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Month: February 2016

Urban Microscape: Build Your Own Miniature Metropolis

Display your own little corner of your favorite city - or the entire metropolis of Manhattan - on your wall or table, scaled down to 1:5000 and simplified in white monochrome. ‘Microscapes’ ...

Hiding in Plain Sight: 17 Secret Spaces from Safes to Pubs

If you don’t have a Narnia-themed playroom hidden behind a wardrobe, a zombie-proof shelter accessible via your kitchen island or a gun safe under your 900-pound bulletproof couch, you just ...

Takeout Shakeout: 10 Abandoned Chinese Food Restaurants

What's on the menu at these abandoned chinese restaurants? Stereotypical architecture and signs displaying near-racist “oriental” fonts, for starters. ...

Air Bonsai: Magnetic Levitation Kit Lets You Float Little Trees

Taking bonsai approaches to the next level, a Japanese company based out of Kyushu has raised over half a million dollars so far for its levitating (and rotating) tree system. The fauna ...

Modern Masters: 10 Installations by Artist & Activist Ai Weiwei

China has incarcerated him, put him on house arrest and made every attempt to shut artist and activist Ai Weiwei up, but they haven’t stopped him from expressing his scathing criticism of the ...

14,000 Refugee Life Jackets Wrap Berlin Konzerthaus Entrance

In an effort to raise awareness about the growing refugee crisis, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has wrapped six giant entry columns to a landmark concert hall in central Berlin with ...

Pigment Library: Harvard’s Collection of 2,500 Global Colors

Looking as much like a mad science laboratory as a conservator's dream workshop, this pigment library is populated with color samples from around the world, all helping preservationists maintain ...

Top Secret City: Oak Ridge, Birthplace of the Atomic Bomb

Thousands of people who lived and worked in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during the 1940s had no idea what they were actually doing every day, performing their tasks as directed without asking questions, ...

Van Gogh’s Iconic Bedroom Brought to Life & Available to Rent

The Art Institute of Chicago has brought one of the most famous paintings of Vincent Van Gogh to life like never before: a complete replica realized in three dimensions and available as a rental ...

Mattel ThingMaker: New Device Lets Kids 3D-Print Their Own Toys

Toy-maker Mattel has announced a 3D printer with a novel application: a way for children to make their own custom toys using a simple digital interface. The app, designed by Autodesk, is easy to ...

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