Remember the 2013 science fiction movie Her where a man falls in love with his computer operating system? Even in 2013 it didn’t seem to farfetched considering all of the digital assistants available. With the new emphasis on consumer AI… Read More ›
Misc
We should be dead already
Great, so people who sit on the job turn into bedridden geriatrics, while those who stand in the office might as well be eating nothing but double cheeseburgers, or going through a pack a day, or maybe both. Who cares?… Read More ›
Optical Illusions #2
Too clever.
Rollbe
Stainless steel ruler, designed to measure just about anything and easily fit in your pocket. Rollbe’s rolling design allows to measure straight lines and curved surfaces by rolling from point to point. Designed both in the Metric and the Imperial… Read More ›
The Hubless Foldable Sada Bike
It is not only very clever, it actually looks quite good.
The Numworks Calculator
Math isn’t boring. However, sometimes educational techniques don’t help making it interesting. Look at graphing calculators for example. They still embody an aesthetic from the 80s and 90s, and not in a good way. Looking more outdated than retro, these… Read More ›
Why You Should Stop Saying Sorry
To assess the impact of apologies after social rejections, researchers approached thousands of people and asked them questions and had them participate in experiments. When asked to write “a good way of saying no,” 39 percent of participants included an… Read More ›
Posters for every single Star Trek Next Generation episode
You can see all 178 of Ortiz’s posters collected in Star Trek The Next Generation: The Art of Juan Ortiz, which came out this week. According to the press release, Ortiz was “inspired by indie-film and black-light posters, comics and… Read More ›
An inverted pyramid home
Tokyo-based Makoto Takei + Chie Nabeshima /TNA designed the home to contrast the landscape, and to surprise and delight. Part of the Solo Houses project, which included design proposals from twelve architects, the pyramid volume houses a variety of… Read More ›
Boys and Girls
John Lewis has become the first UK retailer to remove gender labels from its children’s clothing. The department store chain has not only taken “girls” and “boys” labels from clothes, but has also done away with the separate sections in… Read More ›
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