Turning 29 And How It Feels
Monday, den 2. February 2009I just turned 29 this year, on February 1st. One more year to the big 30 and all I can say is WTF!
Time passes by so fast, and the whole of last year I was busy getting engaged and getting married. One significant thing is I did manage to buy an condo unit in PJ, [...]
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Most Popular Articles on PSFK From the Last 7 Days
Monday, den 2. February 2009Here are PSFK’s top five articles from Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2009. Results are based on Google Analytics and in order of overall page views.
Graph: Internet Population Distribution - Dan Gould
Electric Car Charging Stations Moving Forward in Denmark - Dan Gould
Blue is the New Green: Gen 2 Sustainability Strategy - Tamara Giltsoff
NYC’s Google Maps [...]
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2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Monday, den 2. February 2009Architecture For Humanity promotes open source architecture and provides professional design services to communities and non-profits to help build a sustainable future. They’ve announced their 2009 Open Architecture Challenge, and this year’s assignment is to design a better classroom. Anyone is eligible to participate in this competition to help imagine better learning spaces - you [...]
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Ads That Watch Their Audience
Monday, den 2. February 2009TruMedia Technologies and Studio IMC have developed technology that enables electronic advertisements to determine age and gender demographics about their audiences and track how long individuals are watching these ads. The technology utilizes small sensors or cameras that are embedded in or around video screens in combination with facial recognition software that manufacturers claim can accurately [...]
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Dictionary Eliminates Nature Words, Replacing Them With Tech Terms
Monday, den 2. February 2009The latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary will no longer contain a handful of nature terms like heron, magpie, otter, acorn, clover, ivy, sycamore, willow and blackberry. Replacing the cut words in the children’s dictionary will be technology terms including Blackberry, blog, MP3 player, voicemail and broadband. Vineeta Gupta from the Oxford University Press [...]
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Introducing the $3 LED Lightbulb
Monday, den 2. February 2009We’ll be watching the development of this LED-based lightbulb, a recent creation from researchers at Cambridge University that is 12 times more efficient than a conventional tungsten bulb, three times more than a low energy one - and won’t cost you more than a few bucks. The “$3 bulb” has a 100,000 hour lifespan, and [...]
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Following the Green Path to Career Success
Monday, den 2. February 2009At the same time our country’s economy attempts to right itself, there is growing talk that its future success will rely heavily on environmental technologies, clean energy and sustainable development - changes that are becoming necessary on a large scale and across a number of industries. And while job security is something of an oxymoron [...]
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Good50×70: Propaganda for Good
Monday, den 2. February 2009The 2009 Good50×70 competition is now officially underway, encouraging anyone with the creative impetus to submit their self-made posters in support of seven charitable organizations for a chance to represent their causes on a global scale. The topics for this year’s competition are: Child Labour, Climate Change, Healthcare Deprivation, HIV/AIDS, Nuclear Emergency, War on Terror [...]
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Taj Fab Lab: Rebuilding Afghanistan on a Small Scale
Monday, den 2. February 2009Fab Labs are high tech resource centers that provide ordinary people access to education, equipment and materials to help them design and build solutions to the problems encountered in their daily lives with an overall goal of growing small business from the ground up. The labs seek to develop technologies and projects organically in order [...]
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Pic: Why Do You Need Another Napkin?
Monday, den 2. February 2009Team PSFK had an interesting experience in London Gastropub The Eagle last week. When we miscounted the number of napkins (or serviettes) and asked for another the waitress asked us why we wanted it. Turns out that they don’t just hand them out on request - it’s part of the pub’s policy to keep an [...]
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