Zapping Up Your Tee's with Zappar

More cool than practical, Zappar is a newly minted Augmented Reality gaming app for the iPad, iPhone and Android that posits a mission to change...

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Hurricane Irene and The Culture of Hysteria

Over the weekend, the east coast of the U.S. witnessed two very intense, very real disasters. One was the threatening and exhaustively covered Hurricane Irene, which managed to tear up the eastern seaboard, slowly creeping up from...

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The Self-Parody of Hipster-Speak

“Gluten-free helvetica keytar seitan american apparel. Letterpress cliche seitan etsy, four loko hoodie carles single-origin coffee sustainable banksy portland dreamcatcher freegan. Gluten-free lo-fi terry richardson sartorial, keffiyeh wolf...

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Sprite Germany Gives You The Control

While this may sit in the “parlor trick” category of Internet marketing, it’s a good parlor trick nonetheless. Sprite Germany has let loose an entertaining bit of content. A spot for Sprite Zero, a group of...

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Ya Snooze Ya Lose (a little money)

How was your weekend? Had fun? Had . . . “a lot” of fun? Well, that’s good. Seems like you hit the sauce pretty hard though. Now, from what it looks at least, you’re nursing a pretty bad hangover, huh? Killer headache, everything’s loud...

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Leaf House: Nissan Gives Back Power of Electric

Symbiosis is the last type of relational aspect one conjures when automobiles are on the mind. After all, a "Gas Guzzler" doesn't exactly sound like it's "giving back" anything but environmental headaches. But in Japan, Nissan Motors...

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Does Beauty in Imagery Bend Truth?

Recently an Instagram gallery of images from the UK riots made itself known around more discerning parts of the Internet. They are, for all intents and purposes rife with tragic, engaging beauty. The photos, (shot off of an iPhone...

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The Future of Food Co-op?

Access, for all intents in purposes, is at an all time premium. Those who have it flourish, while those who don’t, usually sink. In terms of access to basic human rights (food and labor to be exact), in some areas and communities, 'access'...

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Let’s Sleep On It

Like all new relationships, we’re still in the honeymoon period with mobile app technology. Our eyes, willfully ignorant of our propensity for loosing interest when faced with abundance and choice, are innocently glassed-over as we indulge in...

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Sending Out an S.O.S.

No matter how you slice, receiving a personal letter by post, ranks pretty high in terms of romantic and/or sentimental gestures. It’s up there with baking a new neighbor a welcome-cake, making a mix tape (physical that is) and giving a stranger...

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