Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Smart Shopping with GoodGuide App





The GoodGuide app instantly reveals whether products are safe, healthy, green and socially responsible while you shop. The app’s barcode scanning feature lets you quickly access GoodGuide’s science-based health, environment and social ratings for over 170,000 products. GoodGuide’s personalization features enable you to choose the issues you care about most - like nutritional value, safe and healthy ingredients, animal welfare, human rights, climate change, energy efficiency, and more. The app will then inform you whether products pass or fail on your key criteria.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Metrominuto: The Subway-Inspired Map For Pedestrians



Walkability is a subject many cities are increasingly getting involved with. Our legs are often overlooked when thinking about transport in the city, with municipalities passionately constructing bicycle lanes and roads as far as the eye can see whilst competely forgetting about the pedestrian’s needs. Instead of focusing on these forms of transport, Pontevedra in northwest Spain has been trying for the last 15 years to make their city more walker-friendly. To further improve walkability, they have created a subway-inspired map for pedestrians.

Source: http://popupcity.net/2013/03/metrominuto-the-subway-inspired-map-for-pedestrians/

Word Lens App - See the world in your language!

Available in German, Italian, French, and Spanish (to and from English). Word Lens is a dictionary -- evolved. It looks up words for you! If a translation fails, there is a way to manually look up words by typing them in. Word Lens does not read very stylized fonts, handwriting, or cursive.  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-lens/id383463868