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Harvard Invents Structures That Instantly Transform Themselves
If you've ever wondered how Transformers like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee would function on a cellular level, you may have your answer. A cross-disciplinary team at Harvard University just published a...
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Designing An App For People With Severe Mental Illness
Slowly but surely, America is winning its war on smoking. In 1970, 37% of all Americans smoked cigarettes. Today, it's less than half of that. Every segment of the population is smoking less, except...
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The Whimsical Language Of Comics Adapted To Furniture Design
There have been whole books written about the visual language of comics. A curlicue above someone's head means he's dizzy. Straight lines shooting out of an object means it's moving fast. A series of...
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Can An App Save London From Its Parking Nightmare?
Enter The 2016 Innovation By Design Awards now through May 5!Parking is a nightmare in Islington, a borough of London that's crammed with as many people per meter as Chennai, India—the seventh most...
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The Workflow App Favored By Designers At Airbnb, Dollar Shave Club, And Snapchat
Enter The 2016 Innovation By Design Awards now through May 5!It's sometimes hard to remember that iTunes once solved a real problem, given what a bloated mess it has become. Digital music was taking...
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This French Startup Thinks The Future Of Lighting Is Bioluminescent
In France, light pollution laws prevent retailers from illuminating their shop windows between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. But one day, Sandra Rey dreams that if you went for a midnight stroll down the...
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What Apocalyptic Climate Change Looks Like From Above
Two years go, San Francisco-based photographer Thomas Heinser was driving on I-5 in Central Valley on his way to L.A. Citrus groves lined each side of the interstate as he drove, surrounding him with...
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Behind The Scenes At The World's Largest Religious Trade Show
The Milanese photographer Louis De Belle was raised Catholic, and he's long been fascinated by the materialistic side of religion. In his latest self-published book, Besides Faith, De Belle took his...
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These Lamp-Lit Terrariums Thrive In Dark, Windowless Apartments
Even the blackest of thumbs love terrariums, and why not? These self-enclosed plant ecosystems not only look beautiful, but they pretty much take care of themselves. There's only one thing they need...
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What Under Armour's New 3-D-Printed Shoe Reveals About The Future Of Footwear
For years, we've been hearing about how 3-D printing was going to revolutionize the fashion and footwear industry. Unless you are a major sports star with a Nike deal, though, these "revolutionary"...
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You Can Customize And Buy This 3-D Printed Dress Online
Earlier this month, I wrote about the Kinematic Petals dress, a sleek, impossibly intricate dress on display at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts that could be 3-D printed to fit any body type, no assembly...
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How World War II Sparked The Scandinavian Design Craze
Who gave the world Scandinavian design? Arne Jacobsen, Eero Arnio, Alvar Aalto, or Ingvar Kamprad? Okay, sure. But another larger force played a major role in establishing Scandinavian design as well:...
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Autodesk Built A Super-Fast 3-D Printer For Huge Objects
With enough ingenuity, 3-D printers can print out pretty much anything. But they're definitely not fast—especially for heavy, complex jobs."3-D printing is measured in ounces per hour, so if you need...
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Microsoft's Wildest Experiment Yet Lets You Teleport With Holograms
As seen in Star Trek, teleportation breaks down people and objects into a stream of atoms, transports them through space, and rebuilds them on the other end—a process that has all sorts of sticky...
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Exploring This Huge Virtual Heart Showed Me The Future Of Medicine
I stand, a cyborg micronaut, in front of the biggest human heart any person has ever seen.It is Arch Obler huge, a flesh pump the size of a skyscraper, but I manipulate it with god-like facility,...
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Japan's Newest Train Design Will Be Practically Invisible
Japan's speedy bullet trains already move so fast that you almost can't see them coming. The new train being designed for the Seibu Railway Co. by Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima of Sanaa will be hard...
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This Oculus Rift Engineer Taught A Neural Network To Create '80s BBS Graffiti...
Neural networks have already learned how to paint like Picasso and Van Gogh. Now, thanks to an Oculus software engineer, neural networks can also paint ANSI art, and the results are '80s BBS rad.When...
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Conversational Interfaces, Explained
Last week at Microsoft's Build conference, CEO Satya Nadella said that the future of the company was "conversation as platform." In other words, less Windows and Office, and more Cortana and...
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A 24-Year-Old Redesigns Shakespeare For A New Generation
The themes of Shakespeare's plays are timeless, but one thing's for sure: the paperback covers ain't. So for its latest edition of Shakespeare paperbacks, Penguin imprint Pelican wanted to do something...
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Visualizing A Hurricane's Wrath With Wild, Kinetic Data Sculptures
Nathalie Miebach was born to do what she does. Her mom was a basket weaver. Her dad was an engineer who worked on the cameras of the Hubble Space Telescope. When she was a kid, she was used to a house...
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