I was fortunate to recently receive an invite to Cowbird. It is a very beautiful and purposeful place on the interwebs for storytelling and building a history of interconnectedness and interdependence through an interface that [...]

The Lytro camera is a light-field, or plenoptic, camera Shooting an image in proper focus is a challenge for most budding photographers. Lytro’s revolutionary light field camera, which was officially unveiled today, aims to solve [...]

Auctions were supposed to be the new way to buy and sell everything. It didn’t turn out that way—just ask eBay. In 1846, an Irish immigrant named Alexander Turney Stewart opened a store in New [...]

A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes. A study in the Feb. 5 Science reports that water can freeze at different temperatures depending on whether the surface it rests on [...]

Image via Wikipedia Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a Korean research team’s new [...]

Image via Wikipedia Silicon Valley thinks the internet can transform anything from car sales to anonymous sex, but the way Americans grow and buy food is rooted in ancient, offline systems. Now, a Bay Area [...]