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How Board Games Became Fun
A new exhibit examines how board games transformed from upper class educational tools to fun pursuits for everyone.Board games are hotter than ever. In the past four years, U.S. board games sales have...
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Who's Behind That Anti-Trump Art?
Meet the artists and designers planting anti-Trump propaganda in the streets—and one who's for Trump.With Election Day less than two weeks away, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he will...
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What Designers Buy At Ikea
Furniture designers from Design Within Reach, Lunar, Dror, and more tell us what they buy when they go to Ikea.Through its sheer ubiquity, Ikea furniture is often categorized as a design staple, not a...
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You Can Now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And ROFL Using Emoji
Our pictogram language is rapidly evolving.Future linguists will no doubt be shocked that human beings ever communicated with anything as pedestrian as written words. By then, English will have been...
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Could Flax Be The New Plywood?
Christien Meinderstma's Flax Chair is an elegant, sophisticated chair designed out of a material that is like plywood made from linen.In early 2010, Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma became...
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How A Small Studio Went From Designing Vases To Designing Islands
Dror Benshetrit of Dror explains how his 12-person studio manages to keep innovating while staying small.Founded in 2003 by Israeli-born designer Dror Benshetrit, Dror is a relatively small studio....
View ArticleHere's How The Military Envisions Tomorrow's Dystopian Megacities
A leaked video proves the Pentagon's terrified of what the rise of megacities means for urban warfare."The future is urban."So starts a Pentagon video, recently unearthed by The Intercept, that...
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Scientific Proof That It's Never Too Late To Make It Big
By visualizing thousands of academic citations, Kim Albrecht discovered that success happens totally randomly within a person's life.Almost everyone who aspires to any sort of greatness in their field...
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This Video Of The World's Most Unsatisfying Things Is Strangely Satisfying To...
They're also all design innovations just waiting to happen!A piece of jellied toast lying face down on the floor. A frying egg yolk drifting lazily to one side of the white, then dividing into a runny...
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The 13 Best Magazine Covers Of This Hellish Election
No matter who you're voting for, there's been some fantastic graphic design this year.We certainly wouldn't want to editorialize either way, but by the end of today, the American people will have put...
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How The American Museum Of Natural History Is Spotlighting Its Huge Unseen...
The museum "has a critical mass of material to draw upon to build this virtual world," says filmmaker Erin Chapman.Founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History isn't merely one of the...
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A Synthetic Fingertip For Unlocking Your Phone In Gloves
Of course, that also means anyone wearing your glove can unlock your iPhone. Caveat emptor!Finger-chilling winters and modern smartphone screens don't mix. Capacitive touch-screen phones can only...
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This Design Student Built A Gun That Weaponizes Tears
Yi-Fei Chen turned her frustrations into a literal weapon.Ask any parent, any spouse, or any histrionic teenager, and they'll tell you: Tears can be used as weapons. Until now, though, those weapons...
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Lego Meets Velcro In This Clever Apple Watch Strap
Designed by Benjamin Hubert at Layer, Labb is made of a stylish new material that could also make belts, jewelry, and purses easier to fasten.It's surprisingly hard to design a watch band that's...
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11 Exciting New Materials Designers Should Watch
Flexible batteries, Velcro metal, colorful conductive inks, and more.Andrew Dent, vice president of library and materials research at Material ConneXion, is like a sommelier. Presiding over the world's...
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The Future Of Healing Broken Bones Is Squishy
A 3D-printed elastic scaffolding might help us fix seriously broken bones.The rigidity of bones is what allows us to walk upright, instead of slithering like a pile of goo on the floor: a homo sapiens...
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Lyft Kills The Glowstache
Its replacement, the Lyft Amp, aims to solve one of ride sharing's biggest pain points.Thanks to the fluffy pink mustache bouncing happily on its drivers' dashboards, Lyft has always had a friendlier...
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Taco Bell's New Logo Is The Worst
The minimalism trend in fast food has to stop.Taco Bell, makers of all fast food loco or grande, is getting a new, streamlined logo, just in time to open a new Vegas Strip location. A new logo,...
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An App To Teach Children Empathy
Tinybop's new app, Me, aims to help kids better understand themselves and others by answering hundred of fun interactive prompts.Now more than ever, we need to teach our children empathy: to see...
View ArticleA New Google Site Lets You Play With Its Wildest AI Toys
Google's AI experiments push neural networks to their limits. They also happen to be very fun.Neural networks are the technology driving some of the web's most wonderful toys. Now Google, which uses...
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