“Courtesy of Google”, a series of paintings by Keighty Alexander
April 30, 2012
April 29, 2012
A geologic map of Mars viewed from above the northern polar ice cap, based on surveys from the Viking orbiter spacecrafts, with colors depicting rock type (lithology), rock layers (stratigraphy), and structure. Part of a collection of artistic planetary maps.
April 17, 2012
Hands up who wants this for their office?
Simple, elegant, funny, and useful!
April 14, 2012
Oh yeah! It’s National Robotics Week! Free hugs and fist pounds for all!
(Source: youtube.com)
April 11, 2012
Jewelry in motion: Kinetic architecture for your hands
by Dukno Yoon
We have always been fascinated with kinetic art at PopTech.
More simple, pretty, useless machines. I love how light and airy these look, the Da Vinci-esque style, and how immediate the interaction is. Beautiful design.
April 5, 2012
An artist builds a beautifully simple computer-powered frame whose sole purpose is to blow bubbles the size of sofas
Wonderful!
Simple, pretty, useless machines like this really get to me. I think it’s the essential human-ness of them. I am constantly astonished and tickled by the ways people manipulate technology to create things that are purely aesthetic and joyful.
April 5, 2012
The Wheel of Worry. By Andrew Kuo, for the NY Times Magazine, via Aesthetics of Joy.
By the way, if you don’t listen to Radiolab, you are doing yourself a massive disservice.
Seconded. Radiolab is the truth.
This is a brilliant idea, and a stunning and poetic execution.
March 29, 2012
If Hot Wheels and the obligatory rickety plastic race tracks were the toys of your youth, then this is a dream come true. Amazing (and gigantic) kinetic sculpture by artist Chris Burden celebrating Hot Wheels.
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March 28, 2012
![theatlantic:
The Best Thing to Happen to Toast Since Sliced Bread
Do you make toast in the morning? Do you look at the weather forecast? IMAGINE a world in which you could accomplish both of these onerous tasks in one easy step.
Yes, that is the dream of someone going by the username of “Uroemer” who has entered this bold “idea” in the Ideabird M2M Innovation Contest, a competition put together by “an amazing group of companies including Deloitte, Deutsche Telecom, HYVE and The RWTH-TIM Research Group … with prizes worth over $10,000, [for the] wildest and best ideas for tracking anything - people, animals or objects of any size.”
Uroemer’s plan is to build a toaster that “receives the updated weather information for its current location via m2m or WLAN and burns ‘today’s weather forecast’ via template as an icon on your slice of toast.”
Let the naysayers of progress chew on this! The future is finally, finally here.
(And yes, that is the photoshopped toast that they submitted to the contest.)
This is a fabulous, adorable, wonderfully whimsical (and rather useful!) idea. I would totally buy this.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1lpsk8F0P1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
The Best Thing to Happen to Toast Since Sliced Bread
Do you make toast in the morning? Do you look at the weather forecast? IMAGINE a world in which you could accomplish both of these onerous tasks in one easy step.
Yes, that is the dream of someone going by the username of “Uroemer” who has entered this bold “idea” in the Ideabird M2M Innovation Contest, a competition put together by “an amazing group of companies including Deloitte, Deutsche Telecom, HYVE and The RWTH-TIM Research Group … with prizes worth over $10,000, [for the] wildest and best ideas for tracking anything - people, animals or objects of any size.”
Uroemer’s plan is to build a toaster that “receives the updated weather information for its current location via m2m or WLAN and burns ‘today’s weather forecast’ via template as an icon on your slice of toast.”
Let the naysayers of progress chew on this! The future is finally, finally here.
(And yes, that is the photoshopped toast that they submitted to the contest.)
This is a fabulous, adorable, wonderfully whimsical (and rather useful!) idea. I would totally buy this.
March 28, 2012
Life imitates art in Perpetual Ocean, an absolutely gorgeous HD animation of our ocean currents as NASA Scientific Visualization Studio sees. Any fan of Van Gogh’s Starry Nights will see the beauty in this enchanting interpretation of data.
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