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January 15, 2015
Can't Make Rent? This Beautiful Squatter's Home Can Be Built On A Vacant Lot In A Day
An Amsterdam real estate developer wants young people to occupy affordable, moveable homes on properties where building is stalled—and move when construction gets started again.
In Amsterdam, like many cities, it's hard to find an affordable place to live, especially for recent college graduates who would rather avoid moving in with roommates or their parents. A new movable house is designed to make living in the city center cheaper for single millennials by making use of temporarily vacant land.
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How This Building Covered In Eye-Popping Street Art Explains New Orleans
Can a renegade exhibit bring a happier future to the post-Katrina legacy of blight?
Amid the crumbling concrete, smashed sinks, and forgotten baby clothes left by the last residents at the abandoned Woodlands housing complex, DJ's spin music for the crowd and lines form behind food trucks.
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January 14, 2015
A Jury Rigged Nintendo Power Glove Animates Robot Chicken
Now you're playing with power.
To many of us who grew up in the 1980s, the Nintendo Power Glove was our first real heartbreak. We fell in love with the marketing of a glove that would allow us to reach out and touch our video games, and we were devastated when we learned the ultrasonic positioning system didn't work so well, making it more of an NES controller that was stuck on your wrist than our first grasp of virtual reality.
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Buyer's Guide: The Best Android Phones
The Wirecutter tested Android smartphones and found the best models for most people.
After testing every major Android smartphone in 2014, we think the Samsung Galaxy S5 makes the most sense for most people. But there are at least half a dozen great Android smartphones, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, so it's hard to choose just one for everyone. Here are the standouts.
How The E-Commerce Gag "Ship Your Enemies Glitter" Became A Viral Hit—And Then A Nightmare
Who knew there was such a dangerously large market for glitter?
Mathew Carpenter had a wicked business idea: All he needed was a website, some stationery, and a heaping dose of glitter. Thus was born Ship Your Enemies Glitter, a site where grown-ups could wreak revenge, anonymously, on the people they hate the most in their lives. A boss. An annoying neighbor. A spouse. Payback—without the blowback.
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Giving The Blind Sight Again, With A Bionic Eye
The device, which converts light signals captured by video to electrical impulses that can be read by the brain, is already changing lives.
Welcome to the bionic future you've been waiting for. After decades of work, blind patients can now get a bionic eye implant that allows them to see again—with some caveats.
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False Hustle: How Keeping Busy Is Making You Less Productive
Asking yourself three simple questions each week can help you avoid the false hustle.
It's easy to be busy; it's hard to be productive. Raise your hand if you've spent entire days answering "quick" email after "quick" email; spent hours in your task manager organizing your tasks for productivity; spent a half-day organizing tidying up old design files; or looked back on your week and realized you worked your ass off, but you're not really sure what you actually accomplished.
A Scientific Ranking Of The Sexiest Types Of Creativity
What's hotter, playing in a band or writing poetry? Science weighs in.
We don't need science to know that creativity is sexy. Mick Jagger's number proves that point. As do anecdotes from everyone's lives about far lesser musicians than the Rolling Stones. In one recent study—conducted, of course, in France—a male researcher solicited phone numbers from 300 random young women on the street. He got more digits when carrying a guitar case than when carrying a gym bag or nothing at all.
Apps For A More Organized Life--And Why They Won't Work
You can't tap your way out of your messy life. (We know; we tried.)
In November, my family and I moved from a city townhouse into a suburban house-house and suddenly, it became clear to me that I was going to have to get serious about being organized about keeping everything in order. Each night it felt like I went straight from a day of work to an evening of cooking, laundry, cleaning, and then bed with no pleasure or down time in between. If I only had the right way of keeping track of my life and home, I thought, I'd have both a tidy house and time to enjoy it.
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