Tag: Kickstarter

AbleNook portable dwelling

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

AbleNook portable dwelling assembles in two hours
Bridget Borgobello, gizmag.com

A few years back, young architects Sean Verdecia and Jason Ross put their heads together to come up with a cheap, flexible and mobile emergency housing system that would provide families with dignity and privacy during a natural disaster. The…

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Kickstarter’s New Greenpoint, Brooklyn Headquarters Will Boast a Green Roof and Glass-Lined Courtyard Kickstarter Greenpoint

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

inhabitat.com

Kickstarter
Kickstarter (Photo credit: Scott Beale)

 

It makes sense that Kick­starter chose the pen­cil fac­to­ry as the home of its new head­quar­ters con­sid­er­ing the build­ing’s his­to­ry and the fact that pen­cils were con­sid­ered an inno­v­a­tive, life-improving prod­uct (at least when they…

Kickstarter’s New Greenpoint, Brooklyn Headquarters Will Boast a Green Roof and Glass-Lined Courtyard Kickstarter Greenpoint

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A bike horn that helps you avoid homicidal drivers

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management

Loud Bicycle: Car horn for your bike
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net

An out­stand­ing Kick­starter project – a bike horn that is as loud as a car horn!

Cycling in traffic can be frightening and dangerous. The Loud Bicycle horn prevents accidents by alerting motorists with a familiar sound. The safety benefits of …

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Soma Compost able water filter

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Soma: Drink Better Water with a 100% Compostable Filter
core77.com

I’m sure I’m not the only person who hides the Brita when company comes over and feels terribly guilty tossing those carbon-filled plastic filters every couple of months. In fact, it’s always been a bit of a mystery to me why there wasn’t a…

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Twine: finally a device to begin the Internet of things

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy, Systems Science

On Sale At Last: Twine, Your Gateway To The Internet Of Things
By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com

The hit Kickstarter product hopes to popularize “the Internet of things” with thoughtful product design.

A year ago, two MIT Media Lab grad­u­ates raised half a mil­lion dol­lars on Kick­starter to cre­ate Twine, a cigarette-pack-sized chunk of…

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Memoto records every minute of your day

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Sustainable Design

A Wearable Camera To Record Every Single One Of Life’s Precious Moments
BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com

The Memoto is a “lifelogging camera” designed to capture and then re-stream everything that happens to you. Does this mean the end of memory as we know it?

The cybor­gian future that awaits us is full of enhance­ments to the human form that we…

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Design and cleantech: a winning combination

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Design and cleantech: a winning combination
Posted by Chris Sherwin, guardian.co.uk

In his third article on sustainability and design, Chris Sherwin makes the case for using design to help clean and green technologies succeed

A few years ago, green start-up Intelligent Energy (IE), the proud owners and developers of a world-cla…

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The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills
Eliza Barclay, npr.org

Sure­ly you’ve heard of crowd fund­ing sites like Kick­starter that have helped thou­sands of film­mak­ers, musi­cians and painters lever­age Face­book and Twit­ter to raise money for cre­ative projects.

But crowd fund­ing isn’t just for hip­ste…

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Scoot: a better way to get to work

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Network Science, Systems Science

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Desktop Factory: 3D Printers

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science
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Desktop Factory: 3D Printers.

Highlighted in Business 2.0 recently the price of 3D printers have dropped which means you can now if you know CAD develop prototypes for any company.

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