The Future of Biking, and How Good Design Can Help. Your country is changing under your feet.
Policies enacted early in the first Obama administration are quietly ushering in a new era of efficient use of our infrastructure.* Federal funding for biking/walking has increased astronomically since 1990: nearly 5,000 percent. (Highway funding in the same period, only 130 percent). Participation follows infrastructure.
Infrastructural growth, along with ridership, is increasing at triple digit rates. The number of bike commuters in the U.S. rose 674 percent from 1990 to 2006, and the bike share of all commuters rose from 0.4 percent to 0.6 percent.* More new bike lanes are rolling out all the time. The secondary effects are coming, too. Here is where my team and I come in. We are convinced that biking makes for better cities. Specifically, we've just rolled out a set of lights on Kickstarter that integrate onto the bike. Fenugreen FreshPaper keeps food fresh for longer, naturally!
Improve Your Golf Swing With This Mobile Device. You know the feeling: It's hole one, and you're chosen to tee off first.
You step up, tee your ball and stretch out your arms. All eyes are on you. "Doesn't matter," you tell yourself, "I'm going to do great! " After a few practice swings, you line up — with one final, confident glance toward your target — and swing away. CRACK. Mobiplex, a Silicon Valley tech company, recently released a device with that very concern in mind. "The clip is about as big as a USB stick and weighs under one ounce," Vijay Nadkarni, founder and CEO of Mobiplex, tells Mashable. Inside the clip, he says, is a wireless 3-D motion sensor that's paired with an app — available for free download on both iOS or Android appliances. In designing the device, Mobiplex teamed up with several golf veterans, including Masters Tournament Champion Craig Stadler, former PGA player Ray Leach and professional-grade golf swing expert David Butler. SEE ALSO: 8 Mobile Apps for Golf Season Thumbnail image courtesy of Flickr, kulicki. Miessence Story.
While completing a Bachelor of Applied Science in Information Management in 1992, a friend introduced Narelle Chenery to a new natural skin care range on the market.
The company promoted itself as producing the “best products from science and nature.” They boasted about the purity of their ingredients, but diminished the numerous chemical contents; in fact, they denied having any ‘unnatural’ ingredients at all! Even though the products contained ingredients she couldn't pronounce, (and because these were termed “natural ingredients” from coconut and palm), Narelle just presumed they were natural and safe to use. Soon after she began promoting this “natural” range to her friends and family, a cosmetic ingredient dictionary caught her attention whilst browsing through a health food store, enlightening her about the dangers of the ingredients she was using. As a young mother pregnant with her third child, Narelle’s kitchen hobby soon grew into a vibrant home-based business.
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