March 12, 2014

The Self Making Bed

DailyMail: The simple act of making a bed is, for most of us, the first chore of each day. Now the relentless march of technology threatens to bring to an end even this most straightforward of domestic tasks. Spanish firm OHEA has unveiled its Smart Bed, an electronic bed that makes itself. Technology marches on. […]

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The History of the Paperclip

Slate: Most everyday objects — like the key, or the book, or the phone—evolve over time in incremental ways, and the 20th century in particular revolutionized, streamlined, or technologized the vast majority of the things you hold in your hand over the course of an average day. But if you could step into an office

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How to Sell Baseball Bats

Selling bats to MLB players isn’t like working in a sporting good store: Like a fashion designer who gives Oscar-bound starlets free gowns, a bat salesman hands out free wares, eating the $70-to-$120 cost of a high-quality bat. (After the free trial, if the player orders a bat, they’re paid for by the ballclub). But

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