David Lidsky's Blog, page 3037
March 6, 2015
Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time": NBC Thinks Technology Can Make Boxing Cool
It may be the sweet science, but boxing hasn't been modernized, well, maybe ever. An exclusive look inside the high-tech effort.
Tucked away in a hangar in Sacramento sits something never seen before in a sport once considered America's most popular: an incubator.
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Take A Stroll Down Broadway Through Hundreds Of Thousands Of Instagram Images
"On Broadway" mashes up social media and open data to provide a unique look at all 13 miles of the famed street.
Want to get to know all of Manhattan, not just the touristy parts? One of your best routes might be to take a stroll down all 13 miles of Broadway—the curvy spine of the city—exploring New York's rich cultural fabric from the Dominican neighborhood of Inwood to the heart of Chinatown. If you're lazy, another good bet might be to do the same thing digitally with a new project called "On Broadway."
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The Salvation Army Uses "The Dress" To Make A Point About Domestic Violence
The agency behind the Salvation Army ad that used The Dress to address domestic violence talks about making PSA hay from a viral phenomenon-really fast.
Last week the entire world was consumed with a certain textile optical illusion. The web—including brands and celebrities—took on the challenge of figuring out just what color The Dress actually was, and a new meme-to-beat was born.
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This Throwable Computer Teaches Kids How To Code
Hackaball gives kids the power to program their own games, and takes coding outside.
Coding is a great skill for kids to learn but it can be a lonely, sedentary endeavor. Hackaball, a new toy created from a partnership between the design agencies MAP and Made By Many, promises to get kids off their butts and playing outside—all while teaching basic coding skills and empowering kids to invent their own kind of play.
The Beauty Of Failure: 12 Rejected Designs That Actually Don't Suck
Recently Rejected, an online graveyard for unpublished, rejected, or unfinished design work, illuminates the creative process.
All creative people know that only a tiny percentage of the work they do ever sees the light of day. More often than not, work either ends up in the trash, gets brutally revised, or rejected by finicky clients. And enough rejections can leave designers convinced their work sucks and that they should give up and become accountants.
Free App Friday: 5 Tools To Help You Learn New Skills
It's time for some new tricks, old dog—from cooking to photo-taking to origami.
Impress your friends! Make yourself more attractive date material! Or, at the very least, kill some time in a potentially productive way. These free apps will help you ditch your microwave, capture better-looking memories, and tap into your creative side.
Take The Fast Company News Quiz
Show how much you know! Here's our quiz for March 6, 2015.
What happened this week? Research says that one of the best ways to solidify new information is to be tested on it. Here's a chance to bolster your knowledge of current events—and earn a special emoji badge. 
This "Airbnb For Creative Equipment" Will Rent You Drones, Oculus Rifts, Google Glass, More
New York-based startup Kitsplit is here to help artists. "We want to serve the indie creative industry," a cofounder tells us.
A new startup is betting that the creative class will flock to rent drones, Google Glass headsets, high-end cameras, and Oculus Rift systems online. New York-based KitSplit is a self-declared "Airbnb for creative equipment" that allows production companies, studios, and individual artists to lease out their unused equipment for short-term periods. The company, which launched in December, takes a 15% commission from the rental of equipment leased online. As of this writing, more than $1 million worth of cameras, drones, and other high-end creative equipment are available through the service.
How Anxiety Affects Your Decision-Making Skills
New research points to the connection between bad choices and anxious personalities.
The last three times your boss called you into his office, it was to praise your work and give you new responsibilities. But today, her disapproval makes it feel like she's considering firing you. How does her next meeting request make you feel?
How Two Broke Students Opened A Girls' School In A Kenyan Slum
How could two twentysomethings in a slum build a school and nonprofit organization that changes a community for generations to come?
A lot of college students want to save the world, but few move to the places that need it most to make a difference.
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