Technology
October 17, 2012

SnapBox Turns Smartphone Photos into Framed Canvases

If you're like me, you've taken hundreds (if not thousands) of photos on your iPhone (or other smartphone) and, one day, when you find some time, you vow to print them out and put them in a nice frame. That was 2010. Now it's been a few years and you still haven't gotten around to it. (What can we say? We're busy people!) Enter SnapBox!

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Design
October 16, 2012

Croatia’s Solar Powered Interactive Light Installation

Croatian architect Nikola Baic's LED light installation titled Saudao ao Sol, translated as Greeting to the Sun, is a remarkable piece of public art that efficiently incorporates technology. The circular floor installation consists of three hundred multilayered glass plates encasing solar cells that absorb sunlight during the day and come alive at night, putting on a spectacular light show.

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Art
October 15, 2012

Spectacular Floating Jellyfish Aquarium at Portland Airport

Multi-disciplinary artist Sayuri Sasaki Hemann brings underwater jellyfish worlds to the surface in this ongoing project entitled Urban Aquarium. Growing up, the artist and her family relocated many times between Japan, Australia, and Romania. Often feeling displaced within these new environments and new languages, Hemann says “I naturally found refuge in using my hands and making art.

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DIY
October 12, 2012

10 Creative DIY Halloween Ideas Found on Pinterest

With Halloween right around the corner, today we thought it would be fun to put together some of the most popular DIY Halloween ideas we found on Pinterest. For the past few months we've been collecting these pins in our board Cool DIY Projects, which currently has almost 1.5 million followers (all by itself). It's our hope that you'll incorporate some of these spooktacular ideas during this year's Halloween.

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My Modern Met

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