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Michel Tombroff Uses Gesture Technology for EA Sports, Panasonic

Michel Tombroff is developing software to analyze images captured by 3-D cameras and working with EA Sports, Texas Instruments, and Panasonic to make avatars move based on users' actions.READ»

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Double Take Design: The Return of Trompe L'oeil

As modernism fades, visual trickery fills its place.READ»

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Stunt Driving Meets Typography, in a Font Using Skid Marks

Using specially designed motion-capture technology, an ad agency created unusual free tie-in for Toyota's new car.READ»

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Feedback: Men Behaving Inefficiently

Very interesting article -- great information. I noticed a few things missing that I have witnessed in my 20-year career that may be of interest -- although at this point, this is based on sheer experience, not a study or facts. Men ...READ»

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So Long, Stockholm. Six Reasons Why Belgium Will Be the Next Hotspot for Design

Ten years ago the fashionable destination for design-minded travelers was the Guggenheim at Bilbao, where Frank Gehry's titanium acrobatics famously cast their spell. When design tourists pack their black clothing this month they will ...READ»

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Bright LEDs, Big City

The latest crop of LED facades works like an HUD for the planet.READ»

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Milan Report: Designers Find Religion

At the furniture fair, new work is a bible mash-up.READ»

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iFive: WikiLeaks and the Whistleblower, BP Heckled, Google's for Shopping, Intel-FTC Talks, Times Square Bomber Pleads Guilty

You may have had an early night, but innovation was not in hiding. Oh no, sirree, it's been waving banners at oil conferences, shopping online, and appearing in court while you were asleep.1. He's been under the radar for a month now, ...READ»

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Best of Show: The London Design Festival

For design, fall is the season of ideas.The Milan Furniture Fair, held every April, is essentially an organ of the Italian furniture industry. Walking the fairgrounds on the city outskirts, one gets the sense that a thousand suits are ...READ»

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Feedback

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Pantone Expands From Color Services to Hotels (With Rooms to Dye For)

Pantone has been aggressively pursuing a new line of business: Product licensing, which culminates today in a new Pantone Hotel.READ»

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EU Outsources Environmental Projects to Private Companies, Foundations, Other Governments

Want to save the African blackwood tree? You should have been at the EU's first-ever environmental auction in Brussels earlier today. The auction, put on by EuropeAid, put 86 projects up for sale to governments, foundations, and ...READ»

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Seven Things to Read Now

Why is Philip Morris Backing Antismoking Bills? On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed legislation giving the FDA authority to regulate the tobacco industry. Just 10 years ago, when Senator John McCain introduced a similar bill, ...READ»

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The U.S. and Canada Fight Over Who's the Biggest Joke of the 2010 Expo

With pavilions mired in budget controversies, laughable design, and, yes, circus clowns, the US and Canada are set to be the embarrassments of Shanghai 2010.READ»

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Shobert Vartan - Real Estate Agent

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The 10 Most Creative People on Twitter

When we launched our 100 Most Creative People in Business list last year, we were surprised that only 20 of those individuals were on Twitter. In the year since, another 10 have joined. But out of those tweeting who do you need to follow?READ»

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Shobert Vartan - Real Estate Agent

Shobert Vartan Real Estate - Contact Shobert Vartan Recently, we responded to an S.O.S from a successful luxury real estate marketing professional who put out this distress signal: I have been blogging consistently. Why is no ...READ»

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Now: May 2009

May MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN         01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 ...READ»

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The Inside Story of WikiLeaks's Latest Bombshell

The latest WikiLeaks release, of the tens of thousands of Afghanistan war logs, was unusual for a few reasons, especially for the fact that WikiLeaks worked with mainstream news publications. How did it all come about?READ»

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The Man Who Loved Chairs

Rolf Fehlbaum, CEO of Vitra, really cares about chairs. His company is a celebration of what to some is the most mundane object in the office -- but to him is a source of passion.READ»

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Gunther Pauli Cleans Up

He built the world's first biodegradable factory. Now, armed with laptops and attitude, Gunter Pauli and his green team plan to outmaneuver Procter Gamble and the detergent giants.READ»

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Feedback

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WEB-EXCLUSIVE: The Secret History of Interpol

How the 79-year-old international police organization survived a false start, Nazis occupation, a meager budget, and a terrorist attack and became a round-the-clock crime-fighter.READ»

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Digging Out

The idea of putting people to work was largely neglected after the invasion of Iraq. Now, as debate mounts over troop withdrawals, one strategy might help fill the void.READ»