Spotify streaming service has released the statistics of listening for 2013. The data was presented in the form of interactive infographics. The most listening team, according to the service, was the American rock band Imagine Dragons, the most popular singer is Rihanna, and the singer is Macklemore. The latter was also awarded for the most popular album (The Heist) and the song (canon hold us) of the year. In addition, the service was presented with listening statistics in different countries.

Christmas Tinner canned food from the Game chain of stores consist of nine layers, each of which is a separate traditional dishes of a festive British table. The dishes included a bacon omelet, a turkey with potatoes, a cranberry sauce, a salad of Brussels cabbage and a Christmas pudding. The idea of ​​creating such canned food appeared when it turned out that most gamers plans to sacrifice a Christmas dinner in order not to break away from their favorite game.

The Puzzle Facade device allows you to manipulate the chubby cube on the scale of the whole building. This is achieved by the fact that the toy mechanism is equipped with an Arduino portable computer, which is responsible for managing the lighting of the facade, allowing you to perform such impressive manipulations. Difficulties adds that the colors of the squares are not indicated on the “manual” version, and you have to focus on the “large” version.

Jan Visnovsky about why make "smart" homemade lighting Every week, Look At Me talks about one interesting startup and understands who, for whom and why it was created. And if a person sometimes lacks life to find answers to these philosophical questions, then with technical innovations the situation is somewhat simpler. This week we turned to the developers from the Goldee team, who created a device that could independently adjust the lighting throughout the apartment around the clock.

The Russian service for reading books has released a special application that will be pre-installed on all YotaPhone phones (which have finally gone on sale). The main feature of this special version was the expansion of the program's capabilities due to the second screen. For example, when reading from a second screen, the user is not distracted by other phone functions, and notes in the text can be viewed from the main screen and then returned to reading.

Milestones of the life of the great Nelson Mandela, the science of sleep and other useful articles of this week At the end of the week, the Look At Me editors recommends 10 useful texts about what is happening in creative industries. Games Destroying the stereotype About women-chamers. Read Applications 2013 in mobile applications. Read interior Monocle has collected decent examples of arranging jobs (no tables for kiker).

The designer of Sebastiy Erazerits dedicated his collection of shoes to 12 women, with whom he had a romantic relationship in different years of his life. Each pair of shoes is a reflection of the main feature of each passion, which remained in the memory of the designer. So, in the collection there are models devoted to greed and capriches. Oh yes, of course, all this was printed on a 3D printer.

Director Brian Singer announced on Twitter the release of a new film on the comic-united X-Men. The film, under the working name X-Men: Apocalypse, will probably be a continuation of the film “X-Men: Days of the Past Future”. According to the insider of The Wrap, the release of the continuation is planned for May 27, 2016. The text of the recording published by Singer indirectly indicates that the next opponent of the X team will be an ancient and powerful mutant named Apocalypse.

A convincing investigation into the identity of the creator of Bitcoin , who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto, has appeared on the Internet. The identity of the creator is the most important element in the chain of mysteries regarding cryptocurrency. No one knows whether this name is real or fictitious, whether it hides a single person or a group of people. The most radical speculations even attribute the creation of this currency to the US National Security Agency.

Swiss architect and theorist, opponent of catchy and large -scale projects In the icon of the era, we talk about artists, designers, directors, musicians and other creative professionals who managed to create a recognizable style and affect modern culture. Our hero this week is Peter Tsumtor, the Swiss architect and theorist who designed many cultural institutions around the world and opposing multimillion -dollar projects that do not take into account the surrounding context.

On December 5, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published Apple's patent application for a docking station for remote activation of voice control mode. The purpose of the docking station is to listen to all the sounds in the room and turn on the Siri voice assistant when it reads a certain sound. The user is supposed to assign a sound (such as a word or clap) before the dock turns on voice control mode.

The Fouursquare geosocial service has updated the mobile application for the iOS 7 operating system, according to the company's blog . In addition to the expected new interface design corresponding to the iOS 7 style, the mobile application received several functional updates. Now Foursquare will be able to send the recommendations of interesting places that are next to the user to the screen, or offer some positions of the menu of a particular institution.

Specialists about the view of the industry from the inside Look at Me has already talked with automobile designers , furniture and interiors in Russia who told us about the features and specifics of their work: about the pros and cons, difficulties with materials, about misunderstandings with customers and the imperfection of the educational system, about the joys of success in the new market.

The co -founder of Boldkit spoke about the project, the idea that inspired its creation, and plans for its development Yesterday the new BoldKit video service launched. The Founders of the project are the founder of “theories and practitioners” Danil Perushev and Andrei Zaitsev-Zotov and Yegor Khmelev, also standing behind the creation of the Bookmate electronic library. Look at ME decided to find out why the extreme video service is extremely, and talked with one of the creators of the project.