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Japanese astronaut testing “stink-free” underwear
It might not be quite up there with curing cancer or developing alternative energy systems, but scientists from the Women’s University in Tokyo might very well have improved the lives of astronauts (and their colleagues) with the invention of stink-free underwear.
Vinyl Wall Clocks
The era of vinyl albums is a distant memory for all but a few old skool DJs and retro trendoids. But it doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate vinyl’s beloved role in history by hanging recycled albums on our walls as a permanent reminder of time passed. The Grateful Thread’s recycled vinyl wall clocks are as cool as many of the records they are made from.
“I Love Progress Bars”
The title says it all. How can something so frivolous be so right?
7 ways to be happier at work
The combination of entrepreneur and brain scientist is rare in one human being. Jeffrey M. Stibel is one such person, and when he opines, people tend to listen. In his column last Friday on the Harvard Business Blog, Stibel marshals his expertise, as a scientist and a worker, to question why Americans and some other [...]
FutureFeed – microblog updates on what your friends will be doing
With Twitter tripping the light fantastic, it’s great to see people having some fun with the implications of its elevation to mainstream consciousness. First there was The Mime. Then, of course, there was the release of Flutter, the natural evolution of Twitter’s truncated narcissism. Now comes FutureFeed, which “tells you what your friends are doing before they do it!”
Website of the Week: We Are Hunted charts the music people are really listening to
There are lots of smart online tools for new music discovery (Pandora, last.fm, jango and imeem come to mind – most of which have become quite familiar with legal representatives of the music labels). But the idea of comprehensively aggregating the online listening and networking behaviour of users is a breakthrough.
Nanoscience delivers ‘Space Ghost’ wrist device
This video may be more than seven months old, but it’s still relevant to the revolutionary leaps being made in the Nanoscience field. Launched alongside The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, the Morph concept device seems to have been inspired by Space Ghost, which wins my vote. Nokia prefers to [...]
Website of the Week: Deck of Secrets on the iPhone
A few months back, Matthews teamed up with software developer Shaun Ervive to turn the Deck of Secrets guides into iPhone applications.
The internet, laid out like a city subway map
Information Architects Inc. (iA) has released its fourth annual Web Trend Map, which maps the 333 leading Web domains and the 111 most influential Internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map.
Through the gloom, progress: 200 years that changed the world
This interesting Gapminder visualisation illustrates how far the various nations of the world have come (in terms of prosperity and life expectancy) over the past 200 years. Presented by Swedish professor Hans Rosling (top left inset), it traces the rise of the West (Australia and New Zealand have fared particularly well) and the emergence of China, India and the developing world.
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Steve Ballmer vs Alan Greenspan. Product marketing 1985-style [VIDEO]
I’ve always been a little afraid of Steve Ballmer. This video doesn’t help. In 1985, on November 20, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. Steve Ballmer, ever the affable chap, stepped in front of the camera to sell this amazing new product.
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