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• MindMeld Takes Home A CES Design & Engineering Innovations Award

  

  We finally received our Design and Engineering Showcase Award from this year’s CES. The award has been recognizing achievements in product design and engineerin... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• The Most Underrated Rhetorical Device: Email Closing Lines

  

  A study of Liz Danzico’s inbox makes us think about the meaning behind something as seemingly insignificant as how we sign our emails. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Where Our Bodies Produce Speech

  

  The illustrations below from Loren Myhre explain where exactly in our bodies we pronounce vowels and consonants. Articulatory phonetics is the study of human... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• The Shapes Of Our Sounds

  

  What kinds of shapes does our alphabet form? Shapes for Sounds is a beautiful book that explores one of the most elemental concepts in the history of human... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Our Live Chat With Hermione Way At SXSWStraight from The Villa...

  Straight from The Villa Austin, here are some pictures from our interview with The Next Web’s Hermione Way. Also, be sure to ogle over Daisy the dog, the Villa’... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Pronouns and Power Dynamics

  

  James Pennebaker, a psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, believes it’s possible to analyze the power dynamics in relationships based on who uses... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Robert Scoble + Expect Labs at SXSW

  

  To prevent people from asking if there is space on his calendar, Robert Scoble recently revealed his entire SXSW schedule. As a result, we can finally announce... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Expect Labs At LAUNCH 2013Flip Through Some Shots from Our Time...

  Expect Labs At LAUNCH 2013 Flip through some shots from our time at this year’s LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco. It was thrilling to meet so many inspiring... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• How We Talk About Colors

  

  Stephen Von Worley recently updated His And Hers Colors, a visualization project which elucidates the gender differences in how we identify color names. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• The Common Thread Between Cyrillic, Latin, and Greek

  

  The Venn diagram above reveals the 11 letters that are common to the Cyrillic, Latin, and Greek alphabets; Greek is on the left, Cyrillic is on the bottom, and... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Why Bad Language Is Good For Us

  

  A study published in NeuroReport found that swearing can have a powerful pain-numbing effect, particularly for people who don’t normally curse. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Shhh... A MindMeld Sneak Peek

  

  Here’s a peek into what you can expect when you fire up MindMeld for iPad. Get on our list so you can be one of the first to snag an invite. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Visualizing Our Word Origins

  

  Mike Kinde of Ideas Illustrated set out on an etymological visualization project to better... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Expect Labs At LAUNCH 2013

  

  The 6th annual LAUNCH Festival kicks off on March 4th, and we’re excited to be participating in... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Ubiquitous Computing & The Disciplines of User Experience Design

  

  The Venn diagram above was created by Dan Saffer and Thomas Gläser, and shows how the various fields of design overlap with UX, or user experience design. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• How Google Research Revisited Mayzner, 743 Billion Words Later

  

  In 1965, Mark Mayzner meticulously analyzed over 20,000 words from books, magazines, and newspapers using an IBM card-sorting machine, in order to paint a more... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• A Poem In Which Every Word Is Pronounced The Same

  

  How can four tones of one word create a complete narrative? “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den” was written by Chao Yuen Ren, a contemporary Chinese American... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Your Brain On Language

  

  The illustration above provides an overview of how the different areas of your brain enable you to produce speech. When we talk, we select words that are... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Inside Expect Labs’ HeadquartersWe’ve Finally...

  Inside Expect Labs’ Headquarters We’ve finally settled in to our brand new office space in downtown San Francisco and we wanted to share some photos with you... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Why Some Languages Sound Faster Than Others

  

  When you hear a language that you don’t speak, it usually sounds like it’s speeding by at an incomprehensible rate. Researchers from the Université de Lyon... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 COMPUTING, TECH