New Stamp Series Honors Noteworthy American Industrial Designers
“Pioneers of American Industrial Design,” a newly released stamp series by the US Postal Service honors 12 influential American industrial designers.
Keyboard Frequency Sculpture by Mike Knuepfel
“Keyboard Frequency Sculpture” by NYU design student Mike Knuepfel is a 3D visualization of the frequency with which keys are used on a computer…
Man Has Disabled Hand Amputated and Replaced with Bionic Prosthetic
Earlier this year, an Austrian man named Milo chose to have his permanently injured hand amputated and replaced by a bionic one. His procedure is…
Extremities, Skateboarder Seen from Seven Camera Angles at Once
“Extremities” by Eli Stonberg is a fascinating video of skateboarder Aryeh Kraus recorded by seven cameras, five of which are on the skateboarder’s body. For…
The 1939 Pontiac Ghost Car, the World’s First Transparent Car
The 1939 Pontiac Plexiglass Deluxe “Ghost Car” is a one-off show car with custom plexiglass body panels. It was built for the 1939-40 New York…
Robot Armpit Introduces Sense of Smell to Human Robot Interaction
Designer Kevin Grennan built this robot armpit prototype as part of his studies on the role of smell in human robot interaction. He has also…
New Twenty-Six Mile Long Chinese Sea Bridge is World’s Longest
The recently completed Jiaozhou Bay bridge is, at 26.4 miles, the world’s longest sea bridge. The bridge serves as a shortcut between the port city…
World of Fourcraft, Foursquare Hack Turns NYC Into Risk-Style Game
World of Fourcraft is a Foursquare hack that turns New York City into a strategy game akin to Risk, with the five boroughs as competing…
Forehead Tittaes, Prosthetic Breasts Spoof Ad Encouraging Eye Contact
Marion Cotillard stars in this spoof ad by Funny or Die for “Forehead Tittaes”, prosthetic mini breasts that attach to a professional woman’s forehead to…
We Stand Tall, An Internal Scientology Music Video From 1990
“We Stand Tall” is an internal Scientology music video from 1990. The video’s morale boosting song is reminiscent of the eighties charity single “We are…