Looking for Work? If You Can’t Link, You Can’t Report in 2013
From the beginning of the web, whether you date that from Ted Nelson‘s early theorizing or the work of CERN’s Tim Berners-Lee, or even go back to Vannevar Bush‘s seminal “As We May Think” article in Atlantic magazine in 1945, modern thoughts on the subject, including Jeff Jarvis’ 2007 “New rule: Cover what you do […]
Mobile Tailoring and 3-D Body Scans, the Future of Men’s Fashion
From the slim wool blazers that fit the Mad Men gentlemen like a glove, to the hem of Nate Reuss’ trousers being so high, it looks as though he’s always in immediate danger of a flash flood. It’s obvious that men are going to great lengths to express their style through the tailoring of their […]
With CTA’s Ventra comes the future of paying for everything
But it’ll cost you, and might not work with your phone If you use the CTA, you’ve seen the boxes appear next to ticket machines at train stations and scanners installed on buses and turnstiles. They call it Ventra, after the Latin word for ‘wind.’ It is the machinery that powers the CTA’s new system […]
Company looking for help designing videogames that highlight tax inequities
Guerilla game designers, here is your chance to show you skills and do it in time for April Fool’s Day. Game-developers and/or graphic designers are needed to help create online videogames that challenges Wall St. banks, dirty energy companies, and telecom giants. Launch is scheduled for the window before Tax Day. CONCEPT: classic Space Invaders […]
Time For Tech Notes: RebelMouse pulls your social network together
Time for Tech Notes is an occasional feature of Chicagotalks.org. Send us your suggestions for tech we should talk about, or send us your review as a “Time for Tech Note.” Rebel Mouse, is a social publishing platform that allows for users to share their content in a similar way to the digital clipboard site […]