Face It! 12 Facebook Timeline Covers Worth Copying
When Facebook added its timeline cover image, it was likely the first time users didn't revolt against a Facebook change; it gave the flexibility to truly customize one's profile page and a lot ...
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21st Century Tintypes: Incredible Old-Fashioned Photography
In an era of digital cameras, Photoshop and other high-tech photography and processing techniques, one photographer has gone just about as far in the other direction as possible. Michael Shindler ...
Erupting Stability: Tornado-Proof Suburb Inspired by Turtles
When a tornado comes blowing through, you can sit vulnerable in a flimsy wooden box, or you can be like a turtle, pulling its head and limbs into its impervious shell. Turtles were among the ...
Fonts to Faces: 9 Personality-Rich Typographies as Portraits
As humans, we are programmed to anthropomorphize our surroundings. So what would happen if the letters on pages conveyed meanings others than the words they represented ... say, actual (versus ...
Crowd Control: Cool Time Lapse Shows How People Gather
Crowd-watching is one of those perennial favorite activities that never seems to get old no matter how often you do it. For the 2011 Vancouver Celebration of Light, a popular annual fireworks ...
Wallbots: Robotic Walls Automatically Reconfigure Rooms
In the future, will our environments constantly change around us according to the weather and our whims, without us having to lift a finger? If 'Wallbots' are any indication, the homes of 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 ...
Floating Islands Add 100,000 Square Feet to Downtown Seoul
Many of the most densely-populated cities in the world reside along bodies of water, from canals and sounds to seas and oceans. Beyond merely extending solid ground, this three-island project ...
Double-Duty Desks: 14 Adaptable Office Furniture Designs
Even if you're really into minimalism, a desk should be much more than just a piece of waist-high furniture with a flat surface. With a clever design, a simple workspace can pack in a whole lot ...
Faster, Higher, Stranger: 10 Tacky Olympic Souvenirs
“I went to the Olympics and all I got was this lousy... what IS that thing, anyway?” Most anyone would agree the best souvenir of a Summer or Winter Olympic Games is a medal – preferably gold ...
