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Eve’s Wireless, Silent Film About The World’s First Mobile Phone (1922)
“Eve’s Wireless” is a 1922 silent film newsreel demonstrating the world’s first wireless mobile telephone. The boxy telephone required an umbrella to act as an…
Pillow Fight Weapons
Design student Bryan Ku has developed an armory of plush weapons suitable for dominating a pillow fight. Though it remains to be seen if his…
Vintage Camera Nightlights
Jason Hull is repurposing (not pristine) vintage cameras from the 1950s and 1960s by turning them into swell nightlights. Hull, a long-time employee at Pixar,…
Improv Everywhere T-Shirt
Our friends at Improv Everywhere have just released a spiffy new t-shirt, available through BustedTees.
The Seven Deadly Keys T-Shirt
The Seven Deadly Keys T-Shirt by Sticky Comics, based on their awesome comic.
Retro Telephone Style Cellphone Handsets
Fab is currently featuring a series of wonderful retro telephone style handsets for cellphones designed by David Turpin of the French design company Native Union.…
Portland Nights Time-Lapse Project
Portland Nights by Lance Page is a series of structured motion controlled time-lapse videos shot around Portland, OR.
How To Do The Dishes
How To Do The Dishes on Sticky Comics
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is a book that chronicles the art and life of cartoonist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes, the man behind…
Concentricity, Interactive Light Sculpture Series by Joshua Kirsch
In his “Concentricity” series, artist Joshua Kirsch creates beautiful and intriguing interactive LED light sculptures. Highlights of the series: Concentricity 96, 2011 (video), Concentricity 96,…