Brainstorming over lunch! No more wasted lunch breaks.
Meet the Doodle Tablecloth. The Doodle Tablecloth is pre-shrunk 100% cotton and is printed to look like a giant piece of graph paper, complete with printed lines, holes, and red margins. It comes with eight wash-out fabric markers…
As part of whisky brand Ballantine’s “Leave an Impression” campaign, Paris-based tattoo artist Karl Marc seared a QR code onto his friend Marco’s chest.
Marc says the whisky company approached him and asked if he would be interested in executing the tattoo — a QR code that unlocked an animation when scanned — via a live stream on the brand’s Facebook Page. The brand is doing similar events with other artists, from ice sculptors to graffiti artists…
Continue reading… “Can’t decide on a tattoo? Get a QR Code inked on your chest!”
Eguchi Aimi, the newest member of the all-girl Japanese pop group AKB48 is not a human being at all.
A Japanese pop group has fooled their fans by creating a fake member. No I don’t mean this was just another airhead pop star with no personality or talent. This was an actual non-existent computer generated person made from the faces of her band mates. The group even offers an app on its website that allows you do make a similar person mash up…
Continue reading… “Japanese Pop Star revealed to be fake”
Our perspectives keep changing.
One aspect of the Egyptian uprising (among the others, most ongoing) that was overpowered by the wild acclamation of social media is something that has been quietly but powerfully changing societal norms over the last decade. It is simply the inclusion, on almost every mobile phone sold, of a digital camera. When 90% of the active population can, at any time, record an event they are witness to, and transmit it to the rest of the world instantly, many rules begin to change.
It’s not new, of course: “citizen journalism” has a long history before mobiles were prevalent, and the growing trend of “you report”-style news and things like Twitter streams in live reporting are as plain as the lens on your phone…
Continue reading… “Surveillant Society”
Ready for a digital gag?
Think a calculator can’t give you and your friends hours of hysterical fun? Well, the Crazy Calculator sure can, and wait until you see why.
Flip the switch one way and it’s a standard calculator. 2 + 2 = 4. But flip the switch the other way and 2 + 2 = GIMME A BREAK! That’s right, when in ‘crazy mode’ this brilliant math toy will give the user nothing but smart aleck answers…
The wide world of newspapers around the globe.
When news breaks in some part of the world, you are often curious to know what the local newspapers of that country have to say on that event. The question is how do you find all the good news outlets of that region?
Continue reading… “All Newspapers Of The World On A Single Page”
How much Google is too much Google?
Joshua J. Romero discovered that much of his daily life was dominated by Google. He used its myriad services for so many tasks, and worried that it gave Google too much ability to control him. So as an experiment, he decided to completely disconnect from the company…
Continue reading… “Life Without Google”
If you have no electricity in your village, you are energy impoverished.
During a business luncheon with the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in India for World Environment Day, there was a lot of talk of the steps to take to give India’s economy a green makeover and why it’s important to do so. The speeches by Minister Ramesh and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner were inspiring and made the idea of a green economy concrete and understandable. Something that befuddled me, however, was that there was no mention of energy poverty, or the electrification of rural villages on the agenda. Did I miss something?
Continue reading… “Energy Poverty: India’s Best Kept Secret”
Control over Mobility Devices is critical for paralyzed people.
Martin Mireles has been paralyzed from the neck down for nearly twenty years. He can maneuver a mobility chair by steering it with his mouth, but a new magnetic tongue stud developed by researchers at the Northwestern University School of Medicine makes it a lot easier…
Continue reading… “Tongue Studs Can Give Paralyzed People Greater Control Over Mobility Devices”
Go, go gadget iceberg.
The man who can sell icebergs to eskimo may be a great salesman, but the guy who can tug icebergs to Saudi Arabia will be remembered as an engineering genius.
French engineer Georges Mougin may be that man.Fast Company reports that ever since the 1970s, he’s been working on a method to tow freshwater icebergs across the Arctic. Now, with 3-D tech, declassified satellite data, and tugboats, he might have cracked the way to quench the world’s thirst…
Continue reading… “French Engineer Wants To Tug Icebergs To Parched Saudi Arabia”
How much do you know about extreme substances.
What are the most extreme substances in the world? No, not Mountain Dew; this list compiles and gives the details on the hottest, most flammable and most acidic substances known to man. One of which can melt through twelve layers of concrete.
What do you get when you stack carbon nanotubes on their ends and sandwich them together? A material that absorbs 99.9% of the light that touches it…
Warning! May cause nausea while watching.
Where is the strangest place you can affix a tiny GoPro camera to get a radical “point of view” video? I would have never come up with the inside of a hula hoop, but someone did, and that’s awesome.
Continue reading… “The View From Inside A Hula Hoop”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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