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Slick New Sodastream Lets You Carbonate Booze
Every Sodastream—every machine, every tank, every flavor pack, and every bottle—comes with a warning: "CARBONATE WATER ONLY." There's a reason for that, as even a cursory YouTube search shows: try to,...
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The Golden Ratio: Design's Biggest Myth
In the world of art, architecture, and design, the golden ratio has earned a tremendous reputation. Greats like Le Corbusier and Salvador Dalà have used the number in their work. The Parthenon, the...
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Design Flaws: Why Self-Driving Cars Are Going To Make You Hurl
Does driving in a car already make you want to horf? Fear the rise of the autonomous, self-driving car. According to research at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute,...
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The Last Days Of Streit's, New York's Jewish Willy Wonka Factory
Located on Rivington Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Streit's Matzo Factory has been pumping out as much as 900 pounds of matzo an hour to feed New York's Jewish community for almost a century....
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Adidas Unveils World's Lightest Soccer Cleat
Adidas has formally launched what it calls the lightest, fastest soccer cleats ever, the adizero 99g. And there's a reason these red and gold cleats look like they're molten from atmospheric re-entry:...
View ArticleTax Inequality In America: Lego Edition!
In 2013, upon accepting his Nobel Prize for Economics, Yale professor Robert Schiller said: "The most important problem that we are facing now today, I think, is rising inequality in the United States...
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All Hail Hillvetica, The Hillary Clinton Typeface
On Sunday, Hillary Clinton announced her bid for presidency with a big blue 'H' connected by a red arrow pointing right. It's pretty obviously supposed to symbolize Clinton's ability to cross the...
View ArticleEvery Frame Of This Incredible Short Film Was 3-D Printed
The stats of most films read in footage shot, actors cast, and dollars budgeted. Not Chase Me, a new short by French animator Gilles-Alexander Deschaud. The world's very first 3-D printed film, Chase...
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The Best New Social Network In Ages Is All About Selfies
There's just nothing that looks quite like Kong, now available on Google Play and the iOS App Store. So what is Kong? It's a social network for animated selfies. The third app from Path, the company...
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Cover Your Walls In A Galaxy Inspired By NASA's Space Photography
How many kids, fascinated with the mysteries of space, have plastered glow-in-the-dark stars, planets, and moons on their bedroom ceiling? For people like me, it's our first memory of taking an...
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The New York Times Invents A Conference Table That Takes Notes For You
Like most offices, the New York Times holds a lot of meetings. Editorial meetings, ad sales meetings, design meetings, you name it; all centered around a table seemingly for no other purpose than to...
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The Last Oil Filter You'll Ever Have To Buy
Strapped to the bottom of your car like a colostomy bag full of dinosaur goo, oil filters are disgusting. Worse? They're biohazards. Because they're disposable, Americans go through Americans throw out...
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From MIT: This Shiny Nail Art Is Actually A Tiny Bluetooth Trackpad
Ever try to cook while using your laptop or your iPad to read a recipe, watch a movie, or Skype? You're probably still cleaning eggy fingerprints from the keyboard. Thankfully, a new invention from MIT...
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The Classic Novella "Flatland" Gets The Design Makeover It Deserves
Flatland, a novella about talking shapes and lines exploring a multiverse of different dimensions, has long been beloved by sci-fi fans, physicists, and mathematicians, but never really had an edition...
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New Poster Makes Understanding Type As Easy As Learning The ABCs
Many of us learned our ABCs in elementary school from big alphabet posters tacked up by our kindergarten teachers on the walls. New from Pop Chart Lab, the Alphabet of Typography is like that poster,...
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How To Make A Travel Mag As Visually Appealing As The Destinations
If most travel magazines are like a tired "Wish You Were Here" postcard, the new Afar is like ripping a bespoke, hand-lettered sign off of some exotic city wall, then bringing it back in your luggage....
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A Collection Of Gadgets, Carved Out Of Carrara Marble
Hewn out of the mountains of Northern Tuscany, Carrara marble has been used for everything from the Trajan Column to Michalengelo's David. It's one of the most timeless materials around. Comparatively,...
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Microsoft Invents A Better Way To Sense Hand Gestures
Imagine strapping on a virtual reality headset, then using your hands to pick up a sword and swing it around your head. Imagine a hazard team able to defuse a complicated bomb from a mile away, just by...
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Hate Needles? This 3-D Printed Device Makes Injections Pain-Free
No one likes being jabbed with a needle. Some people can't stand it at all. According to research in the Journal of Family Practice, at least 20% of Americans have needle phobia, and as a result, many...
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Masterful Italian Design Now Available To The Masses
If you've ever wanted your apartment to look like the set of a Fellini film, the MoMA Design Store has you covered. On May 1, the Design Store is launching a collection of 32 fun and feisty tabletop...
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