These Metamaterials Act Like Machines
Some clever structural geometry lets 3D printers manufacture simple mechanisms, no assembly required.Although the word "metamaterial" sounds fancy—and they do often have sci-fi properties like giving...
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Bjarke Ingels Group Turned Its Website Into An Arcade Game You Can Actually Play
It really should have been called Bjarkenoid, though.Before he was a world famous starchitect, Bjarke Ingels was an 1980s teenager, pumping kroner into Space Invaders and other classic coin-op video...
View ArticleCan't Dance? This App Turns You Into A Move-Busting 3D Model
Because why spend hours practicing when you can just scan yourself and have an app do the rest?Some of us dance like no one's watching, and some of us dance like we have inner ear infections. But if...
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Designing The Best Monster In Sci-Fi History
H.R. Giger's xenomorph design articulates primal fears each of us has at the intersection of sex, death, and monstrosity.After nearly four decades of exposure, the ichor-dripping design of Ridley...
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This Rainbow-Hued Fabric Collects Energy As You Move
Half static, half solar, this textile could make plugging your wearables in a thing of the past.Google and Levi's Project Jacquard is already imagining a future of wearables built right into our...
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Your City's Kickstarter Scene, Visualized
You can tell a lot about a city from the Kickstarter projects it supports.Kickstarter has revolutionized the way designers bring their products to market, allowing them to pitch concepts without first...
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This Designer Quit Architecture To Make Incredibly Cool Pastry
Dinara Kasko uses 3D printing and 3DSMax. But she's making cake, not buildings.Dinara Kasko spent her entire adult life studying to be an architect. But when it came time for her to actually start...
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These Technological Relics Hide Surprising New Functionality
There's a lot we take for granted in the way the objects that surround us work.Through years of experience, we have an intuitive understanding of the objects that surround us. When we tap some numbers...
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MIT Invents A Device That Detects Your Sadness--With Radio Waves
The technology opens the door for devices that recognize your emotions, even when you can't.The next generation of conversational UIs will do more than just understand our words. They'll listen our...
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This Student Dorm Just Became The World's Tallest Wood Building
It may not hold the title for long. The plyscraper race has just begun.Although they may at first seem like kindling for a modern-day Towering Inferno, timber skyscrapers—also known by the delightful...
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An Alarm Clock Designed To Train You To Sleep Better
Most of us wake up to the blare of a smartphone ringtone. Is there a better way?Alarm clocks that simulate police SWAT teams busting down your door. Alarm clocks that roll off your side table and...
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The Rarest Record In The Universe Is Coming Back In Print
40 years ago, NASA launched a record of Earth into space. Now, it's being released as a vinyl record for the first time ever.The rarest records in the universe are made of gold-plated copper. They are...
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This Bluetooth Dongle Gives Screens The Smarts To Know You're There
Are we ready for displays and video screens that react to our presence? The "nearables" start-up Estimote thinks so.We're surrounded by screens of every shape and size, from shopping malls to airports....
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The Most Innovative UX Of The Year, In 18 Projects
User experience is the most intangible part of designing a killer product. Here are 18 designs that nail it.What's the recipe for a great product? That's the billion dollar question that designers may...
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What's The Greatest Logo Of All Time?
From IBM to I ❤ NY, designers at Pentagram, Moving Brands, Under Consideration, and more pick their favorites.A logo is meant to be a brand's most enduring symbol, a graphic totem that distills a...
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Atlanta Wants To Cover A Major Highway With This High Line-Style Garden
Atlanta is the latest city to propose covering one of its urban roadways with public parkland.For decades, our sunny city parks were blotted out by the massive concrete overpasses that were constructed...
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Google, Apple, Adobe, And Microsoft Are Quietly Developing A New Type Of Font
What are variable fonts, and why are some of the biggest tech companies on the planet throwing their weight behind them?As competitors, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe are normally hard-pressed to...
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The 35 Most Innovative Apps Of The Year
From pizzas that order themselves and AI assistants to design tools that were once only usable on our desktops.In the mobile-first 21st century, apps have become one of the most important elements of...
View ArticlePutting Leftover Urban Space To Use--As Crazily Shaped Soccer Fields
Who says a football pitch has to be a perfect rectangle?Soccer ignoramuses like me might not be able to tell you why the yellow cards are flying or why the announcer is so excited. We can tell you one...
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Meetup's New Brand Identity: Now Less Awkward Than Meeting IRL
"The moment we realized it had to go was when we realized that our logo actually represented the worst part of meeting up with new people."With 27 million members and 250,000 separate groups,...
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