Category: Design UX

  • 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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  • Qualcomm tricorder X Prize

    The Tricorder X Prize: The Biggest Thing In Home Health Care Since The Thermometer? Cormac Foster, readwrite.com The Qual­comm Tri­corder X Prize promis­es to turn every­body into a Doc­tor McCoy by 2016. It could change every­thing about the way we prac­tice med­i­cine. But are we ready for it? If you’re a red­shirt think­ing you might…

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  • Real political map of US

    This Is the Real Political Map of America—We Are Not That Divided Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com This is the real polit­i­cal map of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca after the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. A fas­ci­nat­ing view, much dif­fer­ent from the maps you saw that night, which showed an arti­fi­cial, bina­ry divide. But these maps… This Is the…

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  • Dropcam adds split screen

    Dropcam Updates Their iPad App So You Can Watch Your World In Split-Screen John Biggs, techcrunch.com I’ve used a few wire­less, always-on web­cams in my day and I’ve found Drop­cam to be the best. Sud­den­ly, how­ev­er, Drop­cam just got bet­ter. Drop­cam cam­eras con­nect wire­less­ly to the Inter­net, allow­ing you to con­nect to them remote­… http://flpbd.it/hgblr…

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  • New Jackar 34mm f/1.8 MFT lens

    New Jackar 34mm f/1.8 MFT lens. admin, 43rumors.com The Hong Kong locat­ed com­pa­ny Jackar Opti­cal just announced a new 34mm f/1.8 Micro Four Thirds lens. The lens has man­u­al and mechan­i­cal smooth focus and aper­ture rings. You can read full specs and more at Snapshooter.jackarlens.com. Image… http://flpbd.it/s0WzN Related articles Olympus OM-D EM-5 | Street Point…

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  • iPhone as a photographic memory

    Turn Your Smartphone Camera into a Pocketable Photographic Memory Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com Sev­er­al apps exist to help you remem­ber the many things you’d oth­er­wise for­get, but per­haps none are quite as use­ful and effi­cient as your cam­era. Typ­ing takes time. Snap­ping a photo only takes a moment, and there are so many ways you ……

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  • Wealth and health of nations info graphic

    The Wealth & Health of Nations tumblr.com An inter­ac­tive graph­ic on “The Wealth and Health of Nations” by Mike Bostock, the graph­ics edi­tor at the New York Times and cre­ator of the D3 JavaScript Data Visu­al­iza­tion Library. This is a recre­ation of the famous Gap­Min­der… http://flpbd.it/66nDz Related articles Comparing the Perception of Wealth Inequality in…

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  • Floating sheep: mapping racist tweets in election

    Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama’s Re-election Matthew Zook, floatingsheep.org Note: for ques­tions about the methodology/approach of this post, see the FAQ (added 16:20 EST 11/9/2012). Note: as of 11:00 EST 11/10/2012, we have dis­abled com­ment­ing on this post. Dur­ing the day after the 2012… http://flpbd.it/nZi5W Related articles Judge who sent racist email…

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