via Boing Boing
Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere says: Our latest project has a bit of “maker” flair to it, and I thought you’d enjoy. We … Read More >>
HP TouchPad tops Amazon US sales, rumored for UK price drop
via Engadget
Well, it’s official, the TouchPad is currently the hottest piece of consumer electronics around, and all it took was HP’s … Read More >>
100,000 Sign Up For Stanford’s Open Class on Artificial Intelligence. Classes With 1 Million Next?
via Singularity Hub
A groundbreaking change has struck academia, and its reverberations may be felt for years to come. One of Stanford’s … Read More >>
Energizer Travel Charger Nears Power-Density Singularity
via Gadget Lab
Energizer’s iSurge travel charger offer the highest density of power outputs I have ever seen. One small block of black … Read More >>
Three Self-Delusions That Influence Your Decisions And Productivity
via Fast Company
Why do you put things off, buy over-priced items, and stick with decisions that aren’t paying off? Your strangely wired brain, … Read More >>
90 percent of US net users don’t know from crtl-F
via Boing Boing
Dan Russell, one of Google’s anthropologists, conducted a largeish survey of user behavior and discovered that 90 percent of … Read More >>
HOWTO make a metapizza out of pizza-flavored snack items
via Boing Boing
Kari Schuster constructed a “pizza” out of pizza-flavored snack-foods harvested from gas-stations and grocery stores. The … Read More >>
How The Seemingly Chaotic But Wildly Successful Fringe Festival Makes It Work
via Fast Company
This has been an explosive summer–markets in turmoil, cities in flames, politics in meltdown. So it’s a relief to enjoy and … Read More >>
Unclogging Chinese Traffic With A Bus System That Works
via Fast Company
Traffic in Guangzhou (as in all of China) used to be out of control. A new bus system with dedicated lanes and smarter route … Read More >>
Intel’s Tomorrow Project: prototyping tomorrow’s devices with science fiction
via Boing Boing
The BBC has a good story about Intel’s Tomorrow Project, through which Brian David Johnson, Intel’s Chief Futurist, gets … Read More >>