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Bench advertising is very commonly seen in bus stops and public parks. On my daily commute, they’re mostly dominated by dentists, realtors, pharmaceutical companies, and sometimes public health campaigns like HIV testing. ...

"Up In The Air" I have a 12-mile daily commute on Venice Boulevard, and it’s very interesting to see how advertisers try to grab commuters’ attention, especially now with digital billboards. As...

826 Bostonis the seventh center to be modeled after 826 Valencia, the acclaimed youth writing program co-founded by writer Dave Eggers. Continuumpaired up with the local writing and tutoring center to create a new brand identity, communication strategy, and print collateral...

Swine flew with panel in the conference. For those of you who were never a Boy Scout, the Pinewood Derby is a competition in which contestants build a small wooden car to race on a 40 foot track against other cars of the same approximate size and weight...

final blog in a series of 5 There is still quite a bit of detective work to be done. A cursory look at our graphs shows we are using on average 40kWatts (the equivalent of 400, 100 Watt, light bulbs) during nights/weekends and about 120kWatts peak during normal business hours...

#4 of 5 part series The client application runs on the iMx21 meter reader. It contains 2 endless threads SocketThread and LCD Thread. LCDThread – each iteration of the loop it performs a frame grab using the EZFB API. ...

There is still quite a bit of detective work to be done. A cursory look at our graphs shows we are using on average 40kWatts (the equivalent of 400, 100 Watt, light bulbs) during nights/weekends and about 120kWatts peak during normal business hours...

There is still quite a bit of detective work to be done. A cursory look at our graphs shows we are using on average 40kWatts (the equivalent of 400, 100 Watt, light bulbs) during nights/weekends and about 120kWatts peak during normal business hours...

With the recent banning of Speedo’s LZR sharkskin-inspired speedsuits and the exposure of possible steroid use by Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz, it raises an exciting question: What role does design play in the evolution of sport? ...

Design Overview The electricity monitoring system consists of two major components.The first component is the utility meter reading device, the second is the data server.The utility meter reader monitors electricity usage and sends the latest value to the data server via TCP/IP sockets...

The empowerment of consumers in a free market society affords us all our dollar votes. However, the balance of this free market scale, originally defined by 18th century economist Adam Smith, implies a level of transparency and knowledge...

“I’m just a regular person who thinks everything is out of control.” This is how Woody Tasch, author of the new book Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered and founder of the burgeoning Slow Money Alliance, began his talk last week to a group attending Boston’s Slow Fo...

Observations in a Year of Recession from Continuum on Vimeo. I found this collection of illustrated factoids pinned to a piece of foam core in the back corner of our studio the other day. I was drawn to their simple and effective communication style, as well as the diversity of the observations...

2 of a 5 part series Option 1 There are many options to monitoring power use. One such way is to attach inductive coils around the main power lines to monitor Voltage and Current. There are lots of products on the market that can be used in a residential setting...