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Recently, Food Republic published an article questioning the imminent creation of “smart knives,” most specifically referencing a “concept design” that would actually measure the nutritional value of any item it cuts. Conceptualized by mastermind Jeon Chang Dae, this crazy Electrolux-wannabe gadget (it wasn’t a finalist in the company’s innovation competition) is every dietician’s dream – and it isn’t that far off from a Bed, Bath & Beyond shelf reality. (Side note of interest: In fact, this type of knife-wielding intellectual power has already revolutionized the medical field – for some months now, doctors have been using smart scalpels to help assist in cancer detection).
Given the constant push of kitchen technology mavens to find something smarter that makes cutting process corners even easier, it’s only a matter of time before someone picks up Dae’s idea (or something similar) and brings the brain-friendly slicer to the nutritional market.
— Gastronaut
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Sometimes, stirring the pasta can just take so much out of you. Well, never fear ever-so-exhausted at-home chefs: a Kickstarter campaign is here to help create a product that stirs itself.
Presenting, the Fusion Stir, the self-stirring induction pot and cooktop unit that, as you may have guessed, takes the need for a human hand out of stirring its contents. Even better, it has an “automatic stir” function with or without heat, so you can mix up anything you want in there, even if you’re not making a hot dinner for yourself.
The product is set to come in red, black or “champagne” color, making it a stylish and functional addition to your rapidly growing kitchen.
— Gastronaut
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Do this. Open your browser. Type in “A”. What’s the first thing that auto-populates? Type in “B”. Keep going.
It’s called “The Browser Game” and it’s seriously f-ckin with my head. It’s like you can boil down my entire existence to just a few key strokes. My Browser:
A- Amazon.com (I gots to have my wool socks)
B- B&H Photo (I gots to have my macro lenses)
C- Austin Craigslist (I gots to have my missed connections)
Apparently I’m an Austin hipster photographer with cold ass feet. Wait, damn that’s pretty accurate.
What’s your Browser Game results? Post them in the comments, homies.
— Culturazzi
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Ey turn down that ratchet music and peep this mix this dude made with just a bicycle. Johnnyrandom made the entire music clip only from sounds from his bike. No drum kit or drum machine, all just hisses and clicks from his Schwinn. Sick.
I’m getting turnt off this. Get it? Turnt? I’m saying that because it’s cool street slang but also cuz you turn around in a bicycle. Ah, watta you know about edgy humor?
Catch “Bespoken” on iTunes.
— Culturazzi
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Facebook is 10 years old. If you’re like me, you’ve been a user of the social site since nearly its inception. That’s a whole lotta likes. But perhaps you used the Facebook Look Back and noticed your interest has been waning. Is it time to cut the cord? Here’s how you’ll know:
- You only go on Facebook when someone says, “Did you see so-and-so got married/had a baby/broke up/got fat?”
- Your recent photo history can be found exclusively on Instagram.
- You get your news from Twitter, Flipboard, or Zyte.
- Your messaging occurs exclusively via Gchat or your phone.
- You keep in touch with friends and family via a blog or – gasp! – a phone call.
— IT Girl
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Your phone is a magical device that can help you do many things. Not forgetting is one of those things. And when I say, “not forgetting,” I mean, “you can forget because your phone will remember it for you.” Here are some helpful ways your phone can replace your brain:
- Take a picture of your hotel room number.
- Drop a pin in a mapping app when you park your car.
- Save restaurants you want to go to in Foursquare or Yelp.
- Take a picture of a document instead of transcribing it.
- Text your future self from Oh Don’t Forget.
Read the rest at TechHive.
— IT Girl
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There’s been a lot of noise around what will happen to that little thing you carry around in your back pocket. Services like Google Wallet put our data and finances onto phones, which is nice, but has one glaring problem: you can’t swipe your phone through a card reader.
Coin is simple. It IS a swipe-able card, only it’s one that digitally stores all the other cards that would have been in your wallet. Use the Coin app to capture your credit cards, membership cards, etc, and Coin will store it all for use. Tap a button on Coin to select which card you want. A Bluetooth transmitter provides security by letting you know if you’ve left your Coin behind.
They’re taking pre-orders. If Coin takes off, consider your back pocket slightly lighter.
— Digital Gentleman
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The cool thing about The Future That We Live In is that there’s so much information. The crappy thing about Said Future is that getting to all this information isn’t as easy as we’d think.
That’s why the Kennedy app is so cool. The app isn’t just another #selfie picture taker, or geo-locater, or news aggregator. It’s meant to capture as much data about a given moment as possible. Tap the “Now” button (the interface is literally dreamy) and Kennedy grabs multiple data points and records everything in that exact moment that it can.
Useful? Nope. But that’s actually the point. Designer Brendan Dawes wants Kennedy to be your own experiment with data. Captured data is downloadable so that you can mess around with all that accrued info.
What are you doing right “Now”?
— Digital Gentleman
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Ever wonder what the sound of your voice would look like-or how the rhythm of your heart would appear visually? Born of Sound duo Ashik and Jenelle Mohan create pieces of artwork that illustrate how sound waves look (hint: they’re not actually those jagged lines you see on a monitor). They turn audio files into audiophile masterpieces you can hang on a wall, from the sound of a nascent pulse to a faraway heartbeat. Watch the video to learn more about their creative work and see how Intel powers their process. Intel makes sure they don’t miss a beat.
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“I don’t Google things, I Bing them.” I overheard one woman say this to another on the train this week, and it got me thinking about the state of search. The conventional wisdom remains that we must use one search site for all of our internet queries—few of us divvy up our search tasks to multiple engines. Is there room for sites dedicated to a specific kind of search?
Wantering thinks so. A startup based out of Vancouver, Wantering is a fashion search engine that lets you scour the web’s top fashion retailers all from one place. Search for “tuxedo” on Pinterest, and you’ll get a lot of pics of celebs wearing tuxedos. On Wantering, you get a board of tuxedos that are all for sale, complete with price info. They even put the items that are trending on social networks up top for you.
Has the time come for specialized search engines? Make your case in the comments.
— Smarter Upstarter
