CoolHunting: Eliminating waste in more ways than one, Method’s powerful new laundry detergent makes washing “smarter, easier and greener” with its “smartclean” technology and precise pump.
I admit to having a bit of a personal interest in this, but I’ve been fascinated to see how the thinking of Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has evolved over the past few years on the question of the Net’s effect on reading and cognition. Here are three quotes from Schmidt, the most recent of which came yesterday: July 30, 2008: “I just got this in my in-box. Anybody read it? The Atlantic: Is Google Making Us Stupid? I mean, weve got a problem if this is true, right? In the article, the author … points out that deep reading is…
Short term memory? Trying getting this temp tattoo. The To-Do Tattoo kit includes 12 graphic To Do forms that you can apply to your body wherever its most convenient (or creative) and a skin-safe, washable-ink gel pen. Youll never again have to make lame excuses for missing bowling night or your moms birthday.
SmartyRents offer a variety of educational video games for children from the ages of 9 months to 10 years. The “Netflix” of educational games has several rental packages available to allow you to find the best package to fit the needs of your family. Maybe you have several children at different age levels or with different game systems and need an option to rent more than one game at a time; just pick a suitable game in the large inventory of titles and SmartyRents will send that must-have title directly to your door.
How cool would it have been if Twitter had been invented a couple hundred years ago so our forebears could have used it? transcendo: RT @emerson new idea: “the making a fact the subject of thought raises it” http://bit.ly/cAhzDL (expand)…
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The New Republic has published my commentary on Apple’s iPad announcement. I reprint it here: The PC era ended this morning at ten oclock Pacific time, when Steve Jobs mounted a San Francisco stage to unveil the iPad, Apples version of a tablet computer. What made the moment epochal was not so much the gadget itself – an oversized iPod Touch tricked out with an e-reader application and a few other new features – but the clouds of hype that attended its arrival. Tablet computers have been kicking around for a decade, but consumers have always shunned them. Theyve been…
CrunchGear: Heres something thats custom and unique for protecting your Mac Book the BookBook. Based on the concept of hiding in plain sight, the BookBook case resembles an antique leather-bound book.
