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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.

According to sci-fi novelist Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That's how I feel about American pizza delivery. It's all about an obsession with convenience bordering on the quantum, and it's what makes America the best country in the world.

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

From 1905, a troupe of schoolboys show off their puzzling foil uniforms. Students in an experimental Utopian lyceum? Or visitors from the future?

Bidding starts January 13 on five hundred pieces of space-race memorabilia�including a headset worn by Charlie Duke, capcom for the Apollo 11 mission.

A handy bluetooth gadget for keeping track of your cell phone and alerting you to calls reminds us that there's no end to reminders.

Traditional media mavens don't like the messy, loosely-joined conversation that is the Web and the dynamics of the new public sphere. Trouble is, they're also the dynamics of the old public sphere.

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