Josh Rubin

Josh Rubin is COOL HUNTING's founder, editor and executive creative director. He brings his background as a photographer and expertise as a user experience designer to his point of view on what makes a good story for CH—this most often include some kind of intersectionality between art, culture, technology and design. Josh is a bit of an urban hippie, obsessed with most things Japanese, a Sealyham Terrier lover and very food motivated.

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Polymer Vision

Philips owned Polymer Vision is capable of producing prototypes of ultra-thin, large-area, rollable displays on a routine basis and intends to rapidly move toward an industrially feasible production process. The displays combine …

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Gesture Based Interfaces

Toshiba, Hitachi and other home electronics manufacturers are investing heavily in the development of gesture based interfaces for their gadgets. As systems become more complex so do their interfaces. Gestures can be …

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Fonebak

Fonebak is a UK based initiative to recycle discarded mobile phones. Participants can drop off their handset at one of several participating shops, or they can mail it to Fonebak directly. The …

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Pimp Watches

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Pimp Watches is a Japanese watch maker that makes crazy limited edition LED watches. This one is called Trip the Light Fantastic . Totally rad! Available atTokyo Flash for $129- Thanks Marta

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ZipDecode

Ben Fry is a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on methods of visualizing large amounts of data from dynamic information sources. ZipDecode is a very simple visualization …

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Threadless

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Chicago based Threadless.com is an online, ongoing tee shirt design competition. Each week they choose 4 – 6 of the submitted designs to print and sell on their web site. It’s a …

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CustomInk

CustomInk is a web site where you can choose from a wide variety of T-Shirt styles (including my favorite, American Apparel ) and then upload graphics to print on them. It’s not …

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