New lighting plans on airlines are helping passengers adjust to new schedules. But how close are we to eliminating jet lag altogether?
When flight attendants start wheeling out dinner service on certain Singapore Airlines flights headed east, the cabin lighting dims to mimic candlelight. During dessert—though it’s still light outside—the cabin lights up to look like sunset. By the next morning, a few hours before passengers have to wake up, the lights simulate sunrise.
Office-space marketplaces like LiquidSpace use a different model to capitalize on the same trends that fueled WeWork’s success.
When PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recently modernized the majority of its 83 U.S. offices, it added more common space and made each office smaller, reducing the space per employee by 30%. “More and more we are a virtual company,” says Toni Cusumano, a principal in the company’s global human capital practice. “People don’t go into our offices the way they used to. We’ve shifted down.”
MM.LaFleur has found success selling workwear to busy women who want to look great but defy stereotypes about fashion.
“I’m so sick of the stereotype that all women are shopping-obsessed,” Sarah LaFleur, the 32-year-old cofounder of the workwear brand MM.LaFleur, tells Fast Company.
Could VR be for medicine what CAD was for architects?
I stand, a cyborg micronaut, in front of the biggest human heart any person has ever seen.
Ahead of the season-six premiere of Game of Thrones, the cast promotes its charity contest with Omaze by playing a surprisingly tough game.
WHAT: A surprisingly difficult game of “Sword Name or Metal Band” where some people who should really know better have to determine the provenance of titles like Oathkeeper and Savage Grace.
Hadid died suddenly while hospitalized in Miami.
Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-British architect who led the movement for expressive, formal experimentation in architecture, has died at 65.
The Watch was running a tour guide app by Guidekick that delivered notifications and audio commentary for each piece in the exhibit.
In some ways, the Apple Watch is a device in search of a killer use case, and I believe it will eventually find one, probably many. In the meantime we’re seeing a few apps that point at that tantalizing future. Apple invited me to an event at the de Young Museum in San Francisco recently to show me one of them.
On Apple’s 40th birthday, an exclusive look at the notes its original media strategist took as he formulated an advertising and PR plan.
At first blush, it appears to be an utterly unexceptional spiral-bound notebook. Manufactured in the U.S. by the National Blank Book Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts, it’s got a light green cover and 80 sheets of narrow-ruled 8-by-10-inch paper.
Stelfreeze talks reviving the legend, honing his craft, and helping comic book newbie Ta-Nehisi Coates hit the ground running.
Marvel Comics is well aware that—cameo appearance by a certain squinty-eyed web slinger aside—the upcoming Captain America: Civil War will be a massive coming out party for Black Panther. But before we saw a single frame of actor Chadwick Boseman in the iconic black costume of the African king/superhero T’Challa, Marvel put in motion a headline-grabbing plan to revive a hero who has cast a big shadow in the comics world since his 1961 debut (where he happened to take out the entire Fantastic Four singlehandedly). The announcement that author, journalist, and MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner Ta-Nehisi Coates would be collaborating with artist Brian Stelfreeze on a return of the Panther in April 2016 was met with almost universal OMGs.
Sorry, car commuters. You’ll have to find parking on the street.
When a new high-rise is built in downtown Oslo, Norway, one of the first things visitors will notice is the bikes: A massive ramp leads cyclists directly into the building, and the plate-glass windows in the lobby show off bike racks.
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