Codecademy, Free Site Teaches Interactive Lessons on Web Coding
Codecademy is a free website that provides interactive lessons on coding for web development. Founders Ryan Bubinski and Zach Sims have started the site with…
Old S.F., An Interactive Map of 16,000 San Francisco Photos Since 1850
Old S.F. is an interactive map of 16,000 geotagged photos of San Francisco from the time period 1850 to 2000. The photos are sourced from…
The World’s Shortest Train
The World’s Shortest Train passes a Japanese railroad crossing in this video from Henteko.net. The video may be fake but the train sure is adorable.
Airplane Boarding Method by Astrophysicist Cuts Loading Time in Half
Back in 2008, Fermilab astrophysicist Jason Steffen took a break from matters of the universe to devise the Steffen Method, a clever optimization of the…
CLOO, An iPhone App That Lets Users Rent Out Their Bathrooms
CLOO is an iPhone app that allows people to rent their private bathrooms to their friends for a small fee (video). The app is a…
TrustoCorp Special Edition Tabloids Released in Bicoastal Prank
In yet another prank by TrustoCorp, specially modified editions of People, Us Weekly, and OK! were seeded at magazine sellers in New York and Los…
Gimme Bar Saves Pieces of the Web to a Personal Library
Gimme Bar by Fictive Kin is a web app that allows the user to save virtually any piece of the web to a personal library,…
Vizualize.Me Creates Infographic Resumés from LinkedIn Profiles
Vizualize.Me is a web app that creates an infographic resumé from a LinkedIn user profile. The service is currently in closed beta, but you can…
Inkling, A Digital Pen That Converts Paper Drawings to Digital Files
The Inkling by WACOM is a digital sketch pen and receiver set that captures a drawing as it is created on paper and converts…
Tacit, A Glove That Lets Blind People Navigate Using Sonar
Tacit is a sonar-enabled glove that signals the proximity of nearby objects to the wearer using touch feedback. The glove allows visually impaired people to…