(via The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine)

Literally Unbelievable →

LiveWork: The Future Of Living Where You Work And Working Where You Live | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation →

Lark Wristband Reveals the Best Lifestyle Choices For a Good Night's Sleep | Gadget Lab | Wired.com →

“Appcessories” like this one were big at this years CES. Things like Nike Fuelband- that function as a physical item linked to a smartphone app, or even integrated throughout the phone platform- will be huge in coming years..

For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews - NYTimes.com →

With Fuelband, Nike Aims To Crush Jawbone Up And Overhaul Nike | Co.Design →

Turning physical fitness into a game with a universal scoring

Twine, A Tiny Gizmo That Holds The Internet's Future | Co.Design →

Twine is a kickstarter project making a “puck filled with sensors” that detects anything from moisture to magnetism to connect things to the internet.  It’ll tweet/text you status updates based on commands.  No coding skills required.

"For there is a paradox of virtue, a cousin to Keynes’s paradox of thrift (where spending less and saving more is individually a good thing but bad for general economic health). Refusing to spend money on any product unless it is ethically manufactured is indisputably right. However, refusing to spend money—or feeling guilty for doing so—traps us both backward and forward. The backward trap comes from wishing that the Foxconn factories did not exist. In 1980, China’s GDP per capita was near the bottom of any country in the world—half the level of Sudan, for instance. By 2010, China’s GDP per capita had increased thirteen times and is now three times higher than Sudan’s. The teenagers coming to Foxconn factories to be dehumanized into machine parts often started their lives in rural villages where life is arguably worse. China’s suicide rate is the highest in the world, 287,000 people each year. But the rate in rural areas is three times higher than in urban ones. However ugly and unforgivable the conditions of factories in China, however frightening and potentially fatal China’s environmental and foreign policies, basic economic development there—and the increased human happiness—is hard to wish away."

n 1: Outsourcing Jobs

Grand Opening of Time/Store in New York City | e-flux →

Millennials Are Playing With You - Nick Shore - Harvard Business Review →