Retro Restoration: Abandoned Space Age Bungalows
In the 1970s, these odd little pods were on the cutting edge of portable architecture, with a design clearly influenced by Space exploration and futurism. Today, they sit abandoned on the lot of ...
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Algae-Fueled Building: World’s First Bio-Adaptive Facade
Bio-reactors and micro-algae sound like the stuff of science fiction, but this is the real deal: biomass built into panel glass generates heat and power, also acting as a responsive light and ...
Submerged Cities: 7 Underwater Wonders of the World
Sucked into the sea by earthquakes or intentionally flooded to create dams, ancient and contemporary cities lurk just beneath the surface in bodies of water all over the world. Some, like ...
Dialed In: 15 Cool & Quirky Radio Design Concepts
The long history of radio and radios has progressed from polished wood, vacuum tube powered monstrosities through cheap Japanese transistor models to bass-pounding inner city “ghetto blasters” ...
Photoshop in Real Life: Portrait Series Takes Tools Literally
Anyone who has used Adobe products, Photoshop or otherwise, knows that they have necessarily become quite creative in naming some of their more abstract, surreal and unusual ...
Slam Drunk: 12 Weird, Wild & Wacky Basketball Courts
These 12 jaw-dropping basketball courts stretch the limits of Dr. James Naismith's original vision far beyond the prescient gym teacher's wildest hoop dreams. ...
On Space Time Foam: Surreal Billowing Art Installation
The science of engineering and rationalism of city planning meet visionary experimentation in art installations by Tomás Saraceno. The Argentina-born artist is known for works that imagine an ...
Clock Watching: 15 Amazing Movie & TV Time Machines
Time travel is a relatively modern concept first popularized by British author H. G. Wells in his pioneering sci-fi classic The Time Machine. Over a century of virtual time exploration has given us ...
Superstitions, Illustrated: A Calendar of Fallacious Thought
Even in a world of smart phones, high-speed trains, artificial intelligence and Mars exploration, many of us still bow to old superstitions. We avoid crossing under ladders, knock on wood, cross ...
Visualization Vids: Moving Data Make Marvelous Movies
Raw data, as interesting as it may be to the scientists and analysts who use it, simply isn't very interesting (or understandable) to the rest of us. In order to get the general public truly ...
