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So This Is a Thing: Zombie Satellites

I've never been a fan of the Zombie Apocalypse narrative. Who needs the fictitious afflicted undead in order to feel insecure in their relationship to resources and humanity? Not this guy. Instead, I...

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A Brief History of Unusual Objects Designed to Kill People from Far Away,...

We all know the movie trope of the hired assassin up on a rooftop, calmly removing his sniper rifle from a foam-padded case and assembling it with practiced ease. The man is an experienced professional...

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Pocket Art Director: A Magic 8-Ball for Designers

As a slight upgrade from the time-honored coin flip, Magic 8-Balls are great for tossing your decision-making to the wind with a few shakes of the proverbial 'crystal' ball. After all, the gnomic globe...

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Thirsty Man Prevented from Enjoying Bottle of Beer by Self-Targeting...

While TrackingPoint released their self-aiming PGF rifle just last year, a slightly similar, if less deadly, consumer-level technology has been available for quite some time. For years, paintball...

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Deliver Intense Newness to the Market as a Senior Industrial Designer with...

Brands are like people. They have personality. Lifestyle Design (LSD) is a fashion forward design studio that delivers intense newness to the market. They offer their clients holistic branding...

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Priceless Videos from British Pathe: Good Bad Inventions

For those of us with an unambiguous interest in The Past, the archives of British Pathe are nigh on gold. The century old company has its roots in the development of both motion film and the newsreel,...

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Tonight at Curiosity Club: Arthur Hitchcock presents The Walk

Photo by Ira LippkeTonight at Curiosity Club photographer Arthur Hitchcock will describe his incredible journey (literal and figurative) across the US in his talk The Walk.In 2011, Arthur left his...

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Luca Nichetto on Being Addicted to Process, Feeding Off His Employees'...

Portrait by Lera MoiseevaThis is the latest installment of our Core77 Questionnaire. Previously, we talked to Albert Chu of Otaat.Name:Luca NichettoOccupation: Designer Location: I have two studios,...

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Tooshlights: Traffic Signals for Bathroom Stalls

I never thought anything could be done to speed up bathroom lines. But a company called Tooshlights is claiming that their product can speed the process of getting people into stalls by up to 50%. The...

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Landlocked? These Interpretations of Ocean Waves Rival the Real Deal

It's unfortunate that we can't all take in the swirling blues and greens of the large bodies of water that make up 70 percent of the Earth's surface in person—by scientists' best estimates, we've...

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Gerry Judah's Large-Scale Installations for the Goodwood Festival of Speed:...

The automobile industry may be on the cusp of a radical shift as a generation of would-be car owners opt for the comfort and convenience of car- and bike-share-enabled cities, but motorsport remains a...

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Internet of Things Coming to a Home (Depot) Near You: Wink Smart Home App to...

By now, it seems like the conceit of a 'home of the future' has existed for as long as we've taken residence in permanent structures, and while subsistence cultures certainly didn't fret over replacing...

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Quipu of Secrets: A Different Kind of String Theory

Cool update in a running techno-anthropological mystery: A sizable stash of quipu have been found in Peru. Quipu are systems of knotted, colored strings believed to be the Incan Empire's method of...

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Hearing Aids as Phones, For Everyone

Phones are continually getting smaller—the paper-clip sized phone that Derek uses in Zoolander was more than a joke, it was prescient. But phone size and design are finally hitting a wall—the...

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Largely Intact Woodworking Shop from the 1700s Discovered--Being Used as a...

Photo by Christopher Schwarz & John Hoffman's Lost Art PressBehind the Berrybrook School in Duxbury, Massachusetts, stands an old beat-up shed. Teachers were using it for overflow storage in 2012...

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Pop-Up Linen: The Magical Wardrobe That Disappears When You Want It To

As we millenials increasingly flock to cities and learn to make the most of modest floor plans, we often find ourselves looking for space-saving storage solutions—it's no surprise that this...

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Watch a Master at Work: How Handcrafted Scissors Are 'Put Together'

This short, wordless documentary about 'putter'—short for scissor putter-togetherer—Cliff Denton has been making rounds today and it's easy to see why. Filmmaker Shaun Bloodworth does a nice job of...

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Forum Frenzy: Harley-Davidson Validates the Electric Motorcycle with the...

As of just a couple weeks ago, it looks like electric motorcycles are going big time... or, specifically, like Harley-Davidson is making a move into the future of transportation with the recently...

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Conceptual Climate Change: Test the Air in Lima from the Comfort of Your...

One of the best parts about skipping town for an exotic vacation is the anticipation of spending time in warmer (or cooler) weather. But what if experiencing that part of the getaway was simply a...

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Letters Get Physical: Erik Spiekermann On Letterpress; New Book in August

Images via GestaltenErik Spiekermann is a living legend when it comes to typography—in Gary Hustwit's Helvetica, he memorably acknowledged that typefaces were "his friends"—who is among the last...

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