Swingset-powered phone chargers
Swingset-Powered Phone Chargers at Dutch Train Stations By Rain-Noe From Core77 “People are willing to take a train later because they like to swing” At the request of Dutch Railways, creative agency ID310 designed a novel phone charger for Utrecht…
Fine dining on Death Star?
Cool Architectural Interior Feature: This Kind of Looks Like a Fine Dining Restaurant on the Death Star By Rain Noe From Core77 Kisho Kurokawa’s dining platform for Japan’s “Empty Museum” What is it: A dining platform inside Japan’s largest museum,…
2019 unusual vehicle designs
The Most Unusual Vehicle Designs of 2019 By Rain Noe From Core77 Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybertruck was not the weirdest one we saw this year Rachel Kohout figured out how to build a height-changing bicycle, and shows…
Lamborghini Squadra Corse presents the official drivers for 2020 Kroes named Best Young Driver of 2019
Giacomo Altoé and Albert Costa join the ranks of Lamborghini Factory Drivers Dutch driver Danny Kroes best of the 2019 Lamborghini Young Driver Program Sant’Agata Bolognese, 8 January 2020 – Lamborghini Squadra Corse presented the Factory Drivers for the 2020 season,…
The Editor speaks: Sex is more complicated than it once was
Once upon a time, as all good stories start, one’s sex (your gender) meant you were either male or female. It was that simple. Not anymore. The word “sex” to identify someone sexual orientation (gender) – male or female, is…
An alligator, tiger cubs, and a dog named Satan — these are the weirdest presidential pets in history
By Tom Porter From Business Insider Many of the 45 presidents of the United States have been animal lovers, with pet choices far beyond the ordinary run of cats and dogs. Some were given exotic pets by foreign dignitaries, with…
Best Illusion of the Year
Best Illusion of the Year: You Can’t Tell if This Shape is Rotating on the Horizontal or Vertical Axis Frank Force’s “Dual Axis Illusion” took 1st place in the annual contest By Rain Noe From Core77 Now in its 15th…
Mice brawling in a London tube station made for one of the best wildlife photos of the year
By Ben Mack from Business Insider An amazing photo captures what appears to be mice fighting inside a tube station in London. The photo was taken by Sam Rowley and is part of the Natural History Museum in London’s Wildlife Photographer…
Weird building with a hole
Supreme Irony: One of the Most Difficult-to-Construct Buildings in the World Will Focus on “Sustainability” By Rain Noe From Core77 Dubai’s weird building with a hole in it is almost finished The first Christmas after the World Trade Center was…
2,000-year-old earth drawings
Japanese Researchers Discover 143 “New” 2,000-Year-Old Earth Drawings in Peru By Rain Noe From Core77 Here’s our suggestions for what they should be named Geoglyphs are the rocky cousins of crop circles. Ancient civilizations drew large pictures–some of them a…