Design
August 17, 2016

Unique Tables Designed to Look Like Animals Are Half-Submerged in Water

Designer Derek Pearce has expanded the possibilities of everyday furniture with his enchanting Water Tables. Each one integrates an animal as both its base and a crucial aesthetic element: the body of the creature seems to comes up through the glass tabletop to create the illusion that it’s floating freely in a river or lake. In one of Pearce’s works, an otter bobs gleefully on its back between two rocks.

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Design
August 17, 2016

Olympic Pictograms Reveal All the Sports That Have Been Added and Removed Over the Last 52 Years

The Olympic Games are known for being the world’s greatest sports contest, and so it’s vital that its various competitions are understood across cultures. Since we can’t all read or speak the same language, pictograms—a stylized representation of a message or activity—help people from all walks of life comprehend the Games in the same way.

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Photography
August 15, 2016

Breathtaking Portraits Capture Ballet’s Finest Dancing on the Streets of New York

Miming and photography might not seem to go hand-in-hand, but for Omar Z. Robles, a background in the former physical art has inspired a stunning series of still images with the dynamic elegance of any real-time staged show. Born in Puerto Rico but now based in New York City, Robles captures dancers poised gracefully against the city grit, performing pirouettes and pliés amid taxi traffic jams, sidewalk puddles, and other bustling urban scenes.

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Design
August 13, 2016

Smart Toaster Works with Ingenious App to Toast Your Bread Into Any Image You Want

Tired of eating the same boring, plain toast with butter every morning for breakfast? Toasteroid‘s “smart-toaster” lets you create your own designs that bake right onto the bread as it toasts. Just download the Toasteroid mobile app, connect your smartphone to Bluetooth, pop your bread in the silver sleek companion toaster, and you are ready to start designing your one-of-a-kind toast. Users can select either Toasteroid templates or doodle their own toast-worthy image.

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