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This Synthesizer Magically Transforms Into Any Musical Instrument
There's no shortage of digital guitars, keyboards, and drum machines you can connect to your iPhone or iPad. If you're a guitarist, a keyboardist, or a drummer, these controllers are great. They let...
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Massive Data Visualization Brings NYC's Busiest Street To Life
What does big data tell us about the character of an iconic street? Created by data viz maestros Moritz Stefaner and Lev Manovich, On Broadway is an unprecedented visualization of social media data,...
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Meet Henri, A Box For Designing The Screenless Interfaces Of Tomorrow
Smart devices have created new problems for designers to solve, not least of which is interface: how does a gadget or appliance communicate to you when it doesn't have a screen? That's a problem that...
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You Can Now Massage Your Back Or, Uh, Other Parts, Using Twitter Hashtags
The Internet causes you enough stress. Here's a way it can melt some away. Meet the Internet Sensations Wand, a vibrating massager (with a heaping of teledildonic possibilities on the side) that...
View ArticleLive From Pentagram, It's Saturday Night Live: The Book!
Pentagram's Emily Oberman is pretty much Saturday Night Live's go-to designer at this point. She's done three separate SNL identities, including this year's 40th-anniversary logo, as well as several...
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A Lamp That Uses Steel Marbles As A Light Switch
Light switches are boring, so we're always on the lookout for a more novel way to turn on our lamps. And the Mercure Lamp certainly has that going for it: the bulb is filled with steel marbles which...
View ArticleFor Sale: A Cartoon Guest House Designed By Frank Gehry
An opportunity to buy a building designed by Frank Gehry—whether you like him or horf him—doesn't come around very often. If you've been looking to invest in Gehry's particular brand of starchitecture,...
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Antique Books Turned Into Exquisite Paper Sculptures
South African artist Barbara Wildenboer thinks of books as living things. In her art, she operates on them, cutting apart old books to reveal the sprawling yet delicate central nervous systems trapped...
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MoMA Recognizes Susan Kare, The Designer Of The Macintosh's Original Icons
Susan Kare — the pioneering graphic designer whose pixel art icons for the original Macintosh helped define the language of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) — is being recognized by the New York Museum...
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Every Frame Of This Computer Animated Short Was 3-D Printed Into Real LIfe
No matter how realistic a computer animated movie like Toy Story 3 might seem to you, it's still just a bunch of numbers inside a computer. That makes the computer animation process much more...
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How Many Nukes Are There In The World?
Since 1945, when the United States first dropped nuclear weapons on Japan, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been tracking nuclear arsenals around the world and slowly counting down to...
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MagSafe, We Hardly Knew Ye
MagSafe, one of Apple's most innovative, brilliant, ruthless, valuable, and, at times, troubling designs has finally died, replaced with something less beautiful and clever to charge the revamped...
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Deceptively Simple Website Lets You Share A Moment With Strangers Around The...
The web looks synchronized, but it isn't. Pages load half-a-second faster on one computer, a few hundred milliseconds slower on another. Even if you loaded up your Facebook page on two computers...
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Apple's Big Plan To Make You Want Things You Don't Need
The Apple Watch isn't going to flop. An Apple "flop" right now is probably a multi-billion-dollar industry, after all. Rather, the watch is the first step of the next major shift for a company that has...
View ArticleThe World's Most Overrated Interface Design
What do delightful design, hamburger menus, Spotify, and iPad apps all have in common? They're all finalists on our March Madness bracket for the most overhyped examples of interface design.Whether you...
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It's Time For The Minimalist Poster Trend To Die
Let's imagine for a second you go into a restaurant. You order a cheeseburger, and after waiting for a while, someone comes out and serves you a Lunchables version of a cheeseburger: two Ritz Crackers,...
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Bet You Can't Guess How These Delicious Deep Space Photos Were Taken
Navid Baraty's "Wander" photographs look like extra-solar images taken by NASA's Dawn Spacecraft. But they're actually something else entirely: food from the Brooklyn photographer's pantry, scanned on...
View ArticleNESFlix: Netflix Playing 'House Of Cards' On A Vintage Nintendo Console!
Netflix has taken over the world by running on pretty much every platform under the sun, but how would it go about bringing that to its most insane conclusion? Behold! NESflix, a Netflix client for the...
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4 Animated GIFs That Reveal The Secret To Great UX Testing
Great designs don't just fall out of a designer's brain. More often than not, they're the result of rigorous testing, using a nebulous mix of scientific and not-so-scientific techniques. But if you're...
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A Revolving Weather Museum Shaped Like A Tornado For Downtown Tulsa
If you're an Oklahoman, there's probably no sight that would fill you with with more dread than a 300-foot-tall twister looming along the city skyline. But ironically, it's a sight that future Tulsans...
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