The Eye-Popping Images On Colossal Will Make Art Lovers Of Us All BY BRYAN LUFKIN, fastcompany.com Christopher Jobson’s knack for finding the most stunning, share-worthy pictures on the Internet make his site Colossal required browsing for anyone remotely interested in the visual arts. Between celebrity Twitter feuds, televised nip slips, … http://flip.it/FUUZv Related articles The … Continue reading Colossal finds most incredible images
The Simplest Way To Know What Everyone’s Doing At Work BY JANET CHOI, fastcompany.com In the modern—often remote—workplace, sharing work is essential to an efficient and collaborative team. Writing is the simple, powerful tool that can foster that culture of sharing. Here’s why. We share so much on our digital streams and fee… http://flip.it/YIFRR Related … Continue reading Why skilled writers are critical to the knowledge economy
New York City’s (Many) Toxic Sites, Mapped For Your Avoidance Convenience fastcoexist.com An interactive map of every bad pollution situation in the city creates a history of our urban development. Take one look at this interactive map of New York City’s toxic sites, and the city appears to be one giant minefield loaded with… http://flip.it/Tgp5F … Continue reading Visualizing NYC’s toxic waste sites
Meet Pencil: The Best iPad Stylus Yet, From the Makers of ‘Paper’ Kyle VanHemert, wired.com As Georg Petschnigg, one of FiftyThree’s founders, puts it, a stylus gives you the chance to “think with your hands.” http://flip.it/3Xc8i Related articles The Company Behind The iPad App Of The Year, Paper, Is Making A Stylus For The iPad … Continue reading Pencil: the coolest, natural iPad stylus
Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data Brandon Keim, wired.com When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological data visualization. Now his distinctive aesthetic is synonymous with the informational… http://flip.it/eM8Vh Related articles Martin Krzywinski … Continue reading Circle of life: visualizing biological data
Can Facebook Tell When Your Relationship Is Doomed? | Popular Science popsci.com A Facebook Employee’s Network The circle in the middle represents the Facebook user. In the lower left, one circle serves as a bridge between two more sparse clusters. That’s the user’s spouse. Backstrom and Kleinberg Give up now… http://flip.it/fgooX Related articles Kickstarter Alum … Continue reading Facebook predicts when your relationship will fail
David Hockney’s iPad drawings go big, 12 feet big by Leslie Katz, cnet.com A giant exhibit at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum highlights the influential artist’s foray into iPhone and iPad art, as well as films he made using multiple digital cameras. There are iPad drawings you look at on a screen, and there are iPad… … Continue reading David Hockney paints on iPad
Dropcam trades silver for black with its new, smarter Dropcam Pro Ricardo Bilton, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Dropcam has come a long way from selling someone else’s hardware. The home surveillance hardware company, which started out by selling cameras made by Axis, is updating its product line again with the $200… http://flip.it/jfUNF Related articles … Continue reading DropcamPro: the best cloud based home security camera
Even grandma can be a graphic designer with DesignMantic’s HTML5 tools Eric Blattberg, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Forget Photoshop and 99designs — DesignMantic could be the next big thing in graphic design for the common man. Or woman. Or grandma. DesignMantic offers a do-it-yourself design studio built with HTML5, so you c… http://flip.it/0U5ws Related … Continue reading DesignMantic automates web design
Tech companies produce fascinating data on the government shutdown Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Tech startups have taken advantage of the data scientists and engineers on their staff to produce some interesting studies on the impact of the government shutdown. On its blog, fancy car-sharing service Uber… http://flip.it/16kq1 Related articles Zipcar, Getaround, Uber: … Continue reading Tech companies visualize government shut down
You can use Google Street View to see the dead Jess Zimmerman, grist.org Wow, is there nothing Google can’t do? Street View can take you under the ocean, to the surface of Mars, around the South Pole, inside an abandoned Fukushima town, and up some difficult hiking trails. And now, one Oregon man’s experience suggests… … Continue reading Google street view shows dead people
iSketchnote: The iPad cover that digitizes your doodles gizmag.com Many people are now using an iPad or other brand of tablet as a tool for writing notes and drawing sketches. Doing so makes a lot of sense as the form factor is built with such tasks in mind. It … http://flip.it/aFFQh Related articles Get started … Continue reading ISketchNote: digitizes your doodles
New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less) Derrick Harris, gigaom.com There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it really easy to do some advanced visualizations on data in just a few minutes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of FlowingData for pointing it out.) The way it works … Continue reading Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste
Where the City Meets the Wild Adrian Kinloch, slate.com Car and chair, Marine Park, BrooklynPhoto by Adrian KinlochWe’ve been to the moon and just about everywhere on Earth. So what’s left to discover? In September, Future Tense is publishing a series of articles in response to the question, “Is… http://flip.it/fHg9B
Passionate About 3D? Become an Evangelist for Lagoa in Boston core77.com wants a 3D Evangelist in Boston, Massachusetts Who are they? Lagoa is the world’s first web-based platform for photoreal 3D visualization and rendering. They provide both designers and artists an exciting and innovative interface t… http://flip.it/whcnw Related articles Montreal's 3D Photoreal Rendering Startup Lagoa … Continue reading Lagoa web platform for 3d designs
From spooky to sublime, these Street View pics are hard to forget by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com Montreal artist Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes project collects some of the craziest Google Street View images you’ve ever seen. If you’ve never taken a random walk through Google Street View, the experience can feel like a dream in slow… … Continue reading Sublime Google street view photos
Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Google Glass competitor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for athletes and professionals, has secured an investment from Intel Capital. In perhaps bigger news, the company announced that is has already shipped 50,000… http://flip.it/x80lA Related … Continue reading ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections
How to get your demo right Brad Feld, venturebeat.com I get demos every day. Multiple times a day. I don’t want to see a PowerPoint deck — I want to play with something. I don’t want to hear a description of what you do — I want to see a demo. I don’t want you … Continue reading Skip the PowerPoint and do a demo
10 Things you Should NEVER Say During Presentations Boris, thenextweb.com At our TNW Conferences we see a lot of presentations and I have given a fair share of presentations myself. I often see people making the same mistakes and cringe when I hear the same excuses or basic errors when people get on… http://flip.it/iwgHO
Meet Your Future Memory, The Internet BY SARAH KESSLER, fastcompany.com Wearable technology could help provide a near-perfect memory of your life. But that might not be a good thing. “Mom, what was your first date like with dad?” Mom: “Let me show you.” That’s how Lee Hoffman, the cofounder of an upcoming app… http://flip.it/UQgj2 Related … Continue reading The Internet is your new memory
This Art Is Cool: Imagining a Dystopian Sweden Full of Robots and Dinosaurs Devon Maloney, wired.com Swedish artist Simon Stalenhag explains the strange, futuristic world he built by accident in his paintings – and premieres a new one with us. http://flip.it/guodV
Must-See Video: 3-Sweep is the Fastest Way to Get 3D from 2D That You’ve Ever Seen core77.com It’s not often I’m sitting in front of the computer with my mouth hanging open, but the video below is literally jaw-dropping. Researchers Tao Chen, Zhe Zhu, Ariel Shamir, Shi-Min Hu and Daniel Cohen-Or have developed software called … Continue reading 3 sweep converts 2d to 3d on your couch
Visualized: Canon 35mm CMOS sensor captures fireflies in HD (video) Melissa Grey, engadget.com Canon impressed us back in March when it unveiled its 35mm full frame CMOS sensor, which is capable of recording footage in extremely low-light situations. This time around, the company set its sights on the Yaeyama-hime fireflies on… http://flip.it/Ymdt6
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