And you can sign up for the beta now.
Google has released a new Gmail app called Inbox,which appears to combine the look and feel of Google services with the automated, bother-me-later philosophy of Mailbox.
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Daily Archives: October 22, 2014
A First Look Inside Frank Gehry’s New Fondation Louis Vuitton
The long-awaited museum opens to the public next week.
Frank Gehry’s latest museum, rising like a pile of glass sails over Paris’s expansive Bois de Boulogne, is opening to the public on October 27. The Fondation Louis Vuitton has been years in the making, delayed in part by NIMBY-esque objections from local residents over its construction. Now, in advance of next week’s official opening, we finally get a chance to peek at what’s under those soaring glass sails.
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Map: How San Franciscans See New York City
Rikers Island: It’s like Alcatraz but REAL.
In the battle for cultural dominance between America’s coastal elite, two cities reign supreme: San Francisco and New York. Both have walkable streets, cultural zest, and rich (really, really rich) residents. There, the similarities might end–San Francisco is California chill and Free Love; New York is the City That Never Sleeps. Or do they? The whimsical mapmakers at Urbane–whose specialty is translating unfamiliar cartography into easy-to-understand, cheeky guides like “California According to San Francisco Giants Fans”–have created a San Franciscan’s guide to the Big Apple, complete with neighborhood references to make the overwhelming onslaught of New York City destinations more familiar to a Bay Area audience.
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An Interchangeable Shoe That Adapts To Every Season
A design student imagines what it take to use the same shoe sole year-round.
Unless you live somewhere with a perfect 85-degree temperature year-round, every change in the season requires a rotation of shoes. The weather warms up, and out go the canvas sneakers, in come the strappy sandals. An autumn chill brings rain that turns into sleet, and in come the rain boots and salt-crusted snow gear.
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The Electric Tea Kettle Gets A Makeover
Tea kettles are loud, slow, ugly, and wasteful. The Miito solves all of those problems.
Electric tea kettles, and tea kettles in general, are wasteful. Since most people thoughtlessly fill the kettle up to the top, even if they only need a single cup, energy is spent heating unused water. And that wasted energy adds up. In England alone, the U.K.’s Energy Saving Trust says that if everyone boiled only the water they need, they would save enough electrity to power the nation’s street lights for two months.
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A Surveillance Jacket That Photographs Everything Around You
This whimsical jacket is actually a high-tech, 360-degree camera.
The problem with pepper spray is that, while it may immobilize an attacker, it won’t deter any would-be attackers from approaching you to begin with. Like a concealed weapon, pepper spray fits discreetly into your pocket. It’s designed to be invisible.
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Isaac Asimov’s Advice To Creatives? Waste Other People’s Time And Money
The sci-fi legend explains that good ideas come from a willingness to get paid for doing nothing.
With tens of thousands of books, short stories, articles, and reviews to his credit, science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov may have been one of the most prolific creatives of the 20th century. But what did the I, Robot and Foundation author think was the most important elements of the creative life? Isolation, a good work ethic, and a willingness to waste other people’s time and money.
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Ikea Recreates “The Shining” In New TV Ad
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To celebrate Halloween, Ikea’s Singapore branch has used the dark corridors of the furniture superstore to seamlessly recreate the famous hallway scene from Stanley Kubrick’s horror movie masterpiece, The Shining.
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This Amazing Furniture Turns A Closet Into An Apartment
Living in a glorified closet might not be so bad after all.
In the Netherlands, you can legally rent an apartment that’s just 54 square feet. In Hong Kong, if you’re willing to go outside the law, you can live in something even smaller. But how do you furnish a space that can’t hold much more than a cot?
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Hundreds Of Uncharted Cities Will Get Maps Thanks To Crowdsourcing
A huge number of cities around the world remain unmapped. The Missing Maps Project wants to crowdsource digital maps of the entire globe.
Despite massive advances in cartographic technology over the past decade, a huge number of large cities around the world remain digitally uncharted territories. Places from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city with a population of 4.4 million, to Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a population of 15 million, lack online street maps. This isn’t just inconvenient, but dangerous: in the case of a disaster, a lack of reliable maps means aid workers have a much harder time reaching people in need.
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