Ghost Ships: Ten Scary Spirits Of The Seven Seas
Ghost ships are one of the most enduring legends of the sea, and tales of mysterious ships with missing crews have peppered the accounts of mariners both ancient and modern for hundreds of years. ...
Month: January 2010
Dial4Light: Turning Street Lights On Via Mobile Phone
(image via: Julie_Berlin) There are certain things that most of us take for granted – like well-lit streets. But leaving street lights blazing at all hours of the night, even in towns that ...
Comprehending Chaos: Graphic Designs for Understanding NYC
It's common knowledge that living in a city as large as New York can be chaotic, and the laws meant to provide order and protect citizens can be beyond confusing. Wouldn't it be helpful to have a ...
Going … Up? Radical & Subversive Urban Rooftop Dwellings
Rooftops have long been popular urban substitutions for yards; city dwellers use their rooftops for sunbathing, grilling a few hamburgers, hanging clothes out to dry, or even a bit of rooftop ...
Architectural Art: Photos of 101 Dizzying Spiral Staircases
Are stairs dangerous? How about if you twirled round and round and then tried to walk them? How about if you did not whirl but the staircases spun around in dizzying spirals? There is something ...
Monstrous Beasts: 14 Bizarre Dinosaurs and Extinct Species
Thankfully, evolution has most recently tended to reward creatures for strong thinking abilities, as it's allowed us to rise to the top of the food chain. If we'd been alive in earlier eras, ...
Stupendous Steps: 15 Great Escalator & Stair Ads
While spending 30 seconds on an escalator, where do you look? Most people just stare straight ahead – making escalators an ideal location for advertising. But some ads are more colorful, clever ...
Urban Red Planet: Sci Fi Visions for Human Habitats on Mars
Most space scientists, sociologists and sci-fi writers agree: when humankind finally sets down roots somewhere other than the planet of our birth, Mars is our most likely destination. Chilly, ...
Phantom City: App Provides Glimpse of Unbuilt NYC
A floating airport off Battery Park, a mile-high dome over Midtown Manhattan and a hulking Harlem in the sky… these structures may not actually exist in New York City, but tourists can still ...
Drive the Friendly Skies: History & Future of Flying Cars
People have been dreaming of flying cars since the very first day we realized that human flight was possible. We love cars, we love flying, we love traveling, and we love independence: all of ...
