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#architecture

Tower Skins Modernise Ugly Buildings, Generate Energy and Collect Rain Water

I'm not sure how I feel about these tower skin concepts, which can turn ugly buildings into modern icons. A lot of the post-war buildings aren't the nicest-looking, but as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. More »

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By Kat Hannaford

#space

Beautiful Planet Posters Are Space Geek Catnip

Ross Berens' gorgeous planetary posters feature incredible artwork and real-deal factoids on all eight of our planets, plus our old friend Pluto. Space aficionados, you'll want to check these out. [Cargo Collective via Kottke] More »

02/08/10

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By Adam Frucci

#concepts

Gesundheit Radio Sneezes To Remove Dust From Microprocessors

Way back in '72, this Gesundheit Radio was created by an "experimental research group" at Texas Instruments. Or at least, that's what student James Chambers will tell you, who created the back-story for added "color" to his sneezing radio. More »

02/08/10

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By Kat Hannaford

#starwars

Parisian Metro Tickets Enlisted to Fight the Empire as Kirigami X-Wings

I, not being an artist, am content to ride Boston's subway system quietly, eyes down, in a general malaise. It's a New England thing. French artist Hubert de Lartigue, on the other hand, uses his subway time to imagine X-Wings. More »

02/07/10

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By Jack Loftus

#thoughtcontrol

Thought-Controlled Computing Will Light Up Vancouver Olympics

Figure skating? Please. The main attraction for many visitors to the Winter Olympics will be an installation letting them control the lights at Niagara Falls with their minds. That's right: we're all telekinetics now. More »

02/02/10

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By Brian Barrett

#diy

You Can Make this Coffee Can Lamp

For about $24 in parts and 20 minutes' worth of drilling/bolting, this coffee can lamp can be yours. Just be ready for all the "nice cans" jokes to pour in at your decor's expense. [ReadyMade via Unplggd]

02/02/10

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By Mark Wilson

#history

Leonardo da Vinci's Resume Explains Why He's The Renaissance Man For the Job

At one time in history, even da Vinci himself had to pen a resume to explain why he was a qualified applicant. Here's a translation of his letter to the Duke of Milan, enumerating his many talents and abilities. More »

01/30/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#3d

How Regular Movies Are Converted To 3D

Now that Avatar is officially the highest grossing movie of all time, it's inevitable that studios will continue to push 3D as the new frontier of cinema. But actually filming in 3D is prohibitively expensive. Here's how they fake it. More »

01/30/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#lamps

This Lamp May or May Not Double As a Wormhole

The Getty Lamp, designed by Marcus Tremento and made from electroluminescent wire and perspex, is clearly the lighting fixture of choice for the Twilight Zone. Limited edition of 10, at least in this dimension. [Generate Design via Nerd Approved]

01/29/10

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By Brian Barrett

#art

Floppy Disk Paintings Redefine Renaissance Art

British artist Nick Gentry's paintings give long-forgotten floppy disks a new lease on life. They're still storage media, just in a much more literal sense. More »

01/28/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#imagecache

Life On Paprika Mars

This looks so much like Mars I can almost see the Rover in the background. But it's not another planet—it's one of a series of incredible small-scale models by artist Matthew Albanese. Wait until you see the volcano. More »

01/26/10

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By Brian Barrett

#art

Do the Bill Gates Boogie

Check your watch. Fist pump. Clap. Raise the roof. Release mosquitoes. Fist bop. Wave your lighter. Repeat as necessary. That's the Bill Gates Boogie. [Guest of a Guest and CrunchGear]

01/26/10

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By Mark Wilson

#twitter

Rambler Sneakers Tweet Every... Single... Step

The creators of Rambler think that Twitter's a pretty vapid service filled with useless information. So they went out and tweeted lots of insightful things! No, of course not. They just created the most worthless Twitter account of all time. More »

01/26/10

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By Brian Barrett

#tshirts

The Cursor T-Shirt Lives Up To Its Namesake

I'd never considered that "the cursor" may have gotten its name from a skill set having nothing to do with computers, but clearly the cursor is the ultimate human interface element for good reason. $10. [woot]

01/26/10

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By Mark Wilson

#shootingchallenge

117 Beautifully Blurry Photos

Motion blur! It doesn't just ruin photos. It's also something that can be used for artistic effect, when done properly. And for the results of this week's Shooting Challenge, we've got 117 photographers who did just that. More »

01/25/10

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By Adam Frucci

#art

This Disgruntled Artwork Perpetually Sells Itself on eBay

Caleb Larsen's "A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter" isn't quite as menacing as its name makes it out to be, but it's definitely a flighty little fellow: it continually creates new eBay auctions for itself via a built-in Ethernet jack. More »

01/23/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#clips

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Living In a Gangsta's Engineering Paradise

"You may be thinking that you're more gangsta than me, but you motherboarders have never seen my PC." That, and more brilliance, from IBM Fellow John Cohn's music video, Engineering Paradise. [@IBMResearch]

01/22/10

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By Mark Wilson

#photography

Shooting Challenge: The Beauty of Blur

Blur is usually something we try to avoid in photography—in lowlight especially, memories can be destroyed by this muddling of shapes and colors. But for this week's Shooting Challenge, we want you to harness motion blur's artistic power. More »

01/20/10

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By Mark Wilson

#movies

An Epic 22-Minute Behind-the-Scenes of Avatar

We've all heard allusions to Cameron's massive sets, motion cap system and 3D/virtual cameras used to create Avatar, but this 22-minute clip actually shows us these techniques. (So don't watch this video if you don't want the magic spoiled): More »

01/20/10

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By Mark Wilson

#art

Of Course This Giant Lite Brite Tapestry Involves a Unicorn

If you're going to make a one-third scale replica of a 15th-century tapestry out of 55,000 Lite Brite pegs and 36 pegboards, you'd better dadgum well pick the 15th-century tapestry with a unicorn and a pink lion. More »

01/20/10

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By Brian Barrett

#design

Wall Decals Fold Out In Origami Style, So It's Not Just Your TV That's In 3D

This is one way to save your dull, desperately-in-need-of-a-paint-job walls from obscurity. Dress them up with decals that fold out of the wall, almost like origami. More »

01/20/10

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By Kat Hannaford

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