We just left Crash Space, a self-proclaimed "clubhouse for nerds" nestled in a residential neighborhood in Los Angeles. Our host, Sean Bonner, showed us some of the repurposed gadgets and hacked electronics members have created, including a music installation that is activated by passersby. Expect the video in a couple of days, and rest assured, there will be lasers.
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Companies Value Internships, So Why Don't They Hire Interns?
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
Celebrate a car-free Los Angeles on 10/10/10 at CicLAvia.
Happy 234th birthday, America.
Over seven miles of open streets leave plenty to the imagination. Here's how you can maximize your fun at CicLAvia this Sunday.
Reinventing the Outdoors contest: Keeping at-risk kids active, healthy, and outdoors is part of the plan at the Boys & Girls Club of Albuquerque.
For kids, playing under their own rules may yield social, physical, and even civic benefits.
When we hear that the Department of Homeland Security does something like double it's annual spending on a given project, we want to know that the...
Scott Campbell is a tattoo artist who's shifted mediums-from needles on skin to lasers on greenbacks. His laser-cut stacks of one dollar bills are...
Launching rockets into space takes a lot of fuel and costs a lot of money. Will a theoretical plan to use lasers to beam enough energy to launch...
Given that only 6 percent of the plastic crap we throw away gets recycled, it's good news that Mitsubishi and Osaka University have invented a...
After flying a plane equipped with lasers over the city, NYC created a map showing how much solar energy every single rooftop could be generating.
Blame The Jetsons, repeated viewings of Star Wars (the good ones), and half of Will Smith's movies. Blame whomever you so choose for tricking us...
An online project connects cities through their forgotten spaces
The digital age. It's a strange place. Instead of taking your anger out on your girlfriend, or playing Halo or something, why not electronically...
The graphic video enraging Afghanistan and America alike should upset you. But not for the reasons you think.
Crash test dummies, or anthropomorphic test devices, are replications of human forms and weight distributions, used to study potential human...
Dr. Chris Cavacuiti, a Toronto physician who cycles competitively, started doing some research into how most bike-versus-car collisions happen...
Linguists give a name to an old headline hazard. If brevity is the soul of wit, it is also the trapdoor of ridiculousness-at least in the world...
We asked Alex Steffen of WorldChanging to imagine what victory in fight against climate change might look like. While there are global doubts...
This video (after the jump) depicts a head-on collision between a 1959 Chevy Bel Air and a 2009 Chevy Malibu. Before watching, I guessed that the...
It turns out some people benefited greatly from BlackBerry's wide-scale service outage: Drivers in the Middle East.
