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KEEGO’s Squeezable Metal Bottle
Quickly, many athletes need to take a sip of water using only one hand. Squeezable, ergonomic bottles are the only type of vessel to deliver in that scenario and, up until now, …
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Photographer Gives Mountains Halos
Photographer Reuben Wu’s latest project “Lux Noctis” gives mountains halos, thanks to his clever use of tech. Using drones and long exposures, Wu creates these angelic details that are inspired by “19th-century …
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FKA Twigs Dances the Day Away in Spike Jonze Apple’s HomePod Film
In his most adventurous, imaginative short-form spot since the Kenzo commercial that swept the world, Spike Jonze returns with an advertisement for Apple’s HomePod. Within, FKA Twigs works her way through the …
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Glassy and Glorious, an Iceberg Upturned
Rarely do we have an opportunity to see what filmmaker and photographer Alex Cornell captured on his recent excursion to Antarctica: the underbelly of an iceberg, pointing to the sky. Cornell—while exploring …
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Levi’s Turns to Lasers for Ethical Jean Production
As denim distressing and various washes wax and wane in attention, hand-finishing and chemicals are used to achieve the look of the moment. Levi’s, however, wants to cut out all hazardous chemicals …
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Oldest Tattoos Discovered on 5,000-Year-Old Mummies
In a discovery that has “pushed back evidence for tattooing in Africa by over 1,000 years,” researchers at the British Museum have found the world’s oldest tattoos on 5,000-year-old mummies. These figurative …
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Lacoste Replaces Croc Logo for Endangered Species
Few logos are as familiar as Lacoste’s crocodile and, for the first time in the brand’s history, the reptile was replaced by not one but 10 other animals. To celebrate the launch …
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BrainQ’s Mind-Reading Technology Aims to Treat Neurological Diseases
Rather than embed chips in the human brain—as proposed by two of its better-known competitors, Israeli start-up BrainQ is developing a non-surgically embedded EEG machine to accrue and analyze data on stroke …
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Amateur Astronomer Photographs Exploding Star
An Argentinian amateur astronomer was simply testing out his new 16-inch telescope by taking a bunch of short-exposure photographs when he managed to snap an image believed to be one in 10 …
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World’s Tallest Timber Tower Proposed for Tokyo
Known as “plyscrapers,” several towers of wood are planned for development around the world. None impresses quite as much as Sumitomo Forestry’s 1,148-foot-tall and $5.6 billion project: the W350 tower. It’s slated …