Portland: Farm-Fresh Food [Fast Cities 2010] Portland has long been lauded for its farmers markets, but in February, the city welcomed a new high-tech tool to bring large-scale, farm-fresh foods to city hospitals, public schools, corporate cafeterias -- even Oregon state prisons. Think of FoodHub as the Match.com for the locavore movement. Wholesale food buyers log on to access thousands of small and regional producers, as well as info on varietals sold, minimum orders, insurance, and delivery options.
Updated Mon Apr 16, 2012
These Luxurious 3-D Wallpapers Are Lush With Beads, Glittery Sand, And Even Grasses Once reserved for trendy commercial spaces, three-dimensional wallpaper is now the go-to tool for home designers wanting to make a luxe statement. As these category standouts prove, the value is all in the details.
Updated Mon Mar 19, 2012
Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs The inventor of Velcro ripped cockleburs from his dog's fur. Da Vinci and the Wright brothers studied birds in flight. And now a rising number of designers are looking to nature for inspiration. Companies as diverse as Boeing, Ford, General Electric, Herman Miller, HP, IBM, Kraft, Nike, and Patagonia are welcoming biologists to the design lab. Here's a sampling of Mother Nature at work.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
Jams and Preserves With A Homemade Twist Not into DIY? We tasted more than 100 jams in search of bliss in a jar. We found it.
Updated Wed May 4, 2011
Christina Norman Set to Infuse OWN With Oprah's Essence
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Norman, CEO of the Oprah Winfrey Network, is tasked with creating an entire TV network around Oprah Winfrey's call to "live your best life." Her challenge is to suffuse the new self-help channel with Oprah's essence.
Updated Thu Jan 6, 2011
RoundUp: The Gift of Giving This holiday season, there's no better way to spread the joy than to give to charity in someone's honor. Here are 14 ideas, from $3 to $39,000.
Updated Wed Dec 22, 2010
Alton Brown's Essential Kitchen Gadgets The cookbook author and Food Network star shows off the gadgets in his kitchen that make for some good eats.
Wed Sep 15, 2010
How Nick Kokonas Is Shaking Up Fine Dining The cofounder of Alinea and Next on reimagining the restaurant experience as entertainment akin to a Broadway show.
Wed Sep 15, 2010
How Spin Master Mixes Tech and Toys—And Keeps Mattel Looking Over Its Shoulder How Spin Master Toys created the hit Liv dolls, a thoroughly modern marriage of tech, storytelling, and 21st-century marketing that has industry giant Mattel looking over its shoulder.
Thu Apr 1, 2010
Eat-onomics With Deborah Kane of FoodHub, a Match.com for Locavores
Think of it as the Match.com for the locavore movement: FoodHub connects small and regional producers with food buyers for restaurants, corporate cafeterias, public schools--even state prisons. We spoke with Deborah Kane, VP of food and farms at the nonprofit Ecotrust, about bringing farm-to-table eating beyond high-end restaurants and to the masses.
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Mon Mar 8, 2010
How GE Creates Sheets of OLED Light Anil Duggal
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Duggal, 44, leads the GE team that's creating OLED lighting sheets, which are produced the way ink is applied to newsprint.
Mon Feb 1, 2010
The Best Wii Fitness Games for Your New Year's Resolution Ah, the New Year. Nothing says bright, shiny reboot like those perennial resolutions to "lose weight" and "stop using the stationary bike as a clothes rack." Happily, the Wii console has created a flourishing new fitness market. Here are our top picks from this year.
Tue Jan 5, 2010
Amazon Trumps Target, Wal-Mart in Bug Battle uTest pitted the three mega-brands against one another in a week-long Bug Battle in which 600 testers in more than 20 countries test-drove the sites in search of problems. The group found 500+ bugs ready to slow down spending.
Posted Mon Dec 7, 2009
On Eve of Launch, Music-Saving Vevo Scores Another Partner
Vevo's gathering more strength, even before its official launch. The music video site, described by Vevo execs as "like MTV on steroids" and by others as the Hulu of music videos--announced this morning a partnership with music label EMI. That means three of the four largest record companies are now supporting Vevo, a site scheduled to launch tomorrow and already billed as the music industry's hope for the future.
Posted Mon Dec 7, 2009
Creepy Product of the Day: Protective Baby Pod The Smart Baby Case, by Iranian designer Pouyan Mokhtarani, has an LED air quality monitor, an auto-rocking unit, and auto-diaper--all intended to keep your infant protected in a disasters, like when the Matrix takes over.
Posted Mon Dec 7, 2009
Thought-Powered Fingers for Amputees, 11 Other Feverish Stories This Week on Fast Company Aside from those spammers taking advantage of the swine-flu frenzy by sending virus-laced e-mails about, well, the virus, it's been a big week for health innovations: British company Zilico is in the trial stages of a promising
Posted Fri Dec 4, 2009
Battle of the Books: Scroogenomics vs. Shoptimism The holiday shopping season is already upon us, and just in time for the rush are two books centered on consumerism. With our purse strings at stake, we pit the reads against each other.
Posted Tue Dec 1, 2009
Jeff Bezos Wants to Fly You to Space and 10 Other Tryptophan-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 upping its offerings from three content providers to 13.
Posted Fri Nov 27, 2009
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 idea of a fun pre-shopping activity. Enter: the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
Posted Wed Nov 25, 2009
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