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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

PERSONALIZED "CODED COUTURE" DRESS BASED ON SMARTPHONE APP DATA IS CREATED BY GOOGLE AND H&M

"Finding something unique to wear is difficult. It can be expensive or take a lot of time," says Swedish fashion blogger Kenza Zouiten, in a film on the H&M-backed Ivyrevel fashion website.


But now the "I have nothing to wear" dilemma could be solved by a new app, which aims to create a customized dress design based on smartphone data showing someone's location and activity, as well as the weather.

The "data dress" technology is a collaboration between Google and Ivyrevel, and is based on Android's Awareness API, which lets apps "be aware of all aspects of a user's environment," according to a post on the Android Developers' blog.

Friday, April 17, 2015

HOW SUCCESS ALMOST KILL "MAGIC: THE GATHERING" CARD GAME

This guy is ready to play a really sick hand.Magic: The Gathering is a game where players use cards to cast spells on their opponents. The game quickly became a hit after it was introduced in the mid-1990s. But the game's very popularity led to a crisis inside the company.

Magic cards are sold in small packs with random sets of cards, like baseball cards. And, like baseball cards, some Magic cards quickly became more desirable — and more expensive — than others. Not long after the game was invented, particularly desirable cards were selling for hundreds of dollars each.

A LITTLE JOLT OF ELECTRICITY WILL BOOST PEOPLE'S CREATIVITY

ShutterstuckNeed some creative, out-of-the box ideas? Try adding a little jolt to your next brainstorming session.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have found that stimulating the brain with electrical impulses boosts creativity. The impulses, researchers say, activated specific brain waves associated with originative thinking, and people who were buzzed scored significantly higher on a test of creative thought.

Time to kiss writer’s block goodbye.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

BEIJING FROM THE SKY (video)

The Forbidden City From AboveBefore I tell you the story of being detained by the Chinese (and, like Taborlin the Great, I similarly did not have key, coin, or candle), I’ll share the video I made! I would have gotten even more footage had the quadcopter not been, ahem, confiscated… BTW, I recommend running the video in HD mode with earphones!

Monday, August 18, 2014

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND MESSY ROOM

The Psychology Behind Messy Rooms: Why The Most Creative People Flourish In Clutter
All our lives, we’ve been told to “be organized.” Organization has always been pegged as a direct key to success.


Whether at home, school or in your bunk at camp, organization is something that has been instilled in everyone pretty much from birth. On the other hand, being messy has been equally condemned and made to be a quick path to failure. And, honestly, no rebuttal could say otherwise.

Sunday, August 17, 2014

BABY-SHAPED PEARS

Baby-Shaped Fruit

Chinese fruit farmers are using plastic molds to grow bizarre baby-shaped pears. The farmers use molds fabricated by Fruitmould, a Chinese company that specializes in creating molds that help you grow baby-shaped pears, square watermelons, heart-shaped cucumbers and all manner of other edible oddities.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

PHOTOSHOP: LANDSCAPE EDITING - NATURAL HDR EFFECT (video)

In this tutorial I will show you how I enhanced a landscape photo in Photoshop using HDR toning and adjustment layers. I will also show you how to create realistic sunlight using Gradients and the Apply Image option to create selective masking.

EMBROIDERED ANIMAL DESIGNS


Tiny Embroidered Animals
Those who have always wished animals could stay in their adorable baby forms will fall in love with these tiny embroidered animals. As small as a thimble, many of them curl up cozily as though fast asleep. This gives their portraits an even cuter quality. Yet that isn't to say that the embroidered animals lack more detail because of it.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

A GHOST IN THE FAMOUS PICASSO PAINTING

Picasso's "the blue room"

Pablo Picasso's famous painting of a bathing woman in a blue room carries a secret: High-tech scans have revealed that the well-known scene was painted on top of a portrait of an unidentified man.

Conservators here at the Phillips Collection used infrared imaging to virtually peel back the paint of the artist's famous 1901 painting "The Blue Room"; underneath, they discovered a portrait of a man in a bow tie, resting his head on his arm. Live Science visited the collection for a behind-the-scenes look at how the discovery was made.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

POSING CAN BOOST OUR CONFIDENCE (video)

Amy Cuddy demonstrates a classic power pose, used my humans and chimps alike—spreading your arms wide to appear more powerful. Photo: James Duncan DavidsonThere’s one very important thing that everyone should do before heading into a JOB INTERVIEW, giving a big speech or attempting an athletic feat. According to Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist at Harvard Business School, everyone should spend two minutes power posing. What, you ask, is power posing? It is adopting the stances associated with confidence, power and achievement — chest lifted, head held high, arms either up or propped on the hips.

See the video below

Saturday, August 9, 2014

A NEW LOGO FOR ADIDAS

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, BRAND DESIGNER Oğuzhan Öçalan recently gave sportswear giant Adidas a branding makeover.

After analyzing Adidas’ branding design, he concluded that the brand’s use of different logos for each of its sub-brands can be confusing for consumers and thus weaken the branding strategy.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

THE STORY BEHIND SEXY CHINESE PEACH BUTTS

Because Nothing Says 'I Love You' Like Fruit Wearing Lingerie

Saturday is Chinese Valentine's Day (August 2, 2104). But why buy your loved one flowers when you can give her peaches wearing panties? Just yesterday, the scantily-clad fruits went viral -- not just in China, but globally. The juicy bottoms were tweeted by a Chinese state news outlet, the People's Daily, and also got coverage in mainstream U.S. outlets such as New York magazine and Kotaku.

TED ED: PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT BENEFITS YOUR BRAIN. (video)

When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.


Tuesday, August 5, 2014

MANNY ROTH, THE OWNER OF CAFE WHA? DIES AT 94

Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village 1967.
“Just got here from the West,” the gangly 19-year-old told Manny Roth, owner of the Greenwich Village nightclub “Cafe Wha?” “Name’s Bob Dylan. I’d like to do a few songs? Can I?”

Sure, Mr. Roth said; on “hootenanny” nights, as he called them, anybody could sing a song or two, and this was a hootenanny night, a bitterly cold one, Jan. 24, 1961. And so Mr. Dylan took out his guitar and sang a handful of Woody Guthrie songs.

The crowd “flipped” in excitement, Mr. Dylan later said.

IT HAS BEEN FOUND: IRAQ'S LONG-LOST MYTHICAL TEMPLE

For centuries, scientists have been searching for an ancient temple dedicated to a winged warrior. Now, one archaeologist thinks he may have found it. Only problem: It’s in the middle of a war zone.

In an ancient stone carving, warriors brandishing shields and swords swarm over the columned facade of a grand temple. On one side, a palace stands with three women perched on top; on the other, above private homes, a ruler on a throne dictates to royal scribes. In the foreground, the peaks of northern Iraq soar.

INTELLIGENT PEOPLE STAY UP LATE

Intelligent People All Have One Thing In Common: They Stay Up Later Than You
There’s an electricity in the moon. A pulse, a magic, an energy. A bewitching entrancement unlike that of the sun.

The moon is for things unseen, things done in the shadows and beneath the fog. Under bridges and beneath bed sheets — it’s for wild hearts and unconcerned minds. It’s where plans are made in dark alleyways and secrets revealed under the soft haze of light coming through the cracks of closed shutters.

Monday, August 4, 2014

THE SECOND "MONALISA" PAINTING SEEMS AUTHENTIC

Left: The original Monalisa. Right: The second Monalisa.
Last year, art experts claimed that Leonardo da Vinci completed a version of the Mona Lisa some ten years prior to that of the famous Mona Lisa painting which hangs in the Louvre in Paris.

The original Mona Lisa was thought to be the only portrait of Lisa Gherardini (aka Lisa del Giocondo) ever created by the artist,

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

15 GREAT LIFE ADVICES FROM COMMON PEOPLE

The great benefit of living with, working for, or being related to people who have experienced more of life than you have is picking their brain for advice.

The most effective people learn from their own mistakes, and make a significant effort to learn from other people’s errors as well.

A recent Quora thread asked users for the best advice they’ve ever gotten.

THE POWER OF STORY

Some people have a way of making the complex clear.  They know who they are, why they do what they do, and where they want to go. Because they have internalized all this, they are able to sharply crystallize ideas and vision. They speak in simple, relatable terms. And they can get a lot accomplished.

ROBIN OF BATMAN WILL BECOME SUPERSPY

Dick Grayson is trading his superhero suit for secret-agent cool.

Batman's former sidekick embarks on a new life as an undercover superspy in the comic book Grayson, an action-adventure series premiering July 2 from DC Comics. It's written by Tim Seeley (Revival) and Tom King, a former CIA counterterrorism operations officer.

After a career of being overshadowed by his cape-and-cowled father figure, this is a chance for Grayson "to take off the mask and step out on his own in a world where he's not simply being another hero like the hero he grew up with," King says.