Test Drive: 2013 Ford Fusion

Upscale design lines, advanced technology and unmatched fuel economy in an all new sedan

You can’t help but notice the 2013 Ford Fusion, a midsize category-busting car hell-bent on improving suburban driveways around the world. The new Fusion is the first car that very clearly articulates the ONE Ford mantra (cars designed for a global market) and the company’s Kinetic design language (which debuted on the Evos concept car launched in Fall 2011 in Frankfurt). Ford sold Aston Martin …

Talstar Bottle

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

The bottle for Talstar’s insecticide may look funky but it’s form is much more considered than one might think. Designed to make measuring the appropriate amount of bug poison more efficient, the bottle uses a pressure system that allows the contents to be doled out with a squeeze.

Skittish Tree

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

Bringing dynamic visual evidence of the impact of the sounds we make, the sound-reactive projection, Skittish Tree, offers a multi-sensory experience in the storefront of JS55 on Clinton Street in New York City. While soft sounds caused the tree to sway languidly side-by-side, loud noises—like, as we see in the video, a child’s giddy screeching—shake the limbs until they fall off in the “wind”.