Swinging Times: 13 Stylish & Fun Indoor Swings
Growing up shouldn't mean having to let go of fun and free-spirited activities like swinging from the trees - or your living room rafters. Indoor swings can be as simple as a piece of wood strung ...
Month: April 2013
Lunar Power: Solar Spheres Energized by Both Sun & Moon
Magnifying light by a factor of 10,000, this liquid-filled, sun-tracking, energy-harvesting glass sphere is so powerful that it can not only harvest solar rays directly but is even able to draw ...
Seconds to Years: 2 Scales of Time-Lapse Photography
With the rise of digital technologies, photographers are finding increasingly fascinating ways to capture minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and even entire years. Here are just three ...
Intoxication, Captured: Frantic Head-Spinning Oil Paintings
If you've ever been intoxicated enough to feel as if the world were spinning around you at 100 miles per hour, these oil paintings by Alexandra Pacula will look familiar. But it doesn't take ...
Submerged Cities: 7 Underwater Wonders of the World
Sucked into the sea by earthquakes or intentionally flooded to create dams, ancient and contemporary cities lurk just beneath the surface in bodies of water all over the world. Some, like ...
Perfect Pitch: Impossibly Starry City Skies in Blackest Night
Massive power outages give us rare glimpses of darkened cities, but in normal conditions, there is simply no way to see the starry skies above the typical urban metropolis - but one photographer ...
Dialed In: 15 Cool & Quirky Radio Design Concepts
The long history of radio and radios has progressed from polished wood, vacuum tube powered monstrosities through cheap Japanese transistor models to bass-pounding inner city “ghetto blasters” ...
Cranking Out Memories: Analog Playback for Digital Videos
Being able to store old videos in digital formats has helped preserve some of the world's most important footage. It has also helped us keep all of our old family memories intact without worrying ...
Abandoned Tunnel Used for Secret Race Car Testing
Locals in the area of Donegal, Pennsylvania would often scratch their heads at the reverberating sounds of roaring car engines and squealing tires seeming to come from beneath a nearby mountain ...
Origami Shelter: Instant Flat-Pack Architecture on Demand
Take a structure, strip away all of the non-essentials, and squeeze out every last unused bit of air space, and what do you get? Something a lot like a folded sheet of paper. This folding ...
