New Electric UPS Trucks are Adorable for a Reason

A quick glance at the new crop of electric UPS trucks being trialed in the UK and France gives one immediate reaction: so cute! Those futuristic curved edges, however, actually offer additional safety functionality, allowing truck drivers a wider field of vision for greater awareness. The vision of UK-based technology company Arrival, the vehicles are also lightweight, have zero tailpipe emission, and offer a battery …

Arca’s Buffed Leather BDSM Headphones

People can be quite particular about headphones, with various specific needs—not all of which are sound-based. In a limited edition, a three-way collaboration between SSENSE, leather company Fleet Ilya and Arca has resulted in headphones unlike any other. Not only are they BDSM-inspired, they also come at quite the cost: $6,450. But while the buffed leather and studs hint that the headphones can handle active …

Painter Eric LoPresti’s “An Ocean of Light” at Burning in Water Gallery

A sublime artistic study on nuclear craters, quiet terror and atomic bomb test sites

Hanford Site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex where engineers created plutonium for the Manhattan Project, sits a little more than 30 minutes by car from Richland, Washington—the birthplace of painter Eric LoPresti. Richland may have been an innocuous suburb, but after LoPresti’s move to New York, he took interest in Hanford’s past. Using oil and watercolor, the artist dissected components, compiled pieces and a new …