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The Clicker's Moment: After 60 Years, TV Remotes Get Zapped With Makeovers

Wanted: A Kit That Lets Picky Jerks Design Their Own Damn Lamps

Here’s a good Christmas present for the impossibly picky design snobs in your life: a kit that'll let them customize their own damned lamp. Light_Ness, by the polymathic Dutch design agency UXUS, includes everything one might need ... READ»

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Sign Of The Times: John Baldessari Erects Fake $100,000 Bill At The High Line

BY Suzanne LaBarreToday

First a roller-skating rink. Then a giant inflatable globe courtesy of David Byrne. If those weren’t enough to lure you to the High Line, Manhattan’s mega-chic elevated park, then perhaps this will: You just might stumble upon a ... READ»

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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Promotes New Headphones By Way Of Sean Parker

BY Austin CarrToday

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is in a mixing room in Lower Manhattan--but instead of hawking headphones like he's scheduled to do, the Jamaica, Queens-bred rapper is hinting about investing in Spotify and all sorts of other Silicon Valley startups. Looks like G-Unit's getting a VC division.READ»

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Smartling's Jack Welde Ensures Your Website Doesn't Get Lost In Translation

BY Erin SchulteToday

"Language is one of the last true barriers on the web; our view is that five years from now, having an English-only website is going to feel about as dumb as not having a website at all," says Smartling CEO Jack Welde. Here's how Smartling is helping companies translate their websites quickly, cheaply--and most importantly, accurately. READ»

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Hertz Takes A Road Trip With Live Nation

BY Christine ChampagneToday

Hertz puts music at the center of its marketing strategy with a Live Nation partnership that aims to link concert-going and car rentals.READ»

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Harnessing The Sun's Heat For Power By Mimicking The Greenhouse Effect

BY Ariel SchwartzToday

The planet's atmosphere gets heat from the sun and then traps it. A new breakthrough from MIT lets objects do the same thing, so that we can use the sun to heat things to astronomically high temperatures and then generate power from ... READ»

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Sci-Fi Robots Have A Conversation, Changing Shape As They Go [Video]

BY Tim MalyToday

VERSUS by David Letellier is a sound installation. Gleaming black, looking for all the world like a pair of robot flowers, two undulating sculptures sit opposite each other in a gallery. Each one has a speaker and a microphone. One of ... READ»

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Global Giving Turns Evaluating Aid Into A Game

BY Oscar AbelloToday

Using analytics to figure out whether development programs are working is an important new quest. The online giving organization is paying locals to collect simple stories about the impact of aid, to see if the dollars are adding up ... READ»

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The Clicker's Moment: After 60 Years, TV Remotes Get Zapped With Makeovers

BY Mark WilsonToday

Every TV manufacturer agrees, the remote control will change more in the next three years than it has the previous six decades. But how will it actually change? Sony, Samsung, LG, and Vizio tell us.READ»

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3 Things You Can Do To Combat Climate Change

BY Diana BalmoriToday

"With Death of Forests, a Loss of Key Climate Protectors,” read a recent New York Times headline for an article about how killing forests heats the world. We can see climate change all around us. The Department of Agriculture's 1990 ... READ»

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Peugeot Uses Google Street View To Make Stop-Motion Films

BY John PavlusToday

Google Maps is indispensable for generating driving directions, and Street View lets you preview the destination with on-location photos. But wouldn't it be awesome if the two were somehow combined, so that you could virtually ... READ»

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Data Dissolves Borders: Tackling Problems One Data Point At A Time

BY Michael CorenToday

From helping the ACLU track prejudice in NYPD tactics to changing how the UN monitors crises, the hackers behind Data Without Borders are bringing a hacker mentality to organizations working for change. READ»

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Bridge Makes You Feel Like Moses, Parting The Sea

BY Suzanne LaBarreToday

With the exception of prophets and the occasional hacky Vegas illusionist, humans cannot, for all their wishful thinking, walk on water. At least they couldn’t until RO&AD Architecten came along. The Dutch architects have built a ... READ»

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Zappos' Tony Hsieh Will Pay A Lot Of Money Today To Save An Ocean, If You Will Too

BY Morgan ClendanielToday

Needing just $50,000 more dollars to help the Summit Series protect a 70-square-mile section of the Caribbean, today the Zappos founder is offering $25,000 if people on the Internet will match him. READ»

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How Do You Take Innovation Off The Table And Into The Market?

BY Kevin OhannessianToday

Eric Feng, Founder and CEO of Erly, answers this business question at 30SecondMBA.com. READ»

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Skybox Imaging's Dan Berkenstock Uses Satellites To Make Sense Of The World

BY Alina DizikToday

Skybox Imaging is building (better, cheaper) satellites that will make it easier to truthfully answer some of the world’s biggest questions, in a way they're not currently equipped to; the possibilities of having a real-time bird’s-eye view of the world are endless.READ»

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The Case For Girls: A Mock Ad Aims To Become A Legitimate Campaign With Global Impact

BY Nancy MillerToday

For Fast Company's "Case for Girls" package, several advertising agencies came up with mock ads as a response for the rampant cultural preference for baby boys over baby girls. One agency, AKQA, hopes to transform their campaign for Chinese women from a thought experiment into the real deal with a new website, a gripping video, and the push for a mobilizing event in March 2012. READ»