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,…
Design
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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?…
This Experimental Typeface Cleverly Combines Braille With the Latin Alphabet
Exploring the limits of type design, Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has developed Braille Neue, an attempt to…
How Colors Are Discovered
In the early 18th century, German chemist Johann Jacob Diesbach was at work in a laboratory trying to make a red…
The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge Looks Like It Broke Off an Alien Mothership
The plan to 3D-print a bridge in mid-air was always bonkers. How could a technology best known for creating flimsy…
AI Imagines Nude Paintings as Terrifying Pools of Melting Flesh
When Robbie Barrat trained an AI to study and reproduce classical nude paintings, he expected something at least…
Trippy Magic Happens When AI Only Knows About Flowers, Waves, and Fires
The same way a human only knows as much as they’ve studied or experienced, an artificial intelligence is only as smart…
The First Great iPhone App Grows Up
The very first iPhone apps were universally dull. And then Bloom came out. Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers built the app…
Why Two Guys Are Building a Massive Island Out of Fat
Just north of Amsterdam’s most famous canals, there’s an island of fat bobbing up and down in the sea by a wharf in a…
What the US Superhero Entertainment Industry Can Learn From Japan: Capes Are Rad
When you think of a superhero—not a specific character, just the idea of a superhero—chances are he or she is wearing a…
This Handcrafted Commodore PET 2001 Is the Most Elite Retro Device that Money (Probably) Can’t Buy
The Commodore PET 2001 was already one of the better-looking dinosaurs from the early desktop days, but this…
Emoji Domains Are the Future (Maybe)
There was a time when merely uttering “WWW.” caused investor eyeballs to blink dollar signs. Now, that excitement seems…
