Next-Gen Baggies Are Transforming Legal Weed
After a recent trip to her local dispensary, my mom recalled how, when she was young, black-market cannabis was really…
Design
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This $600 Shoelace-Tying Robot Was Built on a Shoestring Budget
With a budget of just $600—a mere pittance compared to what robots like ATLAS cost to develop—students from the…
Watch This Robotic Camera Rig Create 3D Animations With Light
Instead of repeatedly standing in front of a camera and waving an LED bulb to create long-exposure light paintings, …
Magic Leap Gives Us a Peek at Its Interface, and It's Not So Bad
Magic Leap has promised it’ll start shipping its mixed-reality headset by the end of the summer, and it’s going to need…
This Hypnotic Machine Perfectly Juggles a Ping-Pong Ball By Listening to the Bounce
Bouncing a ping-pong ball on a paddle isn’t terribly challenging for someone with even a modicum of hand-eye…
The One Thing Windows Vista Did Right
Vista was bad. Coming five years after XP, it was heavily anticipated by Windows users who were impatiently awaiting…
'Full Version' of Adobe Photoshop is Reportedly Coming to iPads
Adobe is bringing the “full version” of its industry-standard Photoshop app to the iPad, and its other desktop apps may…
This Automated Sand Printer Is Ready to Flood Your Instagram Feed With Beach Wedding Proposals
Wedding proposals are just one of the many minefields you have to navigate on social media platforms, and Ivan Miranda…
USPS Ordered to Pay $3.5 Million After Putting Artist's Weird 'Sexier' Lady Liberty on Stamps
The US Postal Service will have to pay a sculptor who recreated the Statue of Liberty for a New York-themed Las Vegas…
Why the Government Sucks at Making Websites
In April, the day before taxes were due, the IRS’ online filing system failed, just as procrastinators were settling…
This Computer Actually Works Better With Windows
Wyatt Little has designed the first computer that performs much better with Windows—and lots of sunlight. In many ways,…
The Top 7 Gadgets Shaped Like a Cube
Amazon’s announcement for its new Fire TV Cube on Thursday was a great reminder that the cube just doesn’t get enough…
This Concept Art From the 2011 ThunderCats Reboot Is a Glimpse of What Could Have Been
There are any number of reasons as to why fans of the original ThunderCats series from the ‘80s are up in arms over the…
The Future Is Knit: Why the Ancient Art of Knitting Is High-Tech Again
When you think about knitting, you might picture grandmas clicking big wooden needles or something wintery, like a…
How Sex Toy Makers Pick Vibrator Colors
Scoring a color’s sexiness calls for a sketchy rubric at best: Although someone appointed it the color of romance and…
Does the New Gmail Feel Horribly Slow, Or Is It Just Me?
Google graced us with a fancy, new Gmail.com last month, and like, great! It’s nice to have new stuff to play with,…
These Giant Scrolls Are the Hellish User Agreements You Probably Should Have Read (But Didn't)
Made up of colorful scrolls cascading down a wall, artist Dima Yarovinsky’s installation “I Agree” is beautiful—at face…
This Guy Hacked a Polaroid Camera to Print on Cheap Receipt Paper Instead of Pricey Film
Shooting on film continues to get more and more expensive, especially for fans of instant cameras like the reborn…
Kernit Is the Jim Henson-Inspired Typeface Muppet Fans Deserve
Why are there so many songs about rainbows, but so few typefaces that evoke the iconic pupils of Kermit the Frog?…
