Plans for World's First Rotating Skyscraper Unveiled

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the world's first rotating skyscraper will be built in the futuristic desert metropolis of Dubai. The second rotatoscraper, however, will be located in Moscow a city, apparently, in dire...

NowPublic on Techvibes

Headline: NowPublic - Now with Trust and Twitter"Vancouver-based news bookmarking and citizen journalism site NowPublic relaunched its website earlier this month and added a few new features that Mashable picked up on today. The new site design is less conservative that...

Happy 50th to Vancouver's wooden coaster

Vancouver doesn't have many claims to fame, but one of the most important is its wooden coaster that resides in the Playland - and it turns 50 today.I get so scared when I ride it but everytime I go to the...

Comic-Book Master Chris Ware Does Animation

Chris Ware -  comic Book artist, creates Animated Television series.

Move Over Knight Rider... BMW's Cloth Concept Car Shape Shifts!

"By Chuck Squatriglia June 10, 2008 | 12:38:21 PMConcept cars give automotive designers a chance to let their imaginations run wild, often with outlandish results. But even by that measure, BMW has come up with...

7 Glasses for 7 Sins by London Designer

It could be a joke for all I know.At least reading Seven deadly glasses on tongue in cheek Dezeen design magazine put a smile on my face.London-based designer Kacper Hamilton created these 7 glasses for 7 sins which as you might have forgotten are lust, gluttony, greed,...

First Look: Ishii NYC 2009 Resort

" Inspired by the landscapes, culture, and colors of Sardinia, Italy, designer Tamae Ishii translates the components of society and topography into a beautiful resort collection. Based on her muse- a non-specific...

Fashion king Saint Laurent dies

" Fashion king Saint Laurent dies Yves Saint Laurent was a major name in 20th Century fashion Yves...

An edible rooftop garden in Portland

More interesting news coming out of the urban food movement."From atop the Rocket building, there’s no doubt you’re smack in the middle of a city. Swing around in a circle and you’ll see the sun going down...

From Coil to Rabbit, Incense in all shapes and flavors (via PingMag)

Tracing the origins of incense in Japan, Ryoko (PingMag) writes that "it is believed that it was introduced to Japan in the 6th century,along with Buddhism. At that time, incense consisted simply of smallchips from an aromatic tree called “koboku (fragrant wood)”, or...

California ban on same-sex marriage struck down

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a much-anticipated ruling issued Thursday, the California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional....

The Tao of Style in Product Design

"Style can be fluid and multi-faceted. When considering the emotions we want the product to evoke, one can look at a variety of themes, their opposites, and ways they can be combined together. Perhaps the product...

Sportbike Meets Unicycle: Exteme Design by 18-Year-Old Engineer

Influenced by a  trip to China and shocked by the levels of urban pollution, a teenage home-trained maker named Ben J. Poss Gulak designed and built a prototype for an electric motorized unicycle with...

Moby Crowdsources T-Shirt Design

Want to design a t-shirt for a balding, busking, earnest, free music-providing, electroni-rocker? You're in luck, kids. Moby needs you!"Have you got an eye for design? Do you like rocktronica, vegans and...

Feet Hurt? Stop Wearing Shoes

 So apparently not only are we wearing the wrong shoes, but we are walking wrong as well."Today, high heels are considered sexy. Whatever their reasons for wearing the shoes they wear, people don't usually...

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