De Rotterdam, a massive tower designed by Rotterdam darling Rem Koolhaas, has opened. It is the city’s largest building—a little bit of Manhattan, in Rotterdam. It’s also, in an odd way, a tribute to the original World Trade Center. Read more…
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The Netherlands’ Biggest Building Opens 16 Years After It Was Designed
The so-called ” Roominaroom ” project by London-based architects atmos studio won a 2013 UK Wood Award yesterday for its extraordinary level of craftsmanship—from computer-milled, cut, and fitted ornamental oak beams to precision joinery—for a renovated house in the city. Read more…
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Bendy Wooden Room Snaps Together Like Tetris, Takes Over House
In the future we should hope for all of our displays to be OLED; it’s thin, light, deep with color, and energy efficient to boot. It’s also incredibly expensive. That could soon change, though, thanks to a jumped-up inkjet printer. Read more…
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The OLEDs of the Future Could Be Inkjet Printed
The zippy Snapdragon 800 pushes pixels beautifully on gadgets like the Nexus 5 and the Kindle Fire HDX, but now there’s a new kid on the block. Qualcomm just announced its Snapdragon 805 complete with 4K powers, and it’s coming to devices starting next year . Read more…
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The Blistering New Snapdragon 805 Is Going to 4K All of the Things
With a development that will surely appeal to airports, Philips has announced a partnership with flooring manufacturer Desso to produce a light transmissive LED-powered carpet that can be used to display warning messages, directions, or even fancy glowing designs. And airports are just the tip of the glowy-floor iceberg. Read more…
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LED Carpets Guarantee You’ll Never Get Lost In an Airport Again
Have you used Paper by 53 Design? It’s that iPad drawing app that is so decked out in pretty, design-y, feel-good-ness that it makes all who use it feel like Matisse. Well, now its creators have put out an equally gorgeous stylus. Read more…
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The Prettiest iPad Drawing App Now Has the Prettiest Stylus Companion
Airless—or non-pneumatic tires—have popped up from time to time over the past few years, and while they offer many advantages over traditional air-filled tires, they haven’t been available outside of research labs—until now. Polaris is officially the first company to offer a vehicle with non-pneumatic tires on its new Sportsman WV850 H.O. all-terrain vehicle. Read more…
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The First Airless-Tire Vehicle You Can Own Is a Wicked ATV
In perhaps the most counter-intuitive scientific finding of recent time, researchers have discovered a volcano lurking beneath Antarctica . [ Nature Geoscience ] Read more…
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In perhaps the most counter-intuitive scientific finding of recent time, researchers have discovered
Following no small amount of pressure from the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron , Google has announced a new initiative which will see it clean up search results for queries relating to underage sexual abuse. Read more…
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Google Announces Massive New Restrictions on Child Abuse Search Terms
The CIA is quietly trying to stop Russia building a series of monitoring stations—devices that form part of Moscow’s version of the Global Positioning System—on US soil. Read more…
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The CIA Is Trying to Stop Russia Building Monitoring Stations in the US