Porsche Panamera

Porsche's new four-door Zentrum made for a flash of contemporary zing in contrast to the vintage cars on display at the Pebble Beach Concourse D'elegance earlier this month. As the feature marquee at the annual classic car show, car enthusiasts could test drive the new 2010 Porsche Panamera, the German automaker’s only four-door sedan. Porsche design chief Michael Mauer explained that, unlike most cars on …

Blockhead Bike Stem

Today's bike culture is all about customization, and cw&t's new Blockhead Bike Stem does just that. Carved out of a solid block of 7075 aluminum, the indestructible stem affixes handlebars in style. Focusing on ways we construct space, Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy—the Pratt Institute architecture professors that make up cw&t—perfectly exemplify this with their small but powerful component. The Blockhead Stem is available for …

Personas Online Data Portraits

Gleaning information from the internet and using algorithms to process it, Watching the site in action, with animated words sorting into colors, is almost as compelling as the results, making it a popular part of the "Metropath(ologies)" exhibit currently at the MIT musuem. (Zinman is a PhD student in MIT's Metropath(ologies) Through 13 September 2009 MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue Building N51 Cambridge, MA 02139 …