Josh Rubin

Josh Rubin is COOL HUNTING's founder, editor and executive creative director. He brings his background as a photographer and expertise as a user experience designer to his point of view on what makes a good story for CH—this most often include some kind of intersectionality between art, culture, technology and design. Josh is a bit of an urban hippie, obsessed with most things Japanese, a Sealyham Terrier lover and very food motivated.

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NanoFlowers

While developing a new water repellant coating for solar cells, Cambridge University PhD student Ghim Wei Ho generated these phenomenal microscopic organisms. If you're brainy enough to follow, here's how he does …

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Atari 10 in 1

This has been around for quite awhile, but I figured I'd post it anyway. Remember Atari? Of course you do. Now 10 of their most popular retro video games have been loaded …

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FeedRoll

Feedroll is a great new service for quickly and easily displaying someone else's content on your own site. Click here to add Cool Hunting content to your site.

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Twexus

Twexus is a database of over 20,000 digital photographs taken by Andreas Wacker. There are a couple different ways to search for photos, but my favorite is a feature called pairs. All …

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Mass Distraction

Mass Distraction is a thesis project from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. Agnelli Davide and Drori Tal designed 3 jackets that challenge the experience of balancing your attention between the friend right …

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Gunther Skull

This little (1.75" tall) skull was designed in the 18th century by Franz Ignatz Gunther for a chapel in Munich. The original moulds are still intact, and German manufacturer Porzellan Manufaktur is …

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FutureShack

Designed by Australian architect Sean Godsell, FutureShack is an experiment in emergency housing. Constructed from one ready-made twenty-two-foot-long shipping container, FutureShack is equipped with a minimum of industrial materials and is entirely …

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Nokia 2650

Nokia announced 5 new phones today. Gizmodo has all the details. Overall, I'm not super impressed. They are doing a couple interesting things with materials, but the new clamshell designs are just …

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