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“Hackers are artists in their soul”. Inspiring talk by @EvanRoth_ about the value of hacker culture.

ThePresent: the Annual Clock that tells time in seasons. by @mssngpeces

One of the projects we backed last year on Kickstarter is finally available. Congratulations to Scott Thrift for his courage to make dreams come true. Inspiring as the full moon.

Beyond this Kickstarter story, the idea of reinventing the way we ‘read time’ is just amazing. We are now looking for an alternative watch and calendar, something which can helps us be aware of the real-time culture we are living now. 365 days, 7 day weeks, 24 hours days are not enough. Don’t you agree?

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The ‘library’ invites visitors to choose an espresso drink as they would a book, and verse themselves in espresso drinks as though quietly entering into a fictional world. Books and coffee are both important parts of everyday life, so we created a link between favorite books and favorite coffees.

(via Pop-Up Starbucks Library Encourages Visitors To Trade Books For Drinks - PSFK)

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Turning serendipity into predictable patterns of inspiration from Michael Surtees

Turning serendipity into predictable patterns of inspiration x @michaelsurtees

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There’s also a question of whether actions in online worlds count as real-life economic activity. “Say someone is playing Eve Online for a whole week and not providing services in real life,” Guðmundsson says. “That would hurt GDP [the measure of real-life economic growth], but it would increase the Gross User Product in the virtual world. So did overall value creation really decline? Big questions… interesting article: The economics of video games via @heyitsnoah

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Skube - Tangible interface to @lastfm & @Spotify Radio via @creativeapps

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Car makers, now we are talking. #wishlist > Smart Concept Car Is A Rolling Movie Projector via @PSFK

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The future of books is built upon networked platforms, not islands. More than any surface advancement — interface, navigational, typographic, or similar — platforms define how we read going forward. Platforms shape systems — those of production, consumption, distribution — and all critical changes happening in digital books and publishing happen within systems. Post-artifact books and publishing2 is not just about text on screens. Platforming Books — by Craig Mod

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