Nat Geo’s Custom Gear Specialist

Tucked away in the basement of National Geographic, Kenji Yamaguchi tinkers fervently as he dreams up gadgets to help the publication capture its famously striking photos. When a near-impossible angle or new photography technique calls for equipment not available on the market, Yamaguchi is the first one that photographers turn to. National Geographic recently visited the camera-wizard in his natural habitat—a workshop containing nearly every …

The Cicret Bracelet Concept

The new Cicret bracelet concept wears like a Jawbone Up while offering the functionality of your favorite smartphone. Utilizing a “picoprojector,” the wristband hopes to emit your phone’s display directly onto your skin and then tracks your interactions through multiple sensors, giving you full scrollable, swipe-able and pinch-able functionality of your phone. While the project is still just a concept, the Paris-based Cicret team is …

Behance’s Year in Review

On a mission to “empower the creative world to make ideas happen,” Behance has quite the impressive online community. Their Year in Review reveals many of the amazing projects born from the digital portfolio platform. Looking back at 2014, photographers were discovered, book deals were signed, comics were commissioned and concepts were turned into reality. Take a peep at their most commented-on creations and maybe …