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Smith & Wesson Tactical pens
I spotted the Embassy Pen (top image) over at Uncrate and really dig the minimalist Maglite-esque look of it. It's $38.50 from County Comm. I showed it to Rob and he hipped me to the bad-assness of the Smith & Wesson Military and Police Tactical Pen that's just $26 from Amazon. Now if only I could manage to hang on to a pen for more than [...]
Article about extreme lifestyle minimalists
Kelly Sutton is a 22-year-old software engineer in Brookyln. He says he has gotten rid of all of his possessions, save for "his laptop, an iPad, an Amazon Kindle, two external hard drives, a 'few' articles of clothing, and bed sheets for a mattress that was left in his newly rented apartment." He has a some other items that he is unloading on [...]
Drilling robot to explore mysterious tunnels in Great Pyramid
Does the Pyramid of Cheops hide more secrets within its massive volume? A 1992 robot explored one tiny passage only to be blocked by limestone doors with brass handles -- and the next one drilled through only to find anther door behind it. (more...)
Sharpie liquid pencil
Sharpie is to sell a "liquid pencil," a pen with erasable ink made from graphite that only becomes permanent after three days' exposure to the air. In the meantime, it may be rubbed out with a standard eraser. Sharpie, the, erm, sharpie company, has just reinvented the genre. Instead of making an erasable pen, it has made a non-erasable [...]
Herman Miller Embody Chair Review
Is a chair's purpose merely to furnish a place for us to sit? There are countless directions to discuss this subjective matter, but suffice it to say that a chair's purpose goes beyond a solid foundation for resting our weight. In an ideal chair, the design would be suitable for hours of comfortable sitting. The chair would accommodate healthy [...]
Draft of Declaration of Independence named subjects, not citizens
Hyperspectral images of a draft of the Declaration of Independence reveal that it originally used the word 'subjects' instead of 'citizens' at a critical juncture. After writing "our fellow subjects," author Thomas Jefferson scrubbed it out and replaced it with the familiar alternative. To the Library of Congress, whose Preservation Research [...]
The new “OK Go” video plays with the speed of time
OK Go strikes again. Their last video memorably featured a Rube Goldberg machine that filled a two-floor warehouse and took four minutes to complete its sequence of wonder and mayhem. This time, the tech-happy band recruited Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther–artists, musicians, and all-around interesting guys–to direct the video. (more...) [...]
The Abandoned Palace on Beekman Street
How the hell does something this beautiful stay abandoned for so long? Was the owner just like, "Ehh, I don't really feel like making BOATLOADS right now. I'll wait half a century first." 5 Beekman Street has a secret. You’ve probably passed it a million times in your travels through downtown Manhattan. Anyone who has ever visited J&R [...]
Secrets of the crystal skull
For decades, crystal skulls have been terrific fodder for science fiction, New Agers, and adventure novelists. (See the most recent Indiana Jones film as an example of the pop appeal of these artifacts.) Their finders or owners insist that they're pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts while most archaeologists consider them to be hoaxes, [...]
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
All cameras aimed at a grinning Johnny Knoxville—flanked by a bluegrass band—outside the theater where "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" made its Los Angeles debut. The "Jackass" star served as the film's executive producer, which might lead one to assume it's the same sort of death-cheating, stunt comedy stuff for which [...]
Amityville Horror home for sale
This lovely five-bedroom home at 108 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York is now for sale for $1.15 million. Who cares? Well, 108 Ocean Avenue used to be 112 Ocean Avenue, where Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed his family in 1974 and, several years later, the Lutz family were traumatized by things that go bump in the night. The original Amityville Horror [...]
3D Projection on Buildings
Impressive and stylish projections on buildings, a renewing way of communicating.For those who want to carry out a message in a striking and visually attractive way with guaranteed exposure: 3D Projection on buildings is the communication tool of 2009, and what an impact!
Self-portrait made with cables by Kasey McMahon
This looks like a CAT5astrophe! Connected // Global Brain Series // Self Portrait // 2010 Steel, CAT5 and other data cables by Kasey McMahon
Huge Michelangelo-esque sculpture of Mario and Peach
"Game Over" (2008) Sculpture carved in a block of Carrara styrofoam. It presents the dying Mario in the arms of princess Peach. These are characters from the famous series of computer games posed to Michelangelo's "Pietà." There's something so quiet and sad about this sculpture of Mario dying in the arms of Peach. It's carved out of styrofoam, [...]
BBC to project real-time election results on Big Ben’s tower
This is pretty cool: The BBC is going to project the real-time UK election results on the sides of Big Ben's tower, as a skinny bar-chart showing the progress of the three front running parties as individual lines, with the independent parties lumped into a combined bar. The number of seats won by the three largest Westminster parties will be [...]
Photos from Jimmy Choo’s shoe studio in the UK
Danny Choo has posted some photos from his dad Jimmy Choo's workshop in the UK. Pretty cool look from the inside. (more...)
NYC underground cow tunnels… They exist!
Is there a "Cow Tunnel" somewhere beneath 12th Avenue right now, just waiting for landmark designation? According to Edible Geography, historian Betty Fussel discovered that cattle traffic was so heavy in the 1870s that a tunnel was built to increase the flow to slaughterhouses along 12th Avenue and 34th Street. The underground passages were [...]
Urban Skiing during Pittsburgh’s 2010 Snowstorm
Taking advantage of the third-biggest snowstorm in Pittsburgh's history, we took it to the streets (and hills) in search of rails, powder, jibs, and fun. This is the Urban skiing from Pittsburgh's February 2010 storm. (more...)
Abandoned: Six Flags New Orleans
I'm sure a horde of zombies is just waiting to mob the nearest group of four that happens to be passing through. (more...)
