Subterranean captains’ chairs, rounded counters for flight monitoring, perfect pastels in the crew’s uniforms: Midcentury Herman Miller and Eames furnishings look awesome on the Starship Enterprise. Take a minute to check out these throwback posters and you’ll be daydreaming of Captain Kirk shaking you an out-of-this-world gin martini. [ MattWileyArt via Retroist ] Read more…
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The Starship Enterprise Looks Great Decked Out In Midcentury Design
Read a magazine, book or website and you’ll see the product of Matthew Carter’s labors all over it—because he’s the guy who designed hundreds of fonts, including Verdana and Georgia. In this video, he describes the interaction between technology and design in the creation of typefaces. Read more…
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The Man Who Designed Verdana and Georgia Describes a Life Making Fonts
If you’re lucky enough to have a retractable sprayer attached to your kitchen faucet, you’ve probably noticed that its circular blast often isn’t powerful enough to really scrape dishes clean. To fix that, Kohler is introducing what it calls Sweep spray technology that blasts stuck-on food with a wide blade of water that works like a liquid scraper. Read more…
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This Faucet Sprayer’s Flat Blade of Water Scrapes Dishes Clean
It’s no surprise that the diamond industry is willing to spend whatever it takes to make the process of mining precious gems even more profitable. And while it already relies on X-ray technology for spotting diamonds on the surface of mined ore, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute’s Development Center for X-ray Technology EZRT have developed a way to now spot them buried inside rocks. Read more…
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Researchers Develop a Way to X-Ray Rocks To Find Hidden Diamonds
Pathé News was perhaps the most well-regarded news agency of the 1900s—and now, its entire 85, 000-video newsreel archive is available to watch for free on YouTube . Read more…
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Legendary British News Agency’s 85,000-Video Archive Is Now on YouTube
As anyone who’s driven through Middle America knows, it feels like there’s very few places in the U.S. that don’t have at least a few inhabitants. But as a map by cartographer Nik Freeman proves, there are still some amber waves of grain and fruited plains that remain. Emphasis on some. Read more…
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Here’s a Map of the 47 Percent of America Where No One Lives
Today a software update is being rolled out to Roku 3 players that adds support for its universal search feature to the iOS and Android apps. This feature allows users to hunt for any actor, TV show, or movie and find it on all of the streaming services that carry it, right from the mobile app. Read more…
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Today a software update is being rolled out to Roku 3 players that adds support for its universal se
It’s been a while since we last heard of a software update for Glass and now I guess we know why. The team over at Mountain View has been busy updating the face-computer to run on the latest version of Android (4.4.2 a.k.a. KitKat). Read more…
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Latest Update Brings KitKat to Google Glass
Windows Phone 8.1 is here , and with it comes not only with a notification center(!) but a brand new Halo-flavored voice assistant. But how does Cortana shape up against her competitors, who have a year or two of experience on her? Surprisingly well. Read more…
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Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now: The Ultimate Voice Control Showdown
Sesame Workshop has launched Sesame GO , which is basically an all-you-can-Elmo web-based Netflix for Sesame Street for $4/month or $30/year. This message has been brought to you by the letter A for adorable. Read more…
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Sesame Workshop has launched Sesame GO, which is basically an all-you-can-Elmo web-based Netflix for