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 | Geek Dream: 100 Old Video Game Joysticks Become Alarm Clocks [Slideshow] |
| John Pavlus |
| I don't know about you, but I find the "snooze" function on my alarm clock much too... pacifist. What I feel like doing when that damn buzzer goes off every morning is squeezing some kind of trigger and blasting it to hell. Apparently designer Roger Ibars has similar thoughts, because he's taken a hundred beautiful retro joysticks from various video-game systems of yore (Sega Master System, original NES, and the like) and turned them into fully functional alarm clocks.  Read more |
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| | To Lure Tourists, Norway Invests $377 Million in Stunning Nature Lookouts [Slideshow |
| Suzanne LaBarre |
| The Aurland Lookout is a 98-foot-long pirate plank of a viewing bridge that reaches out over one of the largest and most spectacular fjords in western Norway. We're not sure what's more impressive: the views or the fact that the only thing standing between you and the ravine 2,133 feet below is a measly sheet of glass. Read more |
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| | MIT Media Lab's Brilliant New Logo Has 40,000 Permutations [Video] |
| Suzanne LaBarre |
| To honor 25 years of backseat-driving robots and vision-scanning iPhones and touchscreen-keyboard-3-D-display hybrids, the MIT Media Lab tapped Brooklyn-based designers (and erstwhile Media Lab rats) E Roon Kang and Richard The to dream up a fresh visual identity. The result is pure, unadulterated Media Lab: an algorithmic logo that generates a sui generis image for each of the Lab's sui generis brains. (Cue spazzo nerd gasp.) Read more |
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| | Pictoral Recipes That Actually Teach You Cookery |
| Cliff Kuang |
| If you're trying to learn to cook, you'd think that closely following good recipes is the surest way. But any self-taught cook can tell you: The cognitive act of following a dumb, numbered list of instructions doesn't give you any idea of why you're doing each step, and how it fits into making something edible. Read more |
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| | Infographic of the Day: A Mind-Blowing History of Sci-Fi |
| Cliff Kuang |
| Artist Ward Shelley has produced another fine, fine, fine hand-drawn flowchart that will blow your mind: This time, it's dedicated to the 2,500 years of intellectual history that have produced the modern sci-fi genre. Read more |
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