Coulomb gets its big break, partners with Siemens to charge up electric cars

Coulomb Technologies, maker of networked charging stations for plug-in vehicles, has been growing steadily, rolling out its equipment one city or region at a time. Its technology is promising, but mass adoption still seemed far off. That may have changed today, with the announcement that the company has partnered with [...]

Fold a Bath Towel Efficiently for Easy Storage and Hanging [Efficiency]

Folding a towel wouldn’t seem an area in need of improvement and wiser time use, but folding a towel to go straight from the linen closet to the hanging bar saves real time.
Photo by davco9200.
Why fold a towel one way to store it, then have to refold it to hang neatly on the towel bar [...]

From Tokyo: Demo of “almost finalized” augmented reality tagging app Sekai Camera (videos)

I attended the inaugural event of the AR Commons in Tokyo today, a new initiative that’s supposed to help set “standards of augmented reality as a public environment”. In other words, the symposium is an attempt to understand what augmented reality, the mixing of the real world with computer data, really is and what consequences [...]