Arts & Design

To reboot their product line, Polaroid have appealed to the highest authority: they've named Lady Gaga their creative director. Her photographic sunglasses may be a caprice; her new digital instant camera offers retronovation with technical flair.

A breakneck desktop adventure offers an uncanny sense of what daily life is like for a tech blogger. Video after the jump.

This year's spring line will debut in the Uncanny Valley.

A ukulele is still a better option for guitarists on the go. But Amidio's OMGuitar approaches the six-string "interface" with refreshing sensitivity.

From Tiepolo's Immaculate Conception, a generative rush of uncanny planes emerges not as narrative, but a separate object of contemplation.

A short film about the eye behind The Sartorialist shows how the web, like the printing press and photography before it, unleashes disruptive beauty. Video after the jump.

This making-of reel from effects producer Digital Domain shows how richly we've blurred the difference between reality and image-making.

A glass techno-cube spinning through space, rocked by a band with the unimpeachably awesome name.

This brilliant hack of a 1980s-vintage Brother knitting machine looks almost as complicated as knitting itself.

A laboratory in Montana that limns the bases of avian flight; a tumblr that collects evidence of our airborne technological fantasies.