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As lifelogging looks set to go mainstream, meet its pioneers in this new documentary
2013-05-28

Lifelogging has been the pursuit of geeks who don’t mind strapping huge homemade HUDs to their heads and computers to their (...)

Google debuts Chrome games Roll it and Racer to show off the browser’s cross-platform syncing via WebSockets
2013-05-28

Google on Tuesday launched two new Chrome Experiments, both games, that let you play with other people using phones, tablets, and (...)

‘Private’ Path has a ‘Repath’ option that can share your photos onto others’ profiles. Huh?
2013-05-28

When Path today retweeted someone telling Android users that they could ‘Repath’ photographs with a long press on a photo, (...)

Newsreader app Circa hires Reuters Social Media Editor Anthony De Rosa as its new Editor in Chief
2013-05-28

News consumption service Circa announced today that it has hired Anthony De Rosa, currently Social Media Editor for Reuters, as its (...)

2013 Logo Design Trends & Inspiration
2013-05-23

Logo Lounge, for the past ten years, has posted annual logo design trend reports and they have just released the 2013 logo design (...)

As Apple readies an iOS update, Google woos developers with new tools
2013-05-29

At the end of 2011, Google’s internal team in charge of the developer-facing bits of Google Play decided that it was time for (...)

Are Social Impact Bonds The Future Of International Development?
2013-05-29

The financial mechanism that attaches a possible return to positive social outcomes is starting to take off in the United States. (...)

Werner Herzog Directs “Don’t Text and Drive” Spot for AT&T
2013-05-29

Filmmaker helps deliver the message: "It Can Wait." Filmmaker Werner Herzog, known for documentaries like Grizzly Man and Into (...)

An iPhone App That Nags You To Work On Time
2013-05-29

The problem with calendars is that they can never anticipate traffic. But NeverLate wants to attune your schedule to the flow of (...)

Buy Yourself A Close Shave To Help Give Others An Edge
2013-05-29

Harry’s is applying the buy-one-give-one model to razors, and is using its shaving apparel business to better the community, (...)

Recreating The Neighborhood Newsstand, With Some Help From Internet Culture
2013-05-29

Petrella’s Imports is a downtown New York newsstand where passersby can purchase zines and art, not just the usual snacks (...)

Interactive Site Takes You Inside The Awful Reality Of A Puppy Mill
2013-05-29

Singapore-based animal welfare groups teamed up with digital agency Yolk to create an interactive website that reveals some of (...)

Google’s Dead-Simple Tool For Making UX Decisions: 2 Jars Of Marbles
2013-05-29

When the Android team wants to decide whether a design decision is good or bad, they turn to the least techie of tricks. Nothing (...)

Amazing Photographs Of A Giant, Forgotten Collection Of Human Brains
2013-05-29

This brain collection from the University of Texas, which effectively disappeared for decades, has been rediscovered and is going (...)

Kill Your Darlings And 4 More Rules For Doing Creative Work
2013-05-29

In Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, author Janet Malcolm reveals creative insights from artists ranging from (...)

Designers: Learn To Code! Here’s How To Start
2013-05-29

When you start experimenting with code, you find that the new tool helps you do your job better. Just think of it like getting (...)

Kickstarting: A Documentary On Cicadas That Will Either Make You Shudder Or Cry
2013-05-29

Samuel Orr has been trying to get his documentary on cicadas off the ground since 2007. That’s still 11 years less than it (...)

Loneliness Is Bad For Public Health, And It’s Up To Us To Fix It
2013-05-29

Being alone can be good in small doses, but it’s reaching epidemic proportions, with disastrous results for our collective (...)

How To Create A Disney-Like Addiction To Your Company
2013-05-29

Step one: Make eye contact and smile. That and six other seemingly simple steps can help create customer-service magic. I have (...)

Most Creative People, Live At C2-MTL
2013-05-29

Fast Company officially celebrated our 100 Most Creative People in Business last week at the jam-packed, high-energy C2-MTL conference (...)

Artists Turn A Craft Fair Into A Laboratory For New Materials
2013-05-24

At this year’s COLLECT: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, in London, few things are what they seem. (...)

Watch this homemade ‘lightsaber’ quickly burn through everything put in front of it
2013-05-27

Today is a holiday in the US. Since tech news is next to nonexistent, we’re all watching cool videos on the Internet. In other (...)

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