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Category: Gadgets & Geekery

Everyone loves gadgets and all good geeks appreciate the intersection of geeky art and design, from memes turned into living works to technology scrap turned into new design objects. From innovative light art to unique drawing techniques, here are our favorite works of art that will inspire the geek in anyone – as well as our top gadgets for everyone who wants to have their very own piece of future tech.

Knitting in Reverse: Un-Knitting Machine Unravels Sweaters

For any knitter who has ever looked at an ugly sweater and thought wistfully of all of the projects they could complete with that wasted yarn, the Un-Knitting Machine is a gift from the crafting ...

The Charge Cycle: Bike-Powered Public Phone Charging Station

Soon, you'll be able to charge your iPhone at strategic locations around New York City - but you'll have to put in a little leg work. The Charge Cycle is a stationary bike equipped with an iPhone ...

Impossible Gadget Turns Digital Photos Into Analog Prints

People around the world shed a little tear when Polaroid announced that it would stop producing the instant film that had become synonymous with the company's name. The folks at The Impossible ...

Villa Savoye: Classic Corbu House Comes to Life in LEGO

One of the most iconic buildings of the 20th Century, the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier outside of Paris, France has long been a symbol of the International Style in Modern Architecture - now one ...

Digital Retro: 10 Sundial & Hourglass Clocks & Watches

Sundials and hourglasses were two of the earliest ways humans developed to mark the passage of time. As better technology has emerged, we've all but dropped these reliable gadgets in favor of ...

Microsonic Landscapes: What Music Looks Like in 3D

What would your favorite album look like in three dimensions? Mexico City-based research and experimentation studio Realität proposes "a new spatial and unique journey" by transforming the ...

Tourism Tech: Audio Tour App Takes You on a Tram Ride

Being a tourist can be expensive, inconvenient and embarrassing. Lumped into unwieldy masses and guided like cattle through a city, you're at the mercy of the schedules of others and sometimes ...

Comic Con & Beyond: 18 Mesmerizing Convention Costumes

The elevation of Comic Con from a niche event for super dorks into a stage for the launch of national products and films, has had one unintended consequence: cosplaying, a staple of all ...

Gallery-Worthy Gadgetry: 10 Terrific High-Tech Art Projects

Technology makes our modern lives possible - without it, after all, you wouldn't be reading this right now. But technology can also make our lives better in less tangible ways. These 10 art ...

Wear It’s At: 7 Futuristic Developments in Fashion + Clothes

Don't think technology has an effect on what you wear? It turns out that our outfits, the way we shop for clothes, and even the way we wear our clothes have all been altered by the constant ...

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