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NEMO Equipment: From a RISD ID Thesis to a Successful Outdoor Gear Company with a Design Difference core77.com In 2002 Cam Brensinger was a RISD industrial design student on a camping trip. An experienced outdoorsman, Brensinger spent a miserable night on that particular outing to Mount Washington, due to using poorly-designed gear. He came back…
Brooklyn-based tech company Etsy turning itsy bitsy New York microbusinesses into moneymakers By Phyllis Furman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, nydailynews.com The mood was cheery as more than 50 New York City small business owners gathered at a party last week at the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. “Our mission is to re-imagine…
Make Your Own Pocket-Sized, Grid-It-Style Organizer for $2.50 Whitson Gordon, lifehacker.com It’s no secret that we’re fans of products like the Grid-It for holding your cables, gadgets, and other knick-knacks. Reddit user MinimumEffort put together his own that fits right in your pocket for your most essential stuff. Whitson Gordon Make Your Own Pocket-Sized, Grid-It-Style…
Use Written Estimates to Shop Around and Save Money on Car Repairs Alan Henry, lifehacker.com If you take your car to the shop for regular maintenance or even a small repair, odds are the mechanic will come back to you with a laundry list of things they want to convince you to do before you…
Easily Add an Auxiliary Port to an Old Car Stereo for About $3 Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com If you have one of those stereos that was released in that awkward time between CDs and MP3 players, then it might be missing the now-standard auxiliary port for easy playback. Redditor Esplodies found themselves in this exact situation,…
The Biobot 20 is a Tabletop Biodiesel Processor for Waste Cooking Oil Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Now there is something better you can do with that viscous mess of cooking oil instead of sequestering it in a can or pouring it down the drain. The UK-based company Biobot offers the Biobot 20, a tabletop processor that…
Coworking Spaces From GRid70 To Grind Help Employees Work Beyond The Cube By Greg Lindsay, fastcompany.com AT&T, Zappos, and other companies are sharing office space with strangers— and not to save rent. In 2011, when the electronics firm Plantronics redesigned its headquarters in Santa Cruz, Califo … http://flip.it/LxPAI Related articles The Science of Serendipity in the…
Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com Tesla now logs data for all test drives taken by journalists. This could be a scarily exposed new world for “creative” reviewers, in which fudging numbers could be a thing of the past. The Times published a scathing review of a test drive in th… http://flip.it/8nbdZ Technology Means The End Of Reviewers…
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How A Radiator Retrofit That Could Save The U.S. Billions Went From Bedroom To Boardroom By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Columbia University helped grad student Marshall Cox turn a dorm room hack into a commercializable system that could slash carbon emissions by more than 6 million tons a year. To shut him up, Cox, then a…
See What You Can Do With Drone Filmmaking fastcocreate.com Filmmakers are increasingly turning to camera-equipped drones to film aerial shots. Here, a German expert gives us the 400-foot view of a new mode of moviemaking. Berlin-based filmmaker Christopher … RT @nealunger: Here’s why filmmakers are using UAVs for amazing aerial video shoots. Helicopters? Old school…
In Big Tech, Bet on Companies That Seek a ‘Better Way’ Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Consumer internet companies are notorious for selling us something we don’t really need, whether it’s Foursquare telling us to check-in to the restaurants and shops we enter, or Facebook encouraging us to share every detail of our lives. But it’s… In…
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