Random Access Go’s Mobile Travel Guide

Now available in Berlin, Raaago (by Random Access Studios) is a smart phone app travel guide that promotes serendipity. By selecting one of the city’s designated districts and a goal (from eating and drinking to escaping), users are presented with an option. For dining in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district, for instance, Raaago suggests Engelbecken, a “down-to-earth” space that offers “high-class alpine and international cuisine.” Further information …

Algorithm-Assisted Thread Art

Ani Abakumova employs an algorithm to develop a pattern for portraits that she then strings together by hand. The algorithm, developed by Abakumova’s husband Andrey, configures the layers, colors and specific depiction. When Abakumova assembles it all, she follows the math’s lead and trusts that it has accounted for shadowing, shape and depth. For each portrait—she’s replicated the “Mona Lisa,” “Girl with a Pearl Earring” …

SpaceX’s New Astronaut Suits

NASA released images of a training event for astronauts who will be aboard next year’s SpaceX Crew Dragon—and they offer a glimpse at sleek new spacesuits. While similar to those we’re accustomed to seeing, these new iterations are undeniably more refined. Activities on this training day in Hawthorne, California, involved astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley suiting up and navigating various scenarios, from launch countdown …