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  • Google street view shows dead people

    You can use Google Street View to see the dead Jess Zimmerman, grist.org Wow, is there nothing Google can’t do? Street View can take you under the ocean, to the surface of Mars, around the South Pole, inside an abandoned Fukushima town, and up some difficult hiking trails. And now, one Oregon man’s experience suggests……

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  • Turn a mason jar into a coffee machine

    USA-Made Portland Press Lets You Brew Fresh Coffee in Any Mason Jar Erin Flesch, inhabitat.com Home coffee-making equipment has come a long way, but the typical french press is still assembled from plastic and delicate glass in an overseas factory. The Portland Press is a french press for a mason jar that is made in…

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  • Why steam punk is a usability testing tool for new technologies

    Being More Human | Next | Output Kathleen Holt, oregonhumanities.org Being More Human Intel’s res­i­dent futur­ist on how the steam­punk cul­ture offers clues to build­ing a bet­ter tomor­row East­er week­end 2011, I was at the bar of the Dou­ble­tree Hotel at Sea-Tac Air­port watch­ing a parade of sorts: a… Being More Human | Next |…

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