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The DeLorean reimagined, Google's Blob Orchestra, quantum teleportation and more from around the web
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3D Schröder Staircase Wins 2020 Illusion of the Year Contest
The 16th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest, hosted by the Neural Correlate Society, crowned a 2020 first prize winner this week. Japanese mathematician Kokichi Sugihara’s 3D Schröder Staircase wowed judges …
Via independent.co.uk
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Achieves First Long-Distance Quantum Teleportation
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory—and partners at Fermilab, AT&T, Caltech, Harvard University and the University of Calgary—have achieved sustained, high-fidelity, long-distance “quantum teleportation,” which is defined as the “disembodied” instant transfer …
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Compose Your Own “Blob Opera” with Google Arts + Culture
The latest interactive offering from Google Arts & Culture, this time in conjunction with artist David Li, Blob Opera allows users—with the help of machine learning—to string together a song from a …
Via designboom.com
The Iconic DeLorean Reimagined for 2021
The Giorgetto Giugiaro-designed DMC DeLorean made it to production in 1981 (before an iconic appearance in 1985’s Back to The Future) and will celebrate its 40th anniversary next year. To mark the …
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
Space gas samples, the dishwasher reimagined, architecture ethics and more in our look around the web
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Japan Space Agency JAXA Confirms the Contents of Asteroid Mission “Treasure Box”
In 2018 and 2019, Japanese space agency JAXA’s space probe Hayabusa2 spent 16 months following the asteroid Ryugu—and touching down on its surface twice. Hayabusa2 landed in Australia this month and JAXA …
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China’s Ningbo Fotile Kitchen Ware Co Reimagines the Dishwasher
With their Fotile 3-in-1 Sink Dishwasher, Chinese appliance company Ningbo Fotile Kitchen Ware Co embeds the unit right into the countertop, directly beside a complementary sink. Its name references the fact that …
Via Dezeen.com
Nendo Designs a Smartphone that Folds Down to the Size of a Credit Card
With the Slide-Phone concept, Japanese design studio Nendo proposes a smart device that can fold down “like an inch-worn” to the size of a credit card (or 54 by 86 millimeters). Users slide …