What are you dressing up for Halloween as this year? If you can get your hands on one of Japanese company REAL-f's crazy-accurate face replicas, you can go as an uncanny valley version of ...READ»
Do you ever wonder if there's a heaven that obsolete package designs go to when their parent corporations do a brand refresh? Okay, fine, only a design blogger would wonder that--but as it turns out, there actually is such a place. ...READ»
I've been loving Ludwig Zeller's science-fiction-as-product-design experiments lately, and his latest brainchild, called "Introspectre," is quite the capper. Like his other works, Introspectre imagines a future "digital native" with ...READ»
Science fiction is usually the province of filmmakers and novelists. But designers can get in on the action too, imagining products and services to meet needs that don't quite yet exist, but could soon. Ludwig Zeller has done exactly ...READ»
We have machines that can recognize faces and machines that can draw. Now, thanks to scientist/engineer/artist Patrick Tresset, we have robots that do both -- look at your face and then draw a portrait while you wait. One catch, ...READ»
Kickstarter sure has some weird projects seeking your patronage, but one of the oddest -- but also cleverest -- is + Pool, a public swimming pool literally floating in the East River between Brooklyn and Manhattan. It could also be ...READ»
People who monopolize conversations are either a) narcissistic jerks doing it on purpose or b) accidental jerks who just need a gentle reminder now and then to shut their yaps. Talk-O-Meter is your secret weapon for the latter ...READ»
Here's one thing that Andy Samberg was unlikely brag about in his SNL Digital Short "I'm On A Boat": a design based on "a special kind of decomposition of a metric space determined by distances to a specified discrete set of objects ...READ»
No chance of burying the lede on this one: Yes, Royal College of Art student Julijonas Urbonas has designed a roller coaster that kills people on purpose. No, it's not real (yet). Is it a joke, a reductio ad absurdum of the arguments ...READ»
If the noise-musical "Stomp" were reimagined with Doris Day household appliances instead of trashcan-soled stage performers, it might sound something like "The Stupid Orchestra," a self-deprecatingly named installation by Michael ...READ»
You'd think that being a creative director the Google Creative Lab would take up most of your creative energy. Not so with Ji Lee. When not managing the awesome promos that Google churns out, Lee still finds time to make impressive ...READ»
Last night I found out my wife can't identify the state of Iowa on a map. I was about to scold her until I realized I couldn't tell Alabama and Mississippi apart myself. Luckily, today I found "50 and 50," a graphic-design gallery of ...READ»
Sometimes, basic science funded by the military is a bit out there. Researchers are subjecting fruit flies to "virtual reality tunnels," which the Air Force thinks might help inspire insect-sized military vehicles.READ»
In the rock-paper-scissors game of life, nature beats nurture, and here's the proof: A hook-up in Spain between geeks and the military has begot an algorithm for troops' battlefield maneuvers based on the behavior of ant ...READ»
Ever since Facebook opened up its application service to third-party developers, the site has been littered with applications; some great, some good, some bad, and some really, really bad. READ»
