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New To The Wood Shop? These Smart Power Tools Coach You Through It
Meet the Drill Sergeant, your new virtual shop teacher.Thanks to the nation-wide death of shop class, an entire generation of kids is growing up without knowing the proper way to use a band saw...
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This Garment Shivers And Mutates Under The Gaze Of Others
In certain situations, a glance or a stare can say more than words. What if our clothing responded to those subtle social interactions?We often think of our clothing as a second skin, but fabric...
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The Department of Defense Wants You To Design Its New Biohazard Suit
The U.S. military is looking for better ways to keep its soldiers safe during chemical and biological attacks.In the 21st century, soldiers need more than a good set of field armor to do their jobs....
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Here's Where Animals Will Mass Migrate As The Planet Changes
Check out that frog and bird party that's going to hit Ecuador in 2116.As climate change heats our world up, it will have devastating effects on the American landscape. But one of the biggest changes...
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What Happens When You Commission A Magazine From The Gig Economy
The latest issue of Elsie is fantastic, but still raises questions about whether sites like Fiverr liberate or exploit creatives.Whatever you think of the gig economy—a way to exploit people who don't...
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This $20 Dot Makes Push Notifications Way Less Annoying
Now on Kickstarter, these small Bluetooth beacons contextualize how your smartphone behaves based on your location.I think we can all generally agree push notifications are a design kludge—and an ugly...
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4 UI Design Lessons For Underserved Markets
The Ammunition-backed microlending startup Branch is a great study in how to design user experiences for the developing world.About a year ago, Matt Rolandson, partner at the design firm Ammunition was...
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Ping Takes The Pain Out Of Navigating A New Airbnb
This beacon system makes that overstuffed host binder a thing of the past.Every Airbnb is different. Some have Wi-Fi passwords like 1234, others have 16-digit WEP passwords that read like a Cylon's...
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For Alzheimer's And Autism Patients, This Smart Button Could Save Lives
The Proximity Button warns caregivers when their patients or loved ones have wandered outside of a designated safe area.Some 44 million people suffering from dementia worldwide. Three out of five...
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This Art Exhibit For Dogs Is Best In Show
Who let the dogs out? WHOOF! WHOOF! WHOOF! WHOOF!Dog parks? Better than human parks. Doggy bags? Better than dumping your leftovers in the trash. Dogsledding? Superior to tobogganing, by far. Yes, the...
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3 Design Changes To Watch For From Apple, From Incremental To Exciting
If we're expecting new iPhones and a new Apple Watch, why are we already yawning?After sending out an event invite featuring a pretty bokeh photo of devices in a darkroom, Apple is expected to announce...
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5 Design Jobs That Won't Exist In The Future
And seven jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, and more.Organ designers, chief drone experience designers, cybernetic director. Those are some of the...
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This Kit Lets You Grow A Grass Couch On Your Lawn
Just add grass, dirt, and sunlight, and Terra will take care of the rest.There are few things more pleasant than relaxing on a grassy hill in the park on a summer day. Such seats, though, are rarely...
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Google Kills Project Ara, Its Plan To Build Phones Like Lego
RIP Project Ara.Reuters reports that Google has killed Project Ara, ambitious project to build fully modular smartphones with interchangeable components. According to the report, Project Ara—which...
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A Brief Visual History Of Psychological Testing
If your psychotherapist turns up with one of these, make an excuse and leave.Most of us are familiar with Rorschach inkblots as a tool psychologists use to test patients' personality and emotional...
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Apple's Best Reveal This Week Was A Pair Of Wireless Headphones
The new AirPods remove all the pain points that afflict wireless headphones, save one: the price.At this week's Apple event, the most interesting new design wasn't the iPhone 7, or the Apple Watch...
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Putrid, Hideous, Shambolic: Here Is The U.K.'s Worst Building Of The Year
The Lincoln Plaza Housing Tower is "an open invitation to commit suicide," and winner of the 2016 Carbuncle Cup.Since 2006, British architecture magazine Building Design has been handing out the...
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This Elegant Wheelchair Is A Better Way To Roll
The Go Wheelchair is meant to "look cool lined up at the club," says its creator, and is more practical and comfortable than regular chairs.Unlike most wheelchairs, which look institutional and...
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The Surprising 1960s Origins Of Hillary's Official Typeface
Friendly and authoritative, Sharp Sans is influenced by an era when Hillary herself was getting interested in politics.The Hillary Clinton campaign might just have the most comprehensive brand identity...
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How Neural Networks Could Teach Computers To Talk Like Humans
WaveNet is going to help fill in computer speech's uncanny valley.It's hard to put your finger on why, but the voices our computers use to speak just sound wrong. Even with the best voice programming,...
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