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Cubify’s colorful 3D printers look like coffee makers, and that’s exactly the point—they’re a natural fit for your home. And they might be just the ticket to making this 3D printing thing stick with normal people.

The Cube is kind of the opposite of Makerbot’s at-home 3D printer, the Replicator, which is a big bulky 32-pound industrial beast. The Cube, on the other hand, is … Read More → "A 3D printer that looks like it belongs in your home"

Japan’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy has announced plans to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm near Fukushima as part of plans to reconstruct the area stricken by nuclear disaster in 2011. The project aims to address electricity shortage issues that arose after the closure of the damaged Daiichi power plant and 54 other nuclear reactors throughout the country. The plan … Read More → "Japan to build world’s largest offshore wind farm near Fukushima"

We’re not going to lie — sometimes, it occurs to us that we only ever wanted to be scientists because of all the neat toys they get to play with. That probably has something to do with why we didn’t end up becoming scientists. Well, that and our inability to perform any but the most basic mathematical operations. We do still want to play with researcher’s toys, though – … Read More → "NASA scientists get all the cool toys, including this hydrothermal ocean vent simulator"

San Francisco’s Highlight Gallery will shortly host a remarkable solo exhibition of architectural imagery by Belgian artist Filip Dujardin. Note the avoidance of the word photography. Though Dujardin’s photographs provide the building blocks for his work, the end result are fantastical, Photoshopped constructions depicting nonsensical or even impossible architecture.
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Welcome to the Eames timeline, chronicling the legacy left by the magnanimous time in American art and design that is the Eames epoch. Simply scroll down the page and watch the history unfold before your eyes. This page is rife with resplendent videos, animations and information. Enjoy!
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If you’ve never been inside a “real” arcade, it could be hard to distinguish one from say, oh, a Dave & Buster’s. Authenticity is a hard nut to crack, but there are a few hallmarks of the video game arcade of days gone by: first, they have video games. Lots and lots of video games, and (usually) pinball machines. They’re dark (so that you can see … Read More → "The life and death of the American arcade"

A group of Swiss artists has come up with a novel way to try to communicate with Julian Assange, currently being given asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy: sending him a package.

Bitnik, an artist collective based in Zurich, Switzerland, said that its parcel contains “a cell phone, camera and battery pack. Through [the] hole in the packet the camera takes pictures of the packets surroundings and uploads … Read More → "Swiss artists send Julian Assange a self-photographing package"

Waterloo Labs’ penchant for recreating video games with real life objects and functionality is alive and well. For their latest project, the Texas-based engineering turned their attention to rigging up go-karts with a real working item system to replicate Mario Kart’s zany kart racing.

Creating a real life Mario Kart is actually quite simple by Waterloo Labs’ explanation. The entire system uses a … Read More → "Mario Kart with real items recreated using RFID tags and go-karts"

When it comes time for an aging skyscraper to be put out to pasture, it’s best to do so slowly. For buildings higher than 100 meters tall, there’s no easy path to demolition. Sure, you could blow it up, but the cleanup would be brutal. You could slam it with a wrecking ball, but that’s a little heavy-handed, don’t you think?

Taisei Corporation, a Japanese construction company, is doing things … Read More → "Japanese eco-friendly building demolition method harvests energy as it destroys"