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Although earbuds are very convenient when on the go, somehow I prefer not to wear them while driving or riding my bike. I get the feel that blocking out essential noises, especially when cycling can be detrimental. Something like this Portable Speaker Design for Cycles is what I’d love to use instead. They look sleek and have an easy way to fit in. Love their simple looks and easy access to controls. Way to go!

Designer: Yu Haibo

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That ID school project where you have to drop an egg off a building in a cardboard structure? NASA engineers could do that in their sleep. Last night many of us were glued to thrilling online coverage of the Curiosity Rover’s successful landing on Mars, which brought with it an insane challenge: How do you get a one-ton car, which is traveling 13,000 miles per hour in orbit, safely down to the surface?

Previous Mars Rovers were small and could be crash-landed within a bubble of airbags, which wouldn’t work for the 2,000-pound Curiosity. So NASA’s eggheads came up with the following plan, which sounds like something you get fired for suggesting: As the capsule containing the payload enters the atmosphere, thrusters pilot it towards the target landing site while heat shielding prevents it from burning up. Next a parachute deploys to slow the craft down. Then the rover, concealed within a sort of rocket platform, drops away from the capsule. The rocket platform fires up its onboard jets, going into a slow, controlled descent. Then, while hovering over the surface, the rocket platform lowers the Rover to the ground on cables.

NASA informally refers to the procedure as the “Seven Minutes of Terror.” A sequence of 79 events all have to be perfectly executed in order for this to work. Mars is some 150-million-plus miles away from Earth, resulting in a worse-than-Skype fourteen-minute communication lag, so it’s not like some hyper-caffeinated jockey with a joystick can make last-minute corrections. If one little thing goes wrong, that’s $2.6 billion down the drain.

But yeah, they pulled it off. This NASA animation of the landing plan is your must-see video of the week:

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Despite the fact that so many of us carry smartphones these days, it’s ridiculously awkward to share data from one phone to the other if you’re standing right next to someone. Let’s say you want to send a photo to a friend after you just snapped one together. You’d have to go through the same process—tap out a message and send an email or text—that you would if you were on different sides of the planet. Short of Bluetooth, which requires an annoying pairing process, there are very few local data sharing options.

Enter Chirp, a new app for the iPhone. Like Bump, it makes local sharing fun, but it adds a… chirpy twist. Instead of physically butting phones together, you instruct your phone to emit a short song. It acts as a cry out to the other smartphones in the area, and any phone listening can pick it up, as a sort of aural QR code. Sharing is easy and intuitive, and as long as your app is running and listening, it’s easy to receive the link.

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Le designer et réalisateur basé à Londres Fabrice Le Nezet a cherché avec ce projet à représenter visuellement l’idée de mesure. Son objectif de matérialiser la notion de poids ou de distance est très réussi, jouant avec talent avec les jeux de lumières et les matières modélisées. A découvrir dans la suite.

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It’s not the first time that zipper functionality has been introduced to earphones. While earlier concepts only dealt with taking care of managing the earphones, this improvised version has some new features to it. For example, to control the volume of your digital player, simply slide the earphone line up or down, just like zipping up and down. To change tracks, you need to twirl the line either to the left or right. By employing intuitive gestures to control your device, the design has the potential to become a good product. Now only if we can figure out the engineering for it.

Designer: Lucy Jung

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