Move over, Andrew Jackson: a new national campaign is out to replace the former president with a fresh face on the $20 bill. The “Women on 20s” movement is going viral, with 80,000 people heading online to pick from potential candidates like suffragist Elizabeth Cady [Read More]
In the United States, public punishments have been banned since 1839. But nearly two centuries later, it seems like someone’s being flogged in a virtual town square on the Internet every day.
In his new book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, investigative journalist Jon Ronson examines [Read More]
If you dream of having an herb gardens but don’t have a backyard, patio, or access to a super sunny climate, meet ROOT, a countertop irrigation system that uses automated lighting and watering controlled through your smartphone.
ROOT is the brainchild of organic growers Ohneka Farms. Since it’s a [Read More]
Linksys, D-Link, Netgear, and Belkin—no matter which router you use, getting wireless internet working in your home—your entire home—is often a miserable experience.
Eero wants to make it better.
A new breakthrough in the world of routers, Eero has been dubbed the carefree Wi-Fi system–and not without [Read More]
By Amy Heinz
One night last week I caught myself cooking up taco meat, declining the fifth pitch of the week I’d received from a company who desperately thinks I need to diet and share my experience with the world, and getting a ballet demonstration from my [Read More]
Thanks to the internet, buying local has never been so easy. People from all over the world are able to sell their handmade items through Facebook and Etsy. Homegrown success generates massive appeal and a personal connection that corporate, factory-made items will always lack. But Etsy isn’t [Read More]
The holidays are almost upon us, and while we’re thrilled about bonding with the people we love most, we’re not exactly looking forward to lugging packages to the post office and waiting (and waiting and waiting) in line to send them.
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Of all the new things technology allows us to do, it’s funny how much we use it to recall our favorite memories of days gone by. Whether we’re pulling up the lyrics to Bell Biv Devoe, taking a quiz to find out which Muppet [Read More]
Have you noticed that more people are canceling their cable in favor of streaming services? Many viewers now watch movies and television shows on their tablet devices via platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, and Hulu Plus. With the rising costs of cable, nixing [Read More]
It might be hard to imagine, but the geniuses behind Silicon Valley’s best tech actually have something in common with fashion’s most innovative designers — they’re all tapped into the kind of imagination that lets them dream big, and bring their visions [Read More]
