There's no shortage of stylish puzzle-platform games you can play on your phone, but Type:Rider is something a bit different: it's a history lesson that you play. The game has you controlling two tiny circles through 10 stylish worlds, collecting items, solving simple puzzles, and navigating some...
A history lesson you can play
Apple's Jony Ive and the renowned industrial designer Marc Newson have paired to design a one-off desk. Created for charity auction, the (RED) Desk is, in keeping with much of the designers' back catalogues, machined from solid aluminum. Unlike the Leica camera revealed earlier this week, the...
Orée, the French hardware startup that made its debut with a wooden wireless keyboard, is back in Tokyo to show off more products crafted from natural materials. The company is running another pop-up workshop from tomorrow, this time at the city's Institut Français.
In October 2009, at an Israeli sports training facility called the Wingate Institute, Eden Shochat walked the floor of GeekCon admiring the projects. Each year at Shochat's long-running, invite-only creative gathering, attendees are tasked with making things that are both amazing and useless. One team created a robotic suitcase that responds to heat signatures, following its owner wherever they go. Another team generated a password based on your silhouette when you jumped on a trampoline, which you then had to re-create every time you logged in to your computer. But most striking of all was Alice — an artificially intelligent inflatable sex doll who talked, and talked back, to her owner. She was the brainchild of a team led by 25-year-old hacker Omer Perchik.
Shochat, an investor and entrepreneur who would go on to sell his facial-recognition software company to Facebook, had found a kindred spirit in Perchik. "I really liked how he thought," Shochat says. "I appreciated the...
Any.do's creator recruited from Israel’s NSA — and Apple took notice
You may not know the names Lella Vignelli and Massimo Vignelli, but you've probably seen their work: either separately or together, the pair have created iconic designs for Ford, American Airlines, and Bloomingdales — just to name a few — and are responsible for the striking and minimalist...
Some of the biggest names behind BlackBerry 10 have departed their ailing employer for the seemingly greener pastures of the startup world. Seven designers who were brought on by BlackBerry after it acquired their previous employer, The...
The technology in Iron Man is getting a step closer to reality thanks to the United States military. The Army has commissioned a Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, which would provide the wearer with superhuman abilities like night vision, enhanced strength, and protection...
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