David Lidsky's Blog, page 3065
January 30, 2015
Vine Launches New Video Service Aimed At Kids
To ease parental concerns, there will be a curation process for "appropriate" content.
No matter which business you're in, if you can hook your audience young, you've got it made! So is the case with Vine, which has just launched a junior version of its looping video app.
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Newly Decoded Tattoos Show Ancient Mummy Was Clearly A Goth
Ötzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy, has 61 tattoos all over his body.
[image error]Marco Samadeli/EURAC via io9A team of anthropologists was finally able to decode the 61 tattoos on the body of Ötzi, the Iceman, a mummy who died around 3,300 BC. Ötzi was found in the Alps on the border of Austria and Italy 1991, but until now, scientists haven't been able to make out his tattoos, due in part to his age-darkened skin. These tattoos are among the oldest ever found on humans.
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President Obama's New Health Care Initiative Will Harness The Power Of Big Data
The $215 million plan will help develop data-focused precision medicine to beat diseases like cancer and diabetes.
President Obama has officially announced a new biomedical research project that will use the power of big data to help with the development of specialized drugs to treat diseases like cancer and diabetes.
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The New York Public Library Is Using Old Maps To Create A Time Machine Of The City
Think Google Maps with a time slider.
What if we could peel back the layers of the cities we live in? Imagine if you could look up any address in New York and be able to see what was there 10, 50, 100, or even 350 years ago. That's the idea behind the NYC Space/Time Directory, the newest project of New York Public Library Labs.
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See NYC Through The Lens Of A 17-Year-Old Stanley Kubrick
Long before he was a legendary film director, Kubrick was a staff photographer at LOOK magazine and, naturally, was rather good at it.
Back in 1945, the youngest staff photographer at LOOK magazine was steadily proving that his skill belied his age with intimately candid photos of the crunch and quietude of New York City life—that photographer was 17-year-old Stanley Kubrick.
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Buyer's Guide: The Best On-Ear Headphones At Any Price
After testing 53 sets of headphones over a period of 45 hours, The Wirecutter determined the best on-ear headphones to buy.
The $180 Bose SoundTrue offer the best combination of sound quality, portability, and comfort, of any on-ear headphone. If you don't like in-ear headphones, or need something more portable than bulky over-ear headphones, the SoundTrue are the ones to get.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House To Reopen
The architect's first Los Angeles project has been under restoration since 2008. Check out our slideshow for beautiful vintage photographs!
After a $4.3 million restoration, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House in Los Angeles will soon reopen to the public.
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How Nike Protects Air Jordans From Counterfeiters
And other design details Nike has squirreled away all over its iconic line of shoes.
Over at the sneaker-crazy Sole Collector, there's a great round-up of some of the hidden design details found on various Air Jordan releases. From the 14 Jumpmen symbols hidden all over 1999's Air Jordan 14s, to the handwritten midsole texture on the Air Jordan 2010's, Nike's Tinker Hatfield and crew put a lot more work into the designs of these shoes than first meets the eye.
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Nudge Concept App Hopes To Point Pre-Diabetics Toward A Healthier Lifestyle
Could a simple shopping-and-cooking app improve the lives of patients (and increase quinoa sales)?
A new concept app from the London office of design and innovation consultancy Smart Design aims to improve the health of a large portion of the world's population, a segment for whom weight loss can be a matter of life and death: diabetics.
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Here's What Happens When You Ask Smartphone Users To Read Their App Permissions Out Loud
Those innocent-seeming Angry Birds are tracking your whereabouts.
Angry Birds knows where you are, and so does Fruit Ninja. The apps both track location—something that you might not necessarily know if you haven't taken the time to read through a lengthy user agreement and list of permissions before starting to play.
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