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U.K. experiencing a black market for lighted Uber signs

Need proof that people care about signs? There’s a black market in parts of the United Kingdom for small, lighted signs featuring the Uber logo. No, it’s not for people to post on their dorm room walls to display their support for the nouveau-taxi brand. Instead, the people buying these illicit signs are Uber drivers […]

Find your corporate brand identity with a card game

Raise your hand if you have ever been forced to sit in on an endless meeting during which everyone struggles to find a unique corporate identity (while you try desperately to fight off sleep). It’s not fun. But you may never have to endure it again, thanks to the folks behind Cards Against Humanity. We know what […]

Public Domain Project offers free media

The Public Domain Project is truly an amazing idea. Launched by Pond5, a marketplace for royalty-free materials, it offers exactly that: free media that can be used in creative works. So if you need, say, a 1941 photo of Georgia sharecroppers, you can find it. You can also find photos like one of President Obama meeting British […]

Luminous, wearable bike lock solves multiple problems

If you’re one of the millions of people who commute (to work, play, or both) via bicycle, we salute you. There are a lot of good reasons to get around on a bike, but there are also a few noteworthy drawbacks, namely, automobile drivers who seem to be incapable of noticing bicyclists, and people who will happily […]

International artists redesign maps for “Mapping the City” exhibit

What happens when you ask street and graffiti artists to map a city they know intimately through their previous creative endeavors? That’s the question that drove the curators behind Mapping the City, an art exhibit at Somerset House, in London, through February 15. And the answers, as one might guess, are far from conventional. The […]

Washington’s ‘Free Coffee Program’ needs new signs

Free coffee is available at 37 state-run rest stops in Washington state. Remember this now because the signs that advertise the offering have disappeared. The Department of Transportation hasn’t replaced a worn out or damaged sign advertising free coffee since 2012. The problem: Volunteers were charged with manually flipping many of the signs to indicate whether the […]

Mobile payment risks down, confusion up

There are always, always, always reports of customer data being stolen from various retailers. Supervalu, a Midwest supermarket chain, was hit by hackers last summer. Home Depot investigated a potential security breach in September. Staples looked into a similar problem in October. Target was targeted over the holidays. Yet, techies still hold out hope that consumers will […]

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