"Water Cube" designers delight in box of bubbles
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A blue box beating with a green heart, Beijing's "Water Cube" National Aquatics Centre is the product of design and engineering harmony, and a rising power's desire to announce itself to the world.
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Is your cubicle gray, lifeless or boring? Designer Kelley L. Moore suggests some inspired alternatives, from the Zen Cube to the Casino Cube, in this gallery of images from her book, Cube Chic.
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Search site adds color--and clutter--to its famously clean design.
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Hydration Packs for a Steady Stream of H20 on the Go
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The masters of the plastic universe are baffled. From their imaginations, their computers, from their calloused fingers, magnificent kingdoms have sprung. They can re-create the Seven Wonders of the World in a literal snap. But now they huddle in their model shop of Legoland California and contemplate the seemingly impossible:...
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Most internet users try to ignore banner ads, but web designer Tari Akpodiete can't stop collecting them. She's put her collection of 15,000 ad samples online for all who care to look. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Fabien Baron, who has designed fragrance bottles for many companies, has now designed a liquor bottle, his first.
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The computer company where this pilot fish works decides that its new office space will use cubicles with modular furniture -- much nicer than the old cubes, and easy to rearrange. Sounds perfect, right?
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has spun off the CandyFab -- a 3-D printer that outputs edible granulated-sugar goodies. The newly independent project is looking for volunteers.
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U.S. chemists say they've used a process that creates bubbles as hot as the surface of the sun to make hollow iron oxide nanospheres.
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Who would have thought that the latest design trend for iPod docks would be tubes? And no, we don't mean the Internet(s). From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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The company claims to have developed a new technology that uses plastic instead of glass. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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A startup company is rolling out a family of workstations aimed at the technical computing space that offer clusterlike capabilities inside a single box.
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Artist creates a hat with LEDs on it that play sequenced animations: scenes from Space Invaders and Pac-Man, as well as bouncing hearts and the alphabet.
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The work on display at the Michelin Design Challenge showed a variety of inventive solutions to the contest's theme: "Smaller. Safer. Better.".
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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If you like experimental, space-age architecture you'll love my friend's 225-square-foot Tokyo pod pad. Commentary by Momus.