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    Desktop mounts “Elevate” workspace for sit-to-stand flexibility

    Sit-to-stand desktops typically have a wide base with a hinged upper platform that can be raised or lowered as required. InMovement’s new Elevate range, however, takes a different approach. Three of the four models replace the wide base with a ...
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    Here’s how the high line’s landscape architects reenvision the office park

    If you work in the Philadelphia Navy Yard—a 1,200-acre industrial site turned office campus—your lunch break might include a game of ping pong or bocce ball. You could stretch your legs on a 1/5-mile running track, snag a bite from ...
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    Smart fingers: The best kit for your connected garden

    You don’t need to have a back yard if you want a smart garden now that the connected world has caught up with horticulture. In fact, there are handfuls of sensors at the ready which are adept at picking up ...
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    Backyard biogas converter turns household food scraps into cooking gas

    An Israeli startup is looking to help families turn their food scraps into cooking gas. HomeBioGas Ltd has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring a compact biogas converter to urban and rural areas in developed countries, and to underserved ...
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    Anti-Busyness Campaigns

    A new JetBlue campaign asks: “Are you Humankind or Humankinda?” As a company that has always embraced humanity, the question refers to the amount of business that takes over human lives. As JetBlue describes the term, Humankinda can be defined ...
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    Temperature-Splitting Mattress Covers

    The Luna Mattress Cover Turns Your Bed Into a Smart Bed. Picture this: after a long day, you’re readier than ever to snuggle up in bed, relax and drift away to sleep; this smart mattress cover helps you achieve that. ...
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    The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies

    Managers want employees to put in long days, respond to their emails at all hours, and willingly donate their off-hours — nights, weekends, vacation — without complaining. The underlings in this equation have little control; overwork cascades from the top of the ...
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    You’ve Never Seen a Bed Like This Before

    The Murphy bed gets a new twist. Sometimes society progresses not by introducing a radically new technology, but rather by combining two old ones. The bed is an ancient technology. The elevator is a somewhat more recent one. But why ...
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    This is what your body is busy doing while you’re asleep

    This infographic breaks down everything your body does while you’re not awake. It’s making us tired just looking at it. In our increasingly busy lives, sleep can feel pretty unproductive. But just because you’re not awake, doesn’t mean stuff isn’t ...