A library that requires no membership, no late fees, no return dates, and most importantly, no set hours. THIS, is the Little Free Library -- a small box propped up out in the open on a random street for anyone to remove and add books as they please. You can even keep the book indefinitely!...
DARPA : The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. If you're not very familiar with them then boy, oh boy do you have some reading to do. Originally created in 1958 as a response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, DARPA's purpose is to prevent strategic surprises from negatively impacting our national security and ensuring...
I had the pleasure of meeting Brian about a year ago while visiting an old college buddy up in the oh so lovely city of San Francisco. The best part about this? The fact that we met on social terms over a few beers rather than at some obligatory networking event. At the time, they...
Stephen Wiltshire is an amazingly talented artist that was born mute and diagnosed autistic at age 3. From an early age he began using art as a method of communication that eventually resulted in him gaining world wide recognition for his ability to draw insanely accurate representations of cities with a whimsical touch. Some of...
If you've ever seen Minority Report then you most certainly appreciated the scene with the futuristic looking, gesture controlled computer scene. Yeah, this one - The oh so very cool scene where Tom Cruise works his magic on one gnarly interactive UI setup, albeit with some old school data transferring solutions. I think its safe...
If you've never heard of ASIMO then you have definitely been living in some black hole across the other side of the universe. ASIMO, Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, is an AMAZING robot project developed by Honda in 1986 and is continually evolving at an incredibly frightening rate. I remember watching videos when engineers were...
So what do you get when an 1850s gramophone and a 2012 iPhone mate? A GRAMO-iPHONE. YES. And a portable one for that matter. (Image of gramophone below so you don't need to Google it. You're welcome for saving you 2 seconds). Its always great to see Eco-friendly products out on the market because it...
Your kids will love you for their entire childhood if you get this. You will love yourself for their entire childhood if you get this. I will love you if you get this (for me, of course). I've seen a bunch of iterations of this over the last couple of years but don't think I've ever...
Most people have already seen this, but if you haven't yet you should definitely take a look. Although this site is poking fun at the ad agency life, every single person that has ever had an office job (or any job for that matter) can totally relate to these. I posted a few favorites below,...
The most random and oddest things are constantly being done in the name of science...