Oon is a handsome take on the multi-outlet power cord. With a playful yet unobtrusive aesthetic, the functional cord replaces the unsightly standard orange color commonly found under desks and behind appliances. Designed and manufactured in the USA by emerging designer David Okum, the flexible power cord uses wood, metal, plastic and woven fibers for a cord you’ll actually want to show off.
Combine Street Fighter with Ai Weiwei’s 1995 “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” piece and you get the work of German artist Martin Klimas. In his “Porcelain Figurines,” the Düsseldorf-based photographer drops the fragile statues to the ground and captures them as they shatter, injecting a dynamic quality into the rigid pieces.
According to a new NASA report, potential cracks on Pluto’s icy mega-moon Charon could indicate whether or not it once had a subterranean ocean. Pluto’s moons share the same frigid, uninhabitable environment as the planet. However, that might not have always been the case and with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft slated for a visit there in 2015 (a first ever), scientists will be able to …