When the rock group, The Eagles first penned their iconic top-forty hit, "New Kid in Town,"
with lyrics that spoke to: "talk on the street. . . everybody’s
watching you," the year was 1976, predating the Internet by almost two
decades. While spot-on prescient as to what was to come, surely Don
Henley, Glenn Frey or Joe Walsh couldn’t have known the level of
surveillance that’s blanketed the world we NOW live in…
Open Tech Forever and the Denver, Colorado branch of Architecture for
Humanity are waiting for you to design an environmentally sustainable
and modular home that one or two people would be thrilled to spend the
rest of their lives in. After all, they can’t build it until you design
it!
So you have decided that it is time to start a family but your relationships have not been falling in line. You also aren’t exactly enamored with the idea of being a single parent. You want your child to grow up with two parents and role models. So maybe it is time for a new family model to emerge. Enter Modamily — a website that matches people ready to have children without the issues brought on by romantic entanglement.
Those of us with pets are aware that they live pretty cushy lives. They
spend their days basking in the sun, chasing squirrels while out for
walks, and barking when someone comes to the door. The average dog has
few responsibilities – all we expect of them is to be semi-obedient and
do their business outside. One company believes that dogs should play
bigger roles when it comes to the maintenance of their households than
simply licking fallen crumbs off the floor.
The world’s smallest pacemaker made it through the first-in-human implant this week. Irregular heart beats just got easier (and prettier) to manage.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in China, thanks to the country’s many odd, offbeat and occasionally off-putting interpretations of Santa Claus. Though their origins can be found in traditional western depictions of Father Christmas, these sinicized Saint Nick knockoffs have strayed a lot further… into the nightmarish realm of the bizarre!
Listen up, fast-driving fast food fanatics: the Luxury Potato Holder will keep your fries within easy reach while freeing up your hands for more important things, like counting your money. Yes indeed, one-percenters, when the chips are down the Luxury Potato Holder cheers ’em right back up again!
In recent months, the internet has been running rampant with videos,
articles, and photo memes that emphasize the importance of living in the
moment. This is a message that has managed to withstand the tests of
time, but now the emphasis is placed upon accomplishing this by
disconnecting from technology. One savvy business has decided to embrace
the "live in the moment" movement and has incorporated it as part of
its branding initiative.
When bringing food to a party, you’re worried about it tipping over in
the car, getting too cold, melting or otherwise morphing into a
gross-looking glob before you get there. If you’re perfected
transporting casseroles, pies and other snacks, enter the Potluck
Contest to win some sweet swag!
Routers are boring. Airfy is trying to change that. Featuring a bold
design, and packed with options, Airfy is looking to be THE Wi-Fi
router of 2014. Still in the funding stages, Airfy plans to include an
802.11ac/n router,
a point of sale for mobile shopping, commercial-based free Wi-Fi and the ability to use the router as a Bluetooth iBeacon.
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