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Could This App For Novelists Score You A Book Deal?
The content we read and write keeps getting shorter: tweets and text messages instead of emails, 40-minute TV episodes rather than whole movies, singles instead of entire albums. In the small world of...
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Forget About Quadcopters And Behold The Flying Jellyfish
Remote-controlled quadcopters like the push-propeller drones that mapped the Matterhorn have exploded in popularity this year. But exposed propellers make them a hazard to people, pets, and birds--not...
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Can This Little Cube Bring Music Sales Back To Life?
Thanks to digital downloads, people aren't buying CDs anymore--especially at concerts, where albums used to be hot merchandise. For bands, translating concert-attending enthusiasm into digital...
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How Google's "Deep Learning" Is Outsmarting Its Human Employees
Google's "deep learning" clusters of computers churn through massives chunks of data looking for patterns--and it seems they've gotten good at it. So good, in fact, that Google announced at the Machine...
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How This Group Of London Hackers Made Musical Instruments From Converse All...
Technology Will Save Us is a haberdashery for technology, supplying DIY kits which allow users to make their own technology items, from a moisture sensor which tells you when your plants need water to...
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This Badass 3-D Camera Array Could Revolutionize Entertainment
The appeal of 3-D imagery is innate: It can make the user experience in games, commerce, and communication more lifelike. But reproducing 3-D shapes in a computer takes hours of CAD work and rendering....
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Marvel's New "Uberframework" Graphs Every Character In The Universe
After 70 years of publishing, Marvel Entertainment has built up an incredible universe of heroes, villains, and super teams--a sea of data that no mere wiki can organize. At long last, Marvel has...
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How Did "Drone" Become Such A Dirty Word?
In 2013, the word "drone" has referred to a number of gadgets: on one end of the drone spectrum, there's a $300 consumer quadcopter that you can buy at a Toys R' Us that is a "drone". On the other, you...
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Reinventing MIDI For A Big Data World
Like a lot of older technologies past their prime, MIDI was widely implemented and so it remains key for a lot of musicians--even some 30 years later. With an older standard comes the headaches of...
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For Clothing Designers, Virtual Models Are Faster Than Flesh
Traditionally, fashion designers have had to rely on flesh-and-blood models to understand what their clothes look like on the human body, and shoppers have been wary of ordering clothes online without...
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Why "Full Stack" Marketers Are The Future of Digital Branding
The term "full-stack developer" has been buzzing around the Internet for years as shorthand for a coder who can build everything from the back-end server to the front-end design and controls.These...
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How Dropbox Spawned A Cottage Security Industry
If you run a small business or work in an enterprise setting, you know the routine for sharing files. Depending on your organization, you use Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, iCloud, or seemingly millions...
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What's So Hard About Building A CMS?
It's impossible to say this comprehensively, but most people in publishing hate the CMS, or content management system, they're forced to use at work. Increasingly, media companies are opting away from...
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Cheap Drones Are Transforming The Ancient Art Of Mapmaking
Compared to their paper-based ancestors, today's maps are pretty incredible. Yet as mind-blowing as Google Maps or OpenStreetMaps would be to a 19th-century time traveler, these maps could be even...
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The Rise Of The Enterprise Hacker
When I was a product manager at Google, Apple, and Wildfire, there was a type of hacker I'd occasionally get lucky enough to spot in the wild and work alongside. Always lurking in the most sensitive...
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Are Company Hackathons Still Worthwhile?
Hackathons and Hack Days bring programmers, designers, and other creative folks together to work on interesting and fun projects. They're opportunities to meet new people and build things you really...
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Why Doctors Make Great Object-Oriented Software Designers
One day an entrepreneur named Daniel Cane found himself in the office of Dr. Michael Sherling, marveling at the lack of technology. Dr. Sherling, a dermatologist, told Cane he saw up to 50 patients a...
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"Printing" Metal Objects Is Now Possible With This DIY 3-D Printer
In the 3-D-printed future, we will buy less and make more. Everything from food to human organs, we're told, can be manufactured this way. But the 3-D printers available now only print with plastic...
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Do Developers Need A Standardized Code Of Ethics?
Kyle Richter is a longtime Mac and iOS developer with four programming books under his belt--a Mac community guy if there ever was one. So he was intrigued when he discovered a popular iOS app using...
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How To Virtually Unite Remote Teams With RFID, Arduino, And Beer
After acquiring Philadelphia-based Neiman Group, Boston ad agency Allen & Gerritsen found itself with two teams of employees separated by 300 miles. It presented an increasingly common problem:...
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