitiSense, works. It measures…
Hitcase and ChestR Mount let the iPhone see some action Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com With rugged, mount-equipped iPhone cases such as the Optrix XD, it’s now possible to use your phone as an actioncam. Most of these cases, however, aren’t designed to be mounted on the user’s chest – a viewpoint that often offers some of…
Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers Karl Bates-Duke, futurity.org DUKE (US) — For bonobos, building a social network and making new friends are as valuable as food, say researchers. If you opened a pack of gum while standing in line somewhere, would you give a piece to the coworker standing on one side of……
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QS Conference 2012 – Ariel Berwaldt – To sleep- perchance to REM (Source: http://player.vimeo.com/) Related articles REM sleep and suicidal ideation (psychologytoday.com) The Dangers of REM Behavior Disorder (everydayhealth.com) Sleep Wellness Centers of New York (liheart.org) Alcohol intake disrupts normal sleep – Times of India (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) 8 Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Your Health (psychcentral.com)…
Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email Megan Garber, theatlantic.com Unless you happen to get some sort of obsessive compulsive satisfaction from keeping your inbox in shipshape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — dealing with email has got to be one of the most deadening aspects of any…
How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As marketers, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agility. But very few brands were able to master the art. So is agile marketing a myth? A lot of brands struggle with agility in marketing: thinking on…
This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Test results become far easier to process, since they’re visual. Blood tests are one of those things that always seem to slow down doctor appointments. You’re in the room. The nurse takes blood. The doctor sees you—speculates a lot—and…
Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anonymous comments online really do stay anonymous, it’s probably wise to start using leetspeak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com)…
Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent, telegraph.co.uk The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books, researchers will say this week. RT @TelegraphSci: Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals http://flip.it/o4phh http://flip.it/iIR1N Related articles Difficult Texts Boost…
We forget a face, but not a Facebook post Anna Blackaby-Warwick, futurity.org U. WARWICK (UK) — Chatty updates on Facebook are much easier to remember than faces or carefully worded sentences.A new study sheds light on how our memories favor natural, spontaneous writing over polished, edited content—and could have wi… http://flip.it/VztTr Related articles Online fraudsters…
Body language reveals how we really feel Morgan Kelly-Princeton, futurity.org PRINCETON (US) — To figure out how someone is really feeling, don’t just read their lips, watch their body language.In a recent study, researchers asked participants to determine from photographs if people were experiencing feelings such as… Body language reveals how we really feel http://flip.it/bcv0f…
Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds By Colin Lecher, popsci.com And here’s a few fun ones in advance. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology just released an online archive filled with thousands of animal noises. The archive doesn’t have everything—it mostly focuses on birds—but you could still was… http://flip.it/5juay Related articles National Library of Wales:…
Death and Dying, the Animal Way – NYTimes.com http://flip.it/p64yX http://flip.it/X0pJs Related articles Death, Dying, & Buddhism – Pinterest (avantika1967.wordpress.com) On Death and Dying Differently (judemarian.wordpress.com)
Whoa What: All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com No more caring about minutes. Free phone calls over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G! Facebook just let loose with a new update to the Messenger app for iPhone, which until now was restricted to text messaging, sort of like…
Infographic: MIT illustrates how the world uses its mobile phones By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the January 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flip.it/kl0pp Related articles The…
How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Futurist and artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has just started at Google and gave an interview to Singularity Hub days after starting his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into natural language… RT @verge: How Google’s Ray Kurzweil…
Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop (hands-on) By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com The original Clamcase was one of the most flawed iPad keyboards we tried in our roundup — since then, the company has gone back to the drawing board and is now debuting a much-improved new model called the…
America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ By Laura June, theverge.com Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up…
Spotmaps translates every second of a film into a block of color By Amar Toor, theverge.com What can a film’s color scheme say about its narrative? According to Spotmaps, quite a lot. Created by Andy Willis, Spotmaps is a Python-based project that conceptualizes classic movies not in words or storyboards, but highly-detailed… RT @verge: Spotmaps…
California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial – NYTimes.com http://flip.it/JgDqM http://flip.it/8W5cC Related articles NYTimes rejects the MOOCopalypse (computinged.wordpress.com) Bill to Create ‘New University of California’ Dies (insidehighered.com) California Bill Brings Online College One Step Closer (tutoringtoexcellence.blogspot.com)
popphoto.com Samsung’s newest venture into the world of high-end compacts is the EX2F, which packs one of the widest apertures to be seen in a compact camera. The EX2F has a 12.4MP 1/1.7-inch CMOS sensor, an articulated 3-inch swivel VGA-resolution… http://flip.it/ApdXs New Gear: Samsung EX2F With f/1.4 lens, WiFi Related articles Panasonic launches $500…
IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five Years By Clay Dillow, popsci.com The computing giant’s annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch. At the end of each year, IBM releases its “5 in 5”—five technology predictions that…
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