This Free App Adds an iPhone X Notch to Your Android Phone
Android smartphones with edge-to-edge screens, like the Samsung S8 or the Essential phone, have found elegant ways to…
Design
This Star Wars Timeline Brings Back a Legendary Style
There are a lot of things I miss from the old Star Wars Legends timeline. Kyle Katarn. Synthetic lightsaber crystals.…
This PR Email Sure Is Weird [Updated]
This morning I received a press email with the subject line “A water bottle designed for Women in Tech.” Does it…
The Most Realistic Robo-Lincoln Yet Proves the Future Is Going to Be Weird as Hell
Honest Abe is lying about being human. The people who handle Walt Disney World’s Animatronics have built an all new,…
Fancy Chair Maker Herman Miller Is Making Creepy Software Now
Do you ever sit down at your desk and wonder why the elevated surface doesn’t have more sensors to record and analyze…
Early Ghost in the Shell Designs Hinted at a Bigger, Brighter Future
The trailers and clips for Ghost in the Shell present a cold, neon-blazed city in distress, reminiscent of Blade Runner…
The Greatest Scientific Breakthrough of Our Time Is This Drip-Free Wine Bottle
There are several ways to prevent those inevitable wine bottle drips from staining your tablecloth. You can wrap the…
Just Give This Artist and His Hypnotic Animated Business Cards All the Graphic Design Jobs
In the corporate world, business cards are rarely nothing more than empty white rectangles with a few words printed on…
Using Projectors and Fog, This Artist Created the Creepiest Ghost Effect We've Ever Seen
Ever since seeing Princess Leia’s floating hologram in Star Wars, artist Joanie Lemercier has worked to design and…
People Are Already Trying to Fix the Nintendo Switch's Dumb Design Issues
The Switch, Nintendo’s new phablet console, was a big bet, but perhaps not a smart one. Despite being marketed as a…
Check Out the Evolution of the US Dollar Bill
The US one dollar bill is still old school. In fact, it has the oldest design of all US currency being produced today.…
This $30,000 Coffee Table Floats Like a Hoverboard
If it’s not made of gold, furniture recovered from the Titanic, or extraterrestrial materials salvaged from a meteor,…
Ikea's Now Making Chairs the Same Way Nike Makes its Knitted Sneakers
There’s nothing quite as comfortable as wearing a sweater knit by a grandparent, right? That’s why Nike started using…
How Instagram Convinces Us to Eat Terrible-Tasting Food
San Francisco is a city of long lines, and on a Saturday afternoon few lines here are longer than the one in front of…
Grass Printer Turns Your Overgrown Lawn Into Art
Mowing the lawn ranks among the least enjoyable chores for a homeowner. But you can appease the neighbors who won’t…
This Giant Inflatable Waterpark Is What Dreams Are Made Of
This 200-person capacity beachside waterpark might just make me travel to Dubai. Coming in at 252 feet long and 115…
Norway’s Experimental Police Uniform Is Silly and Sort of Scary
A public backlash has emerged in Norway in response to a proposed police uniform that’s been compared to outfits worn…
This Massive Rube Goldberg Machine Uses the Internet to Visit Five Different Cities
Thanks to the internet and being able to easily share videos of them playing out, those pointlessly complicated Rube…
Flat Pack LED Chandelier Is the Easiest Way to Turn Your Home Into Your Castle
Nothing classes up a room like a massive, intricate chandelier hanging overhead. But they can be a hassle to find, hard…
This Wacky World Map Just Won Japan's Biggest Design Award
The centuries-old Mercator projection is a notoriously inaccurate world map. For one thing, Greenland isn’t the massive…
