Licking Ice Cream To Make It Sing With NYC's Weirdest Orchestra

Licking Ice Cream To Make It Sing With NYC's Weirdest Orchestra

Last week, at a former bodega in Alphabet City, food designer Emilie Baltz and smart object designer Carla Diana conducted the second performance of their "Lickestra"—a "musical licking performance" involving conductive ice cream cones, four volunteers, and a pre-recorded soundtrack of peculiar tones and baselines created by musician Arone Dyer of Buke&Gase.

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Good Design International Award: Celebrating Modern Design

Ready to share the best designs in the world?Enter its 64th year, the Good Design International Award continues to
celebrate the latest and greatest innovative products and industrial
goods from all over the world. With dozens of categories available to
showcase your ingenuity, there’s surely a special place for your bright
ideas to this classic Chicago-based contest!

Battery production, design modifications delay Tesla’s Model X SUV another year

During an interview with Bloomberg prior to Tesla’s earnings call yesterday, CEO Elon Musk discussed a few interesting tidbits. The most significant revelation is that the Model X SUV, which was first detailed in 2012 and originally set to begin…

Resurrecting Dinosaur-Age Proteins To Cure Human Disease

Resurrecting Dinosaur-Age Proteins To Cure Human Disease

While dinosaurs have not yet been resurrected Jurassic Park-style, scientists fiddling with ancient DNA sequences have made a discovery that may turn out to be a tad more useful: a treatment for gout. That a 90 million-year-old protein could treat a modern disease is a fascinating window into evolutionary history.

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A Google Now HTC Smartwatch could conquer context

HTC, so the rumor machine goes, is readying its first smartwatches, at least one of which is said to pipe Google Now directly to the wrist. If you’re going to … Continue reading

HTC One 2 (M8) specifications in short supply at FCC

It’s nearly time for the next HTC One to be released in a reboot only 2014 could handle, and the device has hit the FCC. This device will be released … Continue reading

Archos intros 8-inch Helium 4G tablet, octa-core Oxygen smartphone ahead of MWC

Even though Mobile World Congress 2014 doesn’t officially kick off until February 24th, Archos has gone ahead and revealed some products it will be bringing to the event. For starters, there’s the 80 Helium 4G, an 8-inch, £230 tablet that packs a…

Some Guy Turned Each Episode of Breaking Bad Into Its Own Dope Poster

Some Guy Turned Each Episode of Breaking Bad Into Its Own Dope Poster

It’s been five months since one of the greatest shows ever to grace the small screen has gone off the air, but if you’re one of the many rapt Breaking Bad fans, you’re probably still pretty deep in mourning. Fortunately for you, Hungarian designer Zsolt Molnár (Zsutti) decided to pay homage to the meth-loaded masterpiece by designing a poster for each of the show’s 62 episodes. And each one is absolutely fantastic.

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Gawker Frat Houses Are Death Traps | Jalopnik Draco Malfoy Took A Lamborghini Through An In-N-Out Dr

Gawker Frat Houses Are Death Traps | Jalopnik Draco Malfoy Took A Lamborghini Through An In-N-Out Drive-Thru | Jezebel Eight Reasons Why the Mangagement Ring Should Totally Be a Thing | Lifehacker Wall Street Survivor Teaches Everything You Need to Know About Money | Kinja Popular Posts

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Okay, So Vertical Videos Are Now Art?

Okay, So Vertical Videos Are Now Art?

Unperturbed by the scourge of vertical video shot on mobile phones, a bunch of Serious Artists have banded together for a film festival devoted exclusively to incorrectly oriented videos. Why subject our eyeballs to such unnatural composition? For art, duh.

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