The nebulous territory of “good” and “bad” taste have always confused me. Who are you to tell me what completely unaffordable couch I should or shouldn’t buy, well-meaning Architectural Digest editor? Well, back in 1909, a German art historian named Gustav E. Pazaurek devised a system to help us all out. Let’s call it …
Forget 3D-Printed Guns; Here Are Some 3D-Printed Shotgun Slugs
The fact that we can 3D-print guns
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. Sounds obvious today. But in 1968, a full year before ARPANET made its first connection? It was downright clairvoyant.
It's about damn time. After an endless
A Peek at the Secret Lab Where Google Tries to Invent the Future
Google's got its hands in a lot of cooke jars. It's juggling Android, and ChromeOS, and maps, and Gmail, and Glass, and self-driving cars. But the real, secret goods are (presumably) hidden deep inside the secret "Google [x]" lab, and Bloomberg got an awful close—but not quite uncensored—peek.
Facebook’s New Artist In Residence Builds Wood Domes On Wheels & Water
When the San Francisco-based artist (and avid surfer) Jay Nelson wanted a car he could sleep in for his frequent trips to the coast, he didn’t need an RV—just a new way of looking at a sedan. Nelson had acquired a rusting 1986 Honda Civic, and with the addition some plywood, fiberglass, and a set of porthole windows,…
Worker compensation is a fairly new thing, dating only back to the Labor Movement in the early 1900s. Before that, injuries on the job were usually treated with either indifference or cheap payoff—after all, the average factory worker was making mere cents a day, so half a year's pay was chump change for large companies.
Your Xbox One Is Going to Control Your Entire Home Someday
Yesterday's Xbox One premier
The World's Ten Largest Engines
What's the largest engine in the world? Well, it depends from how you look at it. Thankfully, we have dedicated Jalopnik readers
