Is Google Glass really "killing cities" or just the douchebags who wear them? Are mines bringing cities down—literally? Is the Bowery doomed? Is Berlin really over? We examine these questions and more, in this week’s edition of What’s Ruining Our Cities.
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Everybody’s heard of hair plugs, but did you realize you could get a full beard transplant? A growing number of men in New York and elsewhere are catching on. It’s apparently becoming a very popular thing to do, especially in hipster-packed neighborhoods like Williamsburg and Bushwick.
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While there are thousands of "best places to live" lists, hardly any of them focus on the world’s most important population segment: Americans under 35. The Livability Index, compiled by Vocativ, a new Vice-esque site, measures cities in the only ways that really matter: from the percentage of young people, to the number of vintage shops, to the cost of an ounce of high-quality weed.
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Just after Mars rover Curiosity touched down, it sent home a selfie worthy of Instagram
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As you may remember, yesterday, we put up a post poking fun at this then-stranger who’d been photographed using a typewriter in Starbucks by one of his fellow students. Cries of rage soon followed from both sympathizers and opponents alike. This man’s typewriter and our mocking tone struck a chord. For some of you, a very deep, perhaps-could-be-helped-with-therapy chord. More »
It’s very likely that if you’re reading this, you may be afflicted with Hyper Involuntary Panic Stress Tension Elevation also known as HIPSTER. Or maybe if you’re not, you know someone who is. Here’s the most hilarious way to cure them: Unpretentiousil. This spoof ad drops the science of being a hipster and how it can be broken down with the miracle cure. Brooklyn, Portland, Silver Lake… we’re here to help. [YouTube via TDW] More »
Face it, Santa is pretty antiquated. I mean, what kind of crazy elf-powered factory must he have up there in the North pole in order to be churning out iPhones and laptops and Wii Us? Ridiculous as it is, you don’t want him to get hip, because he’d turn into this. He’d keep his list in the cloud. He’d order all his gifts on Amazon Prime like the rest of us. God only knows what he’d do with Snapchat. Maybe some things are best left outdated. [Reddit] More »
Confession: The majority of Gizmodo staff lives in Williamsburg, so we count ourselves in this mass of angry “hipsters.” More »
Four Barrel Coffee in San Francisco had something of a problem with loud customers being all “hipstery” and annoying the neighbors, so they posted a notice kindly asking hipsters to shut the hell up. Only a few days later, the sign had to be amended to include another forbidden act which had suddenly become popular: Instagramming the sign. More »
The advent of 3D printing is most certainly upon us, and its helped injection molding make the crucial transition from dated tech to a retro novelty. The Roto-a-Matic has recently gone live in toy maker Rotofugi’s store in Chicago, and will create a polyethylene plastic figurine for you in under a minute, provided you feed it a token. Rotofugi and product design company Squibbles INK have given the vintage Mold-a-Rama vending machine a new lease of life, and now they are looking for artists to contribute designs for future molds. Currently a one-eyed dragon designed by sculptor Tim Biskup is on offer for Chicago-based hipsters, but for the wind-averse, a token-to-toy video demo resides beyond the fold.
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