Category: Cognitive Science

  • Is Brooklyn the next Silicon Valley?

    Can Urban Planning Turn Brooklyn Into the Next Silicon Valley? Kyle VanHemert, wired.com WXY presents a smart vision for any city seeking to accommodate innovation. http://flip.it/rrvpO

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  • Frameless geodesic dome

    Frameless Geodesic Dome rigsomelight.com What 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 … http://flip.it/WSm4Q Related articles Tiny frameless geodesic home costs only $2100 (boingboing.net)

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  • Thrive with less

    Thrive with Less Christina Nellemann, tinyhouseblog.com Can 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… http://flip.it/uGijv Related articles…

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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.com The 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 … http://flip.it/P6gTH

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  • Natural, biological swimming pools

    Don’t You Wish You Were In One of These Beautiful Natural Pools? Eric Limer, gizmodo.com You’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…

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  • The economic benefits of a tiny house

    Cramming Into A Tiny House May Not Be So Bad Lily Hay Newman, gizmodo.com Between 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.… http://flip.it/CsudH Related articles At First,…

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  • Specialized turbo

    Specialized Turbo: Powerful Electric Bike Makes Cycling No Sweat Sam Laird, mashable.com The 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… http://flip.it/jjeYS Related articles…

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  • Hank bought a bus

    A Tour of the Bus hankboughtabus.com Hi! 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 … http://flip.it/yfI7s Related articles Fair play for machines: Chomsky’s misreading of Turing, and why…

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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.com Earlier 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…

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  • Udacity design course emphasizes design for everyone

    Udacity design course emphasizes design for everyone Rani Molla, gigaom.com Under­stand­ing 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… http://flip.it/rQvVa

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  • How Emotional Design can Give your Website Much More Impact

    How Emotional Design can Give your Website Much More Impact Flin Nortier, thenextweb.com This post by Flin Norti­er was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished on the blog of design agency Soda Stu­dio. As an inter­ac­tion design­er, how often have you run into projects where you’re asked to ensure a great ‘user expe­ri­ence’, with­out… http://flip.it/lMe4Z Related articles Why we…

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  • How to Stay Productive When You Work in an Open Office

    How to Stay Productive When You Work in an Open Office Lauren Lee Anderson, thenextweb.com This 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… http://flip.it/NRxE7

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