Today Weekend Project: iPhone Screen Repair-
Replace the broken glass of an iPhone 3G.
Thanks go to Morten Skogly for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22.
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- Today Weekend Project: iPhone Screen Repair (PDF)
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Replace the broken glass of an iPhone 3G.
Thanks go to Morten Skogly for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22.
View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects
you can do over the weekend.
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- Today LEGO headphones
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Check out this rockin' pair of LEGO headphones from Instructables user =D. [via ubergizmo]
I decided to combine the two things that I love most: music and LEGO. This whole project took me about a month and a half, very on and off. I'm quite pleased with how the headphones turned out in the end, as they are sturdy enough to be tossed around in a bag. My favourite part is that I can take it apart any time to make repairs that may be needed on the go. No tools necessary!
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- Today Simple Bots: Barreller
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I love miniball bots and other types of ballbots where the electronics and mechanics are housed inside and the vehicle "navigates" by rolling around and bouncing off of stuff. Here's the same basic idea, inside a cylinder (a clear paint can). It's the Barreller, by Randy Sarafan.
The way the continuous rotation servo is used and the use of the paintbrush handles as the "eccentric" weight are innovative. This is just one step up from a basic vibrobot, in terms of build complexity. And like ... (more)
- Today LED Wall looks cool, is large
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MAKE subscriber Hans writes in to tell us about the gigantic LED Wall project by Kenny, Cat, Sevan, Jeff, Ginger, and Norm of elnormo.net. They used an ioBridge module connected to an Arduino to create a 20x7 LED array that you can control over the web. And why? Apparently, just for fun of it! [thanks, Hans!]
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- Today Competitive lockpicking growing in US popularity
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Competitive lockpicking growing in US popularity @ Boston.com. Based on what I've seen it's true, more people want to learn how to pick locks just for fun and more events have lock picking sessions and workshops -
While lockpickers thrive on the intellectual thrill of beating all sorts of locks, they oppose attempts to use the skill for mischievous purposes and have laid down universal ethical guidelines: "You never pick a lock you don't own and you never pick a lock that's in regular use," T... (more)
- Today London Hackspace spacewarming party
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Good news for London makers/hackers- the London Hackspace just relocated to a newer, bigger venue, and is having a spacewarming party to celebrate the move! Here's the details:
The London Hackspace is a non-profit, community-run hacker space in central London. We provide a space where people who make things can come to share tools and knowledge. We've just signed the lease on our new workshop - "Laboratory 24" - in Shoreditch. This larger venue will enable us to provide many more facilities ... (more)
- Today Detroit is the freedom to make things... by Bethany Shorb
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I moved to Detroit eleven years ago, in what I thought was a short stay exclusively to attend graduate school. After witnessing the potential to work, educate, and maintain a studio practice here, I never used my ticket home to the East Coast.
In just a few years after founding my neckwear design company, The Cyberoptix Tie Lab, I was able to quit the proverbial "day job" and work full-time in my studio without having to worry about the outrageous overhead costs that plague start-ups in many ... (more)
- Today Troika's palindromic, kinetic sign for the V&A Museum
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Troika's newly installed two-way sign for the V&A museum in London is simple, quiet, and mind-boggling all at the same time, "a kinetic object consisting of three revolving parts, together forming the V&A monogram. With each half turn, the monogram de-constructs and reconnects itself turning into a mirrored palindrome."
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- Today This Just Inbox: Wagon No. 1, a mason bag with wheels
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Something fun for Friday: we love this charming take on a cart, a mason bag crossed with a radio flyer that functions almost like a picnic basket. Welcome, a design brand based in Los Angeles, is producing a series of these wheeled carrying devices, each one a remix of an existing "icon of carraige." The first one? A mason's bag with a bright blue trailer.
From Laurel Broughton, the designer:
The WAGON series is a curated bricolage of style and function that merges playful aesthetics w... (more)
- Today SIGGRAPH 2010: Real sand, virtual bugs
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Guest post by Paul Fraser.
After hours of walking the SIGGRAPH 2010 expo aisles, you just need to unplug and have a little playtime in the sand. One exhibit located in the Art Gallery of the conference provided a sandy oasis from the sea of computer graphics and electronic do-dads.
Glowing Pathfinder Bugs, an interactive art installation created by Anthony Rowe and the digital arts group Squidsoup, allowed participants to manipulate the topography of a sandpit, which would change ho... (more)
- Today Frog Design is seeking a Senior Visual Designer in Amsterdam
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Senior Visual Designer
frog designAmsterdam, Netherlands
Qualified candidates will share our belief that design is as much about behavior and emotion as it is about utility and ease of use. Senior visual designers provide leadership in concept development, creation of original art and wire-frame interaction model, project design/development, and QA. They are responsible for the development of innovative navigation systems, interface designs, typography, and screen or page layouts for sof... (more)
- Today In a category of vastly similar products, Scholz & Friends's clever package design quickly distingui
- Folks, you have to wonder why no one else thought of this a long time ago:
This headphones packaging design (released last month by the European branch of Panasonic) was designed by Berlin-based Scholz & Friends, a creative agency whose motto is "Surprise! Convince!"
As Scholz & Friends explained to the Coloribus Global Advertising Archive,
The selection of earphones is huge and the products are often interchangeable. Only a packaging with a clear visual idea is able to stand out at... (more)
- Today Daniel Dobrogorsky's Koolhaus faucet concept helps monitor your water consumption
- [Update: This project was originally and erroneously credited to a UK-based design firm, who posted the project on their site with no proper attribution, leading one to believe the work was theirs, whether by accident or negligence. Please note that the designer is Daniel Dobrogorsky.]
Daniel Dobrogorsky's Koolhaus concept is a faucet that lets you know how much water you're using--not just from the Koolhaus itself, but throughout the entire bathroom, even dividing the bath tap an... (more)
- Today Nissan pioneering new automotive interior features: Easy chairs, air purifiers, vitamin-mist-sprayin
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We didn't think it could be done, but technology has advanced to the point where the Magic Tree air freshener may actually be supplanted by something more sophisticated.
"We want drivers to feel that they are healthier staying in the car instead of on the outside," a Nissan engineer announced at a press event in Tokyo yesterday. To that end they're looking into incorporating in-dash air purifiers designed by Sharp, air conditioners that spray a Vitamin C mist to moisturize skin, and spec... (more)
- Today SCAD ID students collaborate with JCB on backhoe redesign
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The Savannah College of Art & Design's ID department continues to impress us with its significant ties to real-world industry and the educational opportunities this affords to its students. SCAD's latest team-up was with heavy equipment manufacturer JCB, who collaborated with SCAD ID students on a re-design of their 3CX backhoe loader, show above.
The new 3CX features aesthetic changes to its loader arms, cab roof cap and engine hood that make it look more "rugged."
"We gave it more of... (more)
- Book a spot in the Sahara to plant your tree: Tree-Nation
- If you hang out a lot of the web, you probably have heard about the $1 million page. Its principle is dead simple: the page features 1 million pixels and allows you to book your tiny pixel-size ad for $1. Tree-Nation technique is comparable yet with a more citizen spirit. Instead of pixels, you support trees; instead of investing into an individual future fortune, you contribute to re-green desert areas in the Sahara.
“Our objective is two-fold: Primarily environmental, but also closely... (more)
- No walls, reused materials, but a real fitness club
- Green warriors have their green fitness club. Where? In Spain, in Valdespino de Somoza, in the countryside of Leon. It’s there where some Spanish villagers have built a low-tech green gym area called Lumen. Don’t expect to meet steamy trainers, listen to trendy music, or carry heart beat tracker. There, you get in shape by playing with exercise machines made from a worn car battery, tree branches, boots, rocks or concrete.
There, you essentially learn everything by yourself, by re... (more)
- French mailmen to ride electric vehicle
- French mailmen have a new vehicle. La Poste, the French postal service, has ordered 500 electric delivery microcars for this year and 10,000 within the next five years. Great move that we applaud, although the new squad will be a tiny portion of the gigantic fleet of fossil-fuel vehicle. By far to private sector companies, La Poste has around 60.000 vehicles, 25 airplanes and 3 high-speed trains.
Nevertheless, the electric vehicle will bring substantial energy saving. According to La Poste CE... (more)
- Bicodi, a simple and aesthetic stool for your bar
- We could be filed this under “camper knowledge for the living room.” After all, campers sit on any tree branch and when they could find one, they consider a tree trunk as a temporary stool. We were quite like this when we first way the Bicodi stool from the Italian design agency 2CWorkshop. Their bar stool has something from the rather simple camper trick but with a more aesthetic approach.
The Bicodi concept consists of linking a base and a seating with a bar. Many variations can... (more)
- En-Fer: Solid furnitures made from solid gears
- For an explicit name, En-Fer is a good one. The atelier, founded by Swiss designer Stefan Lehner and Christina Lanzos, is only interested in thrown-away steel products like old supermarket carts, worn industrial chains, springs, rings or used tin cans. What for, will you ask. To make new furniture, to make new things from materials that have an history.
Take this spring chair for example. The frame is a classic industrial chair with membrane springs. “Membrane springs are used in conden... (more)
- Once worn, cardboard boxes turn blankets
- This may not the most colorful blanket, but the material used to manufacture it is abundant: worn cardboards. While they are rigid and uncomfortable, those Cardboard Coverings blankets are soft and supple. Plus they’re light enough to be folded and carried easily in a bag.
While the still visible graphics of the original box remind us that they were once disposable containers of consumables, we wish they could be customizable or come with different patterns. This way, they would provide... (more)
- Your carpet, this wool balls piece of art
- Tennis balls aren’t only for tennis games. They can be make a seat. Wool balls aren’t only for knitting purposes. Consider them as ready-made pieces of carpet.
That’s right, Belgium designer Diane Steverlynck brought this nice idea up. Her Modul_le is a flexible carpet made of felted wool balls. Each round unit is independent from the others. To stick them together, just pin them on the velcro layer. What is great in this big puzzle is that everyone could change the pattern ... (more)
- Pump bike tires up with the seatpost
- How to get a bike pump always at hand without attaching it to the bike? Dumb question, isn’t it? Just put one in your bag, will you answer. Okay, but how do you do if you want to carry a bag, if your bag is too small or that your pump is just too big? Ah.
British designer Philip Robinson proposes another way to solve the case: Hide it in the bike itself.
Its BioLogic ZorinPump is a combination of a seat-post and a floor-pump, hiding the pump mechanism inside the seat-post without addin... (more)
- Today Winners of Toe-Up 2-at-a-Time Socks
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Photography by © John Gruen, from Toe-Up 2-at-a Time Socks by © Melissa Morgan-Oakes, used with permission from Storey Publishing.
Congrats to Ellen from Briarcliff Manor, NY, Mary Anne from Ontario, Canada and Nina from Vancouver, Canada, for each winning a copy of Toe-Up 2-at-a-Time Socks by Melissa Morgan-Oaks from our recent giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered!
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- Today It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere Parrot Head Fascinator
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Mary P. (Nebraska) made a fascinator for her mom and posted about it on her blog, Pretty Good Things. Her mom loves Jimmy Buffett, and she concocted this glittery desert island awesomeness for her to wear to the next Jimmy Buffett concert.
Note: You learn something new every day: Parrot head is a commonly used nickname for a Jimmy Buffet fan.
She explains the thought process behind her creation:
I wanted this little guy to be a bit more demure (who doesn't like miniature?) yet still have s... (more)
- Today That Girl! KAL: Which Sleeve?!
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Nikol here. I'm almost finished, but I still haven't committed to a sleeve. I knit one of each and I'm parading around in the mirror trying to decide. Help me pick?
That's the cap on the left and the flutter on the right. The wee sleeve variations eat very little yarn, so I'm making the torso longer, which I think suits the plainer version. In fact, you can get this length of the collarless, mini-sleeve variation out of a mere 4 balls of yarn.
I also have a great tip for people knitting th... (more)
- Today How-To: the Best Borscht
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Apologies for the alliterative title, but I couldn't resist, and I think it's true! About four years ago, my freshly affianced boyfriend and I took an old Soviet train with some friends from Helsinki to St. Petersburg at the height of the white nights (it's true, it never really get dark there in summer). We found our lodgings and wandered around the still-hopping streets (no one seems to sleep there in summer, either) looking for dinner. We found a dark and dingy-looking restaurant and of cou... (more)
- Today Cutest Use of Photoshop Ever
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When I was a child, I inhabited a fantasy playland that existed only in my mind. (Yes, I still spend much of my time there.) If only I had Photoshop to bring my magical visions to life! Forty-two roads took her daughter's crafty creative play to a whole new level.
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- Today How-To: Zine-Making for Kids
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By Diane Gilleland
Zines (short for "fanzines" or "magazines") are self-published booklets about any subject that grabs you. (Seriously, you can find a zine about just about anything.) There's a rich zine culture around the world, where music fans, writers, comic book artists, citizen journalists, poets, and others of every stripe are making, trading, and selling their creations.
Zine-making is also a fantastic activity for kids. Not only are zines a fun means of creative expression, makin... (more)
- Today Recipe: Snickerdoodle Cake for Cinnamon Lovers
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My son turned 8 last week, and in our family when it's your birthday you get to pick the type of cake and the birthday dinner. He chose crab legs and artichokes for dinner, which basically translates to things he can dip into butter, and Snickerdoodle for his cake flavor.
Never having heard of Snickerdoodle Cake, I scoured the internet for recipes, finally settling on one that used a cake mix (thank you, Betty Crocker!) and called for cinnamon in both the cake batter and the frosting.
I... (more)
- Today Home is Where the Lego Is Cross-Stitch
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Flickr user, sarahxsea, created this awesome cross-stitch for some friends as a thank you/housewarming gift.
They gave me an awesome Lego set of an RV when I moved into my apartment last year, so I thought I would return the favor!
It's an rad gift indeed! I love it.
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- Today Review: Exposed
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words William Wiles
Lovers copulate in an urban park. Around them, voyeurs gather, crawling over the grass, sometimes in their underwear, sometimes close enough to the action to lay a hand on a buttock. The coarseness of the black-and-white images suggests nature photography - there is a sweaty, animal tang of predation. Are the lovers aware of the watchers? How could they not be? Are the watchers aware of the photographer, Kohei Yoshiyuki, watching them? And behind the photographer stand u... (more)
- 3 days Win a pair of tickets to the V&A and Serpentine Gallery sleepover
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This Friday, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Serpentine Gallery are hosting a unique overnight event at Jean Nouvel's summer pavilion in Hyde Park. The Sleepover combines talks, films, experiments, music, psychology and even a midnight feast. Ticket holders will be treated to Bombay Sapphire cocktails and live music at the V&A before heading to Nouvel's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 at 10pm. They'll stay at the pavilion until 8am, enjoying a programme of activities put togeth... (more)
- The Waterhouse at South Bund, Shanghai by NHDRO
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words Manijeh Verghese
The traditional Shanghai nong-tang or "lane-house" receives a 21st-century update in the form of a hotel by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office (NHDRO): The Waterhouse at South Bund. The traditional houses are known for blurring the public and private realms and this is translated into the hotel through slim apertures that create unexpected visual connections between the private rooms and the public lobby. Of the 19 rooms within this boutique hotel, only nine off... (more)
- Stirling Prize shortlist announced
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words Oliver Wainwright
Culture and education go head to head in this year's Stirling prize shortlist as three museums weigh up against two exemplar schools, with a live-work building bravely waving the flag for smaller projects.
With odds of 1/1, Zaha Hadid's MAXXI Museum of Art in Rome is the bookies' overwhelming favourite, and will be compared to David Chipperfield's Neues Museum in Berlin and Rick Mather's extension to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, three very different approache... (more)
- The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts
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words Manijeh Verghese
This year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition had the theme "Raw". Co-curated by Stephen Chambers and David Chipperfield (icon 008), the architecture room had a rationalised arrangement that gave it a cohesiveness that it has lacked in the past. Partially helped by the expansive space that the room occupied this year, a 2m height limit was established around the room, allowing visitors to see all wall-mounted work in detail rather than having to strain their eyes to t... (more)
- Review: Sex and the City 2
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words Sam Jacob
If it wasn't a blockbuster franchise strung out through six series and (now) two big-screen versions, Sex and the City would exist as an obscure academic thesis written in the boring bit of an architecture school where there's nothing much to look at.
Its main argument is that sex, or to be more explicit desire, in late capitalist culture has consumed the very idea of the city. Manhattan is the laboratory here: the apogee of 20th-century urbanism has transformed into a... (more)
- The Otto Bock Science Centre of Medical Technology by Gnadinger Architekten
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words Manijeh Verghese
Amid the glassy modernism and old stone buildings that populate the Berlin cityscape, the new Science Center for Medical Technology by Gnadinger Architekten joins the ranks of recent projects that merge architecture and science. These include Zaha Hadid's Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg (icon 027 and icon 029) and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Madrid by Esteve and Robert Terredas. The building doubles as the Berlin headquarters of Otto Bock Healthcare. An exhi... (more)
- New Designers 2010 announces product design category winners
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words Manijeh Verghese
New Designers, the annual London showcase for recent design graduates, returned this month for its tenth year. We went to the award ceremony of the second part of the exhibition -- dedicated to product, graphic and interior design -- to sneak a peek at the designers of the future.
The New Designer of the Year award went to Tortie Hoare, a furniture, design and craftsmanship student from Bucks University. Hoare's boiled leather furnishings appropriated techniques... (more)
- News: Talking Type
- Avoid Red Arrows, das studentische Kollektiv für Schriftgestaltung an der Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, präsentiert ab heute bis zum 10. August 2010 die Ausstellung „Talking Type -- Schriftmaschinen"... (more)
- News: Wa(h)re Dinge in Wolfsburg
- Alltagsdinge, neu gesehen: Die Fotografen Claus Goedicke und Heinrich Heidersberger treten in einer Ausstellung der Städtischen Galerie Wolfsburg in Dialog.... (more)
- News: Kontra geben!
- In London findet das erste Anti Design Festival statt! Initiator Neville Brody ruft Designer und Künstler auf, aktiv teilzunehmen und bis zum 13. August eigene Projekte einzureichen.... (more)
- Hard & Soft: Proofmonitor mit eingebautem Farbsensor
- Deutlich weniger Zeitaufwand für das Kalibrieren und Profilieren -- das verspricht der neue Profimonitor von Eizo CG245W. Der 24-Zoll-LCD-Monitor hat einen eingebauten Farbsensor, der auf das jeweilige Gerät abgestimmt ist. Ein separates Messgerät zur Farboptimierung soll daher nicht mehr erforderlich sein. Der CG245W muss lediglich vor der Inbetriebnahme einmal mit der mitgelieferten Software [...]... (more)
- Ausstellungen: Film: Charlotte Perriand-Ausstellung in Zürich
- Das Museum für Gestaltung Zürich widmet Charlotte Perriand derzeit eine große Retrospektive. Katharina Altemeier war für uns mit der Kamera vor Ort -- und Kurator Arthur Rüegg hat ihr die Ausstellung gezeigt. Links unser Film - nach dem Klick weitere Informationen und eine Bildstrecke! weiter...... (more)
- News: Film: Charlotte Perriand-Ausstellung in Zürich
- Das Museum für Gestaltung Zürich widmet Charlotte Perriand derzeit eine große Retrospektive. Katharina Altemeier war für uns mit der Kamera vor Ort -- und Ko-Kurator Arthur Rüegg hat ihr die Ausstellung gezeigt. Links unser Film - nach dem Klick weitere Informationen und eine Bildstrecke!... (more)
- News: Schrift zu versteigern!
- Zwei Studentinnen der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig haben eine Schrift entwickelt, die sie jetzt auf Ebay versteigern... (more)
- Hard & Soft: Sicherungssoftware: Gewappnet für den Notfall
- StorageCraft hat unlängst ShadowProtect Server 4.0 und ShadowProtect Small Business Server 4.0 vorgestellt. Die Software stellt mehrere Wiederherstellungsoptionen bereit, um die Zeit, in der das System nicht verfügbar ist, zu reduzieren beziehungsweise eine optimale Lösung für die Fortsetzung der Prozesse zu finden. So kann man zwischen einer detaillierten Wiederherstellung von Dateien und [...]... (more)
- 3 days 10 Good Reasons Why TV is Good For You (via @NormanLearCenter)
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Our friends from the Norman Lear Center, one of the world’s leading think tanks and research institutions devoted exclusively to entertainment, is celebrating their 10th anniversary in style – with a list of ten good reasons why TV, the last remaining mass medium, is good for you: “We've heard the arguments: How TV is bad for us, how it's linked to violence, the obesity epidemic, the dumbing down of culture. At the Norman Lear Center we've made it our business to study entert... (more)
- 3 days Apple Magic Trackpad - A Gesture Too Far?
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Remember just a few years ago when Apple used to be lambasted for only shipping a one-button mouse, and there was constant speculation as to why the company stubbornly refused to offer a multi-button mouse? The line was always that more buttons would confuse people, even though PC users seemed to do just fine with them. Since the first Mighty Mouse, Apple's mice have added more complexity, but still, there's something about one-button products that Apple really likes - both the iPhone and iPad... (more)
- 3 days Ladies First
- I tend to perceive gender divides as a negative thing, and have seen inclusive design as a tool to lead us in a direction towards closing these gaps. On a recent trip to Mexico, it was clear that gender differences are both more apparent and more acceptable, so I was keen to experience one example of this; a physical Gender Divide on the Mexico City subway system.
During rush hours, the front two train carriages are reserved for ladies and children due to cases of crime and molestation in ove... (more)
- 3 days Remarketables 7.27
- 3 days EV Drivers Get Charged
- frog partners with ECOtality for a new family of smart EV chargers.
The future is now. Electric vehicles (EV) are no longer a figment of your science fiction imagination. With the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt soon to appear on your local neighborhood streets, a sustainable future of alternative energy in mass transportation is just around the corner. But for electric vehicles to succeed, they must become widely adopted and accessible.
A crucial component in making this a reality and bringing t... (more)
- 眼色准则（变化的速度）Eye Colour Norms
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下次再和上海年轻女孩擦肩而过时，你不妨放慢脚步凝视她的眼睛。不过除非你俩真的来电或者有其他的肢体暗示外，你可别期待她的虹膜会放大。因为你注视的不过是做工精巧的，在颜色和质地上稍有差别的彩色隐性眼镜。
彩色隐性眼镜并不是什么新鲜玩意儿。这个英文网站www.eyebright.com就有流行隐形眼镜的流行资讯以及品种款式的介绍，其中就包括了我最... (more)
- Apps, Apps, and More Apps
- "They have become a filter for our world," writes PSFK in a post on the "History of Apps," and points to this great infographic from Online MBA that at least gives us a sense that this fast-growing genre is somehow manageable.
Via: MBA Online
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- Touch / Nature
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“I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.” - Bob Dylan
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