Quadmovr’s Supercharged Drone

Specialty drone designer Quadmovr has released a video demonstrating the acrobatics of what looks like the world’s quickest quadcopter. The tweaked drone sports a pretty basic design: just four arms for the blades and what appears to be a rather clunky battery pack strapped to its bottom. But when it starts to move, it really moves. The scary-quick ‘copter shoots straight up, disappearing from sight, …

The Mexican Morrissey

Although he’s known to many as the world’s greatest Morrissey impersonator, Jose Maldonado will admit he’s just another fan of the indie rock icon and former The Smiths lead singer. Maldonado spends his days patrolling the beaches of Los Angeles as a lifeguard but, once the sun goes down, it’s full-on Morrissey mode as he takes the stage with his tribute band the Sweet and …

Lab-Grown Leather

Brooklyn-based start-up Modern Meadow is currently developing the world’s first lab-grown leather. By taking advantage of recent advances in cell engineering, the company is hoping to shape a future that is “cultured not slaughtered.” The leather is grown by first isolating an animal’s skin cells and then multiplying those cells by the billions, producing sheets of the faux-skins. Not only can this technology decrease leather-specific …