Flexi-legged Shelter can be built from disaster scrap James Holloway, gizmag.com With its modestly named Shelter, architecture firm Carter Williamson has thrown its hat into the disaster response emergency housing ring. Here, the emphasis appears to be on flexibility, Shelter having been designed for easy transportation and ra… Flexi-legged Shelter can be built from disaster … Continue reading Flexi-legged Shelter
AbleNook portable dwelling assembles in two hours Bridget Borgobello, gizmag.com A few years back, young architects Sean Verdecia and Jason Ross put their heads together to come up with a cheap, flexible and mobile emergency housing system that would provide families with dignity and privacy during a natural disaster. The… AbleNook portable dwelling assembles in … Continue reading AbleNook portable dwelling
NewHive Lets You Hack Together Any Media Into A Website Collage. 10M Views Let It Raise Funding Josh Constine, techcrunch.com Instagram for websites? Not exactly. NewHive is more like a cross between MS Paint, Photoshop, and Tumblr. But NewHive’s not just a collage site-making tool. It has a community that’s logged 10 million views of … Continue reading NewHive Lets You Hack Together Any Media Into A Website Collage
How One Designer Went From Designing Remote Controls To Cook Stoves BY RACHAEL CHONG, fastcoexist.com Heather Fleming’s Catapult Designs does innovative product design—but for the developing world. Editor’s Note This is the latest profile in Catchafire’s Generosity Series, a multi-month celebration and investigation of bold… RT @FastCoExist: How One Designer Went From Designing Remote Controls … Continue reading How One Designer Went From Designing Remote Controls To Cook Stoves
Visualizing The Returns Of Education BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com The winner of an infographic design contest compares and contrasts the different costs and benefits of public and private education in countries around the world. At a time of inflation-busting tuition fees, reduced government support, and… RT @anya1anya: amazing infographic on the returns to education via … Continue reading Visualizing The Returns Of Education
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Where No Cars Go says:, inhabitat.com Emerging from the Jay Street stop of the R train, visitors encounter a wall of orange, red and white containers behind white fencing that holds up a banner to welcome visitors. Passing through an alley between two double stacks of… Brooklyn’s New DeKalb Market is Made from 22 Salvaged … Continue reading Brooklyn’s New DeKalb Market is Made from 22 Salvaged Shipping Containers – Exclusive Photos! DeKalb Container Market
inhabitat.com It makes sense that Kickstarter chose the pencil factory as the home of its new headquarters considering the building’s history and the fact that pencils were considered an innovative, life-improving product (at least when they… Kickstarter’s New Greenpoint, Brooklyn Headquarters Will Boast a Green Roof and Glass-Lined Courtyard Kickstarter Greenpoint Related articles Kickstarter's … Continue reading Kickstarter’s New Greenpoint, Brooklyn Headquarters Will Boast a Green Roof and Glass-Lined Courtyard Kickstarter Greenpoint
CES 2013 Roundup: Stuff We Want core77.com Hidden hearing by CynapsIf everything at CES actually worked (i.e., no concepts) and you won one of those grab-whatever-you-can-in-fifteen-minutes shopping sprees, what would you snag? We’ve worked out a short list:The Cynaps Bone… RT @core77: CES 2013 Roundup: Stuff We Want: http://flip.it/DAgla http://flip.it/KXPHx
6 Common Tech Myths That Cost You Money Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com Ever scoff at someone for buying refurbished? Or found yourself dropping $40 on an HDMI cable? We all hear (and spread) tech myths to mostly harmless ends, but in some cases those myths end up costing you a lot of money. Here are a … Continue reading 6 Common Tech Myths That Cost You Money
NASA Architect’s Cricket Trailer Showcases Space-Age Design | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building dim says:, inhabitat.com The Cricket Trailer, designed by NASA Architect Garrett Finney, is a mini mobile home inspired by the tight but efficient quarters of the NASA space station. Finney, who helped design the “habitation module” where the … Continue reading Cricket Trailer Showcases Space-Age Design
The Globe (Hedron) Is a Geodesic Greenhouse for Urban Farmers | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building timotheos says:, inhabitat.com Predicting food shortages in the 21st century, Zurich-based UrbanFarmers AG and Conceptual Devices have teamed up to produce plans for the Globe (Hedron), a geodesic greenhouse that rests on the top of … Continue reading The Globe (Hedron) Is a Geodesic Greenhouse
The Well is a Giant New Beer Hall Inside a Former Bushwick Brewery inhabitat.com Bushwick‘s Otto Huber Brewery may be long gone, but its new tenants have reincarnated its spirit with a cavernous new beer garden inside the old facility. Dubbed The Well, the transformed former beer factory is now home to 16,000… RT @inhabitat: … Continue reading The Well is a Giant New Beer Hall
These Gorgeous Sustainable Pre-Fab Houses Fit In A Shipping Container BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com Just because a house is pre-fabricated doesn’t mean it’s easy to move. But Connect Homes’ innovation is to make them fit in shipping containers, so high-end green design can end up anywhere on the planet. Pre-fab homes have found a new … Continue reading These Gorgeous Sustainable Pre-Fab Houses Fit In A Shipping Container
Steelcase’s Anthropologist On Remaking Offices To Create Happier Workers By Drake Baer, fastcompany.com Human nature changes slowly, but the way we work and the idea of the “office” changes fast. Here’s how to harness those opposing forces for a happier work force. You text, you Gchat, you hop on Facebook—why? To communicate. Soon you find… … Continue reading Steelcase Anthropologist On Remaking Offices To Create Happier Workers
Codecademy’s New API Lab Lets Wannabe Devs Tinker With NPR, Twilio, SoundCloud, And More By Sarah Kessler, fastcompany.com Learning to code is more fun when you’re building something you can use. Codecademy’s new lesson plans use APIs to help students build more complex projects earlier. After completing the first HTML project at online programming school… … Continue reading New API Lab Lets Wannabe Devs Tinker
A New Kind Of Concrete Gives Regular Buildings Living Walls BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com This new building material is engineered to easily keep plant life living on it to create easy-to-care-for green buildings. Buildings covered in vegetation aren’t just beautiful. They also capture CO2 and provide insulation—you just ha… RT @FastCompany: A New Kind Of … Continue reading A New Kind Of Concrete Gives Regular Buildings Living Walls
In the Future, Will Libraries Look More Like Apple Stores? BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com A new library in Texas appears to be normal, until you realize it doesn’t have any books in it. In Bexar County, Texas, the center of the San Antonio metropolitan area’s breakneck growth, a population boom has left some residents… RT … Continue reading In the Future, Will Libraries Look More Like Apple Stores?
EVRYTHNG: Friending your stuff By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the January 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flip.it/MpSYb Related articles We Live in a Beta World | … Continue reading Friending your stuff
Researchers Reverse Engineer Fireflies To Make More Efficient LEDs By Colin Lecher, popsci.com Fireflies have a neat trick for conserving light. Turns out, it could work for LEDs, too. Sometimes, a trick gets pulled off better in nature than it does in a laboratory. That might be the case with new research claiming fireflies’ uniq… … Continue reading Researchers Reverse Engineer Fireflies To Make More Efficient LEDs
Miveu intros updated X case that turns your iPhone 5 into a rugged POV camera, we go straps-on James Trew, engadget.com We’ve seen rugged cases for iPhones before, even those that claim to give it action-cam credentials. Miveu rolled up to CES and revealed its latest offering that incorporates a wide-angle FOV lens (much like … Continue reading Miveu intros updated X case that turns your iPhone 5 into a rugged POV camera
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