Ostrich Pillow Junior, A Sleep Cocoon for Kids
Last year we posted about the Ostrich Pillow, a most curious-looking sleep cocoon that encases a person’s head and hands in pillowy softness. The pillow’s…
Animation Shows Future San Francisco with New Transbay Transit Center
This computer animation shows downtown San Francisco of the near future, when the sprawling Transbay Transit Center, 1,070-foot-tall Transbay Tower, and other nearby developments are…
Functioning Gears Discovered in Legs of Issus Insect
University of Cambridge researchers Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton recently discovered functioning gears in the legs of the Issus “Planthopper” insect. The gears, complete with…
Tour of Artist Frank Kozik’s San Francisco Studio
Artist Frank Kozik, who is known both for his concert posters and his figurines, talks about his work and gives a tour of his San…
Ghoulish Shadow Art Installation in Downtown Frankfurt
photo via Herbert Baglione Artist Herbert Baglione painted ghoulish shadow figures along a 9,600-square-foot stretch of downtown Frankfurt as part of the ongoing “Street-Art Brazil”…
New Software Can Extract Editable 3D Objects From a Photo
At the 2013 SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference back in July, a research team unveiled 3-Sweep, an imaging software that lets the user easily extract an…
Inventions Made Better: Shower Slide
College Humor unveils a revolutionary new shower technology in the parody commercial, “Inventions Made Better: Shower Slide.”
The Devil’s Pool, Casey Neistat’s Mission to Swim in Africa’s Victoria Falls
In the short film “The Devil’s Pool,” filmmaker Casey Neistat recounts his single-minded mission to swim in Devil’s Pool, a notoriously dangerous natural pool at…
Disarm, Seized Guns Reborn as Robotic Musical Instruments
“Disarm” by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes is a series of robotic musical instruments that are made out of guns confiscated by Mexican authorities. The series…
Ping Pong Ball Explosion with Liquid Nitrogen in Super Slow Motion
In the latest episode of Distort, hosts David Prager and Mauricio Balvanera burst a highly pressurized bottle of nitrogen in a trash can filled with…