If you smashed together a Lego set and a stress ball, you’d get something approximating Buckycubes. Made of 125 rare-earth magnetic cubes, it’s a desk toy that can be endlessly bent, folded, slid, stacked, and otherwise fidgeted ...READ»
If Buckminster Fuller had been a California surfer dude, his buildings would've looked a lot like the weird, whimsical, and distinctly indigenous pods of San Francisco artist Jay Nelson. Nelson has the market cornered on turning ...READ»
By connecting conservation with wealth, Blue Ventures has found a way to convince fishing communities in the developing world that saving fish doesn't mean starvation--it means getting rich.READ»
Metropolis magazine Executive Editor Martin Pedersen has a great little story about the remaking of design demigod Buckminster Fuller's '30s-era Dymaxion, a three-wheeled car that was spectacularly futuristic for its time -- and ...READ»
When you hear that the futurists at Dentsu London are getting new office space, you know not to expect something out of Office Space. After all, an average workday for these folks may involve creating holograms with iPads or turning ...READ»
If you're into poppy dance music, you've probably heard a track or two from the loopy songstress who goes by the stagename Lady GaGa. But among fans, she's at least as famous for her goofy outfits, which make Bjork ...READ»
MIT's Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility-on-Demand Systems concepts won this year's $100,000 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual contest that asks entrants to create designs with maximum social impact.
This ...READ»
The visionary architect Buckminster Fuller believed that a single design could save the world. That ethos is being carried forward by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, which every year holds a contest to create a design with maximum ...READ»
Beyond its pop art textiles by Marimekko, Artek furniture, and Nokia's mobile phones, Finland as a whole is a hotbed of innovation, home to highly-educated workers, technologically-advanced consumers and ...READ»
Recently, I was filling up my Beetle and the guy at the next pump commented that I must get great gas mileage. "It gets high 20s on the highway if I'm lucky." I said, rather unenthused.
But he was impressed. ...READ»
