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Thursday, February 21
An Illustrated Guide To Manhattan’s Most Surprising Denizens

An Illustrated Guide To Manhattan’s Most Surprising Denizens

A loose coyote is an inconvenience in most parts of the country. In New York, it gets a Twitter account.

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Google Glass Gets Hip With Warby Parker

Google Glass Gets Hip With Warby Parker

To avoid the Geordi-effect, Google is working with hipster glasses company Warby Parker to sell a version of Glass we’ll actually want to wear.

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8 Brilliant Concepts For The Future Of Wearable Tech

8 Brilliant Concepts For The Future Of Wearable Tech

Legendary design studio Frog held an internal competition to conceptualize the most innovative wearables. Here’s what their studios worldwide came up with.

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GPS Sensor Tags That Make Cowboys And Fences Obsolete

GPS Sensor Tags That Make Cowboys And Fences Obsolete

Farmers can control where their cattle and sheep graze from a computer with this emergent technology.

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Planning A New York City That Can Withstand Climate Change

Planning A New York City That Can Withstand Climate Change

The East River Blueway is a glimpse of how the city is preparing for the rising tides to come.

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How Junk Food Is Engineered To Be Hopelessly Addicting

How Junk Food Is Engineered To Be Hopelessly Addicting

You know that feeling where you snack and snack and never quite get satisfied? That’s what the industry calls "the bliss point."

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iPhone Maps For The Blind, Using Haptic Tech

iPhone Maps For The Blind, Using Haptic Tech

Moving pins on a perforated screen gives the visually impaired a constantly updated way to navigate the urban environment.

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What 15 Years Of Computer Screen Evolution Looks Like

What 15 Years Of Computer Screen Evolution Looks Like

The standard desktop monitor today has a resolution of 2560x1600. This artwork shows two dozen or so of its most recent ancestors.

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Tempo: A Calendar App From The Makers of Siri

Tempo: A Calendar App From The Makers of Siri

When are prying eyes helpful? When they schedule your day.

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A still from data artist Aaron Koblin's seminal work in mapping flight patterns. [url=http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/]Read more here[/url].

You’re Never More Than 19 Clicks From The Other End Of The Web*

According to a Hungarian physicist, no matter how big the Internet may seem, you can almost always traverse it in under 20 clicks.

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A Peek At Apple’s Patent For A Slap Bracelet iWatch

A Peek At Apple’s Patent For A Slap Bracelet iWatch

Apple’s latest patent application portends a flexible, slap-bracelet future.

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Infographic: The NBA’s Best Players, Visualized As Statistical Snowflakes

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Infographic: The NBA’s Best Players, Visualized As Statistical Snowflakes

A former Pentagram designer serves up stat-based footprints for the league’s finest players.

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Smart Branding For A Moveable Feast Of Brainy Delights

Smart Branding For A Moveable Feast Of Brainy Delights

The grid becomes a way to maintain consistency across multiple languages, topics, and mediums at Strelka Institute.

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02 / 21 two thousand and thirteen
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From the Editor

Thanks for stopping by Fast Company’s Co.Design. If you’ve been a reader for some time, you’ll notice that we’ve just unveiled a brand-new redesign. You can read about the thought process behind it here. Our content, of course, will be the same: Our focus is on highlighting the world’s best examples of design and innovation, working in concert.

We started this site with a few simple premises in mind. First, design is a window onto the world at large, and the culture we live in.

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