Billboard magazine is changing the way it ranks songs on its Hot 100 singles chart to take into account online music-streaming services like Spotify and Rhapsody, responding to a major shift in how people are…
American designer Stuart Fingerhut has created the Kinema Pendant Luminaire. This 10″ x 12″ x 14″ lighting object uses a combination of different layers in order to create a specific effect and appearance. The luminaire…
Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won’t be the end of…
Mercedes-Benz has announced its plans to fully integrate the the driver’s iPhone as well as Siri assistant into future A-Class models. It’ll be like having your own personal, mildly-incompetent HAL. Mercedes announced the plans today….
[SitM; they should be building it out of Buckminster Fullerines. Steel is too heavy. Nerd out.] Given the current rate of innovation and progress in construction (and design) technologies, we tend to assume that anything…
Once upon a less digital time, there existed the art of the mixtape: a tedious labor of love that required timing, taste and a penchant for musical progression. No longer in this iTunes-era, where personally…
[SitM: more creative use of everyday tech] “FROM ABOVE, THE MUNDANE SEEMED MORE DIVINE.” “Wouter van Buuren is not only a photographer, he is also an acrobat.” That’s how one art gallery describes, perhaps too…
[SitM: very nice results using everyday tech] We love pictures of trains. We also love plays on light. So we reaaaally love the long-exposure shots of San Francisco photographer Aaron Durand, who manages to make…
So, you dropped food on the floor—to eat or not to eat, that is the question? Audrey Fukuman and Andy Wright of SFoodie created a flowchart—“The 30-Second Rule, A Decision Tree”—to guide you on whether…
