Establishments say problem has prompted them to serve bottled water to ease fears of patrons brave enough to dine out.
Read More Report: Not enough jobs in Detroit
Nearly two out of every three Detroit workers commute to jobs in the suburbs, new study finds
Read More Wal-Mart’s Port Covington store among 269 stores closing globally
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will close its Port Covington store in South Baltimore in a cost-cutting move to shutter 269 under-performing stores worldwide, the giant retailer said today.
The city’s only Walmart will close Sunday. The store, which opened in 2002, sits amid empty parking lots and a closed…
Shoppers with hearing loss can choose the “hearing loop” lane at Wegmans
When shoppers check out at Wegmans in Hunt Valley, they can choose self-scan, express or wheelchair-accessible lanes. Recently, they’ve been offered another option. In two designated “looped” aisles, concealed technology can erase background noise and make it easier for customers with hearing loss…
Meetings Waste Money, And Now You Can Calculate Just How Much
Use this in your pitch to remove a useless meeting from your schedule.
It’s well known that companies waste a lot of time and money organizing and having meetings. We waste time endlessly emailing to find time-slots that suit everybody. We waste time waiting for everyone to arrive. We waste time discussing irrelevant points and tangential agendas.
These Vibrating Yoga Pants Will Correct Your Downward Dog
The latest project from Wearable Experiments sends haptic feedback in the form of tiny vibrations to improve your form.
Like many other yoga enthusiasts, Billie Whitehouse sometimes struggles with her form. “I never know if I’m doing it right,” she says. “I always love it when the instructor comes and corrects my form.” But yogis practicing alone in the comfort of their living room are left to figure it out for themselves. Whitehouse, the cofounder and CEO of technology company Wearable Experiments, realized she was in a unique position to bridge the gap. So she and her cofounder Ben Moir created Nadi, smart exercise tights that correct a wearer’s alignment using haptic feedback in the form of subtle vibrations.
Actor And Activist Tim Robbins On The Life-Changing Power Of Empathy
The Academy Award-winning actor discusses his new aid-worker movie, along with his ongoing efforts teaching acting in California prisons.
In A Perfect Day, which opens today, Tim Robbins plays “B,” one of a team of aid workers navigating the Balkan conflict in 1995. When we first meet B, a veteran logistics expert, he is giving a ride to Sophie (Mélanie Thierry), an aid-work rookie. The two are stopped in their tracks by a cow carcass, which B hypothesizes was dragged there to lure drivers into a roadside mine. But is the mine to the left or the right? B solves the problem by speeding recklessly over the carcass itself.
Meet The Woman Who Discovered 3 Of The 4 New Elements
Dawn Shaughnessy and her team at the Heavy Element group are working to make chemistry class even harder.
There is no element named after her (yet), but Dawn Shaughnessy—a relatively young chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—is one of the more prolific researchers in the small world of scientists who seek to create entirely new entries to the periodic table that most of us learned about in grade school.
How To Tackle The Ultimate UX Challenge: Legacy Systems
Change is never easy. Here, 4 tips for modernizing old software systems from Adobe’s senior director of experience design.
Designers love a blank canvas. The reason is obvious: They enjoy coming up with an original idea and seeing it through to completion. However, the shiny new object isn’t the biggest UX challenge. For designers who love to geek out on solving sticky problems, redesigning an existing system is the ultimate puzzle.
Inside NASA’s Plan To Radically Redesign How We Fly
A new wave of aircraft design is emerging—and NASA is helping.
It’s probably been a long time since flying amazed you. Air travel tends to feel like an inconvenience these days—not a miracle of engineering. This is partially due to market forces and security theater. It’s also the fact that aircraft design itself hasn’t changed dramatically in decades.
