Etiquette Lessons in the Digital Age
So, you dropped food on the floor—to eat or not to eat, that is the question? Audrey Fukuman and Andy Wright of SFoodie created a flowchart—“The 30-Second Rule, A Decision Tree”—to guide you on whether...
View ArticleLong-Exposure Pics Make Trains Look Like Laser Beams
[SitM: very nice results using everyday tech] We love pictures of trains. We also love plays on light. So we reaaaally love the long-exposure shots of San Francisco photographer Aaron Durand, who...
View Article“Acrobat” Photog Defies Death To Capture View At The Top Of The World
[SitM: more creative use of everyday tech] “FROM ABOVE, THE MUNDANE SEEMED MORE DIVINE.” “Wouter van Buuren is not only a photographer, he is also an acrobat.” That’s how one art gallery describes,...
View ArticleApple patent application points to DJ-like beat matching, pairs iTunes with...
Once upon a less digital time, there existed the art of the mixtape: a tedious labor of love that required timing, taste and a penchant for musical progression. No longer in this iTunes-era, where...
View ArticleThe Economics behind The Death Star
[SitM; they should be building it out of Buckminster Fullerines. Steel is too heavy. Nerd out.] Given the current rate of innovation and progress in construction (and design) technologies, we tend to...
View ArticleApple’s takeover of the world continues: Siri will command the new Mercedes A...
Mercedes-Benz has announced its plans to fully integrate the the driver’s iPhone as well as Siri assistant into future A-Class models. It’ll be like having your own personal, mildly-incompetent HAL....
View ArticleNASA: The World Isn’t Going to End in 2012
Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won’t be the end of...
View Articleooohhhh yeah. much better than those awful traditional chandeliers all over...
American designer Stuart Fingerhut has created the Kinema Pendant Luminaire. This 10″ x 12″ x 14″ lighting object uses a combination of different layers in order to create a specific effect and...
View ArticleBillboard’s Hot 100 Singles Chart Starts Tracking Online Listening
Billboard magazine is changing the way it ranks songs on its Hot 100 singles chart to take into account online music-streaming services like Spotify and Rhapsody, responding to a major shift in how...
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