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Happy Thanksgiving!

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:43:39 -0500

Happy Thanksgiving!

Clearing Landmines with Windpower Such an inspirational project!

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:47:00 -0500

Clearing Landmines with Windpower

Such an inspirational project!

“Following Google’s tradition of decorating its homepage...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:39:00 -0400

“Following Google’s tradition of decorating its homepage to celebrate major holidays, the Google Doodle today is a cute and spooky interactive animation of haunted houses. Well, not haunted houses in the traditional sense of a lone, crusty old mansion with a graveyard nearby, but rather a series of haunted entryways to homes in the city.”

helveticool: Bloomberg Flexible Display / Antenna Design New...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:29:56 -0400

helveticool:

Bloomberg Flexible Display / Antenna Design New York Inc.

Two ultra thin displays are mounted on an elegant arm that can be easily rotated from horizontal to vertical position, with software automatically adjusting screen orientation. Display heads can be separately rotated for horizontal or vertical orientation, allowing for multiple display configurations.

laughingsquid: The Most Popular Tumblr Post Of All Time

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:28:11 -0400

laughingsquid:

The Most Popular Tumblr Post Of All Time

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Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:49:20 -0400

Twitter Announces New Design With Focus On Profile Pages, iPad...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:37:48 -0400

Twitter Announces New Design With Focus On Profile Pages, iPad Update On The TODAY Show

thenextweb: (via Twitter’s new iPad App Ditches the Sidebar,...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:33:26 -0400

thenextweb: (via Twitter’s new iPad App Ditches the Sidebar, Brings Fresh Profile Views)

thenextweb: LIFX Kickstarter project, a WiFi enabled,...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:52:38 -0400

thenextweb:

LIFX Kickstarter project, a WiFi enabled, multi-color, energy-efficient LED light bulb that is designed to integrate technology that allows you to control it with your iOS or Android device. It’s similar to how a NEST thermostat integrates with your existing heating system, but works in any of your lighting products around your house. The project is just over 24 hours old and already it has achieved its $100,000 goal, reaching $230,134 from 1,780 backers. (via LIFX Hits Kickstarter to Completely Reimagine the Lightbulb)

thenextweb: Avatr*, a social photography app that focuses on...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:51:09 -0400

thenextweb:

Avatr*, a social photography app that focuses on auto-portraits, and seems to have what it take to go viral. Since its soft launch on the iPhone last month, it has already been downloaded over 100,000 times, its team told us when we met in Mexico City last week. To get started with Avatr*, all you have to do is to take a picture of yourself. While it may look vain on other platforms, one of Avatr*’s advantages is that it takes the embarrassment out of it, since its whole purpose is to share self-portraits. (via Photography App Avatr* Makes Self-Portraits Social)

In Satirical Video, People Can’t Differentiate The iPhone 5 And 4S - DesignTAXI.com

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:48:00 -0400

In Satirical Video, People Can’t Differentiate The iPhone 5 And 4S - DesignTAXI.com:

“This redesign is certainly an improvement — at least if...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:20:00 -0400

“This redesign is certainly an improvement — at least if eBay wants to come across as a modern, trustworthy company. The difference between the two designs is clear, but the similar coloring will prevent users from being confused.”

thenextweb: (via eBay Releases A Completely Redesigned Logo)

laughingsquid: Design Nerds Flash Cards, A Geeky Way For Kids...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:13:03 -0400

laughingsquid:

Design Nerds Flash Cards, A Geeky Way For Kids To Learn Their ABC’s

” As designers we sometimes worry about engaging in the...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:22:41 -0400

” As designers we sometimes worry about engaging in the “business side” of things. But today’s businesses are desperate to find experimental and creative solutions and designers are just the problem-solvers they need. We’ve been trained to take a brief, assess the problem, instinctively create different directions, analyse the positives and negatives, reject one, create another, see what works, see what doesn’t.”

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fuckyeahmolecularbiology: Played By Humans, Scored By...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:24:50 -0400

fuckyeahmolecularbiology:

Played By Humans, Scored By Nature

Meet eteRNA, your new internet addiction. Not only is it a super-fun way to procrastinate on that thing you should be doing, it also helps to advance biology’s understanding of RNA and its synthesis - in a big way. Scientists from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University have developed eteRNA as a successor to Foldit, a popular internet-based game that proved the pattern-matching skills of amateurs could outperform some of the best protein-folding algorithms designed by scientists. They’re hedging their bets that eteRNA will work similarly - and are even funding the real-life synthesis of the weekly winner’s RNA molecule to see if it really does fold the same way the game predicts it should.

The scientists hope to tap the internet’s ability to harness what is described as “collective intelligence,” the collaborative potential of hundreds or thousands of human minds linked together. Using games to harvest participation from amateurs exploits a resource which the social scientist Clay Shirky recently described as the “cognitive surplus” - the idea that together, as a collection of amateurs, we internet people make a very good algorithm because we react to information presented in a game, get better at it as we go along, and make informed decisions based on what has or hasn’t worked for us in the past.

“We’re the leading edge in asking nonexperts to do really complicated things online,” says Dr. Treuille, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon and one of the original masterminds behind the game. “RNA are beautiful molecules. They are very simple and they self-assemble into complex shapes. From the scientific side, there is an RNA revolution going on. The complexity of life may be due to RNA signaling.”

“This [project] is like putting a molecular chess game in people’s hands at a massive level,” he continues. “I think of this as opening up science. I think we are democratizing science.”

And, so far, the democratisation is working. Although the creators warn that game players may start to see legal and ethical issues in gameplay down the road, for now, the collective intelligence is trumping professionally designed algorithms. Significantly, not only do humans outperform their computer adversaries, but the human strategies developed during the course of the game are significantly more flexible and adaptable than those of the algorithms they’re pitted against.

So what are you waiting for? This isn’t procrastination, it’s being a part of a collective intelligence that’s smart enough to take down science’s finest algorithms. Click here (you know you want to) to get synthesising!

New Facebook mobile: Immediately you’ll notice faster...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:13:00 -0400

New Facebook mobile: Immediately you’ll notice faster loading times for News Feed refreshes, photo uploads and so on. The new app also lets you interact with content in a more intuitive way. When you tap on a photo, the app has the image instantly pop up to occupy the entire screen (as opposed to taking a dozen second to load). When you scroll deep into your News Feed, the app automatically pushes to your feed all the latest likes, comments and stories, and displays simple alerts in the top notification bar…

New Microsoft logo… finally.

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:19:17 -0400

New Microsoft logo… finally.

I’m not entirely sure about the app itself but I’m...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:04:29 -0400

I’m not entirely sure about the app itself but I’m definitely loving this logo.

Interesting tool for x-browsing testing

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:07:00 -0400

Interesting tool for x-browsing testing