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If you want fresh tea direct from the plantation, Teabox has you covered.

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by on May 6, 2014 at 1:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Reviews, Profiles and Interviews

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Technology has a habit of infusing every facet of our lives. Even a good old-fashioned cup of tea. Last year we brought you news on a mobile app called Tea, which serves as a centralized repository for seasoned tea-drinkers to store their top teas, tasting notes and even tweak their teas to create the perfect blend. It even has a tea encyclopedia built right in. But one thing Tea (the app) can’t do is deliver a crate of the tasty beverage to your home every month, a hole Teabox is looking to fill. While the concept of a direct-to-door online…

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This 17th-century hand-painted art book bears an uncanny resemblance to the Pantone system

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by on May 6, 2014 at 1:15 pm
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Once upon a time—even before there existed a system called Pantone—artists were obsessed with categorizing color. So much so that in 1692, one artist named A. Boogert—about whom not much seems to be known—undertook the task of writing a book on how to mix watercolors. Written in Dutch, the book now lives at Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence, France. Listed under the title, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, the book runs some 800 handwritten and painted pages containing every available watercolor pigment and combination, at three dilution levels. The book’s record contains additional tidbits suggesting some relationship with the textile trade and…

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Todoist boosts its task management apps with support for Google Drive and Dropbox file attachments

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by on May 6, 2014 at 1:02 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Todoist is bolstering its cross-platform task management service today with wider support for file attachments and sharing. The company now supports Google Drive and Dropbox, giving users the ability to quickly connect their documents to important tasks. Users of the free service will only be able to sync their files in shared projects, while Premium users have free reign over which tasks they’re paired with. As before, users can upload PDFs, spreadsheets and photos on the desktop, although for this latest release Todoist has improved the workflow across all of its apps and extensions. “For example, you can now just drag and…

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Visual translation service Waygo now lets you translate Chinese and Japanese texts on Android

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by on May 6, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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One of the most challenging facets of travel is the language barrier. While this is less of an issue for English-speakers in countries that share a similar alphabet, such as in France or Germany, in places like China or Japan simple things like reading road signs or seeing what’s on the menu for breakfast can be problematic. This is where Waygo has been setting out its stall to help in recent times, combining optical character recognition (OCR) and translation technology to instantly convert Chinese and Japanese characters into English when you hover your phone over a piece of text. Today…

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TradeHero launches a Chinese version, bringing the stock market game to traders in China

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by on May 6, 2014 at 12:38 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, Product Updates

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Singapore-based mobile virtual stock market game TradeHero has taken a huge step forward in China by launching a Chinese version for iOS and Android devices. TradeHero has a similar concept to Fantasy Football – users kick off trading on its virtual platform with a $100,000 starting portfolio, and the market moves according to whatever is happening in real life. Users are then ranked on a leaderboard based on a basket of metrics, including how much profit they would have made if the trade were real. The iOS version of the Chinese app was made available on the App Store last month, but was only officially…

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