If you had a cup of coffee this morning, there's a good chance those beans came from Colombia, which has been growing and selling them for centuries. But the country hasn't produced any coffee makers — until now, anyway.
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At a time when the models of traditional social networks are being questioned, it's more important than ever to experiment with alternatives. Arbtr is a proposed social network that limits users to sharing a single thing at any given time, encouraging "ruthless self-editing" and avoiding "nasty things" like endless feeds filled with trivial garbage.
Arbtr wants to create an anti-feed where users can only ...
The Nike-owned shoemaker teams up with Gore to make a new line of weatherproof mens shoes and outerwear.
Converse Urban Utility Uses Gore-Tex to Keep the Water Out
Smartphones are inarguably an addictive class of devices, and not just because they put an endless font of information at your fingertips. The experience of holding the phone and touching it is itself associated with that pleasure — so much so that you might wish you were doing it even when you don’t want to actually use the phone. That’s when you need one of these… Read More‘Substitute Phone’ artfully satisfies your compulsion to swipe and scroll
The Kindle has become one of the most ubiquitous pieces of specialty electronics in the world since it launched 10 years ago, but the device has changed so much since its debut that one can hardly believe the oldest and newest models are meant to do the same thing. Amazon’s Chris Green talked with me for a retrospective of the design choices that have defined and redefined the device. Read MoreHow the Kindle was designed through 10 years and 15 ...
The gear-obsessive former TV host has teamed with bag-maker Mafia to design his own ideal carryall for his tools.
Mythbuster Adam Savage Has Made a Tool Bag, and It’s ...
The medical gadget hasn't been revamped in almost 200 years. A group of designers hopes to change that.
The Speculum Finally Gets a Modern Redesign
Tinder today is rolling out a new navigational experience for users of its mobile application that’s designed to make it easier to move between profile photos and profile text. In the updated app, photos now take up more screen real estate – that is, they extend to the edge of your phone’s screen. The way you move between photos and profiles has changed too, as you now tap… Read MoreWith new tappable gestures, Tinder’s photos become more like Stories
In an effort to better cater to newcomers, Twitter once again is redesigning its app across mobile, desktop and the web. The revamp isn’t a radical departure from its prior look-and-feel or user experience – unlike when it introduced its own stories-like feature called Moments, for example, or when began reordering the tweets in your timeline. Instead, the update involves a series… Read MoreTwitter tweaks its design again in an attempt to woo ...
A new exhibition in New York puts the surveillance state on display.