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LED Lights: The Answer to Hunger?
In Eastern Japan, in a building no bigger than half a football field, a plant physioligist named Shigeharu Shimamura has figured out a way to produce 10,000 heads of lettuce a day. According to Shimamura, this rate of yield is exceptional — two-and-a-half times faster than what can be produced by a conventional outdoor farm. His secret […]
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A Simple (and Simp-SON) Concept Done Right
This is just perfect. In loving homage to TV’s favorite cartoon family, The Simpsons, a couple Russian designers have produced some really great looking bottles of wine. By taking cues from the grid-designs of painter Piet Mondrian, they’ve created a simple and clean pop art homage to Homer and Marge, echoing their standard […]
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Old German Brewery Converted into World’s First and Only Light Art Museum
The Creator’s Project takes us on a walkthrough of The Centre for International Light Art, the only museum in the world dedicated to light art. What is light art, exactly? The Centre describes it as “the art genre in which light is used as a basic material.” This includes the work of artists like James Turrell, whose […]
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Build Virtual Reality Headset out of Cardboard, Save $350
With the Oculus Rift now available to game developers at a sticker price of $350, the world of virtual reality is poised to become much more exciting very soon. With the goal of bringing that new, glorious VR future to bear in an even speedier fashion, Google developers have released plans that detail how to cheaply […]
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The Wokamon — Work Out Or They’ll Die!
Need some extra motivation to meet your fitness goals? How about making it a life-or-death proposition? The Wokamon app is essentially a Fuelband combined with a Tamagotchi, saddling you with the responsibility of caring for, feeding, and nurturing a little alien/monster creature. And because your pet’s growth and development is entirely dependent on how active […]
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Why the Sound Quality of Your Music Is Awful (and You Don’t Even Realize It)
In “The Distortion of Sound,” a short documentary produced by audio company Harman, a collection of producers/engineers and musicians ranging from film composer Hans Zimmer to Snoop Dogg take us through a brief history of how we listen to music and what we’ve lost in the age of digital compression. The clip is beautifully produced and the […]
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3-D Photobooth Produces Giant Selfie Sculptures
Designer Asif Khan wanted to carry on the tradition of building impressive sculptures — be they of famous icons and heroes or the common ‘everyman’ — as monuments to our time. And it being the generation of the selfie, he managed to do just that. Khan created an installation displayed on the MegaFaces Pavilion during […]
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Death-Defying Stunt-Cycling on a Citibike
That’s right — the bikes in this clip, the ones being fearlessly jumped across rooftops and ridden, tightrope-style, across bridge railings are your average, run-of-the-mill Citibikes; though, as part of the bike sharing system in London, where this was filmed, they’re known as Boris bikes. It’s the same frame and construction as the Citibikes we know […]
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Trippy Turtle Video a Throwback to 90s Flash Games
DJ/Producer Trippy Turtle’s debut single “Trippy’s Theme” has an official music video that hearkens back to the early days of Japanese-leaning online flash games — the type collected under the wide banner of animation/gaming portals like Newgrounds. If you’re a child born of a certain era, you’ll know exactly what I mean as soon you […]
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PhonoPaper – Audio Drawn By Hand
A new format created by Alexander Zolotov, based on the Russian Virtual ANS Synthesizer that converted audio into images and vise versa, now allows you to do so with an android or iOS device. The PhonoPaper app reads audio from images that were printed or drawn freehand through your phone’s camera much like it would read […]
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Timeless Style, From Paris to Tokyo
Founded in France in 1853 by an American ex-pat, Aigle (French for “eagle”)started out as a producer of waterproof shoes, boots and clothing. Over the years, the brand evolved to focus on the modern jetsetter, the kind of man or woman who splits their time between town and country, land and sea — and manages to fit […]
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A Very Different Type of World Cup
Well, this is something new. It turns out that the infuriating childhood game of ‘get the little ball-on-a-string into the little wooden cup’ is known as ‘kendama.’ In addition, there exists a dedicated community of kendama players united by a group known as the Global Kendama Network, or GLOKEN. And in hopes of spreading the […]