Digital Street Eraser: Rubbing Out Reality, Photoshop-Style
Analog stickering is taking on a new dimension in the hands of these street artists, a pair of creatives selectively defacing signs, billboards, mailboxes, graffiti and ...
Month: April 2014
Bad Ads? Funeral Services Struggle with Sense of Humor
This billboard, reportedly spotted in a subway station in New York City, may not be the most tactful way to drum up business for a funeral home. But you have to admit, it's clever. Naturally, the ...
Rad Rides: Nuclear Power Plant Turned into Amusement Park
The iconic central cooling tower has been turned into a swing ride and climbing wall, but the re-purposed complex as a whole features over a dozen attractions including rides, restaurants, bars ...
Augmented Sandbox: Realtime 3D Topographic Landscaping
Simulating an amazing array of natural environments and phenomena, this dynamic playspace turns ordinary hand-sculpted sand into vividly colorful landscapes in the blink of an eye. A real ...
Pocket Printer: Mini Roomba-Like Robot Prints on the Go
While other gadgets have gotten smaller and more streamlined, printers have generally remained space-hogging behemoths. Seemingly ignored in the quest to make computers and their accessories ...
Ancient Engineering Fail: 12 Historic Structural Disasters
You can't exactly fault ancient architects for building structures that were unable to withstand stone-shattering earthquakes, or simply experimental in nature - failure is part of the learning ...
Unbelievable Advert: Augmented Reality Bus Shelter Window
Taking over a single bus shelter on New Oxford Street, guerrilla advertisers threw everything they could think of at commuters, including (but not limited to) flying space aliens, underground ...
Mountain-Shaped Residences with Walkable Green Rooftops
Beyond any inherent beauty or formal references to surrounding mountains, there is a more profound proposition in this series of structures about the way we walk into, through and above ...
Living Legos: Build Your Own Robot with TinkerBots Blocks
High-tech and low-tech come together with this set of not-so-basic building blocks connected to a central 'Power Brain' cube that turns your creation into a working robot. TinkerBots is a ...
Disorienting Design: 14 Trippy & Surreal Interior Spaces
You might feel like you're dreaming or even drunk when you wander into these bizarre, surrealist interiors, from a bar that looks like the inside of an alien to a hotel room modeled after TRON. ...
