If some of architecture and design’s biggest names seemed conspicuously absent from this month’s Art Basel Miami Beach--that annual, must-attend conclave for the glitzy-arty set--it was because they were halfway around the world in the adjacent Chinese cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen.READ»
Facebook's wicked privacy tweaks, designed to make cash by exposing your personal data to the Web, are triggering some firey debate. But as these changes click into effect, can you avoid them and stay private? Yes, mostly. Here's ...READ»
Being a red-blooded American man while nursing a design habit is tricky: It's hard to be design-obsessed without resorting to throw pillows and wallpaper. And that makes those guys hard to shop for.
Ashton Kutcher was our surprising business story/eyecandy magazine cover subject for December, and here he is in the news again. This time it's for a new type of live Web-cast "TV" show, premiering today. It might be genius. Just ...READ»
In a year that wasn’t particularly kind to traditional media outlets, hyperlocal news aggregator Fwix hasn’t missed a step. In September, the San Fancisco-based startup released an API allowing online publishers to add local news ...READ»
A crop of shiny, new police stations have been completed in Los Angeles during the last few years. Along with appropriate crime-fighting features, each station has a new focus on creating accessibility and public gathering places for the community. We've got more than just the facts, ma'am--we've got the photos to prove it.
One of the big issues being hashed out in this week's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is how to pay for climate change-mitigating technologies in countries that don't have enough cash.READ»
Amid all those candles and evergreens, baked goods, freely pouring cocktails (and the promise of sneaking in a tax deduction) we humans are inclined to give to those less fortunate this time of year. But there isn't much incentive ...READ»
It may not be mind-controlled, but the smart wheelchair designed by Lehigh University researchers is still pretty impressive. The wheelchair, built with money from a $480,000 National Science Foundation grant, harnesses a light ...READ»
Leave it to the French: Tomorrow, the SLOTT gallery in Paris, working with Exquise, a design production firm, is unveiling "Preliminaries," an exhibition featuring specially commissioned designs around the theme of love (and sex).
An inescapable trend in 2009, especially for city-dwellers, is that of the food truck. (Being in a recession didn't hurt.) Enter RoamingHunger.com, the first nationwide food truck tracker. READ»
Last week we wrote about Twitter creator Jack Dorsey's credit card-reading gizmo Square for the iPhone. It looks like it's just the beginning, though: In the future you're pretty likely to be paying for stuff at an iPhone cash ...READ»
TwitVid.com is trying a new tack to make its Twitter-friendly video-upload service enticing for users: It's launching a real-time search function. As well as jumping on the real-time bandwagon, it's an attempt to get more people ...READ»
In this month's issue of Fast Company, we looked at a startup and Cornell University spin-off Novomer, which claims it can make plastics from CO2 captured from factories. Now comes word that Novomer plans to make good on its claims ...READ»
Good news for Prius groupies: The plug-in hybrid version of the best-selling vehicle will be rolled out en masse in 2011, with tens of thousands of plug-in Priuses set to hit the road. 500 lucky customers in Japan, the U.S., and ...READ»
