With a dual-city marriage, I spend a lot of time shuttling up and down the East Coast. Trust me: if you've seen the Hartford skyline once, you don't have to stay awake anymore. So why can’t my car do more of the driving so I can ...READ»
In the wake of CES, a pair of women designers offer some suggestions on how consumer electronics manufacturers could boost their market share by taking gender differences into account.READ»
We asked Erica Eden and Agnete Egna, two designers from Smart Design’s Femme Den, to troll the floor of the huge 2009 Consumer Electronics Show for the Best and Worst gear from a woman's perspective. Smart Design developed OXO Good ...READ»
It's hard work building a big, recognizable brand. Naturally, once they’ve built one, most companies find it irresistible to try and extend that brand love to other products. Sometimes this is a good idea: Starbucks’s lattes are good; Starbucks's latte ...READ»
Quick! Name this year's most award-winning bridges! Stuck? Then how about the Residential Project of the Year? Or the best Green Roof projects of 2008?
If you're coming up short, but still dying to know, you might want to pick up a ...READ»
Americans may be in a state of gloom about the economy, but it's still a beautiful day in the neighborhood, if you live next door to Sheik Majed Al-Sabah.READ»
Feeling guilty about ordering that $14 capiranha while headlines trumpet economic collapse in every quarter? Morgans Hotel Group has a message for you: "F&%k the Recession!"READ»
Inside the luncheon at Art Basel Miami celebrating the opening of the Miami Beach Mondrian, the first hotel created by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders.READ»
Matt Mason, author of "The Pirates' Dilemma," spoke at Pop!Tech this morning about what we can learn from pirates. These seven tips may save your company.READ»
Chris Anderson, author of "The Long Tail," spoke at Pop!Tech about non-monetary economics -- a cheery idea, given the current state of monetary economics.READ»
Is the cellphone the most promising new weapon in the fight against HIV/AIDs? A group of designers, tech companies, health care providers and AIDs activists are betting that mobile phones can help crack this intractable problem: delivering health care information to one of the world's most severely affected regions.READ»
In a world where both the bottom and top of the pyramid are reeling as markets melt down and tectonic economic shifts are shaking the planet, a conference dedicated to the theme “Scarcity and Abundance” seems stomach-churningly ...READ»
Is there an upside to the current recession? Well, maybe, if it means we travel less, turn down the thermostat, and think deeply before flagrantly consuming more stuff. The combined effect of that parsimonious lifestyle is likely ...READ»
You betcha. As somebody with four iPods -- from a clunky old fat white
one from the Paleolithic era, to a sleek new iPod Touch - I’ll be the
first to confess that I’m a sucker for a sexy gadget, an easy mark for
a cool new ...READ»
Given the amount of pushing, shoving, and line-jumping going on at last week’s opening of Design and the Elastic Mind, you’d have thought MOMA had just gotten a shipment of Wii’s. Hundreds of the city’s design-obsessed ...READ»
It's always exciting and interesting when a large company announces change. After all if there is something that defines human existence it's change, and the constant evolution of human communication. It's in our nature to ...READ»
