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November 19, 2015
A Smarter Pet Food Bowl By The Mind Behind Disney Magicbands
Look inside your dog's food bowl, and you may see the future of human dieting.
As many as 54% of U.S. dogs are overweight, and that blame is on all of us. Dogs don't go shopping. They don't portion their own meals. It's the human element that overfeeds a loyal pet and needs retraining.
Artist's Guerilla Installations Are Like Land Art For Target
"It's a success if someone does a double take and is broken out of the everyday rhythm and patterns of the space," artist Carson Brown says.
Carson Davis Brown's Mass series kicked off spontaneously after an aisle in his local Meijer—a midwestern store chain—packed with bright yellow packaging caught his eye. The artist corralled the objects, snapped a photo, and put the items back in their rightful spots. Pretty soon, he was making larger installations, filming and photographing the masses, and leaving them for people to discover.
November 18, 2015
Today in Tabs: The New New New Gawker
Gawker pivots until everyone gets dizzy and falls down unemployed.
actually there have been naturally occurring periodic changes to the media's climate for thousands of years
Facebook Deploys Safety Check After Nigeria Bombing
The Safety Check feature, used during last week's attacks in Paris, will be offered by Facebook more regularly in the future.
In a disheartening reminder of how many lives have been lost in the past week, Facebook has activated its Safety Check feature in Nigeria, following a bombing that killed more than 32 people. Safety Check allows individuals located in areas where a disaster has occurred to quickly tell family and friends that they are safe, without making phone calls or sending text messages.
In Wake Of The Paris Attacks, The FCC Chairman Wants To Expand Wiretapping
The attacks carried out by ISIS in Paris last Friday have revived conversations about access to encrypted smartphone data.
As a response to the horrific act of terrorism that killed more than 120 people in Paris last week, the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recommended that U.S. wiretapping laws be revised. Tom Wheeler, the current chairman of the FCC, told Congress on Tuesday that it could expand the meaning of "lawful intercept" and make wiretapping more comprehensive to aid law enforcement, according to the Washington Post.
Overbook Yourself: 7 Productivity Tips From Writer/Producer/Hustler Jensen Karp
Karp is one of the hardest working people in entertainment. As his new web series, Baby Talk, launches, he talks about getting it all done.
Being ridiculously crazy-busy is exhausting. We all know this, it's why vacations exist. But apparently, there's a mythic level of high-functionality that only a select few tend to reach—one so intense, it's exhausting to even witness. Take Jensen Karp, for instance. (Or try taking him, anyway; Jensen has so much going on right now, he's not likely budging.)
Your Standing Desk Makes You Feel So Healthy, So You Go Straight Home And Sit Down
New research finds that standing at work leads to more laziness elsewhere.
Standing desks at work have an unfortunate side effect: The more you stand at work, the more likely you are to slouch in a chair as soon as you get home.
Your Toolbox Is Hopelessly Inadequate Without Fiskars's Reengineered Hammer and Machete
An early champion of user-friendly design, Fiskars tackles your toolshed.
"We have a saying here that even the simplest things can be made better or smarter," says Steve Stokes, a design engineer at Fiskars. The Finnish company, which dates from 1649, was a pioneer of user-friendly design and is best known for its ergonomic scissors and small tools. Its latest products take that high-performance approach to two unexpected products: gardening blades and hammers.
Why Canon Went Skijoring For Its Epic New Winter Ad
Skiiing behind a horse? Sure, why not.
At first it seems like one of those made up XTREME!!! sports born out the mid-'90s, especially for the X-Games. Like skysurfing or street luge. But skijoring has quite a long tradition. The name comes from the Norwegian term for ski driving, and the sport itself was a demonstration sport in the 1928 Winter Olympics. Here, Canon and director Marcus Söderlund give it the epic journey treatment for the band's ongoing "Come and See" series.
Copenhagen's New Bike Bridge Will Be The Craziest Bike Lane Ever Built
Cruise over the water as you hang between two skyscrapers, 200 feet in the air.
Much of Copenhagen's bike- and pedestrian-centric infrastructure seems wild to us folks on the outside, but the new Copenhagen Gate is wild no matter where you see it from. It's a pedestrian bridge spanning the entrance to a berth in the city's harbor, running between two skyscrapers and suspended 213 feet above the waters below.
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