Jeff Bezos Wants to Fly You to Space and 10 Other Trytophan-Free Stories This Week on Fast Company

We still haven’t found a better way to sleep off a turkey feast than beach ourselves in front of the boob tube. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t better ways to watch tv: Roku wants to, well, rock you -- the web-to-tv device is ...READ»

The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach

Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?READ»

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Just in Time for Black Friday: the Human Rights Campaign Calls Out Stinkers

LGBT Americans wield more than $700 billion in buying power and are more likely than straight folks to spend money with companies that support them (makes sense, no?). But combing through a company's discrimination policy is no one's ...READ»

iPhone Owners Spend More Money -- and Not Just on Apple Hardware

Mac users may be more individualistic than PC owners, but new data suggests users of another Apple gizmo--the iPhone--are, on average, much freer with their online spending than their peers. It must be an individualism thing.READ»

GM Volt's Alert System: It Won't Sound Like Blade Runner

Electric vehicles may be efficient, but they can be dangerous, too. Without a conventional gasoline-powered engine, EVs run almost silently--and that's bad news for the blind and anyone else who happens to be distracted when a car ...READ»

Xtreme Power's 20-Year Battery Works Even After Being Machine-Gunned

Watch out, Duracell. Xtreme Power may have you beat on the durability front with its PowerCell battery, a cheap dry-cell battery that lasts up to 20 years and keeps working after a machine gun blasts it repeatedly. The fiberglass ...READ»

Fishing Rods From Carrot Sticks and Canvas Made of Concrete?! Seven Amazing Materials

Behind every classic of design lies some innovation in materials or fabrication. So what materials will tomorrow's brilliant new products be made from? Material Connexion, a materials library for designers, has just unveiled its inaugural MEDIUM awards, for the best materials of the year. Here's an exclusive sneak peek of a few of those mind-bending innovations.READ»

Stella Artois Ditches Old-Time Campaigns, Creates Retro "TV" Station

Is this a taste of what marketing will look like in the retro-future?READ»

Making the Mall More Family-Friendly

Everyone knows that your Black Friday shopping excursion will only be as enjoyable as your youngest child. The designers at Rios Clementi Hale set out to reinvent the mall experience to keep the whole family happy.READ»

AT&T Gets Annoyed by Net Neutrality, Opera Mobile Gets Squashed by China

"If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your cable company does it." - White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Internet Policy, Andrew McLaughlinREAD»

Maximum Sex Appeal, Minimum Carbon Footprint

C. F. Møller's vision for a housing complex that generates all the energy it needs.READ»

Should Firefox Hold the Key to Your Identity With a 1-Click ID Button for the Web?

See that little login window on the top right of this Web page? Mozilla, through Firefox, wants to do away with it--for all the best reasons. Mozilla's plan will simplify how you log into sites because, lets face it, IDing yourself ...READ»

Wikileaks Replaying 9/11 Via Hacked Pager Messages

Wikileaks is currently replaying the events of 9-11-2001 in a very unexpected way: It's releasing in roughly real-time chunks over 500,000 hacked pager messages that were transmitted that day. As a data source its chilling but ...READ»

Will Google's Rich Media Ads Drive Users Insane?

Google announced new search-side video and picture advertisements Tuesday, masquerading them as an improvement for users. It "makes sense to provide you with richer types of information in the ads," Google said in its official blog, ...READ»

Game Developers Turn Roadside Attack Footage Into Up-to-the-Minute Training Simulations

A new collaboration by Army training groups transforms video from the field into simulation experiences for troops within a week.READ»

Infographic of the Day: Obama's Approval Is Cratering! So What?

Almost all modern presidents have seen their approval ratings sag tremendously in their first two years of office. Bouncebacks--when they come, as with Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Carter, and even Nixon--tend to happen 2-3 years after the election.READ»

Jim Koch: What Is the Role of Imagination in Leadership?

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Adidas and Star Wars Form an Imperial Shoe Force

Adidas Originals is joining forces with the (sadly but acceptably over-licensed) Star Wars brand for a new line of shoes and activewear due out early next year. Though this isn't the first time Adidas and Star Wars have partnered, the ...READ»

McDonald's Logo Turns Green in Germany

This past July, GM caused a stir when it announced that it was considering switching its corporate logo from blue to green in a poor attempt at greenwashing. Unsurprisingly, the announcement backfired. But that hasn't stopped ...READ»