http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:40:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/hp-mobile-os-goes-open-source-headlines.html Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:25:53 +0000 It's official: WebOS will be open sourced, continuing investment into the technology platform. Should Android and Apple be worried?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/cia-looking-to-mine-social-media-data.html Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:45:41 +0000 The intelligence community intends to follow social media sites for data to predict significant political and societal events.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/the-upside-of-blogging-for-huffpo.html Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:47:16 +0000 Writer Mathew Ingram shares a positive perspective about blogging for free,comparing the act to writing open-source code.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/new-documentarys-open-source-tour-model.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:15:06 +0000 Filmmaker plans on putting distribution into the hands of fans.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/multiplayer-environment-encourages-virtual-urban-development.html Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:37:43 +0000 An open source web platform allows city planners and locals to actively collaborate and shape urban development projects in their regions.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/simple-software-can-make-a-big-difference-video.html Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:42:05 +0000 Widely available personal technology utilised to aid in the regular intake of prescriptive medicine.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/open-source-google-street-view-map.html Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:59:09 +0000 An ambitious new project aims to map areas that Google Street View has not -- most places outside the US and Europe]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/biomodd-fosters-symbiotic-nature-technology-sculptures.html Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:10:06 +0000 An open source art project taps into the casemodding subculture for sculptural inspiration and creative solutions to e-waste]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/vjacket-provides-performative-ways-to-vj.html Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:44:33 +0000 A wearable music interface brings gesture control to VJing.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/a-kinect-powered-autonomous-flying-machine.html Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:27:39 +0000 A team from the Hybrid Systems Lab at Berkeley have put together a prototype device that uses the Microsoft device to navigate the world.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/get-invisible-with-kinect.html Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:24:02 +0000 The latest Kinect hack makes people appear transparent.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/thimbl-a-call-to-arms-for-the-open-web.html Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:02:41 +0000 A distributed micro-blogging platform challenges the corporate structures and data hoarding that characterize the social web as we know it.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/interactive-hand-puppet-the-latest-kinect-hack.html Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:10:35 +0000 Design studio uses Microsoft's new add-on to develop an interactive digital puppet show.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/crowdsourcing-8-bit-educational-games.html Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:17:13 +0000 Playpower.org combines the power of play and 8 bit gaming to increase education opportunities in the developing world.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/sahana-open-source-disaster-management-system.html Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:37:24 +0000 When large natural disasters occur, its quite difficult for information to circulate about how aid workers from differing factions should approach such situations.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/open-sourcing-the-natural-sciences.html Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:49:42 +0000 A new website seeks to put the documentation of the life sciences in the hands of everyone via an open social network. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/open-source-versus-individual-rights-in-networked-culture.html Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:32:53 +0000 The debate over how digital systems should operate pits individual rights against collective identity in the case of Wikipedia. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/video-eggbot-teaches-about-diy-robotics-and-open-source-software.html Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:06:14 +0000 A robotic drawing machine digitizes a holiday pastime. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/future-of-health-the-open-prosthetics-project.html Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:32:14 +0000 PSFK speaks with Jon Kuniholm, founder of a project aiming to bring open source collaboration to the world of assistive technology.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/future-of-health-bio-medical-printing.html Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:45:08 +0000 Developments in 3D printing are allowing for the rapid prototyping of medicines, artificial prosthetics, and even human tissue, pointing towards future access to medical support anywhere on-demand.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/future-of-health-hacking-healthcare.html Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:30:43 +0000 In an effort to develop viable, low-cost, widely-available solutions for a number of pressing healthcare concerns, a growing community of users is taking a DIY approach to bottom-up innovation.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/brand-identity-as-souce-code.html Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:24:37 +0000 Hacking Couture treats fashion elements such as logos and fabric choices as codes to derive new and evolving fashion aesthetics.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/hacker-conference-to-distrubute-open-api-rfid-badges.html Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:00:09 +0000 The Next HOPE conference is set to explore a number of interesting questions regarding the capabilities and potential misuses of RFID. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/05/cmmn-shaping-the-future-of-personal-mobility.html Wed, 12 May 2010 17:48:14 +0000 With over 800 members, C,mm,n (pronounced ‘common’) is aiming to produce an open source electric vehicle.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/3d-printing-helps-fuel-open-source-prosthetics-project.html Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:04:14 +0000 The Open Prosthetics Project uses the skills of creative designers, engineers and funders to help speed up and amplify the impact of prosthetic innovation.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/video-inspiration-30-seconds-with-bug-labs.html Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:53:21 +0000 PSFK recently met up with Peter Semmelhack, CEO and founder of Bug Labs, to talk about re-approaching hardware as a personalized and open source system that can revolutionize the way we build the things we imagine.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/video-when-open-source-works-in-the-offline-world.html Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:21:22 +0000 Can companies sustain themselves using open source innovation?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/sourcemap-provides-an-open-source-tool-for-tracking-manufacturing-impact.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:02:43 +0000 The open-source tool gives registered users a platform for building a database composed of the origin, carbon footprint, and other impact-relevant characteristics of manufactured items. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/the-wiz-open-source-gaming-device.html Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:50:02 +0000 Built by Korea-based Gamepark, the Wiz is a new open source gaming device.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/straighterline-all-you-can-learn-for-99-a-month.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:50:43 +0000 StraighterLine is a new kind of remote education company, offering online college courses in basic subjects such as math, accounting and writing at an extremely low flat rate of $99 a month.]]>