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20 Awesome Stickers From When Your Suitcase Told Stories
There was a time when well-traveled luggage looked like the suitcase above: covered with travel stickers, trophies of every adventurous explorer. My father, who spent his youth traveling across Europe...
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12 Photorealistic Paintings of Handsome Vintage Gadgets
Think you like gadgets? You don't hold a candle to Canadian artist William Fiske who's spent the last decade painting impossibly realistic portraits of everything from vintage cameras to aging computer...
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7 of the World's Weirdest Water Towers
Middle America's decorative water towers—not those nasty things in New York—hold a special place in the annals of Americana history. They serve as both a public utility and as a community's spiritual...
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32 Mesmerizing Photos of Vortices, From Soap Bubbles to Spiral Galaxies
Vortices are beautiful and mysterious, found at every imaginable scale—from soap bubbles to black holes. They're so ubiquitous, in fact, that we tend to overlook them. But new research shows that...
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17 Cosmic Toys From The Age Of The Space Race
The Space Race between the USA and USSR was the most intensive scientific competition of the twentieth century, and its indirect effects were perceivable even in the toy industry.Read more...
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Winter Olympics Host Cities Look Amazing From Space
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has released a fresh collection of stunning satellite images to celebrate the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Thanks to them you can view most of the cities and countries...
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These Heavenly Photos Reveal Cities Hidden In the Sky Above NYC
So, you think you know Manhattan and New York City, do you? Well, multimedia artist Peter Wegner is about to show you a completely unexpected side of your city. His series, Buildings Made Of Sky, turns...
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8 of the Most Fascinating Items From Carl Sagan's Personal Archives
As America's foremost ambassador to space, Carl Sagan has continued to inspire our fascination with exploring beyond Earth. The Library of Congress has digitized its Carl Sagan archives, and several...
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7 Simple Improvements That Perfected Everyday Products
It's really hard to improve on a good thing. But every once in a while, a product you have known and loved for a very long time gets a redesign or a tweak that's genius in is simplicity. Here are seven...
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17 Historic Patents That Made Winter Olympic Sports Possible
You might not expect the United States Patent and Trademark Office to be as excited about the Winter Olympics as it is. But this month, office is releasing historic patents that reveal how winter...
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12 Buildings Nominated For the Year's Best Design
A cemetery in Sweden. A floating school in Nigeria. A cast-iron facade in the UK. The wildly divergent list of nominees for the Design Museum's annual awards make you wonder: How the hell do you pick a...
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9 Amazing Pieces of Art Sculpted Entirely by 3D Printer
This week, Gizmodo got a peek at some seriously awesome sculptures made entirely by 3D printer at the 3D Printshow. The exhibit, hosted by Adobe and Shapeways, shows how you can create stunning art...
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These Modernist Sand Castles Are Cooler Than Any Architectural Model
All buildings eventually die: Sometimes sooner, sometimes later. But artist Calvin Seibert's work lasts no longer than a turn of the Earth. Seibert spends his free time sculpting incredible models on...
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9 of the Most Beautiful Buildings We Ever Tore Down
The years between 1880 and 1920 changed American cities completely: From elevators to air conditioning to electricity, the monumental buildings born during this period seemed like living things,...
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19 More Beautiful Structures That Are Now Lost Forever
All good things end—architecture included. Yesterday, we showed you nine buildings lost to the sands of time. You—hundreds of you—responded with your own contributions to the list. Who knew there were...
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Inside the Ghostly Remains of Budapest's Condemned Amusement Park
After several years of financial difficulties, the Amusement Park of Budapest, the largest amusement park in Hungary was closed on 30 September, 2013. Today I had a chance to take a walk among its...
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Get lost in these fascinating spacecraft cutaway illustrations
Cross section, cutaway, or x-ray illustrations, call it whatever you want, but they're the best way to understand how things work. They are fascinating. In this new Sploid series we will present some...
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22 Amazing Observatories Where Our Radio Eyes Watch the Universe
Humans can only see visible light—the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. That's why so hard to study celestial objects hidden behind cosmic dust. But radio...
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Pure space porn: these are the naughtiest rocket parts
Rocket hardware is always awesome eye candy, no matter what country is sending stuff into space. Awesome, and, well, sexy. You know what I mean. I like the rockets with the boom. Just look at all...
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Animals in Unbelievable Detail Drawn Entirely in Pancake Batter
We've probably all made a few pancakes in amusingly shaped blobs, but Nathan Shields takes pancake to a whole new level of art. The illustrator, former math teacher, and stay-at-home dad makes...
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