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  • Game cams now capture real life behavior

    Amazing Photos Of Animals In The Wild, Snapped By Hidden Automatic Cameras BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com The Smithsonian’s Wild project uses advanced automated cameras to capture images of animals in their natural habitats as they go about their day. It’s a much better kind of specimen than a dead, stuffed animal. Bill McShea has trav­eled…

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  • CW&T uses wheelbarrows to make mobile gadget stands

    This Makes Perfect Sense: The Wheelbarrow As Television Stand By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com CW&T used repurposed bicycle parts to build the TV Barrow, elevating the humble TV stand into the realm of surprisingly functional art. Most tele­vi­sions live on a shelf. The proud­est among them are hung from a wall. But in most cases, how­ev­……

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  • Memoto records every minute of your day

    A Wearable Camera To Record Every Single One Of Life’s Precious Moments BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The Memoto is a “lifelogging camera” designed to capture and then re-stream everything that happens to you. Does this mean the end of memory as we know it? The cybor­gian future that awaits us is full of enhance­ments to…

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  • Visualizing all public transit in NYC

    Watch One Mesmerizing Day Of All The Public Transit In New York BY MORGAN CLENDANIEL, fastcoexist.com This video, made using MTA data, shows the city as defined by its subways, buses, and trains. New York is a city defined by its pub­lic trans­porta­tion sys­tem. It’s why, when large parts of it were taken out dur­ing…

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  • Build an anti fragile career

    How To Build An Antifragile Career By Drake Baer, fastcompany.com When the economic future feels more iffy than ever, randomness should not be something to fear but rather, something to exploit. Author-provacateur Nassim Taleb talks with Fast Company about the concepts behind “Antifragile: Things That Gain from… RT @erin719nyc: Go one step further than looking…

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  • Visualize NYC buried in its C02 emissions

    Infographic: Watch NYC Get Buried Under Its CO2 Emissions By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com In 2010, NYC added 54 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. This video shows it as a big, blue ball pit. Last week, thou­sands in New York and mil­lions at home watched the Macy’s Thanks­giv­ing Day Parade, an annu­al, multi-hour…

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  • Visualize microscopic wonder of plants

    The Wondrous Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com U.K. artist Rob Kesseler is working with the Millennium Seed Bank to illustrate the remarkable, nearly invisible world of microscopic botany. As long as humans have made art, they’ve looked to the flora and fauna around them for inspi­ra­tion.… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, The…

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  • Scanadu tricorder

    Scanadu’s Medical Tricorder Will Measure Your Vital Signs In Seconds BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com No more searching the medicine cabinet for the thermometer or being worried that your blood pressure is too high. Just hold this device up to your temple for a moment and you can start to track your health. It was less…

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  • Tim Ferriss disrupts book publishing with bit torrent

    Is BitTorrent The Future Of Book Publishing? Tim Ferriss Is Banking On It John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com If you walk into your local Barnes & Noble look­ing for a copy of Tim­o­thy Fer­riss’s new book, good luck. Even though he’s a New York Times best sell­ing author, the giant book retail­er refus­es to sell The…

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  • Evolutionary medicine and why parasitic gut worms can keep you well

    The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut Worms Brandon Keim, wired.com A dose of par­a­sitic whip­worms cured mon­keys with chron­ic diar­rhea, fix­ing immune sys­tems gone hay­wire and offer­ing a snap­shot of the unex­pect­ed ben­e­fits worms — which might some­day be used as liv­ing vac­cines — offer to peo­ple. The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut…

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  • Littlebits holiday kits for DIY hackers

    LittleBits Releases Holiday Kit, Encourages More DIY Hardware Hacking Alexandra Chang, wired.com Open source hard­ware com­pa­ny lit­tleBits has released its Hol­i­day Kit and launched a cam­paign to encour­age peo­ple to build their own projects dur­ing the consumption-heavy hol­i­day sea­son. http://flpbd.it/fAU5t Related articles The Problem-Solving Electronic Toys You Want Your Kids To Play With (fastcompany.com) Ayah…

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  • Fred Trotter, health IT hacktivist

    Data: Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Self-described health IT hack­tivist and author Fred Trot­ter has hatched a plan to bring hid­den health­care data into the open. http://flpbd.it/ncJYs Related articles ‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous strikes at Israeli government websites (washingtontimes.com) HIT firm ranks hospitals based on patient engagement tools, social presence &…

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