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Brent Rose, gizmodo.com Infusing liquor is the secret to a lot of great cocktails. You can add rosemary to rum. You can add beef to rye whiskey. The possibilities are endless, but one thing is constant. It takes a long time. Days—even weeks—sealed in a jar. Bu… How To Rapidly Flavor any Booze Using Whip-Its…
LornaLab offers a home for electronic artists in Reykjavik By Duncan Geere, wired.co.uk Technology An open-door medialab in Reykjavik called Lornalab is widening the opportunities for local industrial designers, art theorists, computer scientists, AI researchers, music theorists and new media artists. Rather t… http://flpbd.it/pHllo Related articles Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park (georgetgeorge.wordpress.com)
Gift Guide: Mophie Outride Action Camera Case For iPhone 4/4S Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com Short Version Mophie is best known for doubling your iPhone’s battery life with the Mophie juice pack, but the company actually offers a wide range of iPhone accessories including the Outride Wide-Angle Lens iPhone case and mount… http://flpbd.it/sK5Wz Related articles Mophie Outride…
Journey | Popular Science popsci.com Peaceful, addictive gaming at last. The fastest-selling game in the history of the PlayStation Network has no sniper rifles, no speeding cars, and not a single word of dialogue. Journey is solely a piece of interactive art. The… http://flpbd.it/5wGEI Related articles Journey: A Popular, Non-Violent Video Game? (enumclaw.com)
By DAVID STREITFELD, nytimes.com Tim Ferriss’ “4-Hour Chef” is the first big book to be published by Amazon. With the traditional bookselling outlets unwilling to stock or publicize the title, publisher and author are pulling out all the stops to move copies and show… http://flpbd.it/bCv0s Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing Related articles…
Providence, RI Fab Academy Now Accepting Applications for 2013 By Brian Jepson, makezine.com The Fab Academy is a six-month long digital fabrication program directed by MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, and based on his rapid prototyping course How to Make (Almost) Anything. The Fab Academy started as an MIT outreach program, an… http://flpbd.it/dNjyn Related articles Congratulations, Your…
Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address A Human Need BY MEAGAN FALLONE, fastcoexist.com Facebook is great for checking out photos of your exes and all, but for social innovators working in the developing world, there’s no point to new technologies unless they make life better for the people they’re trying to help. Editor’s Note…
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DROP eco-hotel in-tenta.com DROP microarchitecture is a removable eco-hotel unit inspired by organic shapes of nature. Produced and commercialized by URBAN SQUARE. Si quieres leer en castellano acerca de DROP eco-hotel clica aquí. DROP http://flpbd.it/rgWm7 Related articles Arbol de Fuego eco hotel in El Salvador (mnn.com) Let islanders return, says former minister (thetimes.co.uk) Green Stars:…
Sumaya: An Elegant Hand-Crafted Mobile Home Clad in Cedar Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Phil Duloy has built one of the most beautiful mobile homes we have ever seen. The “Sumaya” is a sustainable, energy-efficient rolling house wrapped in cedar. Phil was inspired to build the Sumaya for his family after living in a converte… http://flpbd.it/k0gN6
Gigantic Glowing Fish Sculptures Made From Recycled Bottles Rise From Rio Beach | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in…
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Everyone wants a slice of Raspberry Pi Miranda Sawyer, guardian.co.uk The £25 programmable computer invented by British scientists has turned into a global sensation. Will it encourage kids to teach themselves code, or just end up in the hands of nerds? It’s 9am on a lovely autumn morning at Cern, the European… http://flpbd.it/8ObHT Related articles…
Hus-1 Christina Nellemann, tinyhouseblog.com Swedish architect Torsten Ottesjö has recently create a free-standing and nearly free-form tiny house that can be moved anywhere to create the illusion that the house has sprouted out of the ground. The Hus-1 is a 270 square foot dwelling… http://flpbd.it/0PaoR Related articles Watch: Person of the Week: Braniac in Chief…
How to Make Vegan Black Bean Burgers wikihow.com Black beans are a perfect substitute for the meat in a hamburger recipe because they’re high in protein/meat and have a great consistency for mashing together into patties. They also have an added benefit of being high in fiber and lo… http://flpbd.it/c2hwT Related articles Spicy Edamame Burgers…
12 Inspiring Quotes from Steve Jobs That Enrich your Day Zoe B, lifehack.org Steve Jobs was not just a visionary genius, but a man with an incredible passion for innovation, and a man who changed the world as we knew it. His lust for life was so huge that he used to look at his…
The cyber war: Deus ex machina economist.com THE scene could be in Tampa, or Santa Barbara, or Chicago. Mr and Mrs Sixpack are relaxing after dinner with their iPads. Each is looking at the same news website, but each will be shown different political advertising. He sees… http://flpbd.it/I9SWg Related articles NATO cyberwar directive declares hackers…
Mass bespoke economist.com IN WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn—the hippest part of New York’s hippest borough—you can pick up a seat for $750 made from the redwood reclaimed from an old water tower; or fork out $3,200 for a “Bilge” lounge chair, crafted from bourbon barrels an… http://flpbd.it/1H2Y6 Related articles Don’t Miss Bespoke on CeciStyle this week! (bespokeapp.wordpress.com)…
Janine Popick, inc.com BASEMENT TO BOARDROOM Turn your boring piles of stats, data and other information into an eye-catching infographic using these three steps. Last week my online marketing company, VerticalResponse, published a big social media… http://flpbd.it/ZcoB9 Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not Related articles Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not…
How To Redesign Your Resume For A Recruiter’s 6-Second Attention Span By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com The average recruiter spends six seconds on your resume. So this is what you do. It’s frightening. You’ll spend most of your waking life at a job, yet, according to a new study by TheLadders, the average recruiter spends just…
A Wearable Camera That Photographs Your Entire Life By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Microsoft’s cult-favorite SenseCam technology is reborn in a new, consumer- friendly package. One of the coolest things to come out of Redmond was Microsoft’s SenseCam. It was a wearable camera that took thousands of pictures of your daily… http://flpbd.it/zqJYU Related articles Wearable cameras…
Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings [Hardcover] Cristina Paredes Benitez, amazon.com “Provides a fine survey for architects, designers, and homeowners alike.” (The Midwest Book Review ) “ Small is sexier. ” (Details ) Phyllis Richardson is an architecture and design writer who has publish… http://flpbd.it/Hw95F Related articles Nano conference now includes Kaloyeros, other NanoCollege officials…
Eric Markowitz, inc.com Inc.com staff Don’t get an MBA. Don’t even learn to code. If you really want to start a great company, hone your design skills. Reams have been written about the importance of founders that can code—or, in Silicon Valley parlance, the… http://flpbd.it/5lhZ9 Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder Related articles Silicon…
5 Outside-The-Box Ideas To Change U.S. Cities For The Better BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com The Mayor’s Challenge is a contest run by Bloomberg Philanthropies to find the best ideas bubbling out of our cities—from data mining to turning foreclosed houses into urban farms. It’s a theme that we’ve touched on over and over at Co.Exist:……
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Medutainment has the power to save lives By Guest Author, wired.co.uk Culture This is a guest post by Jonathan Cloonan, Global WPP Fellow and Account Director. Follow him on Twitter on @Cloonanj Medutainment. Yes, you read that right. And no, it’s not a typo. Does the word make you flinch? Is it… http://flpbd.it/ynZd9 Related articles…
Open-source blueprints for a modern off-the-grid civilization By Aaron Souppouris, theverge.com Marcin Jakubowski dreams of living off the grid. Over the past few years, he’s been working on a set of 50 machines he believes necessary to found and sustain an independent, modern community. He wants to “take everything that… http://flpbd.it/XhbyO Related articles What If…
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