Barista's edition for Fri 22 November 2013
Pinterest Launches 'Place Pins' To Help Pinners Plan Their Trips
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Pinterest released a new set of tools for users that would help them "explore" and share the things around them. At an event with 150 "Pinners" (and an untold number of journalists) at Pinterest HQ in San Francisco, CEO Ben Silbermann announced that the company would introduce new ways to plan trips.
These Photos Are Actually Paintings
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For decades, Louis K. Meisel has been collecting, selling and promoting a group of artists called the Photorealists. He's also produced four different books that document this art movement. The last and final segment of the series, Photorealism in the Digital Age, was released this year.
It's got the moves: Whill Type-A wheelchair ready for preorder
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Former Sony, Toyota, and Olympus engineers team up to redesign the wheelchair. Startup Whill says the result, called Type-A, will be ready early next year. (Credit: Whill) Inspired by bicycles, scooters, and skateboards that make their users feel happy, and designed by former Sony, Toyota, and Olympus engineers, startup Whill has taken its first wheelchair, the Type-A, from an idea to production.
Go Nuts! Consumption of Nuts Linked to Mortality Benefit
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Nut consumption has long been linked to healthy lifestyles. Now, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine extends the finding and demonstrates a strong association with improved mortality. Ying Bao and colleagues examined data from nearly 120,000 people enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study to assess the [...]
Kano: a Raspberry Pi computer that snaps together like Lego in 107 seconds
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The credit-card sized Raspberry Pi has now sold more than two million units and has powered an amazingly diverse array of computer projects ( including replicating Felix Baumgartner's skydiving record with a teddy) but some fans worry that the computer's bare bones aesthetics are putting people off.
Hunger Games: Catching Fire Is the Dark Knight of Young Adult Films
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There are so many ways The Hunger Games: Catching Fire could've failed. For one, it's a sequel to wildly popular first installment. It's also based on the second novel in an equally beloved book trilogy, has a different director than its previous chapter and functions as the stepping stone from the film franchise's humble beginnings to its epic conclusion.
Card that stores an entire wallet breaks pre-order goal in 40 minutes
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Coin aims to replace the wallet with a single card that can manage multiple credit accounts, gift cards and loyalty cards, while also alerting owners if it gets lost. In a world where a virtual currency with no physicality at all has rallied at more than USD 700 in the past few days, consumers are looking for digital alternatives to their bulky wallets.
We are becoming police states. Everyone OK with that?
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We are becoming technologically-enabled police states. That's a reasonable analysis of a situation where the average citizen is investigated as a matter of course, their lives recorded on the basis that they, or someone they know, or someone that person knows, is a "person of interest."
Iceberg the size of Singapore breaks from Antarctica to roam the ocean
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NASA's Earth Observatory says that a vast chunk of ice the size of Singapore has broken away from Antarctica, and may soon start drifting in the Southern Ocean. Named B-31 by the US National Ice Center, the slab of ice is 21 miles by 12 miles in size and now floating in Pine Island Bay, south-west of the southern tip of Chile.
Tail Lights provide high visibility for your horse
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A new Kickstarter campaign wants to give you tail lights for hazardous and low-light conditions -- to be worn on the tail of your horse. (Credit: Sami Gross) It's something those of who live in urban areas don't really think about, but just like riding bicycles, driving cars, and walking around in the dark, horse riding requires low-visibility safety precautions.
Eruption at Nishino-shima in the Pacific Produces a New Island
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Somehow as November slipped by, I missed marking the 50th anniversary of the eruption at Surtsey off the coast of Iceland. This eruption started as a submarine one that was large and sustained enough to produce a new island in the North Atlantic. These sorts of events are fairly rare.
The uncomfortable racial preferences revealed by online dating
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The data shown above come from the Facebook dating app, Are You Interested (AYI), which works like this: Users in search of someone for a date or for sex flip through profiles of other users and, for each one, click either "yes" (I like what I see) or "skip" (show me the next profile).
This Anti-Google Mug Is A Little Desperate, Microsoft
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Are you living in an underground bunker out of fear of the National Security Agency? Are you a Microsoft employee? If you answered "yes" to either of these questions, you might be interested in the following product: In a bid to drum up sentiment against the data-hungry search giant, Microsoft has begun selling a line of anti-Google merchandise at its online store.
full article at Huffingtonpost →
Every Death in the Game of Thrones Novels, Bookmarked
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If you're a fan of the HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones, you've surely learned at this point that author George R. R. Martin is not afraid to off even his most beloved characters. But if you haven't read ahead to learn what the future holds for the denizens of Westeros, I have some unfortunate news: It's not going to get any better.
Rocks Dropped Into Paint Look Like Trippy, Amazing Flowers
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Fabian Oefner's Orchid series looks at what happens when you try to visualize gravity. Image: Fabian Oefner Oefner photographed paint flying off of a moving drill. Image: Fabian Oefner Fabian Oefner is a night owl, but that's mostly by necessity.
Jury orders Samsung to pay Apple $290 million for patent infringement
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In the damages retrial between Apple and Samsung we've seen accusations of racial bias and claims that the iPad mini wasn't inspired by the success of 7-inch tablets, but now we have the only piece of information that matters. The jury has just reached its verdict, and decided that Samsung should pay Apple $290 million for infringing on the company's patents.