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Explore 14 Billion Years Of Wikipedia History With This Hypnotic Data Viz
If every moment in human history was a single steel ball, Histography is like an 4-D Newton's Cradle, visualizing how all of these events bump up and knock up against each other on a 14-billion-year...
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This Colorful Textile Is Made Of Money Potpourri
When we see a dollar bill laying around, we see buying power. But without a numeral printed on each bill, paper money isn't anything more than a proprietary piece of paper made out of a cotton/linen...
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Frank Gehry Designed Himself A Yacht
Many of Frank Gehry's designs, such as the Guggenheim Bilbao, or the Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall, looks like the billowing top sails of a fleet of boats. Now the 86-year-old architect is...
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The Folding Lamp Makes Origami Out Of Light
Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into beautiful shapes. The Folding Lamp features an even rarer form of origami: it elegantly folds light, giving a room any ambience you want it to...
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Nendo's New Table Underlines Interesting Architecture Without Obscuring It
Furniture usually obscures the geometry of a space. For their latest collection, Nendo wanted to design some side tables that actually enhance it. The result is the Border Table, the latest experiment...
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A Crazy Modular Platform For 3-D-Printed Eyewear
If you've ever thought about buying a crazy set of frames, only to shy away from wearing something so wacky on your permanent "face," Biz Eyes could make it easier for you to be more daring with your...
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A Magic Mirror That Transforms Abstract Paintings Into Mondrians
Both abstract masters who explored the possibilities of primary colors in their work, there are many parallels between Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. Even so, you'd never confuse Kandinsky's...
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Nissan's Car For Post-Millennials Is Made Of Nothing But Screens
Millennials are officially old news. Now, generation Z—the cohort of people born after the late '90s—is about to get behind the wheel and hit the road. This is why Nissan is asking itself a simple...
View ArticleMIT Invents A Flowing River Of 3-D Pixels That Lets Objects Assemble Themselves
When MIT's Tangible Media Group first unveiled its shapeshifting display, the inFORM, one thing the team pointed out was that it had a lot of possibilities for the manufacturing and industrial sectors....
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This Ex-Googler's Minion-Like Robots Can Teach Your Kids To Code
There's a new trend happening. Call it the Daddening of Tech: men who have made their fortunes in Silicon Valley suddenly having children, and becoming concerned that the walled gardens they in part...
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Why Vocativ Is Doubling Down On Data Viz
Last time we heard from Dadaviz, a team of infographic auteurs based in Tel Aviv, they were looking to launch the YouTube of data visualization. Here's the bad news: they totally failed to do that....
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A Gorgeous Fuse Box Designed For The Nest Generation
Save for electricians, no one gives much thought to fuse boxes. After all, if a fuse box is working, it's just going to be collecting dust in your basement, right? Not necessarily. In apartments, fuse...
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Vintage Book Covers, Beautifully Animated
Especially in the realm of science literature, there was a golden age of graphic design in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Notable for its use of abstraction, minimalism, and geometric forms, it was a school...
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The House That Calculus Built
Calculus made James Stewart a millionaire. Starting in the late 1970s, when the Canadian-born mathematician published his first calculus textbook, Stewart wrote over 30 bestselling calculus textbooks....
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A Map Of Every Superman Villain Ever
Superman predates Batman by almost a year, but chances are, you know Batman better. Don't believe me? I bet you can name half-a-dozen Batman villains off the top of your head: the Joker, the Penguin,...
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MVRDV's Latest Building Is A Giant, Comfy Couch For Tennis Lovers
MVRDV, the Rotterdam-based architecture firm known for its bold, futuristic designs including everything from small town community centers to South Korean Skygardens to dazzling skyscrapers that look...
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Want To Ride A "Star Trek" Turbolift To Work?
In Star Trek, turbolifts are futuristic transport tubes that whisk in all three dimensions between decks on a starship. Comparatively, Hitachi's latest elevator isn't quite as functional—it doesn't...
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Safety Last! The Design History of Danger Posters
Safety first! Even as far back as the inaugural World's Fair in 1851, graphic design has played a big role in extolling the innovations of the industrial age. But industry is also dangerous: it can...
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The Mexican Drought Caused This Mysterious Sunken Temple To Re-Emerge
It sounds like something out of a gothic story or a fantasy novel, but it's real: the ruins of a magnificent 16th-century temple have just emerged from the bottom of a Mexican river. Unfortunately,...
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What Are The Web's Most Played Out Fonts?
There was a time not too long ago when all the fonts on the web were pretty much the same: Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman, Comic Sans, Impact, Georgia, Trebuchet, Webdings, maybe some Verdana. But...
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