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When I was at FIT getting my fashion design degree, it was drilled into students regularly that we “know our customers.”  Most designers don’t start their own companies and even those who do, still need to fully understand who they are designing for.  When I transitioned from my ten-year career as a fashion designer and became a personal stylist 19 years ago, it was all those years of needing to understand who my customer was that made it easy for me to style different clients with different perspectives and style preferences.  What separates a good stylist from a bad one...

Save on this Super Mario Life Board Game, reduced to $17.99 when you clip the eCoupon (regularly $28.49)! This game comes so highly rated, with 4.8/5.0 stars! In The Game of Life: Super Mario Edition board game, players choose to play as Mario, Luigi, Peach, or Yoshi, journeying through the Mushroom Kingdom, and finally spinning to win in a battle against Bowser! They move around the looping paths of the gameboard as they collect coins, power up with items and Companions, and play fun minigames along the way such as Rock Paper Scissors, Thumb Wars, and Spin-Offs. As they approach Bowser’s...

Did you know that almost 100 million Father’s Day card is sent within the US each year? But that’s not it, the most popular gift for beloved father figures is neckties. These gifts are usually given by adult gift-givers who want to honor one of the most awesome and strongest people in their lives. Fortunately, you can also let the baby join in the fun along with other kids on this joyful occasion. And as usual, loving moms can lend a hand when setting up surprises and working up the artwork.  In fact, participating in an art crafting activity would...

Raising children is no easy task, and pretty much every parent wants their kid to succeed in life. That’s why time and again, they try to pass on precious wisdom to make sure they grow up to be generally good human beings. However, even when moms and dads have the best of intentions, their lessons sometimes reveal unexpected results. If that sounds familiar to you, we hope that you’ll find comfort in knowing you’re definitely not the only one. One Reddit user decided to find out what funny accidents parents had when they shared advice with their young ones. They...

The way most robots navigate is very different from the way most humans navigate. Robots are happiest when they have total environmental understanding, with some sort of full geometric reconstruction of everything around them plus exact knowledge of their own position and orientation. Lidars, preexisting maps, powerful computers, and even a motion-capture system if you can afford it—the demands of autonomous robots never end.Obviously, this stuff doesn’t scale all that well. With that in mind, Dhruv Shah and professor Sergey Levine at the University of California, Berkeley, are working on a different approach. Their take on robotic navigation does away...