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"What will private equity look like in five years?" To answer the most abstract question on the agenda for the world's leading private equity conference -- in Berlin this year -- we tried phoning a friend ("Huh?") and shaking a ...READ»

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Fast Company Recommended Events February 2010

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Sam DiGiovanna

Fire Marshall Rich Snyder gave a particularly moving talk about his reaction to the tragedies. Edda Hutson, widow of recently passed Rotarian Ron Hutson, spoke briefly, sharing briefly about Ron's truck that Rotarians have used for ...READ»

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What a Bikesharing Program Should Look Like

Copenhagen unveils two smart bike-sharing systems that capitalize on wireless tech and GPS.READ»

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Design Crime: Electrolux Musical Vacuum Cleaner

Electrolux unveils a prototype of its Silent vacuum cleaner--with speakers and an iPod dock.READ»

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Reinhard Schmidt

Too many measurements are displayed in the measurement menu * Click on the EDIT button and check off the ones you want to delete. * Each catheter map has an independent measurement menu per protocol. Ep Medsystems ...READ»

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Zoo Installs Electronic Polar Bears to Replace Real Animals

First we looked at an architect that wants to build a massive artificial mountain in the middle of Berlin. Now comes word that the St. Louis Zoo has decided to replace its polar bears with electronic replacements. Um, what? The ...READ»

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German Architect Asks: Why Build High Rises When We Can Build Mountains?

The Chinese have been engineering the weather for years and plans to geoengineer the climate to delay climate change are in the works, so is it any surprise that a proposal to build a huge artificial mountain in Berlin is gaining ...READ»

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Art and Commerce Meet on Buildings' Interactive Media Facades

The main strips of Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and Times Square are on the cutting-edge of illuminated media façades--emblazoned with hyper-animated, neon advertising. But there's a parallel movement to harness the technology for ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Reality Check

A tongue-in-cheek infographic designed by Susanna Hertrich examines society's reality versus perception.READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Rethinking Cities with GOOD and IBM

GOOD magazine and IBM shine a joint spotlight on eight cities around the world that have changed their urban landscape with the help of novel technologies.READ»

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Self-Healing Web Apps Make Scaling Easier

The SELFMAN project, an initiative among seven European universities, seeks to build Internet applications that manage, tune, and fix themselves. And they're not too far down the road. When these apps do arrive, they'll make ...READ»

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(Digital) Portfolio of the Day: Siggi Eggertsson

Iceland-born, London-based illustrator Siggi Eggertsson has combined over 400 projects into a wild ride of animation.READ»

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International Federation for Housing and Planning World Congress

Each year, this global group asks the next generation of urban planners to take on a design challenge. This year's is to imagine a future for the site of Berlin's historic Tempelhof, the ridiculously central airport, left, that closed ...READ»

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The Third Golden Age Begins?: Welcome to the Berliner Philharmoniker

Are we at a new Golden Age of the arts with the arrival of a new media? READ»

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Now September 2009

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Pollution All Over the Map

Sensaris aggregates info about smoggy hot spots.READ»

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The Architect of Experience: Conversation With a Service Designer

Where interactive design meets industrial design, meets advertising, meets interior design, meets graphic design, meets sequential art. Savannah College of Art and Design president Paula Wallace interviews professor Peter Fossick.READ»

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How to Boost Brothel Patronage: Offer a Green Discount

Not even brothels have been spared from the economic downturn. But Thomas Goetz, the enterprising owner of the Maison d'Envie in Berlin, has found a way to boost patronage at his legal house of prostitution: a discount for customers ...READ»

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Thirteen Designers Work Furiously for Seven Days, With One Material: Wood Veneer

Recently, a baker's dozen of product designers convened to show the impressive potential within an also-ran material.READ»

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Herman Miller Debuts Its Newest Office Chair, the Setu

A high-tech design whose lines were inspired by a modern masterpieceREAD»

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Furniture That Records the Passing of a Day

Austrian designers create a machine registers the day's sunlight, and then automatically memorializes it in a fabric pattern.READ»

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A Sink That Doubles as a Dishwasher

German designers Wach just unveiled a product concept that any small-apartment denizen will love: A sink that doubles as a dish washer. The piece is part of a show of work by young German designers, called DMY Berlin. ...READ»

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Plan G: Should Geoengineering Be Our Weapon in the War Against Global Warming?

Nature stopped being natural decades ago. That is to say, starting the mid-19th century, human activity has changed global ecosystem conditions in ways that fall outside the normal variations visible in geological ...READ»

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Highlights From the PSFK Conference [video]

The PSFK Conference just wrapped last month in New York, and a couple of standout talks have made their way to the web. One poses the question: Is a woman in romantic love with the Berlin Wall really so different from you and me? ...READ»