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Tag: Transportation and Logistics

  • Tech companies visualize government shut down

    Tech companies produce fascinating data on the government shutdown Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Tick­ets On Sale Now 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… http://flip.it/16kq1 Related articles Zipcar, Getaround, Uber:…

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  • NYC prepping shipping container homes for disaster relief

    NYC is Preparing Shipping Container Homes for Future Hurricanes and Disasters Haywood Udume, inhabitat.com After the destruc­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Sandy, New York City is get­ting prepped for the future with a plan to build dis­as­ter shel­ters out of ship­ping con­tain­ers. Rather than makeshift dwel … RT @inhabitat: NYC is Preparing Shipping Container Homes for…

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  • Brooklyn’s New DeKalb Market is Made from 22 Salvaged Shipping Containers – Exclusive Photos! DeKalb Container Market

    Where No Cars Go says:, inhabitat.com Emerg­ing from the Jay Street stop of the R train, vis­i­tors encounter a wall of orange, red and white con­tain­ers behind white fenc­ing that holds up a ban­ner to wel­come vis­i­tors. Pass­ing through an alley between two dou­ble stacks of… Brooklyn’s New DeKalb Market is Made from 22 Salvaged…

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  • Why steam punk is a usability testing tool for new technologies

    Being More Human | Next | Output Kathleen Holt, oregonhumanities.org Being More Human Intel’s res­i­dent futur­ist on how the steam­punk cul­ture offers clues to build­ing a bet­ter tomor­row East­er week­end 2011, I was at the bar of the Dou­ble­tree Hotel at Sea-Tac Air­port watch­ing a parade of sorts: a… Being More Human | Next |…

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  • Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

    inhabitat.com Start­ing in April, sixty ship­ping con­tain­er shops will open their doors on the for­mer ship­ping indus­try pier under the uni­fied name “Incubox”. For the first two years of oper­a­tion (basi­cal­ly until the entire pier makeover is com­plete)… http://flip.it/hF0GX Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

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  • Aluminum travel trailers to store your tools and green tech gear

    (via Single Axle Cargo Trailer – Buy Factory Direct – Enclosed Aluminum Trailers) Related articles Find the Best Enclosed Trailers for Sale (yucaipatrailers.wordpress.com) Welcome to NY Trailers Inc. You’ve come to the right place. (nytrailersinc.wordpress.com)

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  • Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox

    Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox is a Tiny, Movable 3-Story Vertical Home Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Han Slawik based his Home­box on the ship­ping con­tain­er model for its trans­port capa­bil­i­ties, uni­ver­sal dimen­sions and use­ful­ness. But at the same time, wear, repair and main­te­nance of steel mate­ri­als is cost­ly, not to men­tion… http://flpbd.it/cSdov Related articles Starbucks Opens Drive-Thru Made…

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  • Tempohousing: container housing products

    Cool company. Based in Netherlands this place designs houses from shipping containers (something which is increasingly being done in a DIY manner). This means the house is ISO standards compliant, modular and practically bomb proof. Plus for the growing numbers of the world’s poor and resource limited populations, these are recyclable and low cost housing.…

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  • CLEAR Speeds You Through Airport Security and uses Cloud Contest for Innovation

    Home | CLEAR Speeds You Through Airport Security. This is an interesting contest and example of social networking and innovation. CLear will offer 500k to anyone who can come up with a way to speed people thru airport security a little bit faster. It can be a process or a technology… Related articles If Forced…

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  • Traffic: usability and social science of traffic

    Traffic » Home. This interesting book looks at traffic from a usability/behavioral perspective. For example it notes that speed bumps were proven worthless because drivers speed up between them to make up time! Related articles Tube Traffic Secrets: Review Examines Jeff Johnson’s YouTube Traffic Training Course (prweb.com) Annoying Traffic Cameras Are No Match for Subversive…

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  • Scanner anthro: the cognitive limits of airport security

        Scanner psych – The Boston Globe.   Shows how the airport security system is flawed due to human cognitive limits on recognizing items over and over and shows how gaming can improve this.   Related articles If Forced To Toss Your Makeup at Airport Security, Would You… (bellasugar.com) After Years of Work and…

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