July 2010
A Half Hour of Exercise Can Boost Creativity for... →
If you feel like you have your best ideas after a jog or while mountain biking you’re not imagining things. Small lengths of exercise produce long lengths of boosted creativity. …
Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler →
This “Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler” poster by Joey Roth is awesome. Did I mention it’s a letterpress print? Can’t decide what I am. What are you?
found at swissmiss
Sprint set to release 3G-enabling "case" for iPod... →
Recently released FCC documents reveal that Sprint is set to launch what appears to be a new case for the iPod touch that would enable 3G networking on the WiFi-only device….
Wait, But Why?: The Defibrillator Toaster →
Why are there so many conceptual toasters? Are you folks really having trouble using the ones you have? I mean, not to brag or anything, but I can toast bread with over a 60% success…
So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New... →
“In Google we trust.” That may very well be the motto of today’s young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the “digital natives” due their apparent tech-savvy. Having been born into a…
It's Easy!: How To Become A Superhero →
Just follow one of these simple steps. Me? I’m going to find Mjolnir AND learn magic. You think that’ll make me a super-superhero? Because I’m not against some government testing to…
Espresso Solo by Shmuel Linski →
Here’s a concrete espresso machine by Shenkar College of Engineering and Design student Shmuel Linski. (more…)
Moonwatch →
Moonwatch The moon has been a guide and object of admiration and mysticism during thousands of years. Agriculture, fertility, tidal patterns, human behaviour and many other activities have been…
Massive, redesigned wind turbines produce three... →
Your typical wind turbine in operation today is a set of blades mounted on a horizontal axis. You know, like a windmill. Well, this is the Aerogenerator X, and it’s making a case for a vertical…
100 Uses of RFID →
This week Thing Magic, a company that builds embedded RFID readers and other products, launched 100 Uses of RFID. Under this program, the company is profiling one use of radio frequency…
taxi,please →
illustration of art-typical taxis of world cities by art director mehmet gozetlik , turkey. more illustrations here.
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cybercasing →
cybercasing
pp. Using online location-based data and services to determine when a home is unoccupied with a view to robbing it.
—cybercase v.
Example Citations:
Data stored in digital…
Free Full Layered Facebook GUI PSD Kit →
In this post we release a free Facebook GUI PSD Kit, designed by SurgeWorks and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The main idea behind the kit…
Johnny Kelly →
Should you be doing something other than reading +KN right now? I certainly don’t think so, but I might be at odds with both your cold-hearted supervisor and the rational voice…
Gorgeous - Frank Westfall's 1930 Art Deco... →
Frank Westfall’s 1930 Art Deco Henderson motorcycle via Twitter. Knucklebuster writes - I took these photos at the Rhinebeck Grand National Meet where the newly restored…
There's a party in my dream and everyone's... →
The consistently amusing NCBI ROFL blog has found a fantastic case study, originally published in Sleep Medicine, of a woman who started sending emails during sleeping-walking episodes when…
Facebook's Tornado Unleashes Version 1.0 on The... →
Want to turn your website into a storm of real-time user activity? Another way to do so has just arrived. The real-time web framework called Tornado, which Facebook open sourced last Fall,…
thatcher’s coffee →
ok hold the phone. speaking of coffee…how cool is this coffee shop in vancouver? thatcher’s coffee has chairs upholstered in coffee bean bags, hanging quilts made of coffee bean…
Your New Superpower: See Heat Maps Where People... →
Imagine being able to look blocks or miles away from where you are and see how many people are hanging out at an intersection - in real time. Add a layer of precisely located Twitter messages,…
Two Talking Carl iPhone Apps Get Into Screaming... →
Talking Carl is an iPhone app that repeats back whatever you say to it in a high pitched voice. “Dueling Carls” shows what happens when two Talking Carls are pitted against each other…
thatcher’s coffee →
ok hold the phone. speaking of coffee…how cool is this coffee shop in vancouver? thatcher’s coffee has chairs upholstered in coffee bean bags, hanging quilts made of coffee bean…
Less Than 1 Year Until The Internet Runs Out of... →
The Internet will run out of Internet addresses in about 1 year’s time, we were told today by John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). The same thing…
Eureka's SARAH smart house could be getting real →
What if your house knew how you liked your coffee? Could anticipate what kind of music you’d want to hear given the situation? That’s exactly the kind of technology a team at the University of…
RedEye Mini dongle now on sale for $49, looking... →
You’ve heard about it for months, and now the universal remote that looks nothing like a universal remote is finally on sale in 52 nations. Thinkflood’s RedEye Mini — which simply…
Rainbow →
Rainbow by Helmut Smits.
Next generation media →
A nice deck from our friend Dan Calladine at Isobar, highlighting the most important news over the last three months in ‘next generation media’.
Nixie-tube sudoku board →
From Trashbear Labs. Arduino-controlled, incorporating a whopping eighty-one tubes. More details available in this follow-up post. [via Hack a Day] More:
Sudoku puzzle…
Fill 'Er Up! Coffee Mugs Get Connected with RFID →
Despite the deeply intrenched techie community within coffee shops around the globe, the process of buying coffee has yet to see significant innovation. Sure, there are some new ways to order…
Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks &... →
O’Reilly Media has just published “Cooking for Geeks” by Jeff Potter, “a compendium of food science, experiments, interviews, and recipes for the creative and analytically-minded…
World's 15 Strangest Museums →
The Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum is just one of many of the World’s 15 Strangest Museums. Honestly, I don’t think all of them are that weird and it’s a bit odd that the …
Flat-pack chair design software →
Bdring, on Buildlog.Net Blog, writes: I am just amazed, and I am not easily amazed. I saw this SketchChair application at the Ponoko Blog. This is just plain amazing. I love…
Scarlett Johansson by Sheryl Nields →
Scarlett Johansson by Sheryl Nields for Esquire Magazine…(Read…)
New fashion label only available to those who... →
Fashionistas love exclusivity, but usually it’s all about who you know, or how much you’re willing to spend. Creating a twist on limited editions is The Red Rail, a new Dutch fashion label…
Adobe FlashTime to bring peer-to-peer video calls... →
With tongue wedged firmly in cheek, Adobe has named its latest little bit of demo software FlashTime and given it a quick spin to whet our appetites. Built using the forthcoming Air…
The illusion of progress lights a fire →
Psychologists have longed talked about ‘goal gradient’ which describes how we work harder to achieve a goal as we get closer to it. I just came across a fantastic study published in the …
Fail Safe Email Delivery for Web Apps →
I have to be honest with you. If you run a web app and it sends email, right now you’re probably blind. You have an app or site, you setup a local SMTP server and start firing messages…
Bandage iPhone 4 Reception Issues with Antenn-aid... →
On Friday, Steve Jobs announced that part of Apple’s response to the whole iPhone 4 antenna problem would be to offer free cases for all iPhone 4…
Weird concept phone stands up when it gets a call →
The Nokia Kinetic isn’t just a sleek concept phone. It’s a sleek concept phone that raises itself up into a standing position when a call comes in. Huh?
The History of Lolcats →
Teh History ov Lolcats by OnlineEducation.org
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70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement →
Blogetery, a Wordpress platform, has seen its entire community shut down by its host, BurstNET. Subsequent statements by BurstNET indicated that the service was suspended at the request…
High-end home swapping →
The march of the hotel alternatives continues, this time with the arrival of a home-swapping service aimed squarely at the upper echelon of homes. Luxe Home Swap allows people with high-end…
QR-code p8tches back in stock →
After a long wait, Makers Market seller John Young of West Chester, PA (aka Tikaro) finally has his coveted QR-code “p8tches” back in stock, and with several fancy new designs. Besides…
Teenage Engineering OP 1 →
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Hackbus, A Community Wiki For Mobile Hack Vehicles →
Yesterday at The Next Hope in NYC, Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom announced Hackbus, a community wiki for mobile hack vehicles around the world. Here’s more on the Hackbus…
Facadeprinter temporarily tattoos architecture →
Many moons ago, we posted about the Facadeprinter citing some of its basic early paintball-blasted output. Since then, the device has apparently undergone some major refinements,…
Prototype billboard scans you, knows what ad to... →
There’s a billboard in Tokyo right now that’s watching people as they walk by and deciding what kind of ads to show them. It’s not so personal that it’ll flash your name on the screen….
Google Acquires Metaweb to Improve Search →
Google has acquired semantic web and real world database company Metaweb, a move the company says will help them “improve search and make the web richer…
Too fine to sign →
Very attractive job seekers may face discrimination from prospective employers of the same sex, according to a new study just published online in the Journal of Experimental Social…
An epidemic of false memories →
A gripping edition of This American Life explores the ‘recovered memory movement’ of the 1990s where patients became convinced that they had experienced horrific, sometimes supernatural,…
Touchable holograms →
Researchers at Tokyo University have come up with a technology that they hope could be a significant step away from the mouse and keyboard: touchable holograms. Hiroyuki Shinoda,…