What amazes me about Safe House—a Polish home designed by Kwl Promes Architects—is that it manages to be a beautiful family residence while offering a security level probably comparable to the White House’s situation room. It borders paranoia. More »
Turntable.fm Smells Like Team Spirit
Posted in: Music, Today's Chili, top Like many Turntable.fm users, I remain in awe of this new service, which has taken certain music nerd parts of the world by storm even as it has restricted users to the United States. More »
Apple’s Secret Cloud Weapon Is Already Inside Your Phone
Posted in: amazon, Apple, cloud, flash, itunes, Music, streaming, Today's Chili, top The battle for the cloud. That’s what keeps Google, Amazon, and Apple execs and engineers up at night. That’s where the next generation of tech dominance is going to be won or lost. Unless, as the WSJ suggests today, Apple’s already won. More »
I’ve argued this before: Apple needs to explore new iPhone materials because the current glass back sucks. It gets dirty too easily. It’s Russian-hooker naff. And it’s way too fragile. Thankfully, there’s a fix for that: JackBacks. More »
The photograph is a powerful form to capture a moment in time. But with new digital technologies, can we do more within a photo? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’re going to blend still and motion pictures. You’ll create cinemagraphs. More »
I Wouldn’t Be Surprised If the iPhone 5 Looked Like This
Posted in: Apple, iPhone, Today's Chili, top This isn’t the iPhone 5. But it wouldn’t surprise me if, come this fall, it looks very similar to this prototype created by Antoine Brieux. It feels to me like a natural evolution. Check the gallery. More »
Now that summer is heating up, certain parts of the world are prone to one heat specific disaster: wildfires. Numerous regions in Arizona, and the Los Alamos Nuclear Plant in New Mexico, are currently being ravaged by wildfires. And though it’s only a minor consolation, there’s lots of forward-thinking technology being put to use. Here are 6 of our favorite firefighting technologies: More »
Slaughterhouses are dangerous places to work, what with all the tightly packed cutting implements and atomized brain matter you’re inhaling. The Jarvis JR-50 Head Dropper aims to make hog processing safer for everyone but the hogs. The name even sounds peaceable. More »
Looks like last week’s “Chinga La Migra” strike against the Arizona Border Police was only part one—the sequel’s landed today, and this time it’s personal. Like, really personal: Anonymous is claiming social security numbers, girlfriend pics, and more. More »