LIFE

Public Kitchen Workshop Cooks & Builds Furniture with Donations, Recycled Materials

The convergence of growing crises in community, environment, technology and economy is laying the groundwork for practices such as car sharing, tool libraries and skill swaps. Echoing this encouraging move towards collaborative consumption (or sharing, for simplicity’s sake), designers Johanna Dehio & Dominik Hehl put together Construsine, a public kitchen workshop that allows participants to cook and build collaboratively using entirely donated and recycled materials.
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HEALTH

The Physiological Consequences of Being Hyperconnected

When most people, myself included, discuss the negative effects of staying glued to our smartphones, computers, tablets, and social networking sites at all times, they often focus on everything we miss out on: meaningful interpersonal interactions, quality time spent with our significant others, a beautiful sunset/rise, good books, quality sleep, a great hike, the felt presence of immediate experience, that car barreling down the street toward us as we head into the crosswalk focused on who liked our Facebook post. And those are all important reasons to limit your screen time, but recent research is revealing a series of physiological, physical, and psychological ramifications to being hyperconnected all the time
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TECHNOLOGY

BitLock: Next Generation Bike Lock Uses Your Smartphone as the Key

Instead of having to keep track of the key to your bike lock, and pass it to your friend in order to loan the bike out, a new kind of locking device for bicycles uses proximity sensing and shared access to make bike security much simpler.

Bitlock is billed as the “world’s first keyless bike lock”, and the system uses a Bluetooth connection with your smartphone to sense when you’re within three feet of it, which will then enable you to unlock it with a push of a button on the lock itself.
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