America’s New Sustainable Manufacturing Hubs Will Breed Creativity And Jobs BY SARAH KRASLEY, fastcoexist.com Will this be how we revitalize the economy? Across the country, new multidisciplinary spaces for people to learn, experiment, and make are popping up, creating a new surge of jobs with them. Obama’s State of the Union Address this year was … Continue reading Sustainable manufacturing hubs arise
If You Want Your App To Take Off, Learn To Reward Your Power Users By Lars Albright, fastcompany.com Yikes: 70 percent of the people who download your app will never, ever look at it again. So you better learn how to create and coddle power users. Mobile apps are booming by all the basic measures, … Continue reading Cultivate your power users if you want to succeed
Replace Expensive Doctors Visits With An App That Analyzes Your Pee BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com Just make sure you don’t pee directly on the phone. uChek lets you use your phone’s camera to analyze test strips you’ve dipped in your own urine without having to shell out for a test or make an appointment. In … Continue reading Uchek: replace expensive doctor visits and lab tests with an app that analyzes your pee
Take Traffic Into Your Own Hands With This DIY Car Counter BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The TrafficCom lets you measure how many cars drive on your street and figure out traffic patterns. And you can now get one via Kickstarter—just like the guys at NASA. There’s something about the moment NASA places an order that … Continue reading DIY traffic monitoring
The Vamp: A Bluetooth Audio Device That Actually Does Something (Besides Streaming Music) core77.com Photos by Mark CocksedgeI won’t pretend to be an expert in the ever-expanding category of bluetooth audio, but I understand the appeal: After decades of being tethered to all variety of boxy, clunky or otherwise cumbersome hardware, technol… http://flip.it/LOCxc Related articles … Continue reading Vamp Bluetooth audio device recycles your old speakers
The Mu Thermal Imager Turns Your iPhone Into an Affordable Thermal Camera John McGrath, inhabitat.com Thermal cameras are invaluable tools for spotting heat leaks and winter proofing your home. The Mu Thermal Imager is a compact, affordable accessory that turns your smartphone, tablet, laptop or computer into a thermal camera! The device is the fi… … Continue reading Mu thermal imager turns your iPhone into an affordable thermal camera
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Man Transforms Old TV Screen into 2000 Degree Fahrenheit Solar Death Ray That Can Melt Pennies Lori Zimmer, inhabitat.com DIY expert Grant Thompson has a use for those heavy old rear-projection televisions that have been collecting dust in your basement—he transforms them into solar-powered death rays! Thompson takes advantage of the convex screens’ ability to … Continue reading Turn an old TV into a solar death ray
The DROP Eco-Hotel is a Portable Prefab Pod Home for the Modern Nomad Mike Chino, inhabitat.com In-Tenta designed the DROP Eco-Hotel to provide a mobile dwelling for modern nomads. The prefabricated structure consists of a central tube capped on either end by big fully operable bubble windows that provide natural ventilation. The pod hotel i… … Continue reading Drop Eco hotel for the modern nomad
ECO-Cycle Aquaponics Kit Turns Any 20-Gallon Aquarium Into an Indoor Garden Mike Ready, inhabitat.com The ECO-Cycle ™ Aquaponics Kit is an innovative retrofit system that turns an aquarium into a productive garden. Sized for a standard 20-gallon aquarium and suitable for smaller tropical aquarium fish and goldfish, the ECO-Cycle engages families a… RT @inhabitat: The … Continue reading Eco cycle aquaponics kit
Guy Kawasaki’s Case For Self-Publishing By Shawn Parr, fastcompany.com Taking a deeper look at the industry-moving concepts that inspired Guy Kawasaki’s new book, “APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur—How to Publish a Book.” “A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down..… Guy Kawasaki’s Case For Self-Publishing http://flip.it/yfJ3N http://flip.it/CYGqB Related articles … Continue reading Guy Kawasaki on the benefits of self publishing
Merrell Trail Gloves: “Barefoot” Running Without Looking Like a Gorilla Roy Wood, wired.com My oldest son is a huge fan of Vibrams, but they just don’t feel right to me. Consequently, I’ve spent a lot of time researching minimalist shoes, and the ones I finally settled on are the Merrell Trail Gloves. Roy Wood Merrell … Continue reading Merrell trail glove: ergonomic running without the monkey look
Gadget Review: Automatica Makes Some Cars Into Smart Cars Tony Sims, wired.com In the past few years, we have seen the addition of Bluetooth connectability, communication via rear view mirror (OnStar), and integrated on-board computer entertainment systems. All these things are great, but what if your vehicle is a little bit… Gadget Review: Automatica Makes … Continue reading Automatica makes your car smart
How Mazda Reinvented the Diesel Engine By Lawrence Ulrich, popsci.com The company’s new diesel engine will get 44 mpg plus meet strict emission standards. Diesel-engine designers have long grappled with a dilemma: Reducing emissions meant either cutting efficiency or adding expensive equipment. With the… RT @PopSci: How Mazda engineers reduced pollution, boosted mileage, and nixed … Continue reading Mazda rethinks the Diesel engine with fewer emissions, max efficiency
Cloud Shield, Twine’s Gateway To The Full-Blown Internet Of Things By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com Co.Design gets an exclusive first look at Cloud Shield, which makes Twine a full-blown internet device. Welcome to the Internet of Things. If you’re not afraid of hacking together a bit of code and plugging tiny wires into a credit-card-sized… Cloud … Continue reading Twine cloud shield and the Internet of things
NEMO Equipment: From a RISD ID Thesis to a Successful Outdoor Gear Company with a Design Difference core77.com In 2002 Cam Brensinger was a RISD industrial design student on a camping trip. An experienced outdoorsman, Brensinger spent a miserable night on that particular outing to Mount Washington, due to using poorly-designed gear. He came back … Continue reading Nemo outdoor gear: from a RISD design to the marketplace
Brooklyn-based tech company Etsy turning itsy bitsy New York microbusinesses into moneymakers By Phyllis Furman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, nydailynews.com The mood was cheery as more than 50 New York City small business owners gathered at a party last week at the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. “Our mission is to re-imagine … Continue reading Etsy is creating small business crafty moneymakers
Make Your Own Pocket-Sized, Grid-It-Style Organizer for $2.50 Whitson Gordon, lifehacker.com It’s no secret that we’re fans of products like the Grid-It for holding your cables, gadgets, and other knick-knacks. Reddit user MinimumEffort put together his own that fits right in your pocket for your most essential stuff. Whitson Gordon Make Your Own Pocket-Sized, Grid-It-Style … Continue reading DIY grid it style cable organizer
Use Written Estimates to Shop Around and Save Money on Car Repairs Alan Henry, lifehacker.com If you take your car to the shop for regular maintenance or even a small repair, odds are the mechanic will come back to you with a laundry list of things they want to convince you to do before you … Continue reading Use written estimates to save on repairs
Easily Add an Auxiliary Port to an Old Car Stereo for About $3 Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com If you have one of those stereos that was released in that awkward time between CDs and MP3 players, then it might be missing the now-standard auxiliary port for easy playback. Redditor Esplodies found themselves in this exact situation, … Continue reading Add aux port to car stereo for $3
The Biobot 20 is a Tabletop Biodiesel Processor for Waste Cooking Oil Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Now there is something better you can do with that viscous mess of cooking oil instead of sequestering it in a can or pouring it down the drain. The UK-based company Biobot offers the Biobot 20, a tabletop processor that … Continue reading Biobot tabletop biodiesel producer
Coworking Spaces From GRid70 To Grind Help Employees Work Beyond The Cube By Greg Lindsay, fastcompany.com AT&T, Zappos, and other companies are sharing office space with strangers— and not to save rent. In 2011, when the electronics firm Plantronics redesigned its headquarters in Santa Cruz, Califo … http://flip.it/LxPAI Related articles The Science of Serendipity in the … Continue reading Co working spaces and working beyond the cube
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