App Makes Selling Stuff Online As Easy As Buying It By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com Sold is an algorithm-powered concierge designed to get top dollar for your stuff. Buying stuff online has become so ridiculously easy that I’m more likely to impulse-purchase a book on my Kindle than borrow it for free from my local librar… … Continue reading Sold: an app that makes selling as easy as buying
A Database of 120 Different 3D Printers, With Prices & Stats core77.com You’ve heard of MakerBot, Cubify and Solidoodle. And if someone finds out you’re into ID and asks “Hey, what do one of those 3D printers go for?” you can spit out a ballpark figure, and maybe some basic stats.But there are tons of … Continue reading A database of 3D printers
Get to Know the DIY Project All Star Tools This Weekend Adam Dachis, lifehacker.comWe write about a wide variety of DIY projects, and through that process a few common tools and relevant skills surface that make so many of them possible. This weekend, get to know these all-star tools and the amazing DIY projects they … Continue reading Best tools for DIY warriors
With the Kickstand desk, you never have to leave your bike, even for work slaskow, grist.org Kickstand FurnitureIf you love biking so much that the idea of getting off your bike to do work makes your stomach curl just a little bit, here is your solution. It’s called a Kickstand desk, and it lets you … Continue reading Kickstand desk: bicycle while you work
Why You Can’t Find Women Engineers: They’re Too Well-Rounded By: Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com “Not lack of ability, but more choice,” say researchers. Silicon Valley’s hottest companies are hurting for women engineers. And many pixels have been spilled trying to figure out why. The answer, according to a study released by Pitt… Why You Can’t Find … Continue reading Why aren’t there more women in engineering? Because they’re sane.
CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects. After he graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy, Sahadeva Hammari emailed one of his… CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons … Continue reading Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life
Retail | Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com Forget software as a service. Welcome to the age of stuff as a service. Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money http://flip.it/1CXcC http://flip.it/S9uwB Related articles Software As A Service … Continue reading Finally you can get into ECommerce with no skills, no stuff and no money
Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates Tim Maly, wired.com Say you finished your Kickstarter campaign for some product or other, and after the inevitable growing pains, you’ve gotten all the rewards out to your backers who are gleefully emailing you to say what a great thing it is that … Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to … Continue reading Shopify: finally ECommerce you can do from your couch
America’s New Sustainable Manufacturing Hubs Will Breed Creativity And Jobs BY SARAH KRASLEY, fastcoexist.com Will this be how we revitalize the economy? Across the country, new multidisciplinary spaces for people to learn, experiment, and make are popping up, creating a new surge of jobs with them. Obama’s State of the Union Address this year was … Continue reading Sustainable manufacturing hubs arise
If You Want Your App To Take Off, Learn To Reward Your Power Users By Lars Albright, fastcompany.com Yikes: 70 percent of the people who download your app will never, ever look at it again. So you better learn how to create and coddle power users. Mobile apps are booming by all the basic measures, … Continue reading Cultivate your power users if you want to succeed
Replace Expensive Doctors Visits With An App That Analyzes Your Pee BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com Just make sure you don’t pee directly on the phone. uChek lets you use your phone’s camera to analyze test strips you’ve dipped in your own urine without having to shell out for a test or make an appointment. In … Continue reading Uchek: replace expensive doctor visits and lab tests with an app that analyzes your pee
Take Traffic Into Your Own Hands With This DIY Car Counter BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The TrafficCom lets you measure how many cars drive on your street and figure out traffic patterns. And you can now get one via Kickstarter—just like the guys at NASA. There’s something about the moment NASA places an order that … Continue reading DIY traffic monitoring
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