March 2012
103 posts
Drive-By Thermal Imaging Helps Save Energy Loss... →
DRIVE-BY THERMAL IMAGING HELPS SAVE ENERGY LOSS AND LOWER COSTS
By Lamya Hussain on March 28, 2012
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Essess is a SAAS-based provider, which collects data and analyzes the overall building energy efficiency performance. Essess products mainly focus on energy loss detection, diagnostics, artificial intelligence and physical modeling. Much of this is done without an invasive physical...
The Milkman’s Robot Helper →
The Milkman’s Robot Helper
Published on Paleofuture | shared via feedly mobile
The milkman’s robot helper of the future as imagined by illustrator Arthur Radebaugh (1961)
After World War II, many young families moved to the suburbs, which made it more difficult for milkmen to deliver milk efficiently. As the milkman’s customers spread out, he would need to spend more time driving his...
Printed “Teaching Machine”, 1894 →
“A series of large-format posters designed to help teach math skills to young students, published as part of an extensive set, referred to as a “teaching machine” by the publisher, the Diamond Litho-Publishing Company of Minneapolis.”
- Gene Gable
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Thank you to Gene Gable
from Retronaut http://bit.ly/GWsjsO
Econet →
Yo Time
Zimbabwean airtime seller gives shoppers mobile airtime in lieu of change for payments
Zimbabwean retailers have been struggling with giving change back to consumers since the financial hardships that have seen rampant hyperinflation strike the country - a factor which frequently cause…
from Contagious Magazine | Magazine Feed http://bit.ly/HejEMw
PARROT →
AR Drone Flying Banner
Product demo allows customers to control banner ads through their phone
Challenge / Help consumers understand AR Drone, the world’s first 4 prop helicopter piloted via smartphoneSolution / Create a ‘Flying Banner’ hosted on Japan’s second biggest news portal, Livedoor A…
from Contagious Magazine | Magazine Feed...
One Touch Pizza Order Fridge Magnet →
Fridge magnet with a built-in Bluetooth connection that, when pressed, automatically orders your favorite pizza for delivery.
So to the bad news:
One: The magnet only works with one pizza delivery company.
Two: That pizza delivery company is in Dubai.
However, incase you’re worried about the potential abuse of the magnet you’ll be relieved to know it’s a little pizza box with a lid that must be...
Stillness →
I think this is interesting. iKonoTV is a channel that broadcasts art. That’s it. Just art in two-minutes chunks with no interruptions. The channel has been broadcasting for a year across south Asia, north Africa and the Middle East and has just expanded into mainland Europe (but not the UK).
What’s this about? On the supply side it seems to be about democratising art – making it...
Smart inhaler teaches users how to improve their... →
Smart inhaler teaches users how to improve their technique
Published on Springwise | shared via feedly mobile
When patients inhale, information about their technique is sent in real time to a computer loaded with a game. If the user inhales too softly, too hard, too early or too late, a ball rolls away from a hole in the center. ‘Players’ who use their device correctly will make the ball land in...
read/write →
read/write
Published on booktwo.org | shared via feedly mobile
… reading and writing, for me, are not separate activities. It’s all way-finding, orienteering through literature, and sometimes someone else has beaten down the path and sometimes you have to make it for yourself.
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Made To Order Shoes Are Created For Shoppers... →
Now, utilizing an intelligent leather/nithynol material, shoes can be made on demand and specifically shaped to the foot of the wearer. Even more fascinating, the material itself is reusable. Meaning, if the shoe is made, tried on and the wearer doesn’t like it, the material can be reheated back to its original state. To make the shoes, a person’s foot is scanned to collect its specific size and...
Copyeditors, Indulgences, Spymasters - Lapham’s... →
In order to economize while sending a telegram, people sometimes relied on code books that reduced phrases to single words. From the third version ofAnglo-American Telegraphic Code, published in 1891: Babylonite (Please provide bail immediately), Titmouse (I [we] accept with pleasure your invitation for the theater tomorrow evening), Mahogany (Malaria prevails extensively), Enringed (the news...
How to cite a tweet in an academic paper. →
How to cite a tweet in an academic paper.
from Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things http://bit.ly/HakjD8
Before the World Wide Web there was Dialog. →
Originally posted in New Rules
Dialog was pretty futuristic. In the 1970s and ’80s it was the closest thing to an electronic library there was, containing the world’s scientific, scholarly, and journalistic texts. The only problem was its price, $1 per minute. You could spend a lot of money looking things up. At those prices only serious questions were asked. There...
Is this the smartest brand use of Pinterest yet? →
With the huge growth that Pinterest has been experiencing in the last few months, and which we’ve talked about here previously, it was only a matter of time until brands started to use Pinterest for tactical executions. This one could potentially be the one of the simplest, yet smartest yet.
smoyz, a creative advertising agency in Israel have put together a video about what they did for Kotex....
Who, Where, How We Work: The Intersection of... →
What happens when designers & manufacturers discuss the workplace & social media?
Dexigner reports that IIDA has published a whitepaper summary of the IIDA Industry Roundtable 15, focused on the changes in the industry, and in the world, their experience of the evolution of the workplace, and more importantly the way we work.
The roundtable participants also explored change management...
Scott Adams Blog: Designer Degrees 03/26/2012 →
Forget college degrees. What the world needs is Designer Degrees. A Designer Degree is a certification that a student has completed a series of classes specified by a particular designer. Let’s say the designers are successful and respected people, such as Warren Buffett. The idea is that a designer would publish a set of classes that he or she considers most useful for any newcomer to the...
With Google Earth, India Can No Longer Hide Its... →
With Google Earth, India Can No Longer Hide Its Shantytowns And “Slumdogs”
Published on Worldcrunch.com | shared via feedly mobile
Sangli seen from above on Google Earth.
By Julien Bouissou
LE MONDE/Worldcrunch
SANGLI - Before Google Earth existed, the slums of Sangli, a city of 550,000 in southwestern India, was acknowledged on government maps by nothing more than some...
Article: A Marketplace for Authentic Experiences →
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A Marketplace for Authentic Experiences http://bit.ly/vYYrzp (Sent from Flipboard)
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Episode markers →
Environments, re: behavior design
Episode markers
Published on Seth’s Blog | shared via feedly mobile
Our lives are lived in compartments, like panels in a cartoon strip.
Where you sit and when you leave and how you walked in—they are all markers, ways we space things out. Walking into the doctor’s office or the principal’s office or the parole office are physical acts...
We’ve Lost Control Again: Return of the DJ |... →
When the MP3 revolution hit its stride, the coolest thing about it was how much control we were given over our music. Weightless files and tiny players let you carry your entire library around with you, all the time. Anything you wanted to listen to — so long as you had already hunted it down — was available instantaneously with a swipe of the finger. No longer would we be limited by what we could...
Guess What's the Fastest-Adopted Gadget of the... →
When we think about the great consumer electronics technologies of our time, the cellular phone probably springs to mind. If we go farther back, perhaps we’d pick the color television or the digital camera. But none of those products were adopted as fast by the American people as the boom box.
That factoid is a sidenote in a 2011 paper that I stumbled on from the Journal of Management and...
“According to recent statistics, in Japan, fewer... →
“According to recent statistics, in Japan, fewer children are born, because young people do not have families and strives to posterity, and this means that the nation is aging rapidly. Not surprisingly, many elderly people suffer from depression, and not less than the young people during the so-called “mid-life crisis.” To deal with the manifestation of depression, a professor of science and...
Pentametron: With algorithms subtle and discrete /... →
Pentametron: With algorithms subtle and discrete / I seek iambic writings to retweet., via Russell.
from The New Aesthetic http://bit.ly/GRDHq1
Tumblr Has the Only Likable Terms of Service We've... →
Tumblr, preeminent internet fount of animated GIFs, fleeting memes, and copyright infringement, has one terrific thing going for it: the only human-friendly, genuinely funny terms of service we’ve ever encountered on the internet. Tumblr “bs in the city” decided to actually read the TOS—we’re not sure why—but we’re glad they did. What’s lurking in there?...
tomoso: Twitter / @rellimluap: What happens when... →
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tomoso: Twitter / @rellimluap: What happens when you copy…
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Twitter / @rellimluap: What happens when you copy …
What happens when you copy and paste the text for your restaurant table mats from Wikipedia
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"Austin was expelled from Garrett High School... →
“ Austin was expelled from Garrett High School after tweeting the F-word under his account. The school claims it was done from a school computer. Austin says he did it from home.
“If my account is on my own personal account, I don’t think the school or anybody should be looking at it. Because it’s my own personal stuff and it’s none of their business,” said Carroll.
“I totally didn’t agree...
Desire engines →
Habit Design
Desire engines
Published on Putting people first | shared via feedly mobile
Nir Eyal’s third Techcrunch article on behavioural engineering, delves into the topic of “desire engines”.
“Desire engines go beyond reinforcing behavior; they create habits, spurring users to act on their own, without the need for expensive external stimuli like advertising. Desire engines are at the...
HTML5 is All the Rage and Here’s Why →
Caroline McCarthy wrote this piece regarding HTML5
“Blending ‘traditional’ HTML with functionalities once reserved for more advanced languages like XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it’s thrilled the digital world with its potential: Plugin-free video players; local storage and caching; and lightning-fast load times eliminating lag. Best of all, HTML5 can be carried over to smartphone browsers, too,...
“Earlier this month the US Army published an... →
“Earlier this month the US Army published an article warning its soldiers that the ubiquitousness of geotagged photographs these days can present a serious security risk, citing a real-world example of something that happened back in 2007:”
When a new fleet of helicopters arrived with an aviation unit at a base in Iraq, some Soldiers took pictures on the flightline, he said. From the photos that...
New Supermarket Scanner That Recognizes Objects →
Toshiba is developing a supermarket checkout scanner that recognizes objects, making barcodes unnecessary. Next perhaps we can rid ourselves of QR codes.
Via Laughing Squid
from Popwuping http://bit.ly/GJp3LW
NASCAR's Mark Martin to Race Under the Name of the... →
NASCAR racer #55 Mark Martin recently had his Twitter account hacked, his access revoked, his account name name changed to EPICSWAGG, and his followers spammed. So how does a professional driver get his revenge? By stealing the hacker’s name and using it for himself. “I felt naked,” Martin told CBS Sports. “I was locked out of my own account. I’d built my...
We’ve Lost Control Again: Return of the DJ [Music] →
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PlayGrit’s nice-looking interface represents your music library as a grid of mulitcolored dots. PlayGrit ($2 for iPhone and iPod touch), released this month, takes a more novel approach. It represents each song on your device with a colored dot. It organizes these dots by genre, play count, or release date. To create a playlist, simply draw a line to “connect the...
Article: AT&T Reinvents the Steering Wheel →
Data tactilization, passive notifications
AT&T Reinvents the Steering Wheel
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Article: Animal Psychologists Discover What Music... →
Animal Psychologists Discover What Music Pets Prefer
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UPDATE 1-Wal-Mart to offer Angry Birds... →
By Georgina Prodhan
(Reuters) - The maker of the hit mobile game Angry Birds has struck a deal with Wal-Mart Stores Inc to embed clues to a new version of the game in merchandise sold in Walmart stores, hoping to lure Angry Birds fans through the doors and shoppers to the game.
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, will stock limited-edition T-shirts, plush toys and snacks containing...
Would You Put a Case on Your iPhone If It Gave You... →
TechCrunch is reporting that FreedomPop, a company made by Skype founder Niklas Zennström, is working on creating a case for your iPhone that’ll pull double duty as a mobile hotspot. Hmm… sounds interesting! Even more interesting, the case will pump out free 4G data. Free as in free of monthly costs and not free free but even that kind of not free but free is more flexible than...
Skype - Skype Play blog - #Skype #SXSW- It's a... →
Attendees, joining via live participation stations dotted across the venue, were able to accompany the bands in real time video on 3 large screens. For many of the bands it was the first time that they had played on a stage where the audience became such a fundamental part of the performance.
Nokia Wants Your Call Alert To Be a Vibrating... →
We see patents come and go all the time, but here’s a crazy-ass one from Nokia: magnetic tattoos that vibrate to alert you to your phone. Talk about keeping in touch. The patent proposes “a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic...
Behavior Driven Design 101 →
Design is becoming an applied behavioral science, and your art school background is no longer sufficient, says Jason Hreha, behavior designer and UX advisor.
“Fields like neuroscience are starting to come of age, and are beginning to give us insights into human decision making. Companies like Zynga are taking these academic findings and applying them to their products to induce addictive...
Ingenious Chirp Clock Uses Tweets And Crowd... →
A little over a year ago, Jack Schulze of Berg wrote a must-read essay called Incidental Media. “All surfaces have access to connectivity,” he wrote. “All surfaces are displays responsive to people, context, and timing.” The video accompanying his essay was full of living-in-the-future examples of this idea, but now a designer named Mike Bodge has hacked together...
Burger King’s TV ad for a Fiverr →
Burger King (or Hungry Jack’s as it is called in Australia) has collaborated with Fiverr in order to source their new TV commercial. Their so-called Stunner Value Meal happens to be $4.95, so pretty close to Fiverr’s namesake $5 deals for creative services.
BBDO Sydney is attempting to have almost every component of the final ad made for just $5 on Fiverr, a marketplace for people offering...
Hand drawn glitch by Jamal Vrno →
Hand drawn glitch by Jamal Vrno
from Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things http://bit.ly/GDiNUg
Buy chocolate with a good deed →
Sweet idea made in Denmark: a store where you can purchase chocolate not with cash or credit cards, but just with the promise of a generous deed toward a person you care for. The Anthon Berg Generous Store, a chocolate pop-up store in the center of Copenhagen opened its doors last month to remind people how sweet and meaningful it is to give chocolate to the people we love.
The chocolate was...
Dead Media Beat: the Slow Web Movement →
*I like this notion (it’s very Turinese), but it makes the assumption that blogs as a medium can survive. Has anyone seen the “Slow Bulletin Board System Movement” lately?
http://bit.ly/GGXSUI
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“As you know, the blogging mainstream has veered 180 degrees from anything resembling a Slow Internet aesthetic[*]. But Jim’s phrase “the archival nature of the Web” hits the nail on the head. With...
Touch | On/Off paint provides a touchable... →
Touch-enabled wall paint converts skin contact into electronics control “On/Off paint is grayish in color and is designed to serve as an undercoat on virtually any medium beneath traditional paints or wallpapers. Once applied, it enables touch-based control of electronic devices such as lamps or alarms. Including both paint and a hidden electronic device, the On/Off system is expected to...
Jonas Lund Clones His Browser So You Can Watch Him... →
Today at 12pm EST (17:00 CET) Jonas Lund is launching his work Selfsurfing “a Chrome extension that creates a self-surfing, auto-updating clone of my browser in real time,” with a 24 hour period of online browsing for you to watch. Lund’s “browser has a server extension installed which transmits the current state of [his’ browser to a intermediate server, which holds...
“Growing interest in canine cognition and... →
“Growing interest in canine cognition and visual perception has promoted research into the allocation of visual attention during free-viewing tasks in the dog.”
Development of a head-mounted, eye-tracking system for dogs (Williams et al, 2011)
from Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things http://bit.ly/GDiLvL
New Device Makes The Brain Unable To Speak @PSFK →
200 millisecond delay repetition
New Device Makes The Brain Unable To Speak @PSFK
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Steve Clayton: Microsoft’s New Tech Puts Pictures... →
Steve Clayton: Microsoft’s New Tech Puts Pictures And Video In The Same Frame @PSFK
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Self Magazine Creates Social Game for Its Annual... →
It may seem odd that a magazine dedicated to encouraging its readers to improve themselves — whether through its editions in print, online and on mobile devices, its mobile apps, a mobile texting diet and events like Workout in the Park — would offer them an opportunity to stay sedentary and play a game in which their avatars, rather than their physical selves, try to shed pounds and buff up.
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