Popular Science Best of What’s New 2006: Hurriquake

Popular Science‘s annual “Best of What’s New,” currently on display in New York’s Grand Central Station through this Thursday, 9 November 2006, and will be bringing you the highlights over the next several days. To kick things off, the winner of the magazine’s first-ever top honor, “Innovation of the Year,” the Hurriquake, is a tricked-out nail designed to protect homes against damage caused by hurricanes …

Lily Allen Heads Up

Just a quick heads-up for American readers: Smile by Lily Allen, who we wrote about back in April and who last month made her live stateside debut, is this week's Free Download on the U.S. iTunes Store. A gently-skanking tale of being dumped, the tune was popular in the U.K. over the summer, and serves as a decent introduction to the talented Londoner.

Steve Powers: Street Art

Do you really need a white cube to show art? Is a great painting sitting on a street corner still a great painting? Can someone make something new happen in an art world where everybody has seen everything already? Steve Powers, armed with enough gallery and museum credentials to stuff a resume (he's a graffiti writer, author of The Art Of Getting Over and First …