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Treat Your Fingers to the Best of Both Worlds With a Modded USB Typewriter
With one foot in the present and another firmly in the past, these DIY instructions will turn that beautiful vintage typewriter in the attic into an awesome part of your digital routine. And give you some serious literary street cred.
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Microsoft carried out some exhaustive research into the benefits of multitouch-enabled desktop mice over traditional desktop mice. And discovered there aren’t really any benefits at all for most users, who prefer the speed offered by mechanical buttons and wheels.
The end result of the survey found that the traditional three button mouse was the quickest and easiest way for its 12 participants to navigate around and manipulate images on a screen, even when the test subjects could see their individual finger touches represented above their selections.
Here are the researchers in action:
Using the right button to rotate and the scroll wheel to scale pics won in terms of speed, and even when using the multitouch features users reverted to the old-fashioned “click and hold” technique for throwing pictures around the screen—because it’s simply easier to move one finger at a time than two. [Microsoft via I Started Something]
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Having a spare tire in your trunk is good, sure, but having two is even better. Especially when they’re attached by a folding, pedal-free electric bike made by Volkswagen. A bike with a cool curvy frame. And two kickstands.
The Bik.e, presumably named by a VW marketing intern who made the best typo of his life, made its debut at Auto China 2010. It contorts itself impressively to fit into the spare tire space in your trunk, which you can watch in the following video, if you sit patiently through the bizarre mermaid dance montage.
Small companies can already tap the power of the crowds for help with their graphic design, advertising and other business challenges. Whereas most such services reward the creator of just a single winning solution, however, FreshlyBranded pays its marketing creatives for the top 10 ideas.
Buyers begin by signing up with Kansas-based FreshlyBranded and posting a description of their project, along with how much they’d like to pay. Typical projects include logo design, slogans and product names; the minimum award for the winning entry is USD 50, with a secondary award minimum—split among the other top nine—of USD 5. FreshlyBranded, meanwhile, takes a flat USD 39 fee plus 10 percent of the primary awarded amount, bringing the total minimum price for 10 submissions to USD 99. Once set, the award funds are transferred into an escrow account, and the project is opened up for submissions from marketing creatives around the world. After two weeks or so, the buyer selects a winning idea, and FreshlyBranded transfers the files and all rights to the winning project. Award funds, meanwhile, are distributed accordingly among the primary and secondary submitters.
Crowdsourced approaches have been criticized for potentially devaluing the work of contributors, since many creatives typically spend time on a solution but only one gets paid. With its mechanism for secondary awards, however, FreshlyBranded‘s model could reduce such concerns. A concept to apply to your own crowdsourced venture…?
http://www.freshlybranded.com/
Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.
Hand from Above from Chris O’Shea on Vimeo.
By far one of the most interesting urban screens project I’ve seen to date, Chris O’Shea’s describes his public art “Hand From Above” as encouraging “us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another.”
“Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain? Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.” Hands from Above was built using openFrameworks & openCV.
