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How many slaves work for you?

This is the unsettling question that the new online tool and mobile app Slavery Footprint is asking of users across the globe. An initiative from the anti-slavery Call + Response campaign, the site is an attempt to bring awareness to forced labor around the world, and the extent to which the average consumer is unknowingly complicit in it.

The website begins by bringing the users attention to the fact that purchases like smart phones, t-shirts and a cup of coffee, among others, can actually be the product of forced slavery in the third world.

The fact of the matter is, these reputable brands that we know and love, they just dont know where all the materials come from, the sites front page reads.

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The development and formulation of a design requires rigorous involvement and in most of the cases follows some or the other process. The process involved should be a course of action that would make reaching the goal very much easier and simpler. Design can be defined to conceive the idea for some artifact or system and/or to express the idea in a form. It would also mean reaching the goals within constraints. Here, the goals consist of the purpose like who is the design for? What is the use of the design etc. The constraints on the other hand are the materials and the platforms to be used.

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Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome have just released a limited-edition Space Invaders watch series.

In collaboration with the TAITO Corporation, the 78-piece limited series will pay tribute to the 1978 birth of the legendary computer game, Space Invaders.

Featuring the pixelated figures and their signature trademarks, the watches are designed like generational totems.

Romain Jerome are known for bringing icons to the wrist and per usual no expenses spared on these awesome creations that have also kept the same steel coalesced with fragments from the Apollo 11 capsule.

Wow!

This summer’s newspapers seem to be full of older people who aren’t managing to look casual, whether in their attitudes or their clothing. Rupert Murdoch and Prince Charles might not seem to have much in common, but the inability to dress for comfort is a characteristic they share. Rupert, in particular, has an odd habit of being photographed with his wife, Wendi Deng, when she is wearing casual clothing and he’s in a suit and shirt, although his concession to informality is to remove his tie for evening interviews on TV.  Prince Charles has always been lampooned for his obvious discomfort in casual clothing and photos of him with a jeans-wearing Prince William continue to highlight the heir to the throne’s love of the formal.

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