AI Imagines Nude Paintings as Terrifying Pools of Melting Flesh
When Robbie Barrat trained an AI to study and reproduce classical nude paintings, he expected something at least…
Design
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Trippy Magic Happens When AI Only Knows About Flowers, Waves, and Fires
The same way a human only knows as much as they’ve studied or experienced, an artificial intelligence is only as smart…
The First Great iPhone App Grows Up
The very first iPhone apps were universally dull. And then Bloom came out. Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers built the app…
Why Two Guys Are Building a Massive Island Out of Fat
Just north of Amsterdam’s most famous canals, there’s an island of fat bobbing up and down in the sea by a wharf in a…
What the US Superhero Entertainment Industry Can Learn From Japan: Capes Are Rad
When you think of a superhero—not a specific character, just the idea of a superhero—chances are he or she is wearing a…
This Handcrafted Commodore PET 2001 Is the Most Elite Retro Device that Money (Probably) Can’t Buy
The Commodore PET 2001 was already one of the better-looking dinosaurs from the early desktop days, but this…
Emoji Domains Are the Future (Maybe)
There was a time when merely uttering “WWW.” caused investor eyeballs to blink dollar signs. Now, that excitement seems…
Snapchat’s Redesign Isn’t Going Anywhere
This month, more than a million keyboard-wielding, moderately frustrated change.org users petitioned Snapchat to roll…
I Can't Tell What Color This Phone Is and Honestly It's Driving Me Nuts
This week, we finally got our first hands-on look at the long-promised “Ocean Depths” color scheme of the Essential…
Apple's Excellence in Design Leads to Employees Smacking Into Glass Walls
Apple’s freshly completed spaceship campus was the final project of Steve Jobs, and its construction came with the …
Snapchat CEO Is Totally Chill About How You Hate the Redesign
Hell hath no fury like a litany of teens shitting on an app redesign. And it seems that’s exactly what happened with…
Curl Up With This Chill-Ass Version of Twitter That a Swiss Designer Made
Zurich-based designer Florian Schulz has reimagined Twitter not as a mind-numbing torrent of breaking news, gifs, and…
Someone Created a MagSafe Connector For the Rest of the Plugs In Your Home
As much as USB-C is a vast improvement over the USB connectors of yesteryear, we’re still bummed that it replaced the…
Here Are Some of the New Emoji, Ranked From Most to Least Useful During Sexting
Great news: On Wednesday, the Unicode Consortium released the final version of its 11.0 emoji set, with approximately…
A Textbook That Turns Into a Lifesize Paper Skeleton Should be Standard at Med Schools
Human anatomy is something better learned by studying detailed models, or actual people. Mastering the ins and outs of…
A New Campaign Wants to Fight Hostile Urban Design With Instagram
If you’ve even set foot in a big city, it’s almost definitely happened to you. Your feet are aching and you want to…
How the MacBook Air Changed Laptops Forever
When Apple launched the MacBook Air at the end of January 2008, it was an overpriced marvel of design and tech. The…
Did Design Really Cause Hawaii's 'BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT' False Alarm?
When Hawaii accidentally terrified residents earlier this month with a push notification about an imminent “BALLISTIC…
Scientists Found a Way to Make Inexpensive, Solid-Looking 3D Holograms
Holograms are a mainstay of most any science fiction film set in the not-too-distant future and beyond. But the…
This Trippy Music Video Is Made of 3D Fractals
What you’re watching isn’t organic, but a computer-generated visualization of complex mathematics. It’s a…
