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  • Consumer Spending in the U.S., Piece by Piece

    We hope some of you had the opportunity to swing by your local Likemind coffee morning today. PSFK was lucky enough to meet some likeminds in both Brooklyn and Manhattan and share in the mutual enthusiasm over Rob Walker’s soon-to-be-released book, Buying In (thanks, Random House!). The book and conversation inspired us to do a [...]

  • Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn On Creating Emotional Response With LED Lighting

  • At Play: Ready?

  • Suitcases That Produce Beats

  • The Case for M-Learning

    Augmented Learning by Eric Klopfer is the latest full-scale argument in support of “m-learning”, or learning via mobile devices and applications rather than PC/desktop. In his study, Klopfer offers a history of education and pedagogical practices, “edutainment”, and mobile games, and also offers recent examples of different ways educational programs have been integrated with mobile [...]

  • Marketside Local Store From Wal-Mart

    Wal-Mart are to launch a local neighborhood store which will pursue a “passion for fresh and delicious food”, the Financial Times reports. Inspired by Whole Foods approach, the bog-box retailer plans to prepare and serve food in the Marketside stores. The stores will include a kitchen, food counters and seating and will be about a [...]

  • NY Design Week: Wasted by PIE Studio

  • Knowing Your Audience on YouTube

    Yesterday, Google announced that YouTube’s Insight video viewer analytics now includes free demographic information on any clip’s viewers. Uploaders can click on the “insight” button that appears alongside their uploaded vids to see viewership stats that include gender, age, and geography. The analysis relies on data picked up from YouTube viewers’ profiles - [...]

  • Event: A Glimpse at Soho’s Indie Past

    London’s Soho was once known for its smattering of independent shops specializing in vinyl. Inevitably, many of them have had to shut their doors, thanks largely to the rising popularity of digital music sales and downloads. Photographer Spencer Murphy has paid homage to the neighborhood’s indie shops and storeowners, his works now on exhibit in [...]

  • The Grid Mobile SNS

  • Coolspotters: Celebrity Brand Tracking

  • Is Technology Destroying The Art Of DJing?

  • Twitter As Art

  • Tha Bamba Chair

  • Zipcar Reaches Out To Shepard Fairey via Email Newsletter

  • Pay-By-Phone to Arrive in 2012

  • Event: Touch | NY

    The Touch | NY exhibit is something we’re looking forward to checking out here in town, showcasing products and installations by 14 artists and designers specializing in the use of recycled materials. Products on show include jewelry, furniture, apparel (a skirt made out of plastic spoons!), lighting, and more.  The artisans featured include Estúdio Manus [...]

  • Photo Essay: China’s Industrial Neo-Colonialism

  • WiPS: WiFi GPS

    A German software company called Spotigo has announced that it can locate someone with an accuracy of up to 1 meter just using WiFi networks. The press release says that WiFi-based Positioning Solution (WiPS) sets new standards in positioning accuracy by identifying the user’s position based on WiFi signal patterns that are connected by WiFi [...]

  • MIT Suggests Future Phone Apps

    When Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Hal Abelson asked 20 computer science students tto design a software program for cell phones that use Google’s upcoming mobile operating system Android, they came back with an  array of services that give us a picture of how me might be using our phones in the future. Most [...]