17 Gorgeous Hood Ornaments That Defined These Classic Cars
Even though Iām not a car buff, oldtimer car shows and exhibitions attract me. One reason is hood ornamentsāa distinctive aspect of each automobile that beautifully combines art, design and...
View ArticleThe Giant Robots That Serve the World's Largest Library Archives
The largest libraries do more than just store books and newspapers on their shelves. When a library collection contains millions of documents, it needs complex and highly sophisticated logistical...
View Article26 Soviet Space Pins From the Heat of the Space Race
There was a time when people proudly wore pins and badges of notable space achievements on their clothes. Such pins were very popular in the Soviet Unionāand anybody could buy almost any kind, choosing...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Age-Guessing Tool Takes On History's Most Iconic Portraits
Microsoftās How-Old.net site has quickly become an internet sensation after it was introduced last week at the companyās annual Build Developer Conference. We tested the software with some famous faces...
View ArticleThe Space Artist Who Perfectly Painted All Our Cosmic DreamsĀ
John Conrad Berkey (August 13, 1932 ā April 29, 2008) was probably the best known and loved space artist who ever lived on this planet. You may have seen the world-famous American illustratorās work on...
View ArticleHere's Your Chance To Own This Legendarily Weird Star Wars Poster Art
All serious Star Wars fans know the work of Tibor HelƩnyi. The Hungarian painter, who sadly passed away last year, created some of the most-hated and beloved posters for the original Star Wars trilogy....
View ArticleThese Century-Old Drawings Show Humanity's Deepest Fear: Alien Invasion
We all know the scenes of a devastating Martian invasion: gigantic alien tripods and fighting-machines destroying towns, killing helpless humans, abducting men, women, and children. But do you know the...
View ArticleThe Beautiful Art That Helped Inspire Space Travel
Chesley Bonestell was born long before the flight of the first airplane, and yet heās well-known as the most influential people in aerospace art. The painter, designer and illustrator died the year of...
View Article20 Incredible Images of Atomic Age Infrastructure
This year, we saw top-secret photos of the birth of the atom bomb finally declassified. The photos of how the US government used that technology after World War II are just as interesting. Read more...
View ArticlePhotos of India's Deadly, Street-Melting Heat Wave
An extreme heat wave with temperatures reaching 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) has killed at least 1,118 people over the past week in India, where hot air, molten asphalt, dust storms are...
View Article50 Gorgeous Examples of Pinball Machine Art Across Seven Decades
PBall Gallery, a pinball museum in Budapest, Hungary, contains more than 130 once-banned (and dreaded!) electromechanical gaming machines. Itās an incredible collection, and a reminder that while most...
View ArticleGet Lost in the Intricate Details of These Amazing Pinball Machines
You may never have noticed, but pinball machines are actually works of art. Yesterday, we featured 50 back glass masterpieces from the collection of PBall Gallery, a pinball museum in Budapest,...
View ArticleDoctor Who In A 1989 Notebook Ad, And 12 More Wacky Hungarian TV Spots
Do you love old television ads? Preferably from ex-socialist countries? Then this is the right stuff for you! YourTuber Hol van Ato has just uploaded more than one hundred funny, weird and grotesque...
View ArticleNot Safe For Play? The Evolution of Pinball Machines
Game of skills or evil gambling? It is hard to believe that there was a long period in the history of arcade games when pinball machines, these amazing mixtures of art, design, engineering, technology,...
View ArticleThese Insane Labs Recreate Frightening Forces of Nature
Knowledge is the key to survival when nature turns hostile, whether because we're living on trembling ground, building homes along vulnerable coasts, or navigating through dangerous water. That's why...
View ArticleA Fond Farewell to the Neon Sign
I simply can't help it; I am a sucker for neon signs. I just love their clear glowing lines, their curves and bends, their warm though discreet presence in the night. And I hate to see them go. Read...
View ArticleIconic Images of Space Taken From The Ground
Photographer Edgar Martins' book, The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, is a must-have for space enthusiasts. But for those without the hard copy, the European...
View Article21 Bizarre Maps That Depict Nations As Animals, People, and Monsters
Allegorical, satirical, and comic or serio-comic maps were one of the most popular ways of distributing political propaganda leading up to the Second World War. With countries depicted as human...
View ArticleCoachella 2015 in photos
This past weekend, thousands and thousands of attractively dressed Instagram hashtag abusers rushed to the desert of Indio to willfully dehydrate themselves in a united effort to save California from...
View ArticleThe Giant Robots That Serve the World's Largest Library Archives
The largest libraries do more than just store books and newspapers on their shelves. When a library collection contains millions of documents, it needs complex and highly sophisticated logistical...
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