via Gadget Lab
Forget about those faux tilt-shift effects. When a special effect is baked into almost every consumer digicam out there, it has … Read More >>
Custom Cup for Ultra-Efficient Cookie Dunking
via Gadget Lab
The Taça solves that age old problem: how to dip a giant cookie into a tiny cup of milk? The traditional solution has been to … Read More >>
Localize It: Podponics Grows High-Tech Organic Produce In Shipping Containers
via Fast Company
Founded by a former software engineer, the company–which just received almost $1 million in funding–is working on ways to … Read More >>
Chegg Rival CampusBookRentals.com Closes $20 Million Financing Round
via TechCrunch
CampusBookRentals.com, a company that lets customers from nearly 5,600 college campuses rent textbooks online, this morning … Read More >>
Amazon’s Appstore: You’ll Make $0 When We Give Your App Away, And You’ll Like It
via TechCrunch
Apparently Apple isn’t the only company running an App Store with a penchant for secrecy.
In a blog post this morning, mobile … Read More >>
Pittsburgh Signs Project: appreciation of the glorious signage of Pittsburgh
via Boing Boing
Earlier this summer, a nice group of people approached me at my signing at the CMU bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA and handed me a … Read More >>
Ultimaker: high-speed, low-cost 3D printer
via Boing Boing
MAKE:’s Jon Kalish looks in some depth at Ultimaker, a MakerBot-style 3D printer that runs at higher resolutions and … Read More >>
Skype for iPad is finally out (hands-on!)
via Engadget
A native Skype app for the iPad has finally appeared, opening up your Apple slate for voice and video chatting with others … Read More >>
Windows Phone changes logo, officially hip to be square
via Engadget
What’s in a logo? These days, it’s everything — it’s one of the most recognizable symbols a company can have, and it … Read More >>
Brains And Bots Deep Inside Yahoo’s CORE Grab A Billion Clicks
via Fast Company
A sophisticated personalization algorithm–combined with ever-savvier editors–has helped boost the Today box on Yahoo’s home … Read More >>