Category: Design UX

  • Turn your iPhone into an action cam with Optrix

    (via Optrix XD Rugged Case – Apple Store (U.S.)) Related articles Boston suspects: Immigrant dream to American nightmare – CNN (cnn.com) Boston bombings: Social media spirals out of control – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

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  • Can Instagram bounce back after row?

    bbc.co.uk Will the row over usage rights have long-term damage? RT @BBCWorld: #Instagram RIP? Can Facebook’s photo-sharing site bounce back? http://flip.it/rwqmi http://flip.it/F7r79 Can Instagram bounce back after row? Related articles Free follower on instagram (slideshare.net) Was Instagram a waste of Facebook’s money? (smartbrief.com) Ten FAQ’s About Instagram (3060writingfordigitalmedia.wordpress.com) On Instagram, Chechnya’s president criticizes America’s handling…

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  • Visualizing cities at night with no lights

    This Is How Cities Would Look at Night Without Lights Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city… RT @core77: Awesome…

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  • iPads swarm healthcare

    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…

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  • IBM says future of tech is cognitive science

    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…

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  • Follow the journey of your trash

    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…

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  • Visualize the management team’s mutations

    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……

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  • Why the iPad can replace your cable subscription

    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…

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  • Obama knew you’d vote: social science

    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……

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  • Panasonic Lumix LX7 Review: A Lovely Point-and-Shoot For Control Freaks

    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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  • IPhone and some expensive DSLRs captured year’s best photos

    The Cameras and Settings That Captured This Year’s Best Photos Jamie Condliffe, gizmodo.com Every year, Reuters publishes a list of its best photography, and you’ll recognise plenty of the 95 iconic images that capture this year’s biggest news stories. One keen Redditor, though, wanted to know more—so analyzed the EXIF data of all the… The…

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  • AT&T liberate mifi displays status

    AT&T MiFi Liberate: The Best MiFi I’ve Ever Used Sam Biddle, gizmodo.com If you can afford one, hotshot, an LTE MiFi will change your life a little bit: you have Internet virtually everywhere you go, a wireless high-speed network in your bag.Most MiFi gadgets are lousy. This one is stellar.What Is It?A tiny… AT&T MiFi…

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  • Go pro 4 is best action cam

    The Best Action Camera Brent Rose and Michael Hession, gizmodo.com It wasn’t so long ago that we rounded up the best action cameras and put them to the test. Just half a year later, and the biggies all have new versions out. They’re all better, but there’s only one best. Round Two: Fight!Testing MethodologyAs you……

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  • Visualizing cancer: it’s gone viral

    Cancer Rates Around The World [Infographic] By Emily Elert, popsci.com Global patterns reveal the myth of a “disease of affluence” Can­cer is often con­sid­ered a “dis­ease of afflu­ence”—a mal­a­dy that most­ly afflicts peo­ple in the world’s wealth­i­est coun­tries, often as a con­se­quence of… Cancer Rates Around The World [Infographic] http://flip.it/Pc75S http://flip.it/qUUIU Related articles Light-activated, acid-producing…

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  • Funf: computational social science in your pocket

    Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Novem­ber 2012 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/FiWXt Related articles Why…

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  • Ethnographic documentary filmmaking with a kinect

    How a Kinect hack is turning documentary film on its head By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 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… RT @WiredUK: How…

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  • The Evernote clipping obsession

    The Verge at work: backing up your brain By Thomas Houston, theverge.com How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not sci­en­tists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just try­ing to get some work done. The solu­tions pre­sent­ed here ar……

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  • Transcendence: a new film about AI

    Johnny Depp assumes the role of artificial intelligence in new sci-fi flick ‘Transcendence’ By Kimber Streams, theverge.com John­ny Depp will play a sci­en­tist whose con­scious­ness is uploaded to a super­com­put­er in the upcom­ing sci­ence fic­tion film Tran­scen­dence, TheWrap reports. Incep­tion direc­tor Christo­pher Nolan is exec­u­tive… http://flip.it/GwUjo Related articles Johnny Depp’s ‘Transcendence’ Adds Paul Bettany, Gets…

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  • Apps for iPad that let anyone watch cable channels for free

    History, A&E, and Lifetime Channel apps for iPad let anyone watch current episodes for free By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com It may con­tin­ue to be a pain for cable sub­scribers to watch tele­vi­sion when mobile, but the sit­u­a­tion should be a bit improved now that apps for the His­to­ry Chan­nel, A&E, and Life­time are avail­able for…

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  • Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

    With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com Buffer, the social media man­ag­er that allows you to sched­ule posts to Twit­ter, Face­book and LinkedIn, is today launch­ing a redesign of its ser­vice on both web and mobile. The…

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