Inside a Chinese Sex Toy Factory

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

Photographer Jason Lee goes inside the plastic toy factory Ningbo Yamei—located on the edge of Fenghua, Zhejiang province in China—where he captured quality control checks on vibrators, rubber nipples being painted, inflatable dolls packaged for transfer and more. The resulting series reflects a simultaneously provocative and banal workplace.

Thom Browne Women’s Fall 2012

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

Staging his Fall/Winter 2012 presentation in characteristic zany fashion—a candlelit room filled with coffins housing girls who’d “died for fashion”—Thom Browne revealed a less-expected line of toned-down womenswear. Still pushing his apparel to extremes with exaggerated bustles and seemingly non-sequitr joints and angles, Browne incorporated classically tailored elements for a wearable, but still wantonly indulgent approach to the season.

DIY Airsoft Machine Gun

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

The deceptively simple construction of this homemade airsoft gun produces an intimidating fire rate from the plastic soda bottle compartment. Certain to create headaches for parents and educators across the country, the design can be realized with $15 and a basic tool kit.