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What happens to us as we get older? Why do we lose the sense of...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:08:00 +1100

What happens to us as we get older? Why do we lose the sense of our own creativity? How do we unlock our dormant creative genius?

Could your organisation do with some help with innovation? Who...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:04:00 +1100

Could your organisation do with some help with innovation? Who better to ask than the Ice Man, the Mensa Murderer and the Butcher of Vostov?

smarterplanet: No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:47:50 +1100

smarterplanet:

No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Hackers began using increasingly inexpensive sensors and open source hardware—like the Arduino controller—to add intelligence to ordinary objects. There are now kits that let your plants tweet when they need to be watered and teensy printers that scour the web and print out stuff you might be interested in. And there are oodles of “quantified-self” projects: “I know a guy who put a tilt sensor in his beer mug. It lets him know precisely how much he drank during Oktoberfest,” Arduino hacker Charalampos Doukas says with a laugh. “Sensor prices are going down; sizes are going down. The only limit is your imagination.”

This is your plant speaking. I need water. The Internet of things

10 rock and roll movies every music fan will love

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:57:18 +1100

10 rock and roll movies every music fan will love

fastcompany: What Every CEO Can Learn From Best Buy’s...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:58:55 +1000

fastcompany:

What Every CEO Can Learn From Best Buy’s (Continued) Branding Mistakes

artjonak: My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:56:35 +1000

artjonak:

My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 spacecraft computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses. #AngryBirds ;)

Jain Temple, Malabar Hill, Mumbai

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:51:44 +1000

Jain Temple, Malabar Hill, Mumbai

In Mumbai to run some workshops starting tomorrow. A day spent...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:49:39 +1000

In Mumbai to run some workshops starting tomorrow. A day spent out and about. This is Jain Temple on Malabar Hill

johngushue: visualgraphic: Marlboro Soup What’s in a logo?...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:45:38 +1000

johngushue:

visualgraphic:

Marlboro Soup

What’s in a logo? Mixing smokes and soup.

theparisreview: “I went to see my friend Anthony Powell, who...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:05:07 +1000

theparisreview:

“I went to see my friend Anthony Powell, who was working with Duckworth, the publishers, at the time, and said, ‘I’m starving.’ (This wasn’t true: my father fed me.) The director of the firm agreed to pay me fifty pounds for a brief life of Rossetti. I was delighted, as fifty pounds was quite a lot then. I dashed off and dashed it off. The result was hurried and bad. I haven’t let them reprint it again. Then I wrote Decline and Fall. It was in a sense based on my experiences as a schoolmaster, yet I had a much nicer time than the hero.”

—Evelyn Waugh, The Art of Fiction 30

"An average US citizen on an average day, it says, consumes 100,500 words, whether that be email,..."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:54:30 +1000

“An average US citizen on an average day, it says, consumes 100,500 words, whether that be...

"Swiss scientists have developed an algorithm which they claim can determine the source of spam,..."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:49:38 +1000

“Swiss scientists have developed an algorithm which they claim can determine the source of...

futurescope: A Printer That Can Build a House in 20 Hours via...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:24 +1000

futurescope:

A Printer That Can Build a House in 20 Hours

via theAtlanticCities:

Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, has spent the last 15 years working on a machine that will “print” buildings. He’s still working on it, but in the TedTalk video below, you can see the prototype at work. Various nozzles and robots slide around on a giant grid of mobile bars and rails, mixing cement, laying electrical wire, and installing rebar. He calls the practice Contour Crafting.

[read more] [Contour Crafting]

visualgraphic: Goliath Branding

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:52:23 +1000

visualgraphic:

Goliath Branding

joshbyard: FDA Approves Swallowable, Stomach-Acid Powered...

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:51:04 +1000

joshbyard:

FDA Approves Swallowable, Stomach-Acid Powered Sensors

The Proteus ingestible sensor can be integrated into an inert pill or other ingested products, such as pharmaceuticals.

Once the ingestible sensor reaches the stomach, it is powered by contact with stomach fluid and communicates a unique signal that determines identity and timing of ingestion.

This information is transferred through the user’s body tissue to a patch worn on the skin that detects the signal and marks the precise time an ingestible sensor has been taken. Additional physiologic and behavioral metrics collected by the patch include heart rate, body position and activity.

The patch relays information to a mobile phone application. With the patient’s consent, the information is accessible by caregivers and clinicians, helping individuals to develop and sustain healthy habits, families to make better health choices, and clinicians to provide more effective, data-driven care.

(via FDA OK’s ingestible sensor chip | KurzweilAI)

lostateminor: I WANT THESE. A lot. Designer Roberto Paoli...

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:49:55 +1000

lostateminor:

I WANT THESE. A lot. Designer Roberto Paoli created this lit outdoor walkway after seeing Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean video. It doesn’t seem like they actually light up when walked on, but a glowing pathway to a backyard party would definitely inspire me to dance as I make my entrance.

Original Article

thenextweb: (via Exobrain Looks Like An Awesome Mind Mapping...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:54:10 +1000

thenextweb:

(via Exobrain Looks Like An Awesome Mind Mapping Tool)

mind

theparisreview: “I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:05:49 +1000

theparisreview:

“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another … then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”

The ten best closing lines of books.

Children forced into work are calling for help. Took me a...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:10:56 +1000

Children forced into work are calling for help.

Took me a little while to make sense of this but once I got it I loved it!

[ …—-… is morse code for SOS ]

What Olympic events are winning the social media race?

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:07:33 +1000

What Olympic events are winning the social media race?