Sometimes a piece of design is so interesting, it's hard not to drop everything and pay attention to it. Dressed in bright, bold colours, with sharp, tessellated forms, these origami clocks from U.K. firm Raw Dezign definitely fits the bill. Read More >>

Just when you thought that mankind's genius could go no further, four years of research has given birth to a new apex in cork innovation. Please say hello to your newest wine-stopper, the Helix cork. Read More >>

Joe Doucet's circular mirror isn't water-logged for nothing. He designed it as a reminder of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in New York (where his studio is) and generally on the east coast of the USA. Read More >>

'Tis the season for outdoor music festivals—which, traditionally, means days of sliding over mud-slick fields in wellington boots. But in Lyon, a group of designers and engineers dreamt up an alternative: a Kinect-powered interactive amphitheater that radiates light based on the footsteps of attendees. Read More >>

In the 21st century, a significant change is underway in the food industry: farming is moving indoors. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in the basement of a Tokyo high-rise, in an old warehouse in London, or even in space. Just look at our collection of awesome indoor farms, where the Sun never shines, rainfall is irrelevant, and the climate is always perfect. Read More >>

Before computers became the sole progenitors of almost all our visual artefacts, printing was a labour-intensive task that involved applying incredible pressure to inked blocks using machines weighing thousands of kilos. At the Common Press, in the basement of the University of Pennsylvania's Fine Arts Building, artists are still using this outdated technology — right down to ink from the same company Ben Franklin used. Read More >>

If your world is feeling overwhelmingly and counter-productively materialistic it may be time to downsize your life and move into a hut. That's normal, right? And for all your sacrifice your minimalist hut can be built by celebrity architect Renzo Piano. Intrigued? Read More >>

For the most part, we humans are better at things than we were thousands of years ago. But there are some things the ancients had down pat. Roman concrete, for instance, is just way better than anything we can whip up today. Finally, after some 2,000 years, modern-day scientists have figured it out. And it's a secret worth knowing. Read More >>

Coming as a welcome reminder that iOS 7 is still very much in beta, subject to change, and everyone needs to take a few deep breaths, Apple's website is currently showing off a few much-needed updates to its less-than-lauded icon designs. Read More >>

It's sometimes easy to forget when you're watching an animated movie just how complex the underlying technology is. In this video, Steve Carell explains the 3D animation processes involved in taking an idea from the storyboard to the movie theatre. Read More >>

MakerBot is building an empire selling printers that make things—but have you ever wondered where the printers themselves are made? On June 7th, the company opened a huge new factory to accommodate the booming demand for Replicators, and we got a first-hand look inside. Read More >>

You know a meme when you see one. Silly image. Impact font. Chortling punchline. You know when something goes viral on the Internet too. It's all over Facebook. Every site you go to has a post about it. You keep seeing it for three weeks. But you've never seen memes and Internet viral hits like this. This is art. Read More >>

Google’s company policy requires that each office reflect some of the local colour of the city around it: Google Zurich has ski gondolas, Google Pittsburgh has steel mill photos, and so on. That policy results in designs that sometimes border on twee (see: Google London's gratuitous Union Jacks), but sometimes, it ends up being brilliant in a campy sort of way. In the case of the company's new Tokyo offices, it’s the latter. Read More >>

iOS 7 is beautiful. It's exciting. It feels like a completely different phone—vibrant, alive and a design refresh in the truest sense of the world. But, um, what about them app icons? Some are nice but most are bizarre looking and possibly even ugly. How can something look so good inside but so weird on the face? Read More >>

Since Apple unveiled the teeny-weenie new Mac Pro the other evening, we've heard nothing but jokes about how it's a rubbish bin, or ashtray, or a weirdly shaped UFO. That confusion has spread to Japan, though, where a suspiciously lookalike rubbish bin has soared no No 2 on the Amazon bestseller list. Read More >>