Design Indaba 2016: Interview With Jaime Hayon

Our 4AM conversation with the award-winning designer at this year's event

It’s four o’clock in the morning and Jaime Hayon is still going full speed, sitting on a couch in Cape Town, candidly telling us about the time he tattooed one of the world’s top tattoo artists. Had he ever inked somebody before? Nope, and he never did again. While the 42-year-old, Valencia, Spain-based “creative guy” didn’t proceed to make ink-on-skin one of his regular artistic …

SproutsIO

Growing produce in the kitchen with an automated, soil-free indoor gardening system

From Click & Grow to Urban Cultivator, technology is increasingly being used to bring the backyard garden closer than previously imaginable—to the heart of the kitchen. Another contender, Cambridge, MA-based SproutsIO, is coming close to launching their premium-level, all-in-one indoor gardening system that helps grow produce as efficiently as possible. Fully automated, the smart appliance grows plants soil-free via a proprietary “hybrid hydroculture system” (combining …

OK Go in Zero G for “Upside Down and Inside Out”

Guitarist Andy Ross describes the making of yet another crazy music video

OK Go – Upside Down & Inside Out Posted by OK Go on Thursday, February 11, 2016 After more than a decade of creating epic music videos, you think OK Go wouldn’t be able to top motorized scooter chair choreography or a warehouse-sized custom Rube Goldberg machine. But the just released video for “Upside Down and Inside Out,” from the 2014 album Hungry Ghosts, defies …