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Touch-based App Design for Toddlers →
This article is pretty weak in general but it definitely brings up an area of design I have yet to even think about.
July 2010
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Evernote gets built-in, third-party app directory →
Kardashev scale →
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The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring an advanced civilization’s level of technological advancement. The scale is only theoretical and in terms of an actual civilization highly speculative; however, it puts energy consumption of an entire civilization in a cosmic perspective. In general terms, a Type I civilization has achieved mastery of the resources of its home planet,...
WatchAfter more hours than I’d like to admit, even if I actually knew how many, I’m done. I started this, believe it or not, before the APC40 was even announced, and at the time there weren’t many products out there like it. Now, obviously it would make more sense to just buy one of those products, nevertheless, where are you gonna get an RGB monome with a nixie tube display that...
The Breathtaking Magnitude of Our Technology →
The best use of the internet so far. →
June 2010
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Faux Randomness Strikes Again: How Researchers... →
Watch‘Waves’ utilizes a basic construction of a long piece of elastic string and two motors to visualize the presence of people close to the installation. The string between the two motorized chambers reacts to the people presence and movements, it twirls to produce a sine-wave simulation that eloquently resembles both the digitization of real-time sound waves and patterns of flow and...
Behind the scenes at Smile: Typoboxes →
Check out the fruit of my labour yesterday! I spent a fairly busy day sorting out a typographic filing system. Sad I know!! But it also (in my opinion) looks very cool.
I searched for my favourite typeface beginning with each letter of the alphabet. A was Avenir, B baskerville, and quite…
6 Mashups of Music and Artificial Intelligence →
The Day Series: The Day we turned down TechCrunch... →
When Scot and I left our jobs to start MessageSling, we didn’t know we were going to start MessageSling. We didn’t have the name. We didn’t even have the idea. We just knew we wanted to be in this sweet spot:
It’s pretty funny admitting it, but when we left our jobs, we had a better idea of…
WatchRise Of the Replicators
Anyone with a few hundred dollars and some spare time can build their own 3D printer from a set of plans distributed free on the internet.
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May 2010
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World Touristiness Heatmap Helps You Avoid Tourist...
Need a friendly escape, or do you just want to go lone wolf? The World Touristiness Map helps you pick an offbeat, remote locale or a foreign-friendly destination for your next vacation with a heatmap detailing the relative tourist-iness of a location.
Based on location-based photo sharing service Panoramio, the World Touristiness Map is a compilation of the most frequently visited places...
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WatchCraig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they’ve created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.
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Manhattanhenge
What will future civilizations think of Manhattan Island when they dig it up and find a carefully laid out network of streets and avenues? Surely the grid would be presumed to have astronomical significance, just as we have found for the pre-historic circle of large vertical rocks known as Stonehenge, in the Salisbury Plain of England. For Stonehenge, the special day is the summer solstice,...