Monday, March 28, 2011 - 2:42am
A new innovation called vertical camping offers one way to commune with nature and simultaneously avoid becoming a snack for some of nature's meat eaters.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 1:11am
With our smartphones and automatic latte machines in the city it's easy to forget that there's still a good bit of nature that needs the taming hand of technology. In that spirit one tinkerer applied his technological gifts to the problem of ice fishing without freezing to death.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 3:00am
As we huddle closer together in our concrete villages the marriage of nature and tech becomes ever more apparent as exampled by the Living Light interactive pavilion in Seoul, Korea.
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 6:00am
No, this is not an illusion. This tunnel is located in Sequoia National Park in California. Cut from a giant sequoia, "Tunnel Log" is 8 feet tall and 17 feet wide. Originally standing at 275 feet high with a diameter of 21 feet, this tree was probably more than 2000 years old when it fell in 1937.
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 7:38am
These aren't the green closets of horrors you see at concerts and the like. Instead, each one of these $15,000 porta-potties is the size of a trailer, and comes complete with urinals, stalls, fully working sinks with hot water, and even a stereo system to pipe in some tunes.
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 8:16am
Do you enjoy taking long, meditative strolls in remote, forested areas alone? If you answered yes, you might be a candidate for the Rescue Balloon. Designer Jaeseok Han wasn't fooling around when he created this compact kit — intended for...
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 8:27am
Throwing the old frisbee around is one of the great summer outdoor activities. Unfortunately, it gets harder to do once the sun goes down. You know, because it gets dark outside. Well, let the tyranny of the setting sun hold you back no longer!
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 2:16pm
When designer Sebastian Errazuriz lived in Scotland, he played a lot of golf in the rain, and he and his fellow golfers found the umbrella just as ubiquitous as the club. So what's a good designer do? An umbrella/golf club...
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 7:29am
The season for cooking outside is winding down as summer ends in much of the country, but that doesn't mean it's too late to make some haute cuisine with the sun shining down on you. The Bongos Pro is a...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 8:47pm
Most weddings in the West are designed to take place "before the sight of God," but in Japan couples are now making their marriage vows under the fierce gaze of a "new" god--a giant robot. Japan's T&G wedding planners held...
