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Vasily Klyukin is the Monaco-based Russian co-owner of Sovcombank, a Russian commercial bank. He is also, if these sketches of his latest architecture project are anything to go by, a little insane. The White Sails hospital concept is a design for a hospital and spa, to be built in the budding Tunisia Economic City. The…
And now I absolutely want to see a Twelfth Doctor/Jo adventure…
Soft drink vending machines are one of those unobtrusive, inoffensive bits of life that can be placed almost anywhere without anyone noticing or complaining (apart from the occasional anti-obesity protester. Coke’s trying to harness that unseen power (and sell more Coke!) by sticking Wi-Fi hotspots inside some South African vending machines. The Coke machines will…
Sierra Nevada Corporation, which was beaten to NASA’s multi-billion dollar contract recently, has just filed a legal challenge against NASA, claiming that their mini-space shuttle proposal was significantly cheaper. This comes a day after Sierra Nevada laid off 100 staff who were working on the (appropriately-named) Dream Chaser project. [Sierra Nevada]
A.W. Mangieri is the chef at famed Una Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco and he makes pizzas. Fantastic, simple and delicious 12-inch Neapolitan pizzas that look absolutely perfect. I’ve never had them but I can totally smell and taste them through this video. Plus, Mangieri seems a little crazy about pizza so they must be…
In the event that we ever end up going toe-to-toe in outer space, it turns out that things wouldn’t look anything like Star Wars. No, an actual space battle would probably be very fast, very boring, and extremely quiet, as PBS points out. In an episode of the online series It’s Okay To Be Smart,…
He’s going down the mountain road so fast that it looks like he’s about to hit warp drive or something. I mean, damn. It seems like one little pebble on the road or one little shift in the wrong direction and he’d be catapulted off the side of the road. But he manages to hang…
Sure, Apple’s only received nine reports of bent iPhones and we highly doubt you’ll have any reason to worry about your own, but do Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handle the pressure any better than competing models? Consumer Reports put that to the test, pitting the new iPhones against other giant handsets…
There’s a whole world of potential in a blank sheet of paper, but few folks can turn something flimsy and flat into 3D magic like Irving Harper. The creative legend—now 98 years-old!—did industrial and graphic design for Herman Miller during its dynamic mid-century era, but his legacy also includes an incredible personal collection of paper…
Maybe you’ve heard of The Pixar Theory by Jon Negroni that showed how all the characters of the Pixar movies are connected to each other in one universe. The evidence was undeniable! Bloop Animation shows how it all ties together in the video below. I want to believe! The theory is encompasses all of Pixar’s…
As part of Yahoo’s ongoing mid-life crisis, the company very quietly announced today that it’s killing off the original internet directory that gave the company its name. Back in 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo, Stanford Grad students, launched “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”, a categorized, curated list of everything that’s on the internet. Obviously,…
I have had a teensy, torn bit of paper taped over the camera of my MacBook Air for years now because even before I knew the FBI could activate that thing without the indicator light, it always bugged me out that someone might be secretly snooping. The teensy, torn bit of paper looks janky as…
Everyone gets songs lodged in their heads. Sometimes you hear something and it just gets stuck, like when I spent an entire bus ride with “Tubthumping” on mental replay after hearing it in 7-11. Other times you don’t hear anything at all, but the unexpected popularity of a new social network triggers an unavoidable mental…
I don’t know if Jupiter Ascending—the new movie from the creators of The Matrix—is going to be incredibly good or impossibly bad, but one thing is sure: The amount of sci-fi visual porn in this trailer alone has sent my brain into overdrive. The design seems phenomenal. I’m really hoping for the movie to be…
Professional pool skater Cory Juneau did more than 60 takes around this skate park to create this time collapse: A video in which every version of himself across time is put into the same space thanks to the magic of video editing. This is how they did it: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
The twisting sidewalks and dizzying density of Brazil’s favelas might deter most outsiders from navigating these crowded inner-city neighborhoods, which informally house about 1.5 million of the country’s residents. Yet in the last few months, both Google and Microsoft have both been seen mapping their narrow streets and dirt paths. According to the Wall Street…
You wanted a bigger phone, you got a bigger phone. Lots of bigger phones. Phones that are now bigger than the biggest pocket of your biggest pants. So where are you going to keep your big phone now? The evolution of gadgets in a few short years has been impressive. The evolution of gadget-ready fashion…
Newly-surfaced FCC papers seem to indicate that LG’s upcoming smartwatch will boast a 3G cellular connection. Soon you could be wearing your LG cellphone on your wrist! Yes, the device, known only as the LG-VC100, will pack a 3G CDMA cellular connection, judging by the papers filed with the FCC. That means, hypothetically at least,…
When you think about it, is there really much difference between someone with their PhD in chemistry and a bartender? Both are probably dealing with a crippling mountain of debt, both concoct solutions and mixtures, and both are hoping for a positive reaction. So why wouldn’t a mixologist feel right at home serving hooch in…
World of Warcraft’s fifth expansion pack, Warlords of Draenor, is out in a couple of months – and Blizzard have been counting down the weeks to release with a lavish, gorgeously drawn web series looking at some of the big characters players will fight alongside and against. Come meet the Warlords of Draenor! The five…
