A Wild Proposal for Domed Houses Made of Inflated Concrete
"Binishells" combine concrete and heavy-duty balloons to create visually stunning, structurally sound, domed domiciles.
View ArticleThis May Be the Ultimate Bike for Big-City Riding
The goal is to create a mode of transportation that provides exactly what is needed, when it is needed.
View ArticleAn Ingenious Plane Design That Makes Room for Your Carry-Ons
London-based design firm Priestmangoode has solved the problem of carry-on storage once and for all.
View ArticleA Stylish City Bike With Useful Tech Touches
In an attempt to get more people biking, a nonprofit called Oregon Manifest holds an annual design competition challenging designers in five cities across the country to come up with a ride that’s so...
View ArticleA Gravity-Defying Robot That Draws Huge Abstract Artworks
Rising Colorspace is an abstract art installation. But instead of being painted by a tortured Pollock wannabe, it's made entirely by a finely tuned robot.
View ArticleCreepy Photos of Crumbling Soviet-Era Architecture
English photographer Rebecca Litchfield braved radiation and KGB-style interrogation techniques to capture the beauty of this bygone era.
View ArticleThe Best Infographic for Comparing Rapper Vocabularies, From Wu-Tang to Yeezy
In partnership with RapGenius, Matt Daniels analyzed the vocabularies of noted wordsmiths William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, and Lil Wayne.
View ArticleEx-Googler Creates Slick Kit to Turn Your Kid’s iPad Into a Teacher
Osmo uses the iPad's cameras and display to turn any kitchen table into an interactive learning lab.
View ArticleThe Deep Design Thinking Behind MIT’s Incredible Origami Robot
The robots are made of "tunable metamaterials," composites engineered to have properties unlikely to be found in nature.
View ArticleA Photo App That Teaches You to Be More Perceptive
The goal of Cucalu isn't to stack candy, or fight off demons, but rather to uncover interesting settings, objects, and people.
View ArticleA Smartly Designed Bike Whose Handlebars Become a Lock
Denny, as the bike is called, has a number of understated, yet incredibly clever ideas.
View ArticleA Huge, Clay-Filled Robot That Replaces the Potter’s Wheel
This artistic automaton takes Play-Doh extrusions to their logical conclusion, but does not try to eliminate the trademark quirks of handicrafts.
View ArticleFormlabs Believes the Future of 3-D Printing Is With Pros, Not Tinkerers
Colin Raney's mission is to use the design thinking and business model innovation skills honed at Ideo to help Formlabs reach its true potential.
View ArticleThe Cutting-Edge Butter Knife of Your Dreams Is Finally Here
Sliced bread is synonymous with innovation, but really, how wonderful is it if a chilled pat of butter can trash a piece of pumpernickel toast?
View ArticleAn Infographics Genius Plots Out Another Insanely Detailed Year of His Life
For nearly a decade, Nicholas Felton has tracked his interests, locations, and the myriad beginnings and ends that make up a life in a series of sumptuously designed "annual reports."
View ArticleThis Illustrator Makes $100K Selling Virtual Paintbrushes
Illustrator Kyle Webster’s client list includes The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, but last year more than half his income came through the sale of virtual paintbrushes. These...
View ArticleUsing the Internet of Things to Create Cute Long-Distance Interactions
This is what the Internet of Things would look like in a Jane Austen novel.
View ArticleNASA Needs to Adopt This Cool New Logo
The mark pulls off a hat trick, referencing NASA's illustrious past, nodding to its dreams of taking us to new planets, and ditching the dated features of the old logo.
View ArticleNike Helps Design a Swank Jet for Traveling Sports Teams
A concept cabin that is meant to swaddle athletes in supreme comfort---and, in doing so, unlock their peak performance.
View ArticleIs Apple Watch’s Pressure-Sensitive Screen a Bigger Deal Than the Gadget Itself?
The feature, initially limited to the Apple Watch, could mark a major change in touch computing if it's added to the iPhone and iPad. The post Is Apple Watch’s Pressure-Sensitive Screen a Bigger Deal...
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