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  • Stan Herd

    “From the artist’s 160 acre portrait of Kiowa Chief Satanta in 1981 through 35 monumental earthworks over the next 40 years, Stan Herd would become known as the ‘Father of Crop Art’, a term coined by Dan Rather on CBS… Read More ›

  • The land of giants

    “This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape. Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, we have created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. These iconic pylon-figures will become… Read More ›

  • Galaxy Note 5 review

    “The Note 5 has adopted the new design language Samsung introduced with Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, and it makes this the most attractive Note smartphone so far. All that tacky plastic we traditionally got from Samsung devices has… Read More ›

  • Sixties Iconic

    In 1964 the Spezimatic was launched and quickly became, and still remains, an iconic watch. In honour of this, , Glashütte Original has released 5 new watches which pay tribute to the style of the time and they look just as… Read More ›

  • ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Was Different From Other Pixar Movies

    “It was very clear during every conversation I had, just how little time the studio had to mount a completely new movie. They threw out much of what they had and were tasked with creating a finished film in just… Read More ›

  • The Surface Book hinge

    Insane, in a good way. More at The Verge.

  • Smartphones and Smurfs

    “Smartphone users can do “very little” to stop security services getting “total control” over their devices, US whistleblower Edward Snowden has said. The former intelligence contractor told the BBC’s Panorama that UK intelligence agency GCHQ had the power to hack… Read More ›

  • Apple Watch Hermès launched

    “Uncompromising craftsmanship. Pioneering innovation. Groundbreaking functionality. Apple Watch Hermès is the culmination of a partnership based on parallel thinking, singular vision and mutual regard. It is a unique timepiece designed with both utility and beauty in mind. With leather straps… Read More ›

  • Project Apollo Archive

    You can now view more than 8,000 photos taken on every Apollo mission to the moon on this flickr stream. Some of the images are breathtaking.

  • Apple services: it’s all coming together now

    I have avoided many of the stock Apple apps for quite some time because they tended to not offer the features I wanted and the iCloud system behind them was irratic, slow and at times would lose data completely. Over… Read More ›