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Month: January 2018

Jobs that Don’t Exist Yet: Art Based on World Economic Forum Predictions

The automation of many of our jobs - even those that have long seemed safe - is fully inevitable at this point. One study predicts that about 38 percent of American jobs will be at high risk of ...

Architects Broke a Sweat Designing These 13 Striking Gyms & Fitness Facilities

Your sweaty neighborhood gym has nothing on these beautifully designed fitness facilities full of multi-story climbing walls, skybridge pools, dramatic boxing rings, nightclub-style lighting and ...

Playing for Keeps: Robust Putty Binds Found Objects into Colorful Furniture

Colorful but powerful, this strong synthetic dough (dubbed PLAY) looks like modeling clay made for kids, but can hold together all kinds of materials including wood, metal, glass and marble. The ...

Social Media Addicts Have a New Way to Propose with This Engagement Phone Case

If you don’t capture every minute detail of your life and post it on social media and proceed to buy likes from Buzzoid, did it even happen? That’s one question that comes to mind when you ...

Built-in Bonanza: 13 Mega Apartment Makeovers Packed with Custom Features

Even the smallest, ugliest and most awkward space can become a comfortable apartment when creative custom built-ins are integrated into a brilliant renovation by a truly talented architect. ...

Knitted Camouflage: Handmade Outfits for Hiding in Built Environments

From tiled walls and wallpaper to shrubs and graffiti, this array of custom outfits helps conceal wearers within very specific urban contexts. Photographer Joseph Ford worked with ...

Oversized Down Under: Australia’s 10 Oddest Big Things

Unlike Australia's wildlife, the weird and wondrous 'Big Things' scattered across the Land Down Under aren't deadly... unless one falls on you. Some say the Big Things – which began ...

Self-Healing Infrastructure: Eco-Friendly Fungus Grows to Fill Concrete Cracks

Concrete problems tend to start small, with micro-cracks expanding and exposing rebar to corrosive water, oxygen, carbon dioxide and chlorides that compromise structural integrity -- but what if ...

Self-Parking Slippers: Nissan Surprises Hotel Guests with Unexpected Tech

Guests at a Japanese inn in Hakone were shocked when they removed their hotel-provided slippers only to watch them roll away and self-park in a neat row. Later, taking a seat at the traditional ...

Omoshiro Blocks: Excavate Hidden Architecture from Laser-Cut Paper Notepads

These ordinary looking stacks of square paper notes hold hidden surprises inside: each removed sheet reveals more and more of a secret Japanese structure, completely visible once all the pages ...

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