E. chromi: Designer Bacteria for Color-Coded Disease Detection
The future of personalized medicine will be the result of a cross-pollination between design and engineering. Last year, I had the pleasure of profiling the extraordinary artist Daisy Ginsberg for Wired UK. (We also shared a crazy New York adventure that involved a Russian homeless man with Cheetos in his beard and anterograde amnesia.) I…
Outcasts, Artists, and Dreamers: They All End Up In Bordertown
Bordertown disappeared thirteen years ago and some people have since stopped believing it was ever there at all. They make up stories and act as if The World and the Elflands have never touched. They pretend that the gritty bohemia of Bordertown, or B-Town, never existed, was only ever rumors and gossip. There were never…
Model Shots That Look Beautiful Enough to be Paintings
We’re used to marveling at the painted concept art that comes out alongside a big space epic. The incredible spaceship images, the gorgeous planetscapes. But back in the day, practical model builders created some views that were just as lovely. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-of-io9s-concept-art-week-5570195 You can see the results on screen: Star Trek II’s battle scene in the…
