Cool Hunting Video: Penguin Enrichment

How an iPad keeps the naturally curious birds engaged at a California aquarium

During a recent visit to Los Angeles, we stopped by the Aquarium of the Pacific after hearing about their interesting use of technology in the enrichment program for their Magellanic penguins. Experimenting with many objects to engage the naturally curious birds, aviculturist Sara Mandel found that the penguins took quite a liking to an iPad game she got for her cats. To Mandel’s surprise, the …

The Yota Phone 2

Sticking to its signature dual-screen, electronic paperless display (EPD) smartphones, Russia’s Yota Devices is introducing the second iteration of its innovative Yota Phone. Similar to its predecessor, the Yota Phone 2 will feature a Kindle-like display opposite from its main screen, except this time it’s fully touch-sensitive. In the past, the usability of the EPD was questionable, but Yota Devices has revamped the phone’s user …

Twibfy Image Marketplace

An aesthetically driven platform for finding, organizing, buying and selling quality visual content online

As it stands, when searching for stock photos, publications and the general public have few options for quality, legal images worth publishing. And, as a photographer or artist, there are even fewer ways to combat having your work plagiarized or published without consent—or payment. To combat both these issues, while delivering an attractive platform to discover, share, submit and organize a range of visual content, …