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• Technology

  

  How Do You Solve a Problem Like Cell Phone E-waste?

  From tweens furiously texting to businessmen incessantly checking for incoming e-mails, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell where a...

  by Alicia Capetillo

• Cities

  

  Crowdsourcing Useful Data in NYC

  Last week, the city of New York launched "A software application competition to make New York City more transparent and accountable, and an easier...

  by Zach Frechette

• Cities

  

  Ideas for Cities: Tech Missions

  Tech Missions Technology evangelists and coaches could function as a mobile “genius bar,” going out to every neighborhood via exploration buses...

  by GOOD

• Technology

  

  Singularity 101 Will Return Next Week

  The singularity may be near, as Ray Kurzweil says, but our series, Singularity 101, is taking a break this week for the holidays. The next post...

  by GOOD

• Technology

  

  Skinput: Your Arm as Control Panel

  This prototype of a system called "skinput" (and it is definitely a prototype) lets you use your forearm or fingers to control your electronics....

  by Andrew Price

• Business

  

  Superb Idea: This Machine Recycles Your Old Phone and Gives You Money

  Despite the slightly dubious name, the ecoATM is a smart piece of work. Like those Coinstar machines, the ecoATM is designed to sit in grocery and...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  Why Google Should Stay in China

  Leaving China to domestic internet companies won't advance the cause of free information. In mid-December, Google suffered a "…sophisticated...

  by John Wagner Givens

• Technology

  

  Flyfire: A Digital Canvas in Space

  The imaginative folks at MIT's SenseAble City lab have a new project called Flyfire. The idea: Use a bunch of tiny, precision-controlled...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  A Map of the Drone Strikes in Pakistan

  The New America Foundation has an interactive map showing all the American drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. (Or at least all those they...

  by Andrew Price

• Business

  

  How Might We Measure What’s Most Meaningful?

  We live in a society that has refined its measurement of economic activity to an extreme degree. Indeed, many of the measures that we rely on...

  by Tim Brown

• Cities

  

  Ideas for Cities: Google Analytics for Learning

  Google Analytics for Learning Cities should measure the impact of learning more closely, because education reduces unemployment and poverty...

  by GOOD

• Technology

  

  Samasource: Internet Jobs for the Marginalized

  Leila Chirayath Janah, a friend of GOOD, recently launched a nonprofit venture called Samasource. Samasource aims to connect educated workers in...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  Criticisms of the Singularity

  Is superhuman intelligence feasible, or even desirable? Part seven in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic....

  by Michael Anissimov

• Technology

  

  Imagining Augmented Reality

  This animation by Keiichi Matsuda seems like a pretty reasonable vision of what the next iterations of augmented reality will bring. (Apparently...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  Travel the Trans-Siberian Railway from Home

  Google has put together a remarkable "virtual journey" that allows you to take the historic Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok. You...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  The "Outlet Regulator" Spits out Electricity Leeches

  Inventor Connor Klein's "Outlet Regulator" will actually spit out plugs that are draining electricity from the outlet unnecessarily. He...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  Recognizr: An Augmented Identity App

  There's been lots of talk about augmented reality. In this video (after the jump) see what the beginnings of augmented identity might look like....

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  Excellent: A Laser-equipped, Trash-sorting Robot

  Given that only 6 percent of the plastic crap we throw away gets recycled, it's good news that Mitsubishi and Osaka University have invented a...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  The Cost of Driveby Culture

  Seth Godin raises a question that any media company should be thinking about carefully: We're creating a culture of clickers, stumblers and jaded...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  Playing Pong with Nothing But Your Eyes

  Undergraduates at Imperial College London created a system that allows people to control a simple video game with their eyes alone. Video after...

  by Andrew Price