An indoor garden can improve air quality, make you more productive, and, of course, add a lovely touch of green to an otherwise drab office cubicle or apartment. Here’s a design for bringing nature inside of which I’m particularly fond: the Live Screen by Danielle Trofe, which is a hydroponics system inspired by vertical gardens.
Trofe’s creation works much like hydroponic systems, which grow plants using nutrients without soil. Electric pumps send water up the stands based on a timing system that can be customized for each pod. Excess water trickles back down the shaft and into the reservoir at the foot of the unit. Each pod has an LED light built into its underside to provide extra ’sunlight’ for the plant below it…
The highly entertaining Vi Hart is back with another episode of Doodling in Math Class. Her videos are fun to watch, clear and easy to understand, and express the joy of scientific discovery:Continue Reading »
The “Proustian phenomenon” proposes that distinctive smells have more power than any other sense to help us recall distant memories.
A new study shows smells can transport us back to powerful and emotional memories from the past more effectively than sounds, supporting a theory by Marcel Proust.
Google’s Ad Preferences page shows you the profile Google has built up of your interests.
It has been said that Google knows more about what you like than your own partner. Now the search giant has given a glimpse on just how much information it has collected – and who it thinks you are.
On a Friday evening last May, an explosion ripped through Building A5, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.
There are reports from bird enthusiasts that a rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic are winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called “unbelievable.”
The G-20 internet economy is projected to reach US$4.2 trillion in 2016, nearly double the size it was in 2010 according to The Boston Consulting Group. G-20 includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the EU, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S.
Futurist Thomas Frey: Michael Migliozzi and Brian Flatow started a website called BuyaBeerCompany.com in November 2009 who’s lofty goal was to buy the ailing century old Pabst Blue Ribbon beer company. Working to match the $300 million sale price, in less than two years the pair had attracted over 5 million investors pledging upwards of $280 million, with an average pledge of $40.
“Still Life” by artist Scott Garner’s has all the trappings of a traditional still life painting. The lighting is intriguing, the fruit artfully arranged, a knife resting beneath a blue patterned vase adds a slight menacing edge to the image. (video)
Some Twitter users are planning to go all of Saturday without tweeting to show their displeasure.
There are fears of Twitter censorship among bloggers and activists from China, the Middle East and Latin America as new Twitter policies could allow governments to censor messages, stifling free expression.
Advertisers are falling over themselves to get their ads out on YouTube or as part of online contests, like Volkswagen has done this year.
A big social event every year is the Super Bowl. During this year’s battle pitting the New York Giants against the New England Patriots, getting social will happen on screens and the sofa. (video)
They may look like other jeans, but these smell different.
These jeans look like any other pair of denim you’d see on a fashionable twentysomething. Dark, slim fit and cut perfectly, heck, I wouldn’t mind buying these myself. But unlike other jeans, this pair is made with scratch ‘n sniff raspberry scented denim. Yes. Scratch and sniff. On your freaking jeans! This is awesome…
Prevent leg burn and radiation damage with LapGuard.
By Deb Frey
I met the team from Digital Innovations at CES2012 in Las Vegas this year. The LapGuard With Radiation Shielding is a great device. What I like about their products is the simplicity of use. I have a tendency to work with my laptop on my lap. In the past this caused my laptop to overheat and burn my legs. Yikes! With the LapGuard I can now work with my laptop on my lap and not worry about radiation or my computer overheating…
Home births are still rare in the United States but it is a growing trend.
Jessica Wilcox thinks her in-laws still view her ideas about childbirth as kind of out there, but it’s hard to argue with success: In the last five years or so, Wilcox has given birth to two boys and two girls — each weighing more than 10 pounds — at her northern Virginia home. And she hopes to do it again one or two more times.
