If you have a few moments take the quick studio tour of Portland’s own Parliament Design. You may be jealous - but you won’t be sorry.
Lines at the grocery store might become as obsolete as milkmen, if a new tag that seeks to replace bar codes becomes commonplace.
Researchers from Sunchon National University in Suncheon, South Korea, and Rice University in Houston have built a radio frequency identification tag that can be printed directly onto cereal boxes and potato chip bags. The tag uses ink laced with carbon nanotubes to print electronics on paper or plastic that could instantly transmit information about a cart full of groceries.
“You could run your cart by a detector and it tells you instantly what’s in the cart,” says James M. Tour of Rice University, whose research group invented the ink. “No more lines, you just walk out with your stuff.”
When jetting down the highway advertisers only have seconds to catch your eye and keep your interest. We’re pretty sure these billboards did just that. Also, they made us laugh.
In a statement this week, the Army said that key members of its staff visited Apple headquarters on March 5 to take a tour of its laboratories and to discuss the use of Apple gear — including the iPad, iPhone, iPod, iMac, and MacBook — in Army business and battlefield operations.
As if Twitter isn’t creepy enough now you can find out when your favorite tweeter is sleeping.
The concept is to enter a Twitter username into the form, and SleepingTime uses an algorithm to cough up a rough estimate of when it thinks said user is “sleeping” or is most predictably inactive on Twitter. Like I said - It’s a little creepy. When I plugged in RightBrainJobs I was impressed with how close it was. Welcome to the future - Now go to bed!
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Developer Chris Kalani recently created “We are PRTLND,” a networking site for Portland’s photographers, designers, and developers.
My friend Jubal Ince sent this over to me. He runs a cool job board called portlandrecruiter.com and does a bunch of Social Media stuff. Link
All I know is if Google is testing hotel prices William Shatner better not hear about it… Link
Flippity Shows eBay Listings Close to Home.Via SwissMiss.
