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Month: August 2016

Dramatic ‘Elastica’ Residence: The House of the Future is Here

Looking like the set of a sci-fi film, the ultramodern ‘Elastica’ residence in Bangalore, India is pretty much what we all imagined our houses would look like by the time we became adults. ...

You Won’t Believe It’s Not Photoshop: 36 Fake-Looking Photos

The very existence of Photoshop has made it easy to immediately dismiss impossible-looking images as digitally altered, but some bizarre scenes are more real than they appear. Anything from a ...

Art of Protest: Student-Built Scale Model of $20 Billion ‘Bailout City’

After the Austrian government spent €19,000,000,000 to bail out a bank in 2014, a student group in Vienna created a giant urban model of a place Hypotopia in protest. This visionary city for ...

Digital Dynamo: Massive Motion-Activated Media Wall Animates Office

Spanning 1,700 square feet of interior walls in a Washington, DC office building, this stunning digital display cycles through different settings and seasons, reacting to workers as they walk ...

Simply Creative Use of Space: 14 Modern Japanese House Designs

High-density neighborhoods with heavy foot traffic and tiny plots of land in Japan force architects to come up with some clever space-saving, privacy-protecting residential layouts. Strategically ...

Urban Camo: Bus & Train Fabrics Turned into Wearable Textiles

Transportation system patterns, right down to seat cloth details, are designed to last and look good even when stained by dirt and spilled drinks over time, making them an oddly suitable choice ...

I Don’t Carioca: Awesome Abandonments Of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro may host the 2016 Olympics but Brazil's most picturesque and second-most populous city also boasts a host of infamous abandoned buildings. Perhaps the most notorious and ...

Scan & Draw: Color-Mixing Pen Can Make 16 Million Hues & Shades

A new pen aims to take art to the next level, letting users scan colors from their surroundings and deploy them, all via a single gadget. The Cronzy can be employed to scan plants, walls, cloth, ...

Amphibious Folding Motorcycle from Russia Fits in the Trunk of a Car

“How long I’ve wanted this dream to come true,” wails Twisted Sister as a motorcycle zips through a mud pit that’s snatching the boots of its rider in this frankly ridiculous video of the ...

Legible Graffiti: Repainting Street Art for Digital-Age Audiences

Artist Mathieu Tremblin has hit the streets again, expanding on his portfolio of repainted tags, turning messy walls into neat and readable 'tag cloud' arrays. His past works have ...

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