Lord Byron once said, "Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after". Conrad Engelhardt, a London-based artist, has certainly taken that advice to heart with his stunning wine-inspired mosaics made entirely out of corks. Wine and women indeed….
Cis-1,4-Polybutadiene It’s rubber with a memory. This polymer’s chain of repeating units are cis-linked—connected on the same side of a carbon-carbon double bond. Once molded into a shape (like a ball), the material returns to that shape whenever it gets …
Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei thinks there IS a point to crying over spilled milk. His latest work, titled “Baby Formula 2013”, maps out China’s discontent over multiple milk powder scandals using 1,800 cans of powdered milk.
‘Singularity’
for those mere mortals who are unaware is the theoretical emergence of a
super-intelligence through technological means. First proposed by
mathematician John von Neumann, it is the time when "ever accelerating
progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which
gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the
history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could
not continue."
The limited edition, anodized aluminum, Icemania “iSpoon” from Japan’s Akao Aluminum can handle the hardest, coldest ice cream around! Priced around $25 each, the super-duper scooper includes a custom carrying pouch ideal for those late night visits to Zyggie’s Ice Cream Parlor.
This video shows the last thing you’ll see if you tangle with a grizzly. Warning: It’s gross.
Some artists use paint, while others choose charcoal. Some paintings take years, and others take hours. Some hang on gallery walls, while others simply lie forgotten on easels. Kseniya Simonova’s art is different… it’s made entirely of sand, she can create some of them in mere minutes, and when they are finished, she simply blows them away to start something new.
The bad news is, Thanko’s new USB Neck Cooler makes you look like a sci-fi mecha robot’s grabbed you by the throat. The good news is, you’ll feel a lot less hot under the collar this summer if you’re wearing one.
I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session. My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry …
As bloated as it might be, Apple isn’t forgetting about iTunes. Cupertino released the latest update to its music/video/movies/app manager and player today.
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