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MIT Wants To Make Broken Robots (And Shattered iPhones) A Thing Of The Past
What if you could design the way an object responds to being dropped?What happens when you drop a piece of rubber? Simple: it bounces, an effect caused when the rubber deforms, and then reforms rapidly...
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How A Micro-Font Designed For Stock Indexes Became A Classic
Retina, the tiny, ultra-readable font designed in 2000 for The Wall Street Journal, gets its first retail release.As wearables shrink display sizes, type designers are responding with a growing array...
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Penguin Reinvents Classic Sci-Fi Book Covers With Clever Type Design
How do you sum up a fictional world with a font?In the '60s and '70s, the lurid, fanciful covers of science-fiction and fantasy paperbacks didn't usually waste much time with typography. Instead, the...
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From IDEO, 4 Prototypes That Reimagine How We Use Emerging Technology
From a gun that records bullets to the blockchain to a framework for the Internet of Cities, here are some of IDEO's most provocative new ideas.The world is constantly being exposed to new...
View ArticleWhere Do No. 2 Pencils Come From?
Amazingly, you can thank Henry David Thoreau and his family for this SAT must-have. The more you know!Anyone who has ever taken an SAT has had the sacredness of the No. 2 pencil drilled into them. But...
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This AI Librarian Organizes Your Bookmarks With Machine Learning
Stash is a great new service that automatically categorizes all the links you save.The internet bookmark aspires to be the digital equivalent of the sticky note you paste on an important page in a...
View ArticleAn MIT-Built Bot Is Running A Better Campaign Than Trump
Forget the Donald! Vote DeepDrumpf For President!By any measure, the Trump campaign is imploding. The Spaghetti-O hued millionaire, who leveraged the power of the alt-right to take the GOP by storm in...
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Google Searches Reveal How The Rest Of The World Sees This Terrible Election
The world wants to know where Clinton and Trump stand on ISIS and climate change. Abortion and gun control? Not so much.Trapped in the domestic echo chamber of this year's frankly insane election...
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The Whiteboard Gets A Vibrant Redesign
Can a change in perspective make brainstorming more productive? Nendo thinks so.Ever been confounded when you walk into a meeting and find the room doesn't have a whiteboard? Japanese design firm Nendo...
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These Shape-Shifting Solar Panels Can Be Disguised As Tile Or Shingles
The technology would let historic or protected buildings install "invisible" solar panels.Solar panels can drastically bring down the energy footprint of any building on which they are installed. But...
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The No-Brand: 11 Brilliant Ads From The Early Days Of Muji
The graphic design great Ikko Tanaka, who died in 2002, defined Muji's anti-branding. Now, his work is getting an exhibition.One December day in 1980, the readers of one daily newspaper in Japan opened...
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Donald Trump's Crazy Handwriting Is Now A Free Font Called Tiny Hand
Tiny Hand could be the huckster's Helvetica.Although he's known for his incessant tweeting, an interesting fact about Donald Trump is that he doesn't really use computers outside of his iPhone....
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An Obama Campaign Designer Imagines Trump's Alt-Right News Network
Forget CNN. Here comes TRMP!For a man who should be required by law to have the words "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" tattooed across his forehead, Trump has caused a surprising number of people to believe he...
View ArticleNew Tech Would Let You Change Outfits Without Changing Your Clothes
A new projection mapping technique out of Tokyo could make a big splash in the worlds of fashion, theater, and retail.Projection mapping is a magic-feeling technology that gives creators the ability to...
View ArticleElon Musk Wants To Build A Martian Colony Out Of Geodesic Domes
Bucky Fuller's ideas live on—in space!Inventor Buckminster Fuller was famous for espousing the virtues of geodesic domes, structures that incorporate the largest volume of internal space within the...
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8 Horror Films That Use Architecture And Cities To Terrify
Restoration, gentrification, and planned communities can be just as scary as ghouls, goblins, and ghosts.Architecture can play an important role in good horror—dating all the way back to Horace...
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The Composition Notebook Gets A Luxurious Redesign
A designer at Pentagram has redesigned the classic composition notebook to compete with the likes of Moleskine.Dog-eared and covered in ballpoint doodles, the humble composition notebook has been a...
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These Perforated Envelopes Contain A Universe Of Stars
Peer into the envelopes, and glittering constellations come to life.A paper letter feels like it has more promise than an email, an iMessage, or a Snapchat: inside that envelope, a whole universe of...
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To Rethink Remote Collaboration, Google Takes Cues From The Analog World
Aruliden explains why the Jamboard takes pains to look analog, not like a screen.What makes an office whiteboard different from a screen? The simplest answer is that one is analog, and one is digital....
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Designing The Ultimate Tuque, Canada's Favorite Cap
The tuque, a 150-year-old symbol of French-Canadian nationalism, gets a high-end redesign.Many countries have a national hat. In Turkey, it's the fez. In Russia, its the Ushanka fur cap. In America,...
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