May 2010
Waterproof jacket, tent and sleeping bag in one →
Consumers may be able to design their own sleeping bags, but it’s a safe bet that few would come up with a jacket, tent and sleeping bag in one. That, however, is just what Seattle-based …
BrickLink is like Craigslist for Legos →
Have you ever seen any of the amazing custom Lego work proliferating on the internet these days and wondered, “Where did they get exactly the bricks they needed to build that…
Obama vs the iPad (information overload) →
At a recent speech at Hampton University, President Obama had this to say about our web 2.0 information age:
With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, – none of which I know how to work…
'Spike Your Juice' Kit Turns Any Fruit Juice Into... →
The $10 ‘Spike your Juice’ kit comes with everything you need to turn six 64oz bottles of fruit juice into booze in as little as two days, using rapidly fermenting yeast and black…
Coffee That Brews On The Go →
A New York coffee bar has introduced a french press-style to go cup.
Human Photos Double your Conversion Rate →
Editors Note: In his second article for Think Vitamin Paras Chopra looks at how human photos can increase dramatically increase your conversion rate. For further reads check out…
WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features →
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Don’t Mouse Around →
Don’t Mouse Around by Jeremy Bailey.
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Burley attacked for 'aggressive' interview →
Sky anchor Kay Burley attacked on Twitter after repeatedly interrupting director of electoral reform lobby group
A star anchor for Sky News sparked controversy yesterday after she was alleged…
Dinosaur Sweater →
Cool kids interactive dinosaur sweater!
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HOW TO: Add Facebook “Like” Buttons to Your... →
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Facebook officially unveiled its new Open…
Google Reader Adds HTML5 Support →
Google Reader has released a slew of new updates today, the most prominent being support for HTML5-powered videos and audio.
As HTML5 gains steam, partially due to Apple’s war…
Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook →
Why can’t privacy and connectedness go hand-in-hand? That’s the question being raised by those behind the new Diaspora project, an ambitious undertaking to build an “anti-Facebook” - that is, a…
How to create your own Micro SIM card using a chef... →
We told you you could shave down your old and busted SIM cards and turn them into minty fresh Micro SIMs, didn’t we? An industrious Londoner by the name of John Benson has gone and…
The Nevermind baby works for the Obama poster guy →
The baby pictured here: now works for Shepard Fairey, the artist who did the iconic Obama HOPE posters. Yo dawg, I herd you like pop culture, so I put some pop culture in your pop…
Monotype embraces @font-face possibilities →
Above: screen grab from McLaren Mercedes F1 site created by Work Club and Pirata which uses the @font-face css rule to use non system fonts in the site design. Read our blog post about it here
Get Satisfaction for Customer-Driven Innovation →
Earlier today, our very own VP of Business Development, Scott Hirsch, spoke at FEI2010, the 8th Annual “Front-end of Innovation” conference, being held at the Boston World Trade Center all this…
Greeting cards that can be reused and tracked over... →
Americans exchange some 7 billion greeting cards each year, according to the Greeting Card Association, so one has only to extrapolate to begin to imagine how much paper and ink are involved…
Mobile networks fight back on apps →
Google and Apple will face new competition from a group of mobile networks based in London
London is to become the centre of a fightback by the world’s biggest mobile phone networks, which…
Paint Attack: Coloring Traffic Patterns with Paint →
If you are interested in visualizing city traffic, you can of course use some sort of fancy camera tracking software and then create some crazy artwork out of the resulting video…
Gmail Gets Its Name Back in the UK →
In the UK, Google was forced to give its e-mail service Gmail a different name, Googlemail, because of a trademark dispute. These disputes take a long time (Gmail was changed into…
The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico →
Reading the news about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is something that’s been bumming me out lately, so I felt like touching on it a bit. As I sat down to write about it I thought…