Austrians are roaming the world, and they’re looking really cool doing so in the Mehrzeller Inhalt. This new little trailer was designed to offer the world’s travelers a design savvy alternative to the Jayco or Airstream you normally take across the country. What makes this little gem even more special is that (like everything else [...]
Housed at Arizona State University, the International Institute for Species Exploration (yes you read it right – cool, eh?) just released their annual list of top 10 new species. Among the proud recipients for 2008 are a 14″ long insect (the world’s longest), a species of coffee that is naturally decaffeinated, and a snail with [...]
Texting is so wonderful. Read that one way, and I’m a sarcastic jerk. Read it another, and I’m an earnest techophile. Mere typed words can’t convey subtext, but Nokia is looking to change that. The Finnish communicator recently filed a patent for a system that will tell your friends how you were feeling as you [...]
As people become more and more virtually connected, (and duly, more and more isolated from actual contact with each other), the need for anti-social social experiences grows. Taking the sociophobic experience to a new level is London restaurant Inamo. A projection system above each table is worked by a little touchpad in front of each [...]
Living next door to a big personality can be challenging. Ask Canadians, and the Swiss, and Northern Ireland. Recently, South Korea – maybe the world’s most overshadowed country – launched its bid to rebrand itself, in the hopes of becoming an international centre of culture and environmental technology. President Lee Myung-Bak has already pledged hundreds [...]
From a recent wedding expo show in China comes this image of a wedding dress covered almost entirely in peacock feathers. The feathers themselves, 2009 in all on this shimmering frock, have long been considered in many cultures to invite trouble and misfortune to those who wear them. Then again, peacocks have survived this long. [...]
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