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In what seems like a throwback to a time when a lone inventor could change the world, a German carpenter has come up with a switch that can turn off the flow of a man’s sperm. It’s effectively a vasectomy that can be switched in and out at will.
As The Big Short generates award buzz, director Adam McKay discusses how he works and the critical factor in choosing ideas.
In the past, Adam McKay had to bake his political statements into the thematic background of his movies. There’s a sharp sendup of George W. Bush’s American exceptionalism lurking in the high comedy of Talladega Nights, for instance, and beneath the buddy cop parody veneer, The Other Guys is a scathing critique of the close relationship between Wall Street and federal government regulators. With The Big Short, however, McKay finally has the creative freedom to go the other way, keeping the comedy relatively low key, and bringing the message to the foreground.
Wearables: not so hot right now, writes JOOR CEO Mona Bijoor who has previously worked at Ann Taylor, Chanel, and Elie Tahari.
Wearables are one of the most exciting developments in technology, and have inspired the fashion industry in some intriguing ways. But there’s still plenty of skepticism about everything from battery life to appearance. Some even wonder if computers strapped to our bodies 24/7 could have adverse health effects (although, to be fair, it’s hard to see how wearables would be any different from an iPhone in that regard).
The Consumer Electronics Show holds thousands of new ideas. But these are the ones that will matter into the future.
This week in Las Vegas, the electronics industry assembled to woo journalists with the shiny new toys of the year. Most of them aren’t worth your time: Thinner TVs. Dumb objects with Wi-Fi. Apps you’ll never use.
The structures are easy to construct, adaptable, and designed to survive future natural disasters.
In April 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal with an epicenter 50 miles outside of the capital, Kathmandu. Natural disasters of this scale are devastating, but some experts argued that unregulated construction compounded the damage and death toll. The New York-based firm SHoP Architects recently announced a partnership with two socially driven advocacy organizations, Kids of Kathmandu and the Asia Friendship Network, to aid in the rebuilding process by constructing 50 new schools in the hardest-hit areas.
Irish Wind Energy invokes JFK, Nike’s favorite player, and Monster Energy’s own Fury Road.
Well, we made it. Two thousand and sixteen. THE FUTURE. You guys look great, really. I mean, the holiday hangover of adjusting to a socially acceptable daily caloric intake and not binge-watching How To Make A Murderer in the middle of the day aside, this year is just full of possibility. And here we are, together again, hand in hand, gazing into each other’s eyes, about to wrap ourselves in the warm, welcoming embrace of brand creativity. Too much? Onward!
Summit meeting comes amid growing concerns of radicalization via social media.
Representatives from the Obama administration, U.S. intelligence officials, and members of law enforcement will meet today with top executives from some of the country’s biggest tech firms to discuss the ongoing concern of how terrorists have become adept at using social media to recruit members and converts online, according to Reuters.
The material could enable self-warming clothes and even increase the driving range of electric vehicles.
Imagine a sweater that could automatically increase its temperature on command. You’d no longer have to worry about grabbing an extra jacket when you go out at night in case it gets chillier. Or what about a windshield that can warm up on its own to automatically clear ice away? Both sound like things you might have glimpsed in Back to the Future 2, but each could soon be a reality thanks to a new material.
Nearly a decade working in corporate fashion led the founders of Cienne to seek out a radical new business model.
When apparel designer Nicole Heim quit her job at Victoria’s Secret three years ago, she wanted to get as far away from the drudgery of the corporate fashion world as possible. She wound up in Ethiopia, working for the non-profit Charity: Water. “It was kind of crazy, I was by myself with almost no resources in the mountains in Ethiopia,” she says. “One day I saw Ethiopian weavers prepping their looms in the same way they have for centuries, and it got me interested to see if we could adapt that in a modern way.”
Watch this inspiring video that shows elderly people who won’t be ignored—even by the post office.
“Seat and window now. Seat and window now!” That’s the chant of a group of senior citizen protesters marching on the Manhattanville Post Office on Harlem’s 125th Street in New York City. Their beef? The post office has no bench for senior and disabled customers to sit while they wait on very long lines, which wouldn’t be as big a problem if they had opened a promised dedicated window for them.
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