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Month: December 2016

Urban Agrihood: Detroit Produce Project Feeds 2,000 Households for Free

The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI) has developed a multi-acre urban agricultural campus in Detroit with gardens and an orchard designed to feed thousands of local residents. This ...

MicroPAD: Tiny Mobile Units Aim to End Homelessness in San Francisco

Could tiny prefabricated stackable mobile housing units help solve homelessness in cities like San Francisco, where nearly 7,000 people sleep in the streets every night? Affordable housing has ...

Invisible Repairs: Artist Fixes Broken Wood Furniture Using Clear Infill

Wooden furniture remnants stand out clearly against their subtle replacement parts in this series of artistic chair and bed repairs. Translucent acrylic fills in the gaps of these pieces, parts ...

Daredevil Santa: Human Flying Drone Enables Sky-High Snowboarding Tricks

“This isn’t fake, I promise,” said filmmaker Casey Neistat as he announced the impending debut of his ‘Human Flying Drone Holiday Movie’ on Twitter with a dubious-looking graphic. ...

Angling for Warmth in Winter: 21 Ice Fishing Hut Designs

Not just cold comfort, these portable shacks designed to be towed out onto frozen lakes come in a variety of forms, from the practical and resourceful to the funny and artistic.  These ice ...

Google Sheep View: Creature-Mounted Cameras Map Rugged Faroe Islands

Powered by solar energy and mounted to the backs of sheep, 360-degree cameras are mapping out the Faroe Islands for Google Street View. Since Google was initially reluctant to send cars to the ...

Gifts for Star Wars Geeks: Millenium Falcon Multi-Tool & Death Star Waffles

It may not slip into your pocket with quite the ease of a Leatherman, but this Millennium Falcon multi-tool is a lot more fun to use when the hyperdrive breaks down and R2 isn’t around to fix ...

Turrets, Moats, Dungeons & All: 12 Real-Life Castles Currently for Sale

Unless you're a lotto winner or an English lord in search of a new manor, you're probably not actually in the market for a castle, but these real estate listings range from the real ...

The Architect: New Film with All-Star Cast Features Egotistical Starchitect

All of the stereotypes associated with the architectural profession and its stars, real and exaggerated, are about to be revealed in an hour-and-a-half movie starring Parker Posey (wife), Eric ...

On Thin Ice: 10 Abandoned & Defrosted Ice Skating Rinks

At these abandoned ice skating rinks, hockey turns to hooky faster than frosty ice turns to lukewarm water. Kinda like Blade Runner but without the blades. Berkeley Iceland opened with a ...

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