Julia Kaganskiy

Julia Kaganskiy is an editor and curator exploring technology's creative potential and creativity's potential to disrupt technology. She is Editor-at-Large at The Creators Project and founder of the ArtsTech meetup. You can find her at @juliaxgulia.

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Why Google Invests In Inspiring Developers

Google’s Data Arts Team is tasked with just one thing: Making projects that will inspire developers to use Google technology.

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Everyone Wants To Be The First To Ban Google Glass

Even though these early attempts to ban Glass are mostly knee-jerk reactions, they speak to a key flaw that spells trouble for the wearable computer if it’s ever going to be an integral part of our daily lives.

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Fmr. Frog Design Strategist: What We Need For Wearable Computing To Work

“I take as a given that the glowing rectangle must be dissolved,” says Hans Gerwitz, who served as Frog Design’s design strategist until last month. But Google Glass isn’t the answer either. Here’s what’s wrong with today’s “glanceable” layouts, transparent displays, and so-called natural UI–and who’s getting it right.

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Why Digital Clothing Won’t Need Batteries

For wearables to really take off, we’ll need powerful and sophisticated devices that are lightweight, elegant, and small enough to be worn as accessories—or embedded into the fabric of our clothes. But what about the batteries?

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Printing On Food With OpenFrameworks And Arduinos

Three-dimentional printing promises to let people customize virtually anything. At last, a technology for unabashed ego stroking! But to create your own shoes, furniture, jewelry, or food you first must solve a basic technical problem: how to go about converting images onto real-life material.

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If God.js Existed, What Would It Do?

As big software companies become more prescriptive in their terms of service, it’s appropriate that three developers in Brooklyn are experimenting with the idea that natural-language rules can enforce themselves with software–the equivalent of modern-day, machine-readable scripture. “There’s this hype to teach people how to code and I feel like there’s no conversation,” says Ramsey Nasser. “What are the languages that we’re teaching people? What is instruction, what is behavior, what is data?”

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Would You Want Budist.ru To Wake You Up?

GE used it to solve flight delays. AOL used it to inventory web video. Now the Russian site Budist.ru is crowdsourcing… wake-up calls?

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Trying To Woo Animators, Disney Accidentally Invents “The Paperman Method”

The company’s Meander software created a gorgeous new style of film by solving one small problem: digital animation software can’t draw curves. Brian Whited, senior software developer at Disney, says: “I would go to an artist and ask them to draw curves, over and over again. I’d say, ‘Does that feel right?’ and they’d say, ‘Oh, that’s a little off, that’s not exactly what I wanted.’ That was probably the first six months of development.”

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The hops in this new craft beer were grown in an indoor farm

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Loop’s revolutionary reusable packaging system is coming to a bunch of big stores

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This new Shanghai Starbucks has only reusable cups—and reusable everything else

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EV company Workhorse Group feels more pain on recall news, worries of van safety

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A plea to Facebook: Everyone knows you’re villains. Just embrace it

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Universal Music Group’s smash-hit IPO is another victory for streaming

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Every garment in this new Madewell store has already been worn

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Julia Kaganskiy

Why Google Invests In Inspiring Developers

Google’s Data Arts Team is tasked with just one thing: Making projects that will inspire developers to use Google technology.

Everyone Wants To Be The First To Ban Google Glass

Even though these early attempts to ban Glass are mostly knee-jerk reactions, they speak to a key flaw that spells trouble for the wearable computer if it’s ever going to be an integral part of our daily lives.

Fmr. Frog Design Strategist: What We Need For Wearable Computing To Work

Why Digital Clothing Won’t Need Batteries

For wearables to really take off, we’ll need powerful and sophisticated devices that are lightweight, elegant, and small enough to be worn as accessories—or embedded into the fabric of our clothes. But what about the batteries?

Printing On Food With OpenFrameworks And Arduinos

Three-dimentional printing promises to let people customize virtually anything. At last, a technology for unabashed ego stroking! But to create your own shoes, furniture, jewelry, or food you first must solve a basic technical problem: how to go about converting images onto real-life material.

If God.js Existed, What Would It Do?

Would You Want Budist.ru To Wake You Up?

GE used it to solve flight delays. AOL used it to inventory web video. Now the Russian site Budist.ru is crowdsourcing… wake-up calls?

Trying To Woo Animators, Disney Accidentally Invents “The Paperman Method”

Impact

The hops in this new craft beer were grown in an indoor farm

Loop’s revolutionary reusable packaging system is coming to a bunch of big stores

This new Shanghai Starbucks has only reusable cups—and reusable everything else

News

EV company Workhorse Group feels more pain on recall news, worries of van safety

A plea to Facebook: Everyone knows you’re villains. Just embrace it

Universal Music Group’s smash-hit IPO is another victory for streaming

Co.Design

Every garment in this new Madewell store has already been worn

These Microsoft stickers make computers easier to use for people with disabilities

These tiles may look like marble, but they’re made entirely of fish scales

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3 ways leaders can hold engaging presentations in a hybrid setting

Why our perception of risk-taking is all wrong

We’re helping employees relocate in response to the Texas abortion ban