August 2011
11 posts
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Lemonade the Movie - It's not a pink slip. It's a...
via lemonademovie.com
Synopsis: What do people who were once paid to be creative for a living do when they’re laid off? They get creative with their own lives. Lemonade is an inspirational film about 16 advertising professionals who lost their jobs and found their calling, encouraging people to listen to that little voice inside their head that asks, “What if?”
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Synchronized Soundtrack Revolutionizes Reading...
via psfk.com
Booktrack is a startup that seeks to bring a movie-like sound experience to reading. The company’s technology pairs music scores and sound effects with text, automatically paced to the user’s reading speed, generating a synchronized soundtrack for e-books.
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Stanford Startup Lets Immigrants Swap Recipes With...
via fastcodesign.com
Culture Kitchen is a startup culinary school that gives immigrants new jobs and an avenue for sharing their culture with foodies.
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Touchanote Brings Evernote to Life With NFC Tags
via mashable.com
“Touchanote is like a backup disk for your brain: Evernote serves as the memory bank and NFC markers make for physical placeholders that route you back to important information. Instructions or passwords stored on tags stuck on associated objects make for practical use cases. Tags on photo frames, however, could call up more memories in digital photo form.”
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Meeting Bowls NYC: Street Furniture For...
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“Meeting Bowls” is a public art installation by Madrid-based mmmm… in partnership with the Times Square Alliance. The project is an experiment to facilitate spontaneous interactions and build community in a crowded urban space. Each of the Bowls rest on a base which gently rocks, giving those seated a sensation of floating.
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What A Detroit Supper Club Teaches Us About...
via fastcompany.com
Detroit SOUP is a monthly dinner that funds micro-grants for creative projects in the city a recent NY Times article described as a “giant candy store for young college graduates wanting to be their own bosses.”
Each month, 100 or so individuals pay $5 for admission to a loft where they eat a family-style dinner prepared by volunteers. Diners share ideas and...
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The Creator Of TED Aims To Reinvent Conferences...
via fastcodesign.com
In this article, Richard Saul Wurman discusses how the WWW.WWW conference will radically overhaul the formula used by TED—much as TED itself reinvented the standard business conference model when Wurman launched it in 1984.
Wurman’s plan is to stage a series of improvisational one-to-one conversations, held in front of a small invitation-only audience and then disseminated...
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Human-Powered Vending Machine Dispenses Drinks
via adrants.com
In LA, Activate drinks has set up what it calls a human-powered vending machine. Angelenos can hop on, peddle for 30 seconds and get a free drink.
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Backpack + Chair
via gizmodo.com
Priced at $120, the KEEN Springer Backseat Pack has a fold-down pad to prop open an instant seat anywhere outdoors. Inside, the pack accommodates a day’s worth of gear and a three-liter hydration reservoir (or a 15-inch laptop when you’re around town).
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Ricebowlproject - Crowdfunding For Community...
via ricebowlproject.com
Ricebowlproject is like Kickstarter for social entrepreneurs. The name reflects the idea that any contribution, no matter how small, can drive positive change with the support of a community.
From the official blog: Ricebowlproject is a crowdfunding platform for creative, unique, or inspiring projects that benefit the international, national, or local communities. As a...
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The Bell Light: COMMON Pitch Finalist
via vimeo.com
This is one of ten top finalists for COMMON Pitch, an open call for community projects focused on social good. The finalists get to present their ideas to a live and virtual crowd of peers, industry leaders, and venture capitalists. Votes will determine winners, who have the chance to fund their ideas to make them a reality.
The Bell Light is a versatile solar-powered lamp...
