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Luigi Colani's fantastic designs: the future that should have been

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 12:29pm

German industrial designer Luigi Colani has been rethinking the future since the '40s, and over the course of those many decades he has applied a rounded, streamlined look to cars and trucks, kitchens, spacecraft, furniture, and whatever else he...

BrushBots are double wide BristleBots for painting

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 5:57am

What's not to love about a BristleBot, the motor-run toothbrush head recently invented by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories? The tiny invention was such a big hit that the design has caught on all over the world. The latest addition...

Digital pinball on an old-fashioned wooden table

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 2:40pm

Daniel Soltis's Moving Parts project was another standout invention from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program show today. Soltis describes his project as a "two-player hybrid physical/video pinball game that uses variations in game rules to elicit different social interactions between...

New York goes chasing waterfalls

Friday, May 9, 2008 - 1:00pm

New York State is home to some impressive waterfalls. New York City, not so much. The city is planning on changing that this summer with the New York City Waterfalls project. It's a big, expensive undertaking: $9 to $10...

NoPark project turns hydrant spaces into micro parks

Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 8:43am

The New York no-parking space in this picture has been re-purposed by artist Natalie Jeremijenko into a "NoPark," a mini-public green space in the middle of the city. Most of the concrete in the space has been ripped up...

CrashBonsai brings horrid realism to serene bonsai world

Friday, April 18, 2008 - 8:12am

If you’ve spent the past decades pruning and cultivating those spectacularly small bonsai trees, here’s the perfect finishing touch: CrashBonsai, a tiny smashed car, wrapped around that tree, just like in real life! Artist John Rooney painstakingly crushes, melts...

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Luigi Colani's fantastic designs: the future that should have been

BrushBots are double wide BristleBots for painting

Digital pinball on an old-fashioned wooden table

New York goes chasing waterfalls

NoPark project turns hydrant spaces into micro parks

CrashBonsai brings horrid realism to serene bonsai world

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