Pedal Car Race Competition Heats Up Goli Mohammadi, makezine.com The fine folks of the Fun Bike Unicorn Club (FBUC) are hosting the second annual Death Defying Figure 8 Races this weekend, May 18 and 19, at Maker Faire Bay Area. One look at a handful of the pedal cars that will be racing this weekend,… … Continue reading Pedal cars at maker Fest
The Most Awesome Craigslist Ad Is for a Beat-Up Bike Todd Wasserman, mashable.com Profanity-laced hyperbolic Craigslist ads were once novel, but now they are a genre to themselves. To get people’s attention on the site these days you have to do something really remarkableThat’s why we salute this ad for a used bicycle from Ryan… … Continue reading Best craigslist bike ad
BeagleBone Black flies faster than the speed of Pi for just $45 Paul Ridden, gizmag.com Developers, makers, and hobbyists looking for a beefier alternative to Gizmag favorite the Raspberry Pi will be delighted to learn that BeagleBoard.org has taken the wraps off a 1 GHz ARM-based board named the BeagleBone Black. Though it may look… BeagleBone … Continue reading Beaglebone black is faster than Pi
Udacity and Georgia Tech Introduce Online CS Masters Degree Jon Russell, thenextweb.com Georgia Tech has announced a partnership with Web-learning startup Udacity that sees the two organizations team up to offer its first online master of science degree, which will run as an entirely Internet-based program. The degree … Udacity and Georgia Tech Introduce Online … Continue reading Georgia tech online MOOC MS in CS
USA-Made Portland Press Lets You Brew Fresh Coffee in Any Mason Jar Erin Flesch, inhabitat.com Home coffee-making equipment has come a long way, but the typical french press is still assembled from plastic and delicate glass in an overseas factory. The Portland Press is a french press for a mason jar that is made in … Continue reading Turn a mason jar into a coffee machine
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New Start-ups: Here’s Your Digital To-Do List John Brandon, inc.comTECH REPORTYou already know you need a robust Web presence for your business. What other tech steps do you need to take to get established? Read this handy list.I asked a number of entrepreneurs and experts for the essential things every…New Start-ups: Here’s Your Digital To-Do … Continue reading Digital must haves for any new startup
Call It “Artisanal,” And 5 Other Ways To Crush Self-Publishing By: Sam Harrison, fastcompany.com When former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki submitted what he believed was a perfect manuscript to a professional copyeditor, the editor found 1,500 errors. So he knows a thing or two (or 1,500) about how to self-publish the right way. Read on … Continue reading The rise of artisanal publishing
Steve Jobs, Nate Silver, And Pablo Picasso: Why The Most Creative People Are Generalists By: Drake Baer, fastcompany.com The compelling case for why a breadth of knowledge and a depth of expertise spur innovation. In the summer of 1982 a 27-year-old Steve Jobs accepted an award at the Academy of Achievement. During his brief speech, … Continue reading Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso, Nate Silver: why the most creative people are generalists
Building a Better Tech School By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, nytimes.com IF all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City and for Cornell University. In truth, it doesn’t look like much — just… Cornell NYC Tech, Planned for … Continue reading Cornell NYC Tech University rethinks tech education
Kinsa launches a smartphone-connected thermometer to create a real-time health map Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com If you want a real-time picture of the country’s health, you can check out Google Flu Trends or insights from social media. And if you want a more official perspective, you can turn to the Centers for Disease Control. But … Continue reading Kinsa: smartphone thermometer and real time health map
Visualization startup Datahero opens its doors and delivers data analysis for the masses Derrick Harris, gigaom.com When I first met Datahero Co-founder Chris Neumann a year ago, I was pretty excited about what he claimed his new company was going to do. Essentially, he told me, it was going to offer a simple, cloud-based data … Continue reading Data hero: visualization startup cloud based analysis
TechShop: an industrial revolution for $125 a month Brian Heater, engadget.com Someone, Mark Hatch, if I had to guess, has left a Square reader just to the left of where we’ve set up our cameras. It’s on a table next to a small, but exceptionally diverse array of gadgets. There’s a wooden book that unfolds … Continue reading TechShop: industrial revolution for $125 a month
Food Hackers Cook Up a Storm of Startup Ideas in San Francisco Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFile this under “more evidence that food-tech is one of the hottest areas for Bay Area entrepeneurs.” A weekend Food Hackathon contest at SOMACentral’s new 450 Townsend Street space attracted some 170 developers, designers,… http://flip.it/YDpSP Related articles New Rock … Continue reading Food Hackathons: food tech startups growing
App Makes Selling Stuff Online As Easy As Buying It By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com Sold is an algorithm-powered concierge designed to get top dollar for your stuff. Buying stuff online has become so ridiculously easy that I’m more likely to impulse-purchase a book on my Kindle than borrow it for free from my local librar… … Continue reading Sold: an app that makes selling as easy as buying
A Database of 120 Different 3D Printers, With Prices & Stats core77.com You’ve heard of MakerBot, Cubify and Solidoodle. And if someone finds out you’re into ID and asks “Hey, what do one of those 3D printers go for?” you can spit out a ballpark figure, and maybe some basic stats.But there are tons of … Continue reading A database of 3D printers
Get to Know the DIY Project All Star Tools This Weekend Adam Dachis, lifehacker.comWe write about a wide variety of DIY projects, and through that process a few common tools and relevant skills surface that make so many of them possible. This weekend, get to know these all-star tools and the amazing DIY projects they … Continue reading Best tools for DIY warriors
With the Kickstand desk, you never have to leave your bike, even for work slaskow, grist.org Kickstand FurnitureIf you love biking so much that the idea of getting off your bike to do work makes your stomach curl just a little bit, here is your solution. It’s called a Kickstand desk, and it lets you … Continue reading Kickstand desk: bicycle while you work
Why You Can’t Find Women Engineers: They’re Too Well-Rounded By: Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com “Not lack of ability, but more choice,” say researchers. Silicon Valley’s hottest companies are hurting for women engineers. And many pixels have been spilled trying to figure out why. The answer, according to a study released by Pitt… Why You Can’t Find … Continue reading Why aren’t there more women in engineering? Because they’re sane.
CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects. After he graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy, Sahadeva Hammari emailed one of his… CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons … Continue reading Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life
Retail | Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com Forget software as a service. Welcome to the age of stuff as a service. Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money http://flip.it/1CXcC http://flip.it/S9uwB Related articles Software As A Service … Continue reading Finally you can get into ECommerce with no skills, no stuff and no money
Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates Tim Maly, wired.com Say you finished your Kickstarter campaign for some product or other, and after the inevitable growing pains, you’ve gotten all the rewards out to your backers who are gleefully emailing you to say what a great thing it is that … Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to … Continue reading Shopify: finally ECommerce you can do from your couch
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