Can Urban Planning Turn Brooklyn Into the Next Silicon Valley?
Kyle VanHemert, wired.comWXY presents a smart vision for any city seeking to accommodate innovation.
Category: Cognitive Science
Frameless geodesic dome
Frameless Geodesic Dome
rigsomelight.comWhat is it?
It’s a frameless geodesic dome designed to be easy to fabricate and build.
It is 18 feet wide at the widest point and about 13 feet tall. It feels very spacious for it’s 209 square foo …
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Thrive with less
Thrive with Less
Christina Nellemann, tinyhouseblog.comCan you not only live, but thrive, with less? A group of six college students from Michigan decided to take some time out of what they felt were lives of excess to live more minimally. They filmed the lifestyle experiment last year and made it int…
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The design led biomaterials revolution
Growing shoes and furniture: A design-led biomaterial revolution
by Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Aug 18, 2013 5:00 pm UTC, arstechnica.comThe natural world has, over millions of years, evolved countless ways to ensure its survival. The industrial revolution, in contrast, has given us just a couple hundred years to play catc …
Natural, biological swimming pools
Don’t You Wish You Were In One of These Beautiful Natural Pools?
Eric Limer, gizmodo.comYou’d be crazy not to love stark, modern design like the stunning Tangga House, but the natural look can be beautiful too. Take these awesome man-made pond pools from Water House for example. You can’t tell me you don’t want to dive in right now.R…
The economic benefits of a tiny house
Cramming Into A Tiny House May Not Be So Bad
Lily Hay Newman, gizmodo.comBetween crippling recessions and human environmental impact things have gotten complicated, and frankly kind of negative. That may be why the small house movement is so appealing. Downsizing everything means less stuff to buy and maintain.…
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Specialized Turbo: Powerful Electric Bike Makes Cycling No Sweat
Sam Laird, mashable.comThe Specialized Turbo may represent the future of personal urban transport. The electric bike that hit the American market this year looks sleeker than its clunkier competitors, has the speed to easily pass cars on streets and offers the off-road…
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A Tour of the Bus
hankboughtabus.comHi! I’m Hank, and I bought a bus.
In architecture school I was tired of drawing buildings that would never exist, for clients that were imaginary, and with details I didn’t fully understand. I p …
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Varibike lets you pedal with your legs – and your arms
Varibike lets you pedal with your legs – and your arms
Ben Coxworth, gizmag.comEarlier this year, we heard about a proposed arm- and leg-powered bicycle known as the 4StrikeBike. At the time, we knew that if it were to reach production, it would be facing some competition from the existing Raxibo Hand-Tret-Velo. Now, it turn…
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Udacity design course emphasizes design for everyone
Udacity design course emphasizes design for everyone
Rani Molla, gigaom.comUnderstanding what constitutes good design isn’t just important for technology startups and enterprise companies – it’s important for the rest of us, too. Design — both good and bad– is a larger part of our daily lives than you might…
How Emotional Design can Give your Website Much More Impact
How Emotional Design can Give your Website Much More Impact
Flin Nortier, thenextweb.comThis post by Flin Nortier was originally published on the blog of design agency Soda Studio.
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How to Stay Productive When You Work in an Open Office
Lauren Lee Anderson, thenextweb.comThis post was originally published on the 15Five blog.
It’s very likely that if you’ve worked in an office at all, you’ve worked in an open-plan office. As a reaction against hierarchical workplace structures and a means to mov…
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