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6.5m Twitter followers later, UberFacts takes its fascinating factoids to iPhone with a new app

Apr22
by on April 22, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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What do you do when you’ve garnered 6.5 million Twitter followers through dispensing nothing but fascinating factoids? Launch an iPhone app, of course. UberFacts has built a gargantuan following by delivering nuggets such as the most effective way of getting rid of itches, and the meaning of the word Pistanthrophobia. And now you can immerse yourself in these glorious trivia tidbits with a native mobile app, which will work in tandem with its existing Web-based portal. You swipe to view facts that are divided into ten categories (e.g. Wildlife, The Internet, Life & Death), while you can also network with…

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Lytro’s new $1,599 ‘Illum’ camera could kickstart light-field photography

Apr22
by on April 22, 2014 at 12:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Launches

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Lytro is back with a new light-field camera, called the Illum, aimed at hobbyist and professional photographers alike. Unlike its predecessor, the device looks like a full-frame digital SLR with a wide, protruding lens and chunky body. It boasts a custom 40-megaray light-field sensor, with an 8x optical zoom lens that can shoot at up 1/4000 of a second and an f/2.0 aperture. The unique sensor captures numerous characteristics of light rays, including their color, intensity and direction. The result is an image that feels 3D – viewers can subtly shift their perspective and also manually set the focal point….

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Apple mocks Samsung with Earth Day print ad: ‘Some ideas we want every company to copy’

Apr22
by on April 22, 2014 at 11:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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After launching a website and video detailing its environmental efforts, Apple has today followed up with a related newspaper advert that indirectly mocks its rival Samsung. At the top of the page, the company has placed a huge headline that reads: “There are some ideas we want every company to copy.” While many firms are considered guilty of copying Apple’s software and hardware innovations, the timing of the advert clearly points to its ongoing patent trial with Samsung. Apple ad on back cover of this morning’s Metro: ‘There are some ideas we want every company to copy’. pic.twitter.com/RNbgBNtjHZ — David McClelland…

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5 artists inspired by modern architecture

Apr22
by on April 22, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web

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Lindsay Comstock is a New York-based writer, photographer, and editor. Her work has appeared in American Photo, PDN, Rangefinder, and in her own image-based projects. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been adapted with permission. Artists are often envisioning the future within their work—and architectural visionaries are often designing dwellings, offices, and other structures made from improbable points of perspective. The five artists below use photography and illustration to play with architectural spaces and lines—both real and imagined—and create inspiring images about structure. Scroll down to see outstanding work from these artists, from abstracted geodesic domes to minimalist…

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Sleep startup Casper launches a re-engineered mattress that fits in the trunk of your car

Apr22
by on April 22, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Plenty of startups are interested in tracking your sleep, but Casper is working from the bottom up with the launch of a re-engineered mattress and an innovative distribution model for it. Mattress buying is one of the few consumer experiences that remains extremely unpleasant. There are too many choices, pricing is frustrating and getting a mattress back to your home is a feat. The Casper team has rethought the whole process. Designers with experience at Sealy, IDEO and Muji created the mattress using a combination of memory foam and latex foam. To cut down on customer confusion, the company only…

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