Cool Hunting Video Presents: The 2010 99% Conference

Highlights and lessons in our video on this year's 99% Conference with Jack Dorsey, Leslie Koch, John Maeda and more

While the 99% Conference was over three months ago, we’re still marinating in the lessons learned from all of our fantastic speakers who include Jack Dorsey, Leslie Koch, John Maeda and more. This video is just a glimpse at the event—stay tuned to the 99% site for full videos of every presentation.

Lomography Spinner 360°

Our hands-on look at a new analog camera's ultimate panoramas

The latest addition to Lomography‘s fleet of non-digital cameras, the Spinner 360° promises dizzying panoramas with the pull of a cord. Thanks to the unconventional (and often unpredictable) results produced by the camera’s simple mechanics, anyone who can point-and-shoot—or in this case, point-and-pull—will have fun with it. I recently had the opportunity to try the camera out, and can attest to the joys of pulling, …

Urban Insect Hotel

Mathematically-inspired bug houses designed to promote urban biodiversity

Winning London’s recent Beyond The Hive competition, the “Insect Hotel” is a five-star refuge for bugs living in urban environments. Architecture firm Arup Associates designed individual compartments in a mathematically-derived pattern known as a Voronoi tessellation to house an array of species spanning spiders, beetles and moths. Recently featured on Good, the competition was commissioned by real estate company British Land and the City of …