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A few days ago The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, announced that it has been sold to the Swedish software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB for almost 8 million dollars. According to a Pirate Bay blog post, the surprisingly influential owners of the piracy site will be passing the reigns to the [...]
Back in February we reported on a conceptual product called LightLane that would create a virtual bike lane using lasers projected behind the rider. Due to the overwhelming response from bikers around the globe and its success at design competitions, the folks behind the idea have decided to put it into production. As of right [...]
PSFK recently caught up with Karen Bard, the Pop Culture Expert over at eBay. Her insights were a follow-up to our recent coverage on the creation of instant nostalgia.
As many magazines go the way of the dodo, other publications are staying strong despite industry woes. A recent survey of listings on eBay show that people are actively sharing issues of their favorites, even from recently defunct magazines.
Domino Magazine, which folded earlier this year, fetches prices across eBay well above the original news-stand price. [...]
OXO, an innovative consumer products company, recently created an exclusive line of office products for Staples. The designs hope to make office supplies more efficient, easier to use and just maybe, a little sexier. From yet another design for easier stapling, to new pushpins and magnets, the OXO designs certainly look like a fresh redesign [...]
Membership, reward and loyalty cards are available from almost every major merchant and now there may be an easy way to lighten your wallet or purse load. CardStar is an iPhone app designed to store and retrieve cards which can be scanned from the barcode the app creates from your reward number. The merchant list [...]
Re-Surface, a Brooklyn-based design studio and factory, recently produced a series of D-Light Pillar Candles with urban art in mind (and a nod towards seven-day votives). The eleven unique designs take their names from Brooklyn streets, but it’s unclear whether the images were inspired by actual graffiti found at these locations. The interesting cylindrical glasses can [...]
Kevin Van Aelst, a New York Times Magazine photographer, takes playing with food to the next level with his collection of intricately patterned everyday artifacts. The artist statement on Van Aelst’s website captures the motivations for his particular style,
The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life—the [...]
Though the ‘Synthetic Tree’ may hardly resemble its natural brethren, developers hope it will capture more than a thousand times as much carbon dioxide as the real thing. The working prototype traps carbon in a compression chamber where it is converted into liquid carbon dioxide, a byproduct that is easier to store and manage. It’s [...]
Running and technology have been on a collision course since Nike introduced their Plus training products. Now, creating playlists for your workout is simple. iTunes offers training mixes hosted by runners like Kara Goucher or even artists like De La Soul. However, it’s also simple to create your own mix to your pace with some [...]
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the French photographer behind film projects like “6 Billion Others,” recently released his latest project called Home that captures the beauty of our planet in a free film stressing the gravity of environmental issues. Arthus-Bertrand pioneered modern aerial photography and this latest project showcases an incredible selection of inspiring images from his ambitious [...]
Urban Alliance, a media architecture collective, recently unveiled the Moodwall, an eighty foot interactive LED installation that mimics the actions of passing objects or people. Sensors pick up on moving objects and project an “infrared-like image” on the wallpaper made up of 2500 LEDs. The lights are situated behind a ribbed semi-transparent wall which enable [...]
In the 1970s, Mercedes-Benz unveiled a range of experimental vehicles to research the future of safety system at the newly organized Enhanced Safety Vehicles conference. Those safety research cars gave rise to modern innovations we take for granted like airbags and anti-lock brakes. Now, Mercedes-Benz is bringing back the Experimental Safety Vehicle, hoping to once [...]
The folks over at Good Magazine created an unsurprisingly clean and clear graph to put the recent bankruptcy of GM in perspective over the past two decades. The design is a collaboration with Always With Honor and a full sized version can be found here.
[via Good Magazine]
Wired recently interviewed Shane Meadows, the British film-maker, about shooting his new project named Le Donk in only five days. Meadows hopes the short shooting schedule will enable the film to focus on more minute details of the story and force the production team to come up with crazier ideas. Meadows teamed up with Warp [...]
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