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Safety shouldn’t be annoying. The Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide detector. Nest Protect thinks before it speaks, can be hushed with a wave and can be monitored from your smartphone or tablet. 
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The Age of the CustomerEmpowered customers are disrupting every industry, ushering in a 20-year business cycle Forrester calls the age of the customer. In th...
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This is the explanation of the Reflection-in-Action component of the completion criteria of the "Designing Interactions / Experiences" module I’m teaching at
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Because laughter can be the best medicine.
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Groupon is reaching back to the days of King Arthur this holiday season for its catapult delivery system.
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Beyond drones... (lol)
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Every month, the WordPress.com team releases mind-blowing numbers. November did not go against the established order. Check out the short list below.
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![Smarty Ring Sends Smartphone Updates to Your Finger [VIDEO] | Design, Science and Technology | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/HBDHLju1X4XwlMm1F3YS0zl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Smarty Ring is a Bluetooth-enabled wearable gadget that allows users to check smartphone alerts, and manage incoming calls right from their finger.
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Sophie Gamand, a French photographer has created an awesome photo series of dogs enjoying baths. The pictures of this series is really fun to see. Photographs Via Mark Strozier
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled his plan for improving delivery times through the use of flying robot drones.
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This Photorealistic Portrait Of Morgan Freeman Was Painted On An iPad - DesignTAXI.com Via Alessandro Rea
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Aquarium design illusion that these fish are genuine and alive. They had not been frozen. They swim in the water at room temperature... Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
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What happens when landscape meets work of art? Art takes the scale of landscape and the results may be very exciting and unexpected. Discover the most extraordinary pieces of land art that challenge the imagination and engage a more creative and courageous approach when designing the next project. Via Lauren Moss
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"I’ve been doing some thinking about how to best define innovation in education. I’ve been reading a lot of mission statements lately for schools and districts and keep finding the word “innovative” used, yet little sign of practices in the objectives, tactics and goals to back this up. The tactics and action plan seem to be oriented towards producing test scores and the practices seem 20th century at best." Via Beth Dichter
Beth Dichter's curator insight,
December 12, 2013 9:57 PM
Nancy White looks at definitions that businesses use to define innovative and then looks at how education defines innovation. Here is one of her statements: "In education, innovation often results when ideas are applied to satisfy the needs and expectations of the students." Take the time to click through to the post and read her other statements and then ask yourself 'Am I innovative? Is my classroom innovative? My school?" or "What changes need to be made to make my teaching, my classroom or my school innovative?"
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San Francisco Chronicle Photography project offers new views of Tenderloin, kids San Francisco Chronicle But this year the 17-year-old joined a neighborhood youth project and discovered "visual language," a different way of looking at things... Via Exit178
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Great products come from a deep understanding of customers' needs and wants. Such understanding is best formed by observation of customers using a product.
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![Relive 1994, Then Cry Over How Old You Feel [VIDEO] | Design, Science and Technology | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/SkBvcSnFgKdl31U8t4GkVzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
A round-up of the music, movies, TV, and news of 1994.
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Don't think too hard about the fact that 1994 was two decades ago. Just turn up the volume and let the grunge waves take you right back.
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“Design Thinking” is best explained in a 2006 Fast Company article as a problem-solving protocol one can employ to achieve extraordinary results. (Click image for link.) The term “Design Thinking” was discussed, dissected, ... Via A. Kosuke
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![A Visual History of Computing [Infographic] | Design, Science and Technology | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/DcY0eoq6ryRLTpDYwAOD0Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Exactly 70 years ago this month the world’s first electronic programmable digital computer was created. It was called Colossus and was engineered in the UK by code breakers working during the Second World War. Computers and their uses have changed significantly over the past 70 years – primarily government machines quickly proved their worth in the business landscape, and more recently they have become commonplace in homes too. Akita, a London IT support company has produced a large interactive page and infographic to showcase the developments in technology. It can be viewed in full here: http://www.akita.co.uk/computing-history/ or as a static image at the link. Via Lauren Moss
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Makerbot, one of the companies pioneering the mainstreaming of the 3D printer market, was acquired by Stratasys, another 3D printing heavyweight, in June for $403 million.
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The purpose of this post is not just to present the state of today's web design - it’s more pragmatic. Seven basic principles of a good web design are presented here.
1. Website Design Can’t Win, But You Can Sure LOSE Due to It.
Stay with simple, clean and useable as your guide.
4. Confused customers do many things, BUYING and CONVERTING and never among them.
7. Devil is in the web design details.
Via Martin (Marty) Smith
Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight,
November 29, 2013 1:38 PM
One of the best posts about website design I've read in a long time. So much of what WE think is "website design" either "was website design" or is more an expression of someone's ego than what is happening NOW. This post is one of the best "what is happening now" in website design articles I've read. M
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The Emma Maersk was dethroned as the world's largest seafaring vessel this morning when this ship, longer than the Empire State Building, left its dry dock in South Korea for the first time. Via Desife
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So you want to sell more online? Good news, customers want to buy more online. E-commerce sales in the US rose by $33 billion from 2011 to 2012. Via The Fish Firm II
Charles Young's curator insight,
December 4, 2013 7:12 PM
Here are some tips for Online Stores on how to make us buy more.
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Encouraging kids to think in pictures and words can free up their creativity and language skills as they write. Via Beth Dichter
Mary Lou Buell's curator insight,
December 6, 2013 5:30 PM
This makes so much sense to me--we have done a little of this with the cartoon and graph assignments. Thinking I should plan more. 
Gary Harwell's curator insight,
December 8, 2013 6:09 AM
Most of our students are probably visual learners....... this explains a lot. 
Open Doors's curator insight,
January 12, 2014 5:59 PM
Helping children think in both pictures and words can help with language fluency and development of creative skills.
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MARS Architects snagged first place in an international competition for the design Walltopia's Collider Activity Center, Sofia's first sustainable mixed use center. Located in Sofia, the Collider Activity Center will mark the city's first green mixed use center to combine both leisure and exercise space. To tie together the site’s diverse programs, the architects inserted a series of dramatic climbing atriums into the folds of the building, creating a continuous climbing experience. Via Lauren Moss
Jon Carter's curator insight,
January 4, 2014 4:22 PM
Super cool, gotta go to Sofia for this one. Deep Water solo outdoor pool, with boulder's galore in the park outside, not too mention a few K square ft of climbing inside. Outside walls are transparent showing climbers moves.. So nice. |
