The Melon Headband Launches On Kickstarter To Track Your Brain Waves And Mental Focus
(via TechCrunch)
Forget Searching For Content - Content Is About To Start Searching For You
J Schwan, CEO of Solstice Mobile, breaks down the four aspects of contextual searching:
Where: geo-fencing. Where you are, makes a difference in what search results are most appropriate.
Relevance: dictates results through explicit preferences that you have set, the results delivered to other users in a similar context and what is going on around you at that particular time (traffic, weather, business hours, etc.).
Push: relatively new but prob one of the most important. Instead of waiting for users to search and reacting to query, data provides and search engines are working to push data to users base don context (e.g. Google Now)
Security and Privacy: works with all of the above to ensure data goes wehre it’s supposed to
(via ReadWrite)
![A Better Way to Screw.
The screw was invented in the early 30’s by Henry F. Phillips, a Portland, Oregon businessman. He knew that car makers needed a screw that could be driven with more torque and that would hold tighter than slotted screws. Car makers also needed a screw that would center quickly and easily, and could be used efficiently on an assembly line. [exert from WSJ]
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The screw was invented in the early 30’s by Henry F. Phillips, a Portland, Oregon businessman. He knew that car makers needed a screw that could be driven with more torque and that would hold tighter than slotted screws. Car makers also needed a screw that would center quickly and easily, and could be used efficiently on an assembly line. [exert from WSJ]
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Extra Space In Coca-Cola Crates Used To Deliver Medicine To Rural Regions
“The unique thing about the Coca-Cola distribution system isn’t the bit from the bottler to the wholesaler, but from the wholesalers onwards. That’s where all these independent microenterprises— guys on bicycles, women putting crates on buses, and so on— take over. That’s the bit we want to get into”
(via PSFK)
In Barcelona, the laundromat gets a stylish makeover
Wash & Coffee has already turned the laundromat into a more desirable space to spend time with its in-house café. Now Barcelona-based Splash has created a stylish version of the usually dreary utility to appeal to nearby students. READ MORE…
![Colourful ‘solar glass’ means entire buildings can generate clean power
Rather than attach [solar] photovoltaics to the building, why not make the building the photovoltaics?
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Colourful ‘solar glass’ means entire buildings can generate clean power
Rather than attach [solar] photovoltaics to the building, why not make the building the photovoltaics?
(via guardian.co.uk)
Why Focus Groups Kill Innovation, From The Designer Behind Swiffer
4 Rules to keep in mind:
1. Consider Not Just the Act of Using the Product but the Total Experience Around It
2. Go Beyond the Obvious to What Cannot Be Seen
3. Test New Products Out In the Field
4. Invest in Leader Who Recognize the Importance of Calculated Risks
(via Co.Design)
When a Snowboard and a Mountainbike Collide
the folks at Signal Snowboards worked with Crankbrothers to design what could be the world’s first snow-friendly wheelchair.
(via gizmodo)
Why Students Are Taking Over Kickstarter
A few tips on pitching a Kickstarter project.
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William Moggridge, 69, Dies - Designer and Laptop Pioneer
The creator of the laptop, founder of IDEO and godfather of interaction design. RESPECT.
(via NYTimes)
Project Aims to Harness Wave Energy Off the Oregon Coast
Harnessing renewable energy from waves on the Pacific Ocean
(via NYTimes)
Unbelievable medical breakthrough allows you to live without breathing
A team of scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital may have discovered the biggest medical breakthrough in our entire lives. Every human needs one thing in order to live - oxygen. Without it, we can’t fill our lungs with air and continue to survive and after only a few minutes our oxygen starved bodies and organs will die. However, a new man-made micro-particle may change all of that forever.
