What Fish Can Teach Us About Wind A new model for building wind farms inspired by the way fish swim in schools could decrease costs while increasing power density.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
WANTED: Astro A30 Headset With its new follow-up to its successful A40 headset for tournament players, Astro Gaming tries to bring the pro-gaming audio experience to the masses.
Posted Tue Mar 16, 2010
Neff Ink Goes Bananas With a Playful Brand Refresh for Chiquita With its monkeys, clowns, and good bananas duking it out against bad ones for banana supremacy, the new campaign for the iconic fruit distributor tries to bring out the kid in everyone.
Posted Fri Feb 19, 2010
NASA Releases an Economic Model for Climate Change in the 21st Century Road transportation is our single greatest threat in the near term, but fulfilling our electrical power needs will be an even bigger problem in the future.
Posted Fri Feb 19, 2010
Infographic of the Day: What's Your Social Currency? Data pulled from the Web site Where's George?, which charts the travels of American money, can help reveal hidden patterns of human behavior.
Posted Fri Feb 19, 2010
Toy of the Year Awards Favor Playthings That Make Kids Think It's all about touch-sensitive Rubik's Cubes, coloring books that play songs, and robotic hamsters that squeak when you touch them.
Posted Fri Feb 19, 2010
Bobble Aims to Become the Brita of Portable Water Bottles Designed by Karim Rashid, it has a carbon filter to make tap water taste better, with the goal of encouraging consumers to stop buying bottled water.
Posted Thu Feb 18, 2010
Infographic of the Day: The U.S. Trade Imbalance Eclipsed by Competing Charts Two infographics rely on a similar visualization technique to tell different stories about where the economy is headed.
Posted Thu Feb 18, 2010
Is Google Profiting Unfairly From Typosquatters? A Harvard professor has made it his personal crusade to tell the world how the search giant makes buckets of duckets off people who register deceptive Web addresses.
Posted Thu Feb 18, 2010
The Body Electric: Britain to Win Hearts, Minds With Powered-Up Military Uniforms A new initiative from Britain's Ministry of Defense aims to make soldiers' lives easier by developing fatigues that store electricity. But it could have broader implications.
Posted Wed Feb 17, 2010
The Rolex Learning Center Is Full of Holes, but That's a Good Thing With its latest building in Lausanne, Switzerland, Japanese architecture firm SANAA has proposed a new shape for education in the 21st century.
Posted Wed Feb 17, 2010
Infographic of the Day: Obama Says "I Inherited This Mess" With a Chart [WITH WAR OF THE INFOGRAPHICS UPDATE!]
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A chart marking the first anniversary of the stimulus package makes a case for the Obama administration's effectiveness at saving jobs.
Posted Wed Feb 17, 2010
You Are Where You Eat: Government Releases Interactive Map of American Dietary Habits The online visualization tool charts 90 different environmental factors that impact American diet and health.
Posted Tue Feb 16, 2010
Infographic of the Day: A Tattoo Representing Every Life Lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom Giving new meaning to the phrase "Your body is a battleground," Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal will get a tattoo next month containing one dot for every soldier and civilian who has died in the Iraq war.
Posted Tue Feb 16, 2010
What Will Vancouver Look Like When the Winter Games Are Gone?
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Most Vancouverites remain grumpy about the Winter Olympics, but the Games are likely to improve the city in many ways, from better public transportation options to new public art.
Posted Fri Feb 12, 2010
