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Putting Your Rival Up Against the Wall

Gaming culture meets graffiti meets vernacular video insanity. Video after the jump.

For the Savvy, Hacking GSM Phones is Cheap and Easy

Obsolescing 2G networks furnish security loopholes in mobile networks, which malicious hackers may find easy to exploit.

New Near-Neanderthals Complicate the Human Family Tree

A pinkie bone found in Russia offers a key to our complicated common heritage.

The Linen Industry Gives Goldilocks a High-Tech Twist

A film promoting the European linen industry offers a rapturous look at machinery spinning straw into gold. Video after the jump.

Stumbling into Utopia with Olafur Eliasson

In place of the brave new world of design fiction, artists like Olafur Eliasson invite us to enter the instant Utopia of our own imaginations.

The Future, a Thimbleful at a Time

An intriguing concept device called "Thimble" would serve as an interface, text scanner, and Braille e-book reader for the blind. But the crucial technology, a refreshable, haptic Braille display, remains elusive.

Looking for Atlantis

A new thesis puts the explanation for the sudden appearance of sophisticated late-prehistoric coastal settlements underwater�in the Persian Gulf, to be specific, which up to 7,500 years ago would have been a vast oasis in the midst of the arid ice ages.

Disintegrated Digital Frame Reverse-Engineers Ektachrome

The DIA Parrot wireless photo frame by Nodesign deconstructs the LCD, separating the backlighting from the display unit to create a luminous projection effect. Usually, an LCD unit is sandwiched with its opaque backlight, hiding the display’s smoky windowpane quality. By separating the two, the DIA Parrot celebrates the qualities of the LCD while providing a new/old lightboxing effect. The ...