Lost Destination Prints by Dorothy

The British design studio pays tribute to '60s and '70s brutalist architecture

Brutalist concrete architecture from the 1960s and 1970s might not be to everyone’s taste, but for Manchester-based design studio Dorothy, such buildings are the objects of no small amount of affectionas a new series of illustrated prints attests. The series, released via Dorothy’s online shop today, boasts five images (so far) of subjects including the Forton Services station on the M6 in Lancaster whichthough a …

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1. Mind Control Laptops, mobile phones, tablets, cameras and more can all be hooked up to the internet, and now researchers at the University of Washington have connected their own brains to the network. The experiment, titled “Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans,” allowed one researcher to control the movement of another researcher’s hand, even though the two were in separate areas on campus. By donning …

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