Will Work For Inspiration

$2,000 beer, Hypercolor cars, Google's Quantum AI Lab and more in our weekly look at the web

Creative Time Reports commissioned musician, cyclist and author David Byrne to write a piece on NYC’s present and future ahead of their upcoming annual summit. His argument in the resulting insightful essay is that “the city is a body and a mind,” and that while the Big Apple has greatly improved the physical part, as neighborhoods become walled communities for the rich, the city is …

iKettle

$2,000 beer, Hypercolor cars, Google's Quantum AI Lab and more in our weekly look at the web

Despite the particularly worn out title, the iKettle is packing all kinds of potential for tea lovers. Now available for preorder, the iKettle sends a notification to your phone when you wake up, when you get home from work—you name it—asking you if you’d like some tea and, in minutes, you’ve got piping hot water without hardly lifting a finger. Instead of a whistle from …

The Ultimate Swiss Army Knife

Modular phones, petrified bird photography, the Empire State Building's green roof and more in our weekly look at the web

Cumbersome? Yes. Ornate? Certainly. Over the top? Absolutely. The Wenger 16999 Swiss Army Knife from around 1880 has roughly 100 functions—some necessary and some superfluous. From a built-in saw to a piano tuner, this knife can help with just about any pre-digital task. It even has a fully functioning .22 caliber pinfire revolver for those impromptu duel challenges. Regardless of its ridiculousness, the knife is …