INSPIRE OSCAR DE LA RENTA
World renowned couture designer Oscar de la Renta launched a digital inspiration board for anyone that wants to inspire his next resort collection. Oscar is asking for you to be his muse during the next three months. All you need to do is upload images or videos on The Board (not be confused with HEDGEAnswer’s The Board which is for job postings, investment pitches and selling/swaping stuff like apartments — you are also invited to pin anything). His plea is simple “Don’t Tell Me, Show Me,” however he explains it more eloquently here. The blog Luxuo notes, “de la Renta’s original take on crowd-sourcing via The Board comes after Mugler’s […]
YOUR WIRELESS ANTENNA IS JUST A SPRITZ AWAY
In the near future, nanocapacitors spewed from a spray can on to a wall, tree, clothing and even underwater may replace ugly cell towers. During the Solve for X event, Google’s answer to TED, a Utah based start-up ChamTech Operations Enterprises, Inc. unveiled their spray-on wireless antenna technology. Wacth it. It holds the promise of no longer asking “can you hear me now?” or dancing around to pick up a signal. Physorg noted that studies revealed the ability “to send a VHF signal up to 14 miles away using only the treated tree. Rhett Spencer, chief technology officer of Chamtech, said the company’s spray-on technology could make cell phones work […]