Everyone -- ourselves included -- coos and squeals about Apple's design genius. But the real secret might be their astonishing manufacturing capabilities; the reason your iPhone 4 or MacBook Pro look so slick is that they're made with cutting-edge manufacturing.
It’s the dream of every kid who’s got a mean truffle shuffle: think of a meal and poof, it appears on your doorstep. Oh, and it’s made by ROBOTS!!!!
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka is something of a darling 'round these parts, and here’s one more reason why: He’s managed to make beauty products sculptural. Yeah, beauty products.
You could read a boring old list of the web's most popular website -- or you could check out this sprawling infographic by Nmap.
It was created by using a web script to scrape the favicons of the world's most popular websites, as ranked by Alexa. Then, those favicons were scaled according to the amount of traffic that site gets. The largest icon is, of course, Google, which is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels. The whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440 pixels.
Remember that scene in American Beauty with the plastic bag blowing around in the wind, and we were supposed to find it fraught and beautiful and leaded with cosmic significance? We never got that. It’s a plastic bag, for chrissake; there’s no way to pretty something you put your sandwich in. At least there wasn’t until Nils Völker came along.
Written by: Stuart Karten
Ever wonder why the email icon on your computer looks like a postage stamp or an envelope? Think about it: email has almost made the postage stamp irrelevant, so why does the icon cling to an antiquated ceremony?
On May 6, the stock market crashed--for about one minute. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 998.5 points, one of the biggest declines in history, and then rocketed back for the second largest swing ever at more than 1,000 points. Known as the Flash Crash, the event quickly spawned some witty T-shirts ("I survived the crash of 2:45"), and more importantly, lots of questions over how such a dramatic dip could've occurred and so quickly disappeared.
[We've reached out to several representatives for Ogilvy Mather, UPS, and Johnson. See their replies below. — Ed.]
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