Our bodies bend and twist, so why can’t our gadgets? Next week at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung will be unveiling their much anticipated 5.5 inch flexible phone screen. It seems as though consumer electronics are going to way of the…
Its not necessarily sex that sells, it’s the virtual representation of sex that sells. It’s the promise of sex. It’s the age-old carrot on a fishing rod. But this representation has always been a few key dimensions away from fully satisfying our seemingly…
If I told you about a flowerpot that grows plants without watering and fertilizing, you might say whaaaaaaat? Introducing the Chia Pet of the future (although this is arguably way cooler). A company called Click & Grow, with offices in Palo Alto and weirdly in…
“Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud….” Said the great 19th century lawyer and politician Charles Sumner. Yes, war profiteering has been age old past time,…
While the World Wide Web as we know it might be vast and it’s size unimaginable, it’s still wild, new and vastly unconquered. It’s a brave new world, where mere dot commers are like colonial squatters staking their flag in the rich binary soil. Some will grow…
Why do we love transparent products so much? Currently causing a viral storm on Kickstarter: Swedish design firm People People’s transparent speakers. There has to be a tutorial online that teaches you how to make a nice pair of transparent speakers, right?…
How’d you like to listen to some Daft Punk or Madonna while your dead? Now for the recently deceased audiophile, a Swedish company called Pause Custom Sound Systems presents the CataCombo, a music pumping customized coffin to turn your afterlife into the…
Skiing and snowboarding probably top the list of cool competitive snow sports, but sledding, mostly practiced by snotty kids on a mound of two week old powder on a trashcan lid, is somewhere on the bottom of that list. Unfortunately, for extreme sledders the options…
Most artists have a different way of looking at the world. The same applies to the way they traverse it. Deep in the woods of Nikola-Lenivets, Russia – which is a rising bohemian and artistic community about 4 hours from Moscow – an Estonian architecture firm Salto…
The all new BMW i3 Concept Coupe, which is slated for some form of release in late 2013, is a serious game changer in the automotive industry for a couple of reasons. Responding to the large demand of consumers hungry for a luxury electric coup, the BMW i3 is the…
If you’re like most Americans, you’re probably too lazy to walk anywhere… let alone walk your kid to school. And in the era where wars are fought by remote control and intelligence is gained against our enemy using unmanned crafts from thousands of miles away,…
Kogoro Kurata’s childhood dream was to grow up and take over the world. No not really, but Tokyo, Japan based artist Kurata did grow up watching an overdose inducing amount of manga and science fiction films. His father was also a blacksmith who taught him how to…