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What People Look Like When Their Plane Is About To Crash

One of the engines of an Airbus A330 caught on fire while it was in the air. The passengers saw fire, smelled smoke, and thought they were going down. This is what the people on the plane looked like.


March 14, 2011
Online

Interactive Migration Map Shows Where People Are Going—and What They’re Abandoning

No, a massive earthquake did not also strike the East Coast today and cause thousands of refugees to flee inland. That said, while the lines do not represent refugees, this is still a massive migration of people.


March 3, 2011
Science

Here’s What The Most Average Person In The World Looks Like

National Geographic went about collecting statistics on the world’s population (which currently stands at 7 billion). Know what they found? Apparently, the most average/typical/frequent person on this planet is male, 28-years-old and is Han Chinese in ethnicity (with 9,000,000 alive). But they didn’t stop there. Taking images from 190,000 of those fitting the criteria, researchers created a composite image to show what the most average person looks like.


February 13, 2011
Cameras

An Inspirational Blind Photographer

| Artists Wanted | In Focus : Pete Eckert from Artists Wanted on Vimeo.

Pete Eckert is a photographer. He’s also blind after suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa. The video above shows his amazing photography process—from composing, snapping to processing in the dark room. Eckert is doing something he loves, even if most of us would foolishly assume he couldn’t. Check out Pete Eckert’s website here. [Pete Eckert via Neatorama]


November 13, 2010

Interactive People-Watching

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Oh, this is fun. Multimedia artist Rune Madsen took the usually passive act of people-watching and made it, well, a lot less passive. Watch how the stream of pedestrian traffic adapts as he rearranges some barricades.


September 5, 2010
Geek Out

Sometimes We Want Too Many Things We Don’t Need

Remember as a kid you only wanted one thing at a time? A bike, a doll, a football. Now, we’re all caught up wanting everything we see, and a lot of it we don’t need. Let’s try to want less.


August 20, 2010
Software

‘People’ Is First iPad Magazine To Be Offered Free To Print Subscribers

After making headlines for its potentially industry-changing photo agency wrangling, People magazine’s iPad app will go on record as being the first title to be offered free to those who subscribe to the magazine as well. Wired, GQ—wha?


August 19, 2010
Software

iPad Version Of ‘People’ Magazine Held Up Over Paparazzi Photos

Gossip magazines owe much of their content to photo agencies, offering voyeuristic snapshots of celebrities’ lives. US People magazine is currently battling the agencies over the release of their iPad app, believing they shouldn’t have to pay twice for images.


January 26, 2010
Geek Out

Five Questions With Panera Bread iMac Man

Unwittingly snapped by a sandwich shop paparazzo, Panera Bread iMac Man took centre stage of our corner of the internet for one day in December. More pictures surfaced, but our questions remained unanswered. So we got in touch.


June 11, 2007
Uncategorized

Fake Steve Jobs More Relevant Than The Real One?

Yesterday, in the CNN Money/Business 2.0 poll “Who Matters Most”, Fake Steve Jobs was ranking higher than the real Steve Jobs.

But that’s not saying much: the rest of the results are ridiculously skewed toward “impossible.”