Gadget Lab Podcast: Let Us Count the Ways to Infuriate Customs Agents
Three big events have happened since our last podcast: South by Southwest, an Apple event and Basel World. The post…
A Guide to the Beautiful, Elaborate ‘Jungle’ of Script Typefaces
Script Fonts, a new book out from Laurence King Publishing, is “a guide to the script-font jungle.” The post A…
How the Rich and Powerful Use Tech to Silence Activists
Director Brian Knappenberger’s new documentary series on Pivot.tv shines a light on how people in power use technology to silence…
App Makes Designing in 3-D as Easy as Using Microsoft Paint
Draw a circle, and it appears as a sphere. Draw a square, and it appears as a cube. Now anyone…
Miitomo, Nintendo’s First Mobile App, Is Gonna Make Bank
Miitomo, Nintendo’s first mobile app, has many, varied ways for you to pay the maker of Mario more moolah. The…
Absurd Creatures: The Mystery of the Tiniest, Best-Dressed Seahorse in the Sea
The pygmy seahorse hasn’t met a coral it couldn’t blend into. The post Absurd Creatures: The Mystery of the Tiniest,…
$16K Jet Ski Has the Horsepower of a BMW for Some Reason
The 2016 FX Cruiser SVHO combines a 250-horsepower, 1,812 engine with luxe seating and features. The post $16K Jet Ski…
To Fight the FBI, Apple Ditched Secrecy for Openness
The company opened itself to the media and the public in an unprecedented way to fight its publicity war with…
Turning Live Surveillance Feeds Into Unsettling Works of Art
Dries Depoorter has made an art form of turning public data into works that feel provocatively intrusive. The post Turning…
Syrian and Afghan Refugees Take Shelter in an Unlikely Home: An Arctic Hotel
Neiden is a tiny village home to about 250 people, and nearly 100 refugees who biked across the frigid border…