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Billabong Donations to SurfAid Through Instagram Photos
Send Instagram photos to Billabong to donate $1 to SurfAid for each photo. You can see six of my photos in the first two rows. Get involved at the Life is Better…
December 12, 2011 -
An Urban Emoticon that Measures the Happiness of Cities
This is emoji writ large. The Fühl-o-meter/Public Face is an interactive art installation that calibrates the mood of the city in which it has been erected with a monumental illuminated Smiley. The work of artists Richard Wilhelmer,…
December 12, 2011 -
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A $25 Handheld Computer for Education
Raspberry Pi is a new credit card-sized computer designed specifically to teach computer programming to students. The device is the brainchild of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a U.K. charity that “exists to…
November 29, 2011 -
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Twine
Connect real life tasks/objects to the internet. Like IRL @ifttt. Want to hook up things to the Web? Maybe you want to get a tweet when your laundry’s done, or get an…
November 26, 2011 -
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The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
Kare’s work gave the Mac a visual lexicon that was universally inviting and intuitive. Instead of thinking of each image as a tiny illustration of a real object, she aimed to design…
November 22, 2011 -
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