Businesses, like residents, need to know when to batten down the hatches before a hurricane strikes. This may be easy enough for a single mom-and-pop shop. Turn on the news or track the storm online like everyone else and hope for the best. But for chains with many locations […]
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Roombas are basically extremely smart vacuum cleaners, but to some owners they start to feel like pets or friends–a phenomenon investigated by one of my favorite accounts on Twitter, @SelfAwareROOMBA , where you can follow the philosophical, dramatic, and mundane musings of the eponymous device. As more advanced robots […]
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Antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in America, with a whopping one in ten Americans currently taking them. Common as it is, depression remains a widely misunderstood and stigmatized illness. It’s devastating and confusing for both sufferers and for the non-depressed people in their lives. For her […]
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Knock is a new iOS app that allows you to unlock your Mac by rapping on your iPhone screen twice. But let’s hold off on talking about that for a second. Let’s instead focus on the video used to unveil the app in all its ironic, irreverent yet impeccably […]
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With the rise of 3-D printers, homebrew hobbyists can now make enclosures for electronics like Ardiunos. But until recently, those hobbyists still couldn’t make the actual computing components–there’s no cheap and easy way to print circuit boards. Unless of course you have an inkjet printer and some time to […]
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By now, the release date of Lady Gaga’s new album ARTPOP, you might already be sick of the cover image, designed by artist Jeff Koons. There it is, on billboards, in magazines, and on every website ever. Or maybe you can’t get enough of the Koons sculpture of the […]
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A guard house is meant to be a symbol of authority, a physical representation that says if you want in, you’ll have to pass by this person whose job it is to keep riff raff like you out. But behind the lens of Latvian photographer Reinis Hofmanis , the […]
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In this youth-obsessed culture, seniors are too often depicted as dependent and past their prime, sidelined to make way for the shiny and new. Design Academy Eindhoven student Yoni Lefevre set out to challenge such prejudice through grandchildren’s hilarious, fantastical drawings of their grandparents. “We’re living in an aging […]
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To designer Jason James, long hours are several sorts of awful: they effectively make us work for free, they set unreasonable and unsustainable expectations, they evidence cultural problems, they evidence project management issues, they indicate weak leadership, they have a high opportunity cost, they promote martyrdom, and they don’t […]
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Landing a job at a competitive, well-known company would be a coup for any person at any stage of their career. But when Jody Kinner got a job at Groupon, competitive took on a whole different meaning. The department of merchant research functioned a lot like a sales division. […]
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