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,…

When San Francisco's Exploratorium began to outgrow its 100,000-square-foot campus at the Palace of Fine Arts—where it had been since its founding in 1969—it looked for a new home, eventually settling on the city's Embarcadero, a stone's throw from downtown.

The Internet is a great place to look at things you can't have, and this clever map that cross indexes San Franscico real estate listings with location fits snugly in that category. At least the nicer districts do.

Whether you think it's a fantastic expression of creativity, or a horrible waste of money, for the next two years San Francisco's Bay Bridge will be illuminated every night with 25,000 animated white LEDs. And that like all large-scale projects, there's a fascinating story behind it.

There was a time when you'd shop for things in person as opposed to online. Convenient. Which then made shopping in person pretty boring because, well, it's all the same crap everywhere you go. Then the same thing happened to the Internet save for a few "indie" sellers on Etsy and some hipsters on Kickstarter.

This is what benign paroxysmal positional vertigo feels like. Director Borja V. Conde had suffered from the debilitating effects of this disease in the days leading up the shoot for Barcelona-based Begun's first music video, "San Francisco," so he incorporated many of the visual distortions he felt into the project.

Looks like you'll have to start keeping your AR drone on a leash, what with a new breed of wireless virus floating around the skies. The winning entry into this year's San Francisco Drone Games, James "substack" Halliday's Virus-Copter can wirelessly infect AR Drones around it with amok.js. This script wrests flight…

When a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's eastern coast early Friday morning, we all feared a tsunami. But San Francisco gets earthquakes all the time, and we're not scared of a tsunami there. Why?

In a triumphant victory for the producers of Hoarders, the city of San Francisco gave developers the go-ahead on Tuesday to enter a trial run of 375 "micro-apartments."