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An Artist Gives Hermit Crabs Crazy New Homes
2013-07-30

Haven’t you heard? Hermit crab populations are becoming increasingly homeless. Aki Inomata thinks they all deserve custom (...)

Hello Flo “Camp Gyno” Ad Adorably Busts Through The Period, Vagina Barrier
2013-07-30

Period subscription service Hello Flo takes us to Camp Gyno. It’s like Santa for your Vagina! Advertising in the feminine (...)

Future Thinking Isn’t About The Future, It’s About The Present
2013-07-30

We can only hope to have some vague idea of what the future will hold, but we can always use predictions of what it will be to (...)

Why Every Real-World Instrument Should Be Touch Sensitive
2013-07-30

Some would have us believe that there is a coming boom in hardware startups. With fast, low-risk platforms like Kickstarter and Quirky (...)

What It’s Like To Tap Your Own Phone
2013-07-30

When the government taps our phones, citizens get (rightfully) outraged. But as Terence Eden found when he began tapping his own (...)

Airing Out 40 Years: Nike Design Over The Decades
2013-07-30

Illustrator Stephen Cheetham applies minimalist graphics to chart a visual history of the brand’s most memorable designs. (...)

Can Alternate Endings Save The Hollywood Blockbuster?
2013-07-30

Earlier this year, a former Wall Street quant named Alexis Kirke premiered a film with some special requirements: Audience members (...)

LinkedIn now lets users comment, ‘like’ and mention other people at the bottom of Influencer posts
2013-07-30

LinkedIn is raising the profile of its Influencer initiative today by giving regular users the ability to ‘like’ and comment on (...)

Yandex takes on Google Drive and Dropbox with low-price cloud storage – 1TB for $30 per month
2013-07-30

Russia’s Yandex is enhancing its cloud storage service Yandex.Disk today with the launch of paid storage plans. 20GB is currently (...)

Peel-And-Stick Wood Panels Provide An Instant Reclaimed Look
2013-07-30

Now available from West Elm, Stikwood panels are ultrathin planks that use less energy and material than ordinary reclaimed wood. (...)

Twitter reimagined: Viral Facebook concept designer gives the blue bird a makeover
2013-07-30

Designer Fred Nerby’s conceptual redesign for Facebook went wildly viral earlier this year, and now he’s back with a new look (...)

Would You Shock Your Brain To Improve Your Gaming High Score?
2013-07-29

Foc.us is a dubious headset that uses electrodes to stimulate neurons, which its makers claim can improve gaming abilities. (...)

Watch: A Music Video That’s Also A Wry Critique Of Infographics
2013-07-29

Data visualization may be the most exciting sector of graphic design. But Franz Ferdinand’s new video has something to say (...)

This Protein Bar Contains 25 Crickets, And You Can Try It Out
2013-07-29

Want an alternative source of protein but don’t like the idea of bugs legs stuck in your teeth? These new Exo bars--made (...)

Yahoo’s SVP of Central Technology David Dibble steps down, will continue to advise Marissa Mayer
2013-07-29

Yahoo’s Senior Vice President of Central Technology David Dibble has resigned. According to a filing with the US Security and Exchange (...)

After flood of rape threats in the UK, Twitter plans to allow abuse report filing from Android and the Web
2013-07-29

Twitter has spoken out to clarify its policies for reviewing tweets on its service after facing criticism over rape threats that were (...)

Is This Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad’s Instagram Feed?
2013-07-29

As hundreds of thousands of civilians die in the civil war in Syria, it appears that the country’s embattled dictator has (...)

Your Serif Is Served: Typefaces Imagined As Food
2013-07-29

Eat your words? A design studio imagines--and plates--fonts as their food counterparts. It used to be so simple: We’d (...)

The Old Reader to close public site in two weeks, users who joined before Google Reader axing news can stay
2013-07-29

When Google first announced Google Reader would be shut down, the news kick-started a very competitive race to create the best alternative. (...)

Filmmakers Promote Steve Jobs Biopic With More-Is-More Site
2013-07-29

A maximalist promo site for Jobs. When Simon & Schuster published Steve Jobs, the simple black and white cover photo helped (...)

A Kit To Grow Bugs At Home, To Eat!
2013-07-29

Don’t think of it as eating bug babies. Think of it as protein gardening. As the population grows, so, too, will its hunger (...)

Pro-Social Software: Nine Examples Of Developers Doing Good
2013-07-29

Ushahidi Ushahidi is a free and open source platform for crowdsourced mapping. It’s often been used for monitoring elections (...)

Watch This Man Try To Set The Bicycle Speed Record On A Homemade Bike
2013-07-29

This mini-doc shows British bikemaker Tom Donhou’s DIY attempts to get his bike into the record books. Londoner Tom Donhou (...)

North Korea Making Great Progress At Catastrophic GPS Jamming
2013-07-29

How many times a day do you pull up your smartphone to make sure you’re heading in the right direction? Checking in on Foursquare? (...)

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