As the annual TED conference is about to celebrate its 30th anniversary next week , the popularity of TED talks has never been higher–viewers now download or stream presentations on TED.com up to 2 million times per day. After analyzing 500 of the most popular TED talks (more than [...] Click here to view original web page at feedproxy.google.com Share...

Looking for a cheap and sturdy standing desk? There are DIY options . But if you’ve always wanted to have some cardboard furniture in your home or office (and who hasn’t?), try one of the standing desks from Chairigami. Entrepreneur and recent Yale graduate Zach Rotholz has attracted plenty [...] Click here to view original web page at...

Nearly 500 designers, programmers, and creative technologists have signed their names to a fiery manifesto created last month asking digital workers to re-examine their consciences and contributions to society. The “First Things First” manifesto was originally penned by activist designer Ken Garland in 1963, but has been revived once [...] Click...

Mar 13, 2014

Ikea already has the market cornered on young, broke city kids desperate for some decent furniture (just try attending a New York apartment party without knocking into a Billy bookshelf). But to be sure, the Swedish furniture behemoth announced a new collection today that’s even trendier and more adaptable [...] Click here to view original web page at...

A few weeks ago, a gorgeous concept video of "a new car UI" made the rounds of the Internet , gathering praise as it went. With good reason: The video, created by product designer Matthaeus Krenn , shows a working prototype of a simple, sleek touch-screen interface that relies [...] Click here to view original web page at feedproxy.google.com Share...

Mar 13, 2014

Technology for an invisibility cloak hasn’t yet been perfected, but researchers at Duke University have just invented what they’re calling the world’s first "3-D Acoustic Cloaking Device." When this "cloak" is placed over an object, it reroutes sound waves as if there were no object at all. This could [...] Click here to...