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January 5, 2015
Today in Tabs: Grin and ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ It
The Final Take of TNR, and other almost-finished business.
today at the outlet mall there were big block letters for saying something cute in your kitchen but the only letters left were B L E A K
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Roku-Connected Televisions And The Future Of The Smart TV Wars
At CES, Roku announced new partnerships that will cram its platform inside more televisions. Built-in is the new box.
Last October, an obscure report from a newspaper in India made waves on the Internet when it suggested that a Philips television set with Apple TV capabilities built into it was on the way. Which, if true: Ajksdfhkjdshasdjfhkasdjhf!!!
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Google Cast For Audio Will Compete With AirPlay And Enable More Music In Your House
Google announces that the technology behind Chromecast is coming to connected speakers.
The pressing question music listeners face no longer has anything to do with getting music onto their devices. Now it's a matter of how to broadcast music throughout their home. Bluetooth speakers have taken off because they're a relatively simple solution for listening to music out loud—no cable required—but their simplicity can also be limiting for bigger sound systems.
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Is Withings' Activité Pop The First Truly Mainstream Smartwatch?
With the Activité Pop, the best looking wearable-slash-smartwatch just got better. How? By getting cheaper.
When the Withings Activité was announced in June of last year, it was a thing of beauty: a fitness tracker made with the same sophisticated looks and craftsmanship as a Swiss watch. But instead of trying to look like a watch from the future, it hugged the aesthetics of the past while secretly packing some impressive motion-tracking technology. The only problem with the Activité? The $400 pricetag.
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Following Fire Phone Flop, Big Changes At Amazon's Lab126
What recent departures and managerial changes mean for the secretive R&D group behind the company's most high-profile consumer products.
In recent months, a string of departures and managerial changes has hit Amazon's Lab126, the company's Silicon Valley-based R&D group that has developed its most high-profile consumer products, including the Fire Phone, the Siri-like Echo device, and the Kindle hardware. According to multiple sources familiar with the reshuffling at Lab126, the changes were long overdue, a response to an organizational structure that some contend had grown "bloated" if not "inexplicable," as one former high-level employee describes it.
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Posters Of Wes Anderson Films Out-Twee Wes Anderson Films
They look like ratty paperbacks that Margot Tenenbaum would have her nose stuck in while smoking in the bath.
In his love for Futura, bold colors, abstract patterns, and blocking, Wes Anderson has long seemed influenced by old Penguin and Pelican paperback covers. But what if Wes Anderson movies were paperbacks? Well, they'd probably look like this.
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5 Lovely Card Collections That'll Make Thank-You Notes A Cinch
You'll get thank-you notes for sending these thank-you notes.
If playing with your new loot has made you late on sending all those thank-you notes this holiday season, these beautiful, original notecards and postcards will make up for it. From the elegant (stationery designed by Louise Fili) to the irreverent (a one-size-fits-all holiday card from Pop Chart Lab), these are like presents in themselves. Recipients will want to send thank-you notes for your thank-you notes.
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4 Tech Trends That Will Define 2015, Selected By Frog
The death of the pedometer, 3-D printers in the kitchen, and wearable fitness AIs: here's how four Frog designers see 2015 playing out.
Around this time every year, global innovation and design firm Frog predicts what the biggest trends in tech will be in the coming year. In 2014, Frog predicted that drones, augmented reality, and self-driving cars would all be big trends (and they were mostly right). For 2015, Frog sees 3-D printers and hydroponic gardens in every kitchen, and smart T-shirts and wearable fitness AIs as some of the major tech trends of the year. Here's how four of Frog's designers see 2015 in tech playing out.
The way we eat is about to get more Jetsons-like.
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January 2, 2015
Free App Friday: 5 Tools For Healthier Living
Eating, sleeping, and moving around are relatively basic endeavors. A little tweak here and there can make a world of difference, though.
You don't have to be a nut to be healthy. You just have to want to get healthier than you are now. Baby steps.
14 Tips To Make 2015 Your Most Productive Year Yet
We talk to the most productive people all year, here are their best productivity tips for 2015.
In case you haven't noticed, we're a little obsessed with productivity.
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