TIME's picture of the week 11/27/10: Santa Clauses receive instructions from a teddy bear and pose for pictures after a general meeting to launch the annual Student Union charitable Santa Claus rental campaign in Berlin, Germany. ...
Industrial Facility's discrete, vibrating alarm-clock watch is perfect for couples who never rise at the same time. We know that sounds totally absurd, but hear us out. The watch, Analarm, has a vibrating alarm -- just like what’s in your cell phone -- so when it’s time to rise and shine, it pulses against your skin....
Google this week reiterated its interest in being able to give users search results before they even know they want them. At the LeWeb '10 conference in Paris on Wednesday, Marissa Mayer, vice president of location services at Google, said the company is working on giving users results without the search. "The idea is to push information...
(CNN) — Companies spend billions on rent, offices, and office equipment so their employees will have a great place to work. However, when you ask people where they go when they really need to get something done, you’ll rarely hear them say it’s the office. If you ask, you’ll usually get one of three kinds of responses:...
“Making a call to customer support” is probably second only to “getting a root canal” on most people’s lists of “fun things I’d really rather not do today.” If you’ve seen NBC’s Outsourced, your opinion of call centers has likely plummeted still further. Despite the energy that companies invest in trying to improve call center...
The Journey KARL BUSHBY IS MELAQUE’S MOST CURIOUS FULL-TIME RESIDENT. This small town on Mexico’s Costa Alegre has been the former British paratrooper’s base of operations for three years. Every morning he sits in an indoor-outdoor café two blocks from the ocean and nurses an orange juice, making use of a weak wireless signal from...
What every 10 year old kid strives to build when they get their first K'Nex kit ...
French photographer, Sacha Goldberger, discovered that his 91 year-old Hungarian grandmother, Frederika, was suffering from depression, so to help cheer her up he turned her into a superhero and shot photos of her in unique poses and in interesting locations. Be sure to check out all the photos - they're pure awesome. Via Laughing...
Urban Anthropologists, Andy and Carolyn London, interview some of New York City's more overlooked citizens. ...