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Shift Messenger app eases shift management for hourly workers

A startup launched earlier this year thinks it has the solution to a problem as old as the hourly wage: finding someone to cover your shift. Shift Messenger is essentially a group messaging app, but this simple concept takes on brand new functionality when applied to a workplace that employs hourly employees. Here’s how it […]

How will the Internet of Things impact data center energy consumption?

140 billion kilowatt-hours. That’s the level of data center energy consumption that the United States should expect annually by 2020. To put that in perspective, in 2013 (the most recent year for which data are available), every household in New York City combined used about a third of that amount. What’s driving the massive electrical demand in […]

Mobile wayfinding goes indoors

When’s the last time you pulled out a map to plan a route? How about stopping at a convenience store to ask for directions? Tech-free wayfinding is about as passé as the pay phone. Technological advancements have brought us from verbal directions to paper maps to printed out maps using services like MapQuest to portable navigation units […]

New bike lock doubles as bike alarm

You know those car alarms that drive you crazy in the middle of the night (or day), with their never-ending series of shrieks and beeps? Now there’s similar technology available for bikes! This is good news, though, for bike owners who want to deter thieves. Here’s how it works. A simple, U-shaped piece, the Noke […]

Design team imagines business cards for superheroes

It must be tough being a superhero. You have to save the world while concealing your identity and, in many cases, trying to project the image that you hold a typical 8-5 job. The folks at Pop Chart Lab, a design collective based in Brooklyn, are doing what they can to help out these poor superheroes. […]

Stenciled lettering gets noticed

There’s a lot the average person probably doesn’t know about stencil typography. A few examples cited in this recent Co.Design article: It’s nothing new. In fact, it’s an ancient technique, dating back to the caveman days. Its use isn’t limited to any particular part of the world. It’s been found in prehistoric Chinese and Japanese […]

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