Apps are consuming our time, and apparently also our money. In Valleywag, Nitasha Tiku makes a fascinating case for how freemium app makers have manipulated some of the basest elements of human nature to get us to spend big bucks on meaningless in-app purchases. We paid out $606.7 million dollars to Candy Crush in the first […]
One of the worst aspects of human nature is our need to brandish our cell phone cameras at concerts or museums and capture every single moment. According to researchers at Fairfield University, people who rely on their cameras to capture every moment of an event are not fully immersed in it themselves so they’re less […]
Karim Rashid, industrial designer and apparent evangelist for the color pink, has released an electro-pop EP on iTunes. The EPs title comes from a call to arms in Rashids own Karimanifesto: if human nature is to live in the past — to change the world is to change human nature. In his manifesto, Rashid, the […]
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