NEMO Equipment: From a RISD ID Thesis to a Successful Outdoor Gear Company with a Design Difference core77.com In 2002 Cam Brensinger was a RISD industrial design student on a camping trip. An experienced outdoorsman, Brensinger spent a miserable night on that particular outing to Mount Washington, due to using poorly-designed gear. He came back … Continue reading Nemo outdoor gear: from a RISD design to the marketplace
Brooklyn-based tech company Etsy turning itsy bitsy New York microbusinesses into moneymakers By Phyllis Furman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, nydailynews.com The mood was cheery as more than 50 New York City small business owners gathered at a party last week at the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. “Our mission is to re-imagine … Continue reading Etsy is creating small business crafty moneymakers
Make Your Own Pocket-Sized, Grid-It-Style Organizer for $2.50 Whitson Gordon, lifehacker.com It’s no secret that we’re fans of products like the Grid-It for holding your cables, gadgets, and other knick-knacks. Reddit user MinimumEffort put together his own that fits right in your pocket for your most essential stuff. Whitson Gordon Make Your Own Pocket-Sized, Grid-It-Style … Continue reading DIY grid it style cable organizer
Use Written Estimates to Shop Around and Save Money on Car Repairs Alan Henry, lifehacker.com If you take your car to the shop for regular maintenance or even a small repair, odds are the mechanic will come back to you with a laundry list of things they want to convince you to do before you … Continue reading Use written estimates to save on repairs
Easily Add an Auxiliary Port to an Old Car Stereo for About $3 Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com If you have one of those stereos that was released in that awkward time between CDs and MP3 players, then it might be missing the now-standard auxiliary port for easy playback. Redditor Esplodies found themselves in this exact situation, … Continue reading Add aux port to car stereo for $3
The Biobot 20 is a Tabletop Biodiesel Processor for Waste Cooking Oil Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Now there is something better you can do with that viscous mess of cooking oil instead of sequestering it in a can or pouring it down the drain. The UK-based company Biobot offers the Biobot 20, a tabletop processor that … Continue reading Biobot tabletop biodiesel producer
Coworking Spaces From GRid70 To Grind Help Employees Work Beyond The Cube By Greg Lindsay, fastcompany.com AT&T, Zappos, and other companies are sharing office space with strangers— and not to save rent. In 2011, when the electronics firm Plantronics redesigned its headquarters in Santa Cruz, Califo … http://flip.it/LxPAI Related articles The Science of Serendipity in the … Continue reading Co working spaces and working beyond the cube
Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com Tesla now logs data for all test drives taken by journalists. This could be a scarily exposed new world for “creative” reviewers, in which fudging numbers could be a thing of the past. The Times published a scathing review of a test drive in th… http://flip.it/8nbdZ Technology Means The End Of Reviewers … Continue reading Technology Means The End Of Reviewers Fudging Numbers
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How A Radiator Retrofit That Could Save The U.S. Billions Went From Bedroom To Boardroom By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Columbia University helped grad student Marshall Cox turn a dorm room hack into a commercializable system that could slash carbon emissions by more than 6 million tons a year. To shut him up, Cox, then a … Continue reading Radiator retrofit could save billions
See What You Can Do With Drone Filmmaking fastcocreate.com Filmmakers are increasingly turning to camera-equipped drones to film aerial shots. Here, a German expert gives us the 400-foot view of a new mode of moviemaking. Berlin-based filmmaker Christopher … RT @nealunger: Here’s why filmmakers are using UAVs for amazing aerial video shoots. Helicopters? Old school … Continue reading Drone film makers
In Big Tech, Bet on Companies That Seek a ‘Better Way’ Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Consumer internet companies are notorious for selling us something we don’t really need, whether it’s Foursquare telling us to check-in to the restaurants and shops we enter, or Facebook encouraging us to share every detail of our lives. But it’s… In … Continue reading Solving unmet needs through startup companies
Craft Brewing: Etsy Sales Jump 70 Percent in 2012 By Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Etsy, the site that brought craft shows online, had a banner year in 2012, with sales from its community of handmade and vintage goods sellers up more than 70 percent, the company said Monday. Though CEO Chad Dickerson has said he’s n… … Continue reading Etsy sales grow organically
The 11 Coolest Ideas In Biodesign By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com William Myers’ Bio Design explores the intersection of design and biology. View Photo Gallery We can already store Shakespeare’s sonnets in DNA. What if we could use trees as city lights, or turn pigeon poop into natural street… RT @PopSci: 11 crazy feats of bio-engineering, … Continue reading Coolest ideas in bio design
wsj.com As more urban and suburban homeowners take up backyard farming, items like chicken coops, beehives, gardening tools and pickling and canning supplies are getting more stylish and pricey. RT @WSJ: Can chicken feed, canning jars and garden hoses feel chic? Backyard farming is getting fancy: http://flip.it/6rP48 http://flip.it/I9xN0 Backyard Farming Gets Fancy Related articles Backyard … Continue reading Backyard Farming Gets Fancy
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Startups: Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing Steven Levy, wired.com Entreprenuer, author and investor Tim O’Reilly has been seeing around corners for decades now. Here’s what he sees coming next. Steven Levy RT @BootsnAll: “Create more value than you capture.” http://flip.it/RvVYw http://flip.it/pgvMk Related articles 16 Things I Might Change If I Was … Continue reading Startups: Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing
Design Some Awesome Business Cards This Weekend Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com Whether business cards are irrelevant or not, they’re definitely a cool way to express yourself and easily provide your information. If you’re looking to make some cool cards, set aside a few hours this weekend and use these resources to help.Desi… Design Some Awesome Business … Continue reading Design Some Awesome Business Cards
Designing With Sensors: Creating An Adaptive System To Enhance UX Avi Itzkovitch, smashingmagazine.com In computer science, the term “adaptive system” refers to a process in which an interactive system adapts its behavior to individual users based on information acquired about its user(s), the context of use and its environment. Although adaptive… http://flip.it/lkFXD Related articles Creating … Continue reading Designing With Sensors
Freebie: Gemicon Icon Set (600 PNG Icons + PSD Source) Smashing Editorial, smashingmagazine.com Today we are pleased to feature Gemicon, a set of over 600 original high-quality icons in resolutions of 16 × 16, 32 × 32 and 64 × 64 pixels. This set has been designed by Turqois and is being released to the … Continue reading Freebie: Gemicon Icon Set
Freelancers, Stop Charging Hourly Rates: How To Guarantee Your Income With Agile Billing Benjamin Jackson, smashingmagazine.com For most creative professionals, this story is a familiar one: A client reaches out to you. They need a name, or a logo, or a website, or an app. Actually, they need it all together, and they need it … Continue reading Freelancers, Stop Charging Hourly Rates
Data Visualization - The secret’s now out! theindustry.cc Ever wonder how the folks over at Datavisualization.ch created their utterly gorgeous graphics? I did. Fortunately, to give back to the community (something we love here at The Industry), the team has released their Selected Tools… RT @industry: Data Visualization - The secret’s now out! http://flip.it/IE0q7 by … Continue reading Datavisualization.ch top tools
Microsoft Hires Young Designer Whose Rebranding Project Went Viral Stan Schroeder, mashable.com Remember Andrew Kim, the young design student who proposed an extensive rebranding of Microsoft’s many products and services? Well, Microsoft hired him.”I’ll be designing for Microsoft as of summer. I promise that I’ll make the my greatest work ev… http://flip.it/WdCed Related articles Microsoft … Continue reading Microsoft Hires Young Designer Whose Rebranding Project Went Viral
By Susie Cagle, grist.org Organic gardens! Canning! Sewing clothes! All the chickens! The modern rise of homesteading (of the hipster variety) has gripped the nation’s urban centers. It’s been kind of like this: Self-sufficiency can’t be bad, though, righ… RT @grist: Gardening and sewing clothes aren’t just activities for hipsters http://flip.it/JnK5y http://flip.it/9OQAU Are trendy homesteaders … Continue reading Are trendy homesteaders clueless about class differences?
Mitch Lowe enlists an army of Zuckerbergs to save the planet By Andrew Zaleski, grist.org With just a couple of finger taps on my smartphone, I can purchase a beer via QR code or tell the people in city hall about a downed power line on my street. It’s better living through gadgetry — and … Continue reading Mitch Lowe enlists an army of Zuckerbergs
Meet ‘the Minimalists’ — two guys who had it all, and gave it up ghanscom, grist.org Almost 12 months ago, my family resolved to quit buying new stuff for one year. The experiment itself was nothing new — in fact, it’s been recycled many times over. But we wanted to take a triple bottom line … Continue reading Meet ‘the Minimalists’
Gost Barefoots get medieval with chainmail barefoot shoes C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com At times, the barefoot shoe movement has played out like an all-out unleashing of designers’ unbridled creativity. We’ve seen foam feet, ruggedized socks, foot condoms, half shoes and every other type of foot-suit imaginable. Now we add one that g… Gost Barefoots get medieval … Continue reading Gost Barefoots get medieval
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