On the night of the performance, Harbisson set up shop as conductor. Instead of holding a stick, he wielded an iPad that allowed him to control the lights.
In your heart, you’ve always known that the last season of Lost totally sucked. Now you have the charts to back it up.
Most techies have tried using a web-connected pedometer at one point or another, but very few have gone from couch potato to track star by virtue of the points, badges, and achievements these systems provide. Making a device that connects …
UVA is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an epic light and sound installation that bends your perspective of time and space.
Mark Colliass’ clever contraption transforms a fixie into a rolling factory capable of cranking out arty, limited-edition lampshades that would make killer Etsy listings.
Strictly speaking, the biggest attraction at this year’s TED conference had to be the 750-foot jellyfish-like mass suspended just outside the Vancouver venue.
These perspective-bending images were made from Google Street View photographs and centuries-old paintings.
If there’s any company today that has a chance to make the multipurpose smartwatch we’ve all been dreaming of, it’s Google.
Nike adapted its Flyknit technology for soccer. The result is a totally new kind of boot.
Who knew lighting alcohol on fire looked this cool?
It’s about as radical as coinage can get, and required an unprecedented effort by our nation’s money makers.
Learning to read and write Chinese is hard, but it just got easier with this gorgeously designed book.
It’s hard to believe, but these gorgeous, blooming structures are just water and paint.
Could this redesign of the Colgate tube solve our toothpaste woes?
The shade can be broken up and added to a compost bin.
This month, a group of contemporary artists are selling items that deliberately blur the line between art object and retail product.
Ikea’s new collection is aimed at the urban youth.
Despite being made of toy parts, the keyboard is deceptively complex.
The images it produces are able to replace two people in the surgical theater.
From a 19th century railroad company comes the mother of all corporate organizational charts.
This is what happens when the alphabet falls apart.
Chucky has soiled the dummy name too long. Here, a set of ventriloquist dummy portraits that will warm your heart.
Brad, a toaster susceptible to peer pressure, is the star of “Addicted Products,” a design experiment recently named Best in Show at the 2014 Interaction Awards.
An incredible visualization shows what keeps air traffic controllers busy every day.
For his latest project, Phillip Stearns zapped instant film with 15,000 volts of electricity.
Remember sentence diagramming? Turns out, it makes an awfully cool poster.
Walking in Doug Wheeler’s infinity room is like walking on the edge of the earth.
After watching coverage of the Fukushima disaster and a flood-devastated Japan, Chris Robinson started working on an escape route of his own.
In between crafting elegant set top boxes and smart mobile UIs, Artefact dedicates time to work on healthcare concepts that literally save lives. Its latest is Dialog, a wearable platform designed specifically for treating epilepsy.
The studio’s “Weather Radials” print economically documents the weather in 35 cities around the world for an entire year.
