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January 16, 2014
What's Powering These Giant Morphing Faces At The Sochi Olympics?
A dynamic 3-D installation will use visitors' faces--but no other body parts--as a welcome sculpture at the upcoming winter games.
Remember those pin-art toys that formed to your hand as a kid? Well in a few weeks, Sochi Olympics visitors will be able to do the same thing but on a massive scale.
Hershey's Wants To 3-D-Print Chocolate
The company says it wants to embrace new technologies and keep its eye on the future.
Hershey's has partnered with a 3-D printing company to make headway in chocolate innovation. The chocolate maker announced Thursday it was entering a multi-year agreement with 3D Systems to produce confectionary treats leveraging 3D Systems' technology, which includes two new sugar and chocolate printers unveiled at CES earlier this month.
Print Magazines Can Survive If They Prioritize, Says Study
Old-school print media was said to be heading toward an inevitable death, but a new study suggests they may have a way out after all.
Print journalism is dead--or at least that's what media outlets have been saying about themselves since 2008. But a glimmer of optimism about the publishing industry arrived today from a University of Toronto Scarborough study.
Borrowing From Twitter, Facebook Rolls Out Personalized Trending Topics
Blue checkmarks, hashtags, and now trending topics.
Facebook is borrowing another page from Twitter. The world's largest social network on Thursday began rolling out a feature called "Trending" that highlights topics that have recently climbed in popularity.
Why Encouraging Employees To Be Entrepreneurs Can Create An Incredible Place To Work
Instead of labeling them as distractions, make your employees' passions work for you.
Once upon a time, companies frowned on employees having second jobs (or even serious hobbies). The fear was that it would distract people from their main gig.
The Sacramento Kings Now Accept Bitcoin
The cryptocurrency comes to NBA basketball.
On Thursday, Bitcoin got a little bit more mainstream. The Sacramento Kings basketball team announced it is joining the ranks of businesses now accepting Bitcoin, making it the first professional sports team to do so.
Black + Decker Gets A Logo Update
100 years after launching its original brand and logo, Lippincott gives the power tool and home goods brand a modern look.
Black + Decker (formerly Black & Decker) is best known for its power tools. Problem is, the brand carries a lot more: vacuums and coffee makers are two big sellers in the company's canon of products, making the existing hexagonal logo--which symbolized the nut used with a bolt screw and can be seen here at the right--somewhat dated.
This 3-D Printer Will Make Clothes You'd Actually Wear
Electroloom has early designs for a 3-D printer that can make on-demand apparel. And with a new grant for funding, it may be ready to print ready to wear by year's end.
So far, 3-D printed clothing has yet to produce truly wearable products. We've seen fashion-as-art, like Iris van Herpen's creations, gimmicks, seen on the Victoria's Secret runway, and plenty of jewelry and accessories. A fledgling company called Electroloom wants to expand this sub-market by 3-D printing basics, like T-shirts and sweaters.
This App Aids Your Decision-Making By Mimicking Its Creator's Synesthesia
Choicemap founder Jonathan Jackson has a cognitive condition that allows him to instantly understand how his priorities influence his decisions. He's built an app to help the rest of us do the same.
Jonathan Jackson's gut instinct works a little differently than most. When he's making a big decision, he not only feels intuitively which choice is best, but also sees a geometric model of how his priorities have influenced that feeling. "The lines push and pull," he says. "The shapes have gravity. I get a sense of a shape's weight by how it tugs the shapes around it. Nodes and edges pull one another, and that's quantifiable. I don't see numbers, necessarily, but I see the shapes I associate with those numbers. That allows me to track the tangle of shapes and lines somewhat mathematically in my mind's eye."
What Your Favorite Disney Characters Look Like As Real People
Artist Karen Graw apparently wanted to see what Aladdin, Maleficent, Snow White, and other Disney favorites would look like in real-life, so she gave them real faces. Maybe too real.
At some point, re-imaginging Disney princesses in various contexts became one of the Internet's favorite pastimes. Occasionally, Disney itself gets in on the re-contextualization, for better or worse. Now, an artist has put some of the most famous Disney characters of all into the context of anatomical realism.
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