Made Of Recycled E-Waste, A Wearable To Save The Earth
Wearables are designed to help inner thinking: to track how your choices and environment shape your health. But what about a wearable to promote outer thinking? Can a gadget help you learn to keep...
View ArticleHow Code+Theory Is Redesigning The "Huffington Post" To Withstand The Next...
Yesterday, Huffington Post CEO Jared Grusd announced at Advertising Week that the Post, the 10-year-old news aggregator and publishing empire founded by Arianna Huffington in 2005, was working with...
View ArticleBetter Than The Supermoon, This Lamp Makes An Eclipse From A Rainbow
The next one might not be scheduled until 2033, but if Sunday's supermoon lunar eclipse just whet your appetite, you might consider this lamp for your living room (if it is ever produced!). Its clever,...
View ArticleThis Minimalist Paint Set Teaches Kids Color Theory
The first lesson in color theory most of us have is mixing paints and seeing what new colors we can come up with. Nameless Paints takes this one step further. Instead of labeling each tube of paint...
View ArticleExplore The Terrifying Scale Of Mount Everest In This 3.2 Billion Pixel...
Even as yet another eponymous movie) opens in theaters, Nepalese officials are making access to Mount Everest harder than ever to attain. If you're wondering why, look no further than this 3.2 billion...
View ArticleSagmeister & Walsh Bring Roy Lichtenstein To Life
Although the last time we heard from them, they were naked and covered in cockroaches, Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh of Sagmeister & Walsh aren't always rolling around in squalor. In fact,...
View ArticleStudio KCA Designs A Comet For NASA
To celebrate the Rosetta landing, NASA wanted to put a comet on display, but despite its plans to someday tow a comet into orbit, the only way to get one to land on Earth is via a chance collision. It...
View ArticleCasio's Latest Calculator Is The Best-Looking Number Cruncher Since Dieter Rams
Along with every other gadget it has killed off (cameras, radios, GPS units, etc.), the smartphone hasn't been very friendly to our good friend, the calculator. But Casio's hoping that design will make...
View ArticleDisney's Crazy New Tech Brings Coloring Books To Life
In the age of iPads and apps, coloring books are evolving from the go-to distraction for kids into a hobby for mindful adults. But Disney Research's latest invention—bringing coloring books to life...
View ArticleThe Strange Second Life Of Vintage Pizza Huts
These days, you'll find Pizza Huts everywhere, from shopping mall food courts to nondescript retail storefronts. But in their glory days, Pizza Hut locations were every bit as iconic for their odd,...
View ArticleAdobe's New App Turns 2-D Selfies Into 3-D Magic
If you've got a spare selfie around, you can now 3-D-print a scale model of your head thanks to a new technology by Adobe that converts 2-D photographs into 3-D models.To be presented tonight at Adobe...
View Article4 Lessons On Great Logo Design From Siegel+Gale
What makes a logo successful? Ask a dozen different designers, and you'll get a dozen different answers. But how do you quantify a logo's excellence, or lack thereof? If you're Siegel+Gale, you...
View ArticleCan Design Save Comments From The Trolls?
Internet comments are broken. A small population of abusive trolls have ruined Internet commenting for everyone. On this, pretty much everyone can agree. What people can't agree on is what to do about...
View ArticleSwirl Down An Infinite Vortex Of Letters With This Fractal Font
Created by Standard Deviation, the Fractalism HTML5 web toy takes a 5-pixel font popularized on the Commodore 64, and turns it into an infinitely recursive alphabet, where every letter is made up of...
View Article13 Glorious Vertical Panoramas Of New York City Cathedrals
New Yorkers quite famously never look up. Photographer Richard Silver wanted to give them a reason to, so he started taking pictures of ceilings. But not just any pictures, and not just any ceilings:...
View ArticleDon't You Dare Cut A Piece Out Of This Chocolate Zoetrope Cake
Most cakes you just eat. This cake you spin. When you do, its tiers and decorations come alive, melting together into a chocolate layer zoetrope, covered in licking flames, gobbling Pac-Men, and...
View ArticleAndroid's New Material Design Wallpapers Visualize Data About Your Phone
Wallpapers for your smartphone or tablet might help personalize your device, but they're also functionally a little bit useless. On OLED-displays like the ones most Android smartphones have, where...
View ArticleHow The Internet's Most Prolific Map Designer Creates His Viral Worlds
Where once they were done under the quill of cartographers, maps today are made by satellite. But Slovakian designer Martin Vargic's maps are different. Although they herald back to the glory days of...
View ArticleThis Trippy Credenza Is An Optical Illusion For Your Living Room
Many shelves aren't deep enough. These shelves are both deeper and shallower than they look, thanks to a clever optical illusion that gives each nook its own separate, misleading depth.Rocky is a...
View ArticleLike A Flatulence-Fueled Tesla, This Pooping Car Has An Engine Made Of Cow Guts
Globally, there are two huge, unculled herds that contribute significantly to climate change. First, the world's 1.2 billion cars. And second? The world's 1.5 billion cows, whose collective burping,...
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