Created by Alex Shirley-Smith and Kirk Kirchev in 2012, the Tentsile Stingray is a portable tent that we can suspend between two trees like a treehouse. Made for several persons, this tent has a ceiling in a transparent net so we can admire the landscape. To discover in images in the gallery.

Khoi Vinh:

When technology companies look at goods that are built from the outside in, they generally see irrationality and inefficiency, a broken market just waiting to be corrected and “disrupted.” They believe that they can engineer so much value into these items that people will be swayed to buy goods built from the inside out, that the promise that drives hardware and software — “adopt this and benefit from its utility” — will convince people to upend their sartorial habits. This is how you get products like Google Glass, which assumes that consumers prize utility so much that they’re willing to look like they have no interest whatsoever in having intimate relations with another human being.

Remarkably prescient and apt, considering that he wrote this a few days before Google I/O and the blocky, ugly watches they showed from Samsung and LG. I’m convinced those things are dead on arrival. The Motorola 360 looks better, but I think only looks good in comparison to genuine clunkers like the Galaxy Gear and Pebble.

Here’s a simple question: Does the Moto 360 look so cool that people would want to wear it regardless of its functionality? I say: No way. It’s way too thick and oddly proportioned. And it strikes me as decidedly masculine. Thus I think it too is doomed.

If Apple is indeed making a wearable device that goes on your wrist, it should look like something you’d want to wear before you even see what it does.

Federal Highway Administration In a presentation to the Plano City Council Monday night, the Texas Department of Transportation outlined its plan to convert HOV lanes on U.S. 75 between LBJ Freeway in Dallas and McDermott Drive in Allen to mixed-use toll lanes. The plan would allow single-occupancy vehicles access to HOV lanes by paying a toll. Drivers hoping to use the lanes for free by bringing passengers along would have to register their trip online at least 15 minutes before departure. Initially the lanes would be called Express/HOV lanes. Single-occupancy cars could pay one rate, no matter the time of day, to use the otherwise HOV lane.

I guess open does beat closed.

The biggest problem with the NSA scandal is the lack of accountability.