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Classic Movie Sets Now In 3-D
When Hollywood filmmakers created a classic movie set, they employed a number of optical illusions to make it look three-dimensional in the medium of 2-D film. Many of the most iconic movie sets have...
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A Glimpse Of The Facebook We All Really Want
Over the years, it feels like Facebook has become a river of viral links, quizzes, and badgering apps. But to celebrate its 10th birthday, Mark Zuckerberg's social network has created a beautiful...
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50 Rock Star Logos For Scientists
If physicists and mathematicians can't be rock stars, why can't they at least have rock star logos? No reason at all, as these 50 incredible "scientific typographics" of influential cosmologists and...
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The Next Big Thing In Music? Apps That Read Your Mind
If you watched the Super Bowl on Sunday, you might have caught Ellen DeGeneres's Goldilocks-inspired ad for Beats Music. A new streaming service a la Rdio or Spotify, Beats Music distinguishes itself...
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A Periodic Table Of Storytelling Tropes
The design of Dmitri Mendeleev's Periodic Table of Elements has been used to catalog many things besides atomic structures, from cocktail recipes to heavy metal bands. Now it's being used to...
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How Ideo Helped Reinvent The Pillbox
Take all of the pills in your medicine cabinet that you have to track--the prescription drugs you need to remember to take two or three times a day, the multivitamins and fish liver pills you're not...
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Behind The Minimal Look Of The 2014 Olympics Logo
Although the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics logo hasn't garnered the same sort of criticism as the 2012 London Olympic Logo, it is an odd design in the grand spectrum of previous Olympics. Featuring...
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The Winter Olympics In Downtown New York Would Have Been Dope
Russia has spent more than $50 billion on the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games--at least half of which has allegedly been embezzled--making it the most expensive Olympic Games ever. And so far, the only thing...
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Why Flow, Amazon's Magical Search Tech, Won't Kill Off Retail
Yesterday, Amazon quietly updated its official iPhone app with Flow, an augmented-reality search function that allows you to compare prices of items you see in retail shops just by waving your...
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4 Lessons Designers Could Learn From The Hoefler & Frere-Jones Split
Two weeks ago, type designer Tobias Frere-Jones filed a blistering lawsuit against his erstwhile partner, Jonathan Hoefler, claiming that he'd been cheated out of his half of Hoefler & Frere-Jones,...
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From MIT, An Interactive Book That Makes You Feel Characters' Pain
Have you ever felt your pulse quicken when you read a book, or your skin go clammy during a horror story? A new student project out of MIT wants to deepen those sensations. They have created a wearable...
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The Office Of The 21st Century Will Be Your Self-Driving Car
In the age of self-driving cars, you'll have no excuse for slacking off during your commute. That's because the office of the future might very well be your car.Rinspeed, a Swiss automobile...
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This App Transforms "Obsolete" Smartphones Into Baby Monitors
Baby monitors--you know, those specialized walkie-talkies that give parents a sense of security when they seek a momentary respite from their mewling offspring--are surprisingly expensive. On Amazon,...
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Edgar Allan Poe: Great Writer, Lousy Interior Designer
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness--imperfection--and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said."That's the sort of sentiment you could almost...
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If Rocky Balboa Designed A Typeface, It Would Look Like This
In real life, there aren't many problems that Ukranian heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko can't solve his fists, but how do you punch out a problem like illiteracy? If you're Klitschko, you team...
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Why Twitter Should Never Abandon Its News River Format
Ever since Twitter's debut in 2006, it has displayed content as a river of tweets, listed in backwards chronological order. As Twitter has become more about photos, video, and other embeddable content,...
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The Schmoopiest Social Network Is All About P.D.A.
The creators of Avocado--an iPhone app that functions like a digital toolkit for two people in a relationship--announced that they are launching a social network. Called Pears, it's like Pinterest for...
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How Internet Ads Work
Look to the top of the page. See that banner ad? Believe it or not, that hasn't just been randomly squirted out to you. It is a calculation made by one of the most complex computational systems on the...
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A Watch That Smells You The Time
Created by Aisen Caro Chacin, the Scent Rhythm watch is a wrist-mounted timepiece that emits unique aromas at different times of the day, allowing you to not just tell the passage of time, but to smell...
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This Might Be The First Selfie In Photographic History
As long as cavemen have been smearing stick figures on walls in Southern France, people have been making self-portraits. Who took the first 21st-century-style selfie, though? You know, that...
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