Design

April 13, 2015

Custom Steam Engine-Powered Motorcycle Looks Straight out of a Sci-Fi Fantasy

In 2014, Netherlands-based custom motorcycle shop Revatu Customs unveiled the Black Pearl, an utterly unique creation that looks like a cross between a motorcycle and a locomotive. The showpiece vehicle, which is named after Jack Sparrow's infamous pirate ship, is powered by a functioning steam engine, with a rear wheel driven by a large crankshaft. The one-of-a-kind motorcycle is perfect for steampunk enthusiasts or just fans of cool-looking rides.

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April 3, 2015

TransLook: An Innovative Transparent Display Case That Combines Digital Art and Interactive Information

From smart watches to phones to TVs, advanced interactive technology is occupying more and more of our daily lives. Emotive Digital–a startup based in San Jose, California and Seoul, South Korea–aims to develop that technology one step further with TransLook, a highly innovative transparent display case that could radically change the way we engage with brands, advertisements, and information while shopping.

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March 18, 2015

Different Perceptions of Beauty Over 100 Years in North and South Korea

The Cut is back with their fourth installment of 100 Years of Beauty, in which they condense a century's worth of female beauty, hairstyle, and makeup trends into one fascinating minute. After covering the US and Iran, the Cut focused this time on the past hundred years in Korea, a nation that underwent turbulent changes that ultimately resulted in a division between the North and the South.

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March 11, 2015

Innovative University Building in Singapore That Has No Corners

With the rising popularity of online classes and hybrid learning methods, administrators at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University realized that students won't come to campus unless they want to. That's why the university commissioned this magnificent, newly completed “Learning Hub” designed by Heatherwick Studio. From the outside, the hub resembles a towering group of giant telescopes. Inside, the corridors are scalloped mazes that function as both walkways and balconies.

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