Gaurabh Mathure

A lot of times you see photos from cities and you don’t feel the same energy as Dutch photographer Marin Roemers captured in these. For his Metropolis photo series which captures cities on the move he won the World press photo award 2011. Currently he captured Calcutta, Manila, Karachi, Jakarta, Istanbul, Cairo and Mumbai in his lens

Rod Hunt has recently illustrated the 101 New York Sights map for Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises. An online interactive version appears on the Circle Line website & the print version will be available in tourist information centres & hotels throughout New York.

Rod Hunt has recently illustrated the 101 New York Sights map for Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises. An online interactive version appears on the Circle Line website & the print version will be available in tourist information centres & hotels throughout New York.

Brilliant idea and much needed in NYC ! You add your rent (anonymously) and get access to the rents that other people are paying.

Collect is a small independently published magazine which came about through a collaboration between freelance journalists, photographers and designers from Adelaide, South Australia. It talks about the world and the local neighbourhood, it's a big ask but they get the balance right. This publishing team fits very much with the philosophy of telling stories about "persons of interest".

Collect magazine can be found at independent 'corner stores' around Adelaide but also in like minded stores around the world. Editor in Chief of Monocle magazine, Tyler Brûlé, discovered Collect in the 'Papercut' store in Stockholm, he liked what he saw, and it's now stocked in Monocle stores worldwide.

collectmag.com.au/

When it comes to giving gifts, it's the thought that matters & now you can action it with Karma

A series of insights from Scott Belsky's book, 'Making Ideas Happen' turned into video snapshots by Fast Company

Would love to know what peoples expectations of this app are. After apps like Duet, Between, Icebreak & Kahnoodle that have taken on very different perspectives on the 'apps for couples' space, it would be interesting to know what people want out of the next app. Sign up for Twogether and send in your ideas as to what you think the app should do.

WHOA !!!

The ergonomic NIKE+ FuelBand captures and displays four different metrics: time, calories, steps and NikeFuel – a new metric that will be the ultimate measure of your athletic activity. NikeFuel is a proprietary technology that measures your activity through the movement of your wrist. NikeFuel motivates athletes to do more with a NikeFuel score that makes movement fun, meaningful and comparable, letting you compete with athletes of all levels in most activities. The more you move, the more NikeFuel you earn, whether you’re playing basketball, throwing a Frisbee or going for a run.

The Basis Band is a health tracking watch with optical sensors that track your heart rate, an accelerometer to see how active you are, galvanic skin response to measure your perspiration, plus ambient and skin temperature sensors. All that data gets run through a few Basis algorithms to create a picture of your health that's displayed in the handy-dandy web portal you see above. The dashboard is meant to make your data digestible so you can create (and meet) your health goals, and there's both game mechanics and social media integration to keep you motivated.

Every year, some USD 52 million is lost by users of New York City’s MetroCard payment system when they replace old cards that still have a small amount of value remaining. Aiming to put that leftover money to better use, MetroChange is a new system designed to capture that last bit of change on old cards and donate it to charity instead.

MetroChange has designed a kiosk to be placed at busy subway stations throughout the city — “especially those where tourists and occasional users of the subway transition out of the subway system, transferring to an airport or regional train service”. Commuters and travelers who have a small amount of unused value remaining on a card can swipe that card at one of those kiosks, where the value will be recorded and transmitted to a central fund. The customer’s physical MetroCard, meanwhile, is taken for recycling. Then, MetroChange’s central fund will be converted into real money each month and donated to charity.