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Where No Cars Go says:, inhabitat.com Emerging from the Jay Street stop of the R train, visitors encounter a wall of orange, red and white containers behind white fencing that holds up a banner to welcome visitors. Passing through an alley between two double stacks of… Brooklyn’s New DeKalb Market is Made from 22 Salvaged…
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CES 2013 Roundup: Stuff We Want core77.com Hidden hearing by CynapsIf everything at CES actually worked (i.e., no concepts) and you won one of those grab-whatever-you-can-in-fifteen-minutes shopping sprees, what would you snag? We’ve worked out a short list:The Cynaps Bone… RT @core77: CES 2013 Roundup: Stuff We Want: http://flip.it/DAgla http://flip.it/KXPHx
6 Common Tech Myths That Cost You Money Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com Ever scoff at someone for buying refurbished? Or found yourself dropping $40 on an HDMI cable? We all hear (and spread) tech myths to mostly harmless ends, but in some cases those myths end up costing you a lot of money. Here are a…
NASA Architect’s Cricket Trailer Showcases Space-Age Design | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building dim says:, inhabitat.com The Cricket Trailer, designed by NASA Architect Garrett Finney, is a mini mobile home inspired by the tight but efficient quarters of the NASA space station. Finney, who helped design the “habitation module” where the…
The Globe (Hedron) Is a Geodesic Greenhouse for Urban Farmers | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building timotheos says:, inhabitat.com Predicting food shortages in the 21st century, Zurich-based UrbanFarmers AG and Conceptual Devices have teamed up to produce plans for the Globe (Hedron), a geodesic greenhouse that rests on the top of…
The Well is a Giant New Beer Hall Inside a Former Bushwick Brewery inhabitat.com Bushwick‘s Otto Huber Brewery may be long gone, but its new tenants have reincarnated its spirit with a cavernous new beer garden inside the old facility. Dubbed The Well, the transformed former beer factory is now home to 16,000… RT @inhabitat:…
These Gorgeous Sustainable Pre-Fab Houses Fit In A Shipping Container BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com Just because a house is pre-fabricated doesn’t mean it’s easy to move. But Connect Homes’ innovation is to make them fit in shipping containers, so high-end green design can end up anywhere on the planet. Pre-fab homes have found a new…
Steelcase’s Anthropologist On Remaking Offices To Create Happier Workers By Drake Baer, fastcompany.com Human nature changes slowly, but the way we work and the idea of the “office” changes fast. Here’s how to harness those opposing forces for a happier work force. You text, you Gchat, you hop on Facebook—why? To communicate. Soon you find……
Codecademy’s New API Lab Lets Wannabe Devs Tinker With NPR, Twilio, SoundCloud, And More By Sarah Kessler, fastcompany.com Learning to code is more fun when you’re building something you can use. Codecademy’s new lesson plans use APIs to help students build more complex projects earlier. After completing the first HTML project at online programming school……
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