This Phosphor E-Ink Watch Is Your Style-And-Substance Deal of the Day
Gone are the days of owning a watch with a million buttons, with a calculator that answers your homework, tells you the current barometric pressure on Mount Everest, and keeps you in radio communication with your best friend down the street. Nowadays it’s all about minimalism. Keeping things simple. Clean lines. Functionality. And you know…
Why Building the Death Star Is a Bad Investment
I wish to address the most important policy question of the millenium: should we build a Death Star? This debate picked up this year after some Lehigh University students estimated that just the steel for a Death Star would cost $852 quadrillion, or 13,000 times the current GDP of the Earth. Kevin Drum suggests this…
4 Surefire Ways to Make Remote Workers Feel Like They’re Part of the Team
Do you work with an unseen group of developers based in a foreign country? A pod of mystery sales folks in San Fran? A cadre of freelance writers scattered throughout the U.S.? Well, they probably feel left out sometimes. Here are some ways to bring those satellite co-workers into the fold of your company’s day-to-day…
Low-Tech Water-Powered Alarm Clock, Flatpack Papercraft Gramophone, and More from TreeHugger
This week on TreeHugger, build a solar-powered cigar box amp, giant lilypads take over waterways, our favorite Star Wars-themed posts, and more! Build a Robot! Arduino-Based Four-Legged Robot Your Can Make Yourself We love biomimicry in robots, especially those that look and move like animals and insects. Now here’s an opportunity to build your own!…