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Chair-Themed Typography For Furniture Fetishists

Chairs come in all shapes and sizes—but you probably never expected it would be possible to create an entire alphabet out of them. Designer Tim Fishlock has put together this Typeseat print based around that exact idea, where each letter is represented by an iconic 20th century chair. He explains: A lot of my work…

Will Streaming Music Ever Be a Sustainable Business?

For almost ten years, streaming music services have come and gone. Sure, some have lasted longer than others, but so far none has ever made the business model work properly. So can it ever turn into a real, sustainable business? Verge has an interesting feature asking that very question. From the article: [W]hile streaming looks…

Video Purports to Show Off Samsung Galaxy S IV

We’re now just two days away from Samsung’s Galaxy S IV announcement, but this video claims to show off the phone ahead of launch. Following yesterday’s alleged photographs of the phone, the same source has released this video which could—or could not!—show off the S IV in action. Grab a pinch of salt and take…

Study: Your Facebook Likes Alone Reveal Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and More

Every little piece of information you give away online can reveal something about you—but it seems your Facebook likes could reveal rather more than you bargained for. New research by the University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research has been analyzing Facebook Likes to see how much information they really contain. After quietly—and, apparently, innocuously!—collecting data…

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office has been called in to investigate HP’s allegations of wrong-doing by Autonomy .

Earthrise in Luna City

Sunlight caught in the geoengineered haze over Luna City as Earth hung over the horizon. On the Moon, you got used to gray sands punctuated by the red glow of LEDs. They were the colors of home. The Earth might have been a pretty jewel in the sky, but the idea of living inside that…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Testaballoon

This machinima-style CGI short illustrates that you can’t just float through life, even if you do have a balloon for a head. Produced by Valerio Spinelli of studio Pixel Pongo, Testaballoon follows the trials of a man whose head is far too light for his body.

Samsung Teases the Galaxy S IV with a Picture Showing the Outline of the Phone

Samsung is going to announce its latest and greatest Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S IV, on March 14th. We may know what it looks like already. Or we may not. Samsung is throwing all of us another bone by teasing the upcoming S IV by showing us the outline of the phone. It might…

What Would Happen If People in the SkyMall Catalog Came to Life

If you’ve ever been bored as hell on a plane, which is to say every single person who has ever flown ever, you’ve definitely wondered who the heck buys anything from the totally unnecessary world of SkyMall. And if you got even more bored, shout out to cross country and international flights, you probably wondered…

The ABCs of a Camera’s Guts

What’s lovely about this alphabet made from camera parts by London graphic design student Stefan Abrahams is that it organizes a camera’s beautiful internals as carefully as one should frame a picture. Each letter has a camera part, you can see the viewfinder as ‘D’ and the shutter curtain as ‘R’. What are the other…

What Adorable Kids Think of Those Stupid Harlem Shake Videos

Those Harlem Shake where they actually aren’t doing the Harlem Shake videos sure got out of hand really fast, didn’t they? It was the Internet’s fascination at its highest manufactured peak. I disregarded it immediately when I first saw it. I didn’t want to watch any of those videos as more came trickling in. And…

If Superheroes Were Sponsored By Famous Brands

How do superheroes afford being, well, superheroes? It doesn’t seem too lucrative a gig given the time commitment and hazardous work conditions but yet every hero still seems to make ends meet. But if superheroes are struggling financially, they should totally look into sponsoring themselves. Iron Man by McDonald’s. Monster Hulk. Captain America’s What Can…

Dive into Jupiter’s moon Europa with this excerpt from Jeff Carlson’s The Frozen Sky

Jeff Carlson, bestselling author of Plague Year, has just self-published his new scifi novel The Frozen Sky. It’s “a near-future sci fi thriller set beneath the ice of Jupiter’s sixth moon, Europa,” and is seriously action-packed. Check out this excerpt. THE FROZEN SKY By Jeff Carlson 1. Vonnie ran with her eyes shut, chasing the…

Color-Fading Ombre Chairs: Little Rainbows of Comfort

It’s hard not to notice ombre everywhere, but hopefully you’re not sick of the trend yet. Because if Werner Aisslinger’s Bikini Island chairs are any indication, it’s not going away anytime soon. Designed for Italian furniture company Moroso, the series has a dining and a swivel chair in a number of brightly hued gradients—reds, greens,…

This is what hate sex looks like in Disney’s Fairy Tale Kingdom

Last night was an excellent representation of Once Upon A Time at its best. Don’t forget this show has cash — buckets of it. And when it uses its cash to cast good actors and employ great writers, they all have a lot fun juicing out the darkness from these plump little fairy tale pixies.…

Wreck-It Ralph Vanellope and kart cosplay looks good enough to eat

When deviantART user IkariyaManga and her his pal LauraC needed to make a Vanellope costume for a Wreck-It Ralph skit, they went all out, not just creating an incredible replica of Vanellope’s Sugar Rush cart, but also making it wearable. The 13-pound faux-kart can be held up with a pair of suspenders so that it…

Google Glass Will Work with Apps Like the New York Times, Path and More

Google showed off some new features of Google Glass at SXSW and they can be quite useful. For example, the New York Times will be integrated with Google Glass so you’ll see pop up notifications of breaking news by tiling your head a certain way. You can even peep pictures, headlines or have Google Glass…

These Soviet anti-alcohol posters offer a lurid view of communist history

In the USSR, alcoholism was an enormous problem, which the government tried to tackle with these incredible PSA posters. The messages in them will be familiar to anyone who has seen anti-drug posters in the United States — but the style is distinctively Soviet. Life as a sober and an alcoholic man A detail of…

Watch a day in the life of a terraformed Mars

No, this isn’t Earth or an artistic rendering of some far away exoplanet. It’s Mars — but a hypothetical version of the Red Planet after it’s undergone a rather radical facelift. The video was put together by software engineer Kevin Gill who simply wanted to know what a terraformed Mars might look like (and to…

A Power Bar With a Removable Battery Charges Your Devices Wherever You Roam

The addition of USB ports have made power bars even more useful as of late. And Quirky’s new Pickup Power promises to now make them almost indispensable with the addition of a large rechargeable battery that can continue to top off your mobile devices when you’re away from an outlet. Designed to sit on your…