The trouble with the Rebel Alliance: no exit strategy. Video after the jump

Cat versus bear cub: sentimental romp, or nature red in tooth and claw? Watching the two tangle playfully in a Russian hunting camp, the line is hard to draw. Video after the jump.

Emeco's famously sturdy aluminum "Navy chairs" aren't cast�they're cut, pressed, rolled, and buffed�but their manufacture shows them to be part of a metal caste system, and players in a dance of fabrication. Video after the jump.

An Android-powered projector-in-a-lightbulb inspires images of a world in which every gadget wants a heart�or at least a brain.

In the business of getting to space, an access of sublime ephemerality. Video after the jump.

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

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

The New World Order is a harsh, cold vacuum. Video after the jump.

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.