I’m not exaggerating the tiniest bit when I say I want to fly to Japan right now and park myself right in front of this man’s hand made wooden doll shop in Japan and just watch him work. Imagine the earnest smell of the woodworking, the sound of the lathe spinning and the beauty of his concentration in making art. Read more…
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The meticulous process of making a Japanese wooden doll is impressive
DARPA’s boffins have just set a new world record in computing with a solid-state integrated circuit that packs the power of a supercomputer into a single chip. You thought your six-core, 3.9 Ghz Mac Pro was a computational powerhouse? This single chip is around 250 times as fast. Read more…
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DARPA’s Chipset Runs an Astonishing 1 Trillion Cycles Per Second
Chinese site cnBeta has got its hands on some alleged screenshots of an upcoming refresh of Microsoft Office for Mac. Fans of improved productivity and enhanced workflow, your hour is nigh. Read more…
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This Is What The Next MS Office For Mac Might Look Like
Google Drive is down, and it’s taken all of your docs with it. Users have been reporting outages since 11:20 , which is very annoying if you use Google Docs for work—like all my coworkers and I do. Fingers crossed they fix it soon! Read more…
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Google Drive is down, and it’s taken all of your docs with it.
Coconut water is a delicious and healthy beverage, and it is good for you. If you drink it after going to yoga class or for a jog, you will be hydrated and receive nutritional benefits. Read more…
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Coconut Water Is Great, Shut Up
The idea of branding a place is a fairly new one, and the notion of place-based typefaces is even newer, with national and local governments from Qatar to Chattanooga commissioning their own fonts. The latest country to set its on typeface is Sweden—but it’s also questioning whether a national font is a bit too nationalistic for their progressive Scandinavian sensibilities. Read more…
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Why Sweden Commissioned Its Own Typeface
Induction stove tops might be more energy-efficient than electric or gas burners, but many chefs miss the obvious visual cues about what temperature they’re cooking at—a red-hot burner is hard to misinterpret. So for its new Chef Collection Induction Slide-in Range, Samsung is introducing a clever new feature that uses LEDs to project fake flickering flames onto the side of a pot. Read more…
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Fake LED Flames Indicate How Hot Samsung’s New Induction Stove Gets
Some people sure do work quick. Team Pangu has just made available a jailbreak for iOS 8.1—and it works on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and the iPad Air 2, along with older devices. Read more…
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There’s Already an iOS 8.1 Jailbreak For the iPhone 6
There’s a good reason why so many of us still prefer mechanical keyboards and real control boards despite the availability of touchscreen interfaces: In many cases, they give us more control over our digital worlds. Fans of tactile interfaces will love this project by Florian Born —who created a system that meshes your iPad with arrangeable physical controls. Read more…
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These Knobs and Sliders Turn an iPad Into a Custom Tactile Interface
Every iOS update is a small deception. 117MB, well that’s not so bad! Then you look at the fine print, and some a few gigabytes are required make to actually install the damn thing. So what’s really going on here? Read more…
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Why iOS Updates Require So Much Space