The Dim Sum Field Guide
Ready to graduate from visual selections off the cart, to ordering off the menu? (Not that you should ever give up the cart, because that’s a huge part of the fun of dim sum.) The Dim Sum Field Guide: A…
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Alexa, Meet Geneva: Control GE Appliances With Amazon Echo
You can control a lot of household items with Alexa on the Amazon Echo: lighting, security, music and the like are common choices. Now, appliance manufacturers are getting into the game. With “Geneva,” all GE WiFi Connect appliances will now…
1stdibs Fall 2016 Palette
Step aside, Pantone; 1stdibs’ palette for fall 2016 is all we need right now. They’ve picked out rich tones and aligned items to them – we’re especially loving the olive selections, which include a Hans Wegner lounge chair and dramatic…
Sonobi Wants To Save Us From The Bro-Bots
If you think ad-tech algorithms are unnecessarily complicated, inaccurate and in desperate need of an overhaul, you’ll probably like these ads from startup Sonobi. They follow the adventures of “Bryn Bottenfeld, CEO and Chief Disruptor for Adifibly” – yep, he’s…
Victuals
Ronni Lundy’s Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes (hint: “victuals” may sound more familiar to you if you pronounce it “vittles”) explores the food, people, and places of Appalachia – the Mountain South of the United States – sharing their…
Coping With Humans, The Robot Support Group
This amusing video from IBM shows how hard it is out there in meatspace for a sci-fi bot that doesn’t want to be collaborative. Oh, and there might be a song…
Robin Ha’s Cook Korean Recipe Comics
We love recipes and we love comics so recipe comics seem like a natural fusion to us. We also love all things kimchi, so when you have a collection of Korean recipe comics you definitely have our attention. And that’s…
Happy Birthday Curiosity
August 5, 2012 is the day the Mars rover Curiosity was deployed on the surface of the red planet, so, even though it’s celebrating alone, Goddard Space Flight Center scientists wanted to give it a way to celebrate. Start at…
Beautiful Inefficiency and Floating Tables
Beautiful inefficiency? Floating tables? We love both these concepts. The “Art of Beautiful Inefficiency” is a new series being explored by Tequila Avión, embracing exactly that – things worth the wait, with production that requires purposeful effort, lots of testing…
Standard Time: The Standard’s New Check-In and Check-Out Policy
So many high fives to whomever at The Standard created Standard Time, a new plan that lets you opt in (and pay a small surcharge, about 5%) to obviate the need to abide by strict check-in and check-out policies. A…
