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September 14, 2015
Peep These Side Chairs That Cleverly Transform Into A Bench
"Getting benched" is a good thing for designer Peter Otto Vosding.
Thanks to the wonders of modular design, you can create furniture that morphs with your specific needs. (Case in point: this customizable cat tower.) For his graduate project, German designer Peter Otto Vosding applied the principals of modular design to a chair that riffs on the position one assumes while seated.
September 11, 2015
Need Your Knitted Goods ASAP? Etsy Is Now Testing Same-Day Delivery
Starting this fall, New Yorkers can get their fill of Etsy's handmade wares for $20 per delivery.
Etsy has made its first major change since filing for an IPO earlier this year: Like other more conventional retailers, the handmade goods marketplace is teaming up with Postmates to test same-day and next-day delivery. New York will be Etsy's first market for express delivery.
A New Apple Feature Will Quickly Eat Up Your iPhone Storage
Live Photos turn your photos into mini videos—and will reportedly take up twice as much space as a regular photo.
If you have a 16 GB iPhone, odds are you do a fair amount of digital housekeeping every month. I know I do: My photos, videos, iMessages, and sometimes apps themselves wind up getting pared down as the spare room on my iPhone 5s dwindles from day-to-day use. If you find this constant duel annoying, brace yourself—it's about to get worse.
MIT's Plan To Inspire The Next Generation Of Bitcoin Innovators
New courses will study the origins of Bitcoin, and its surprisingly varied potential applications.
In recent years, there has been a lot of enthusiasm for how cryptocurrencies will create new platforms, markets, and economies. But what will the future of commerce and, indeed, the world look like? A vital question, and one that really hasn't been answered.
Take A Look Inside SpaceX's Spiffy New Space Capsule
Judging by this footage, this crew vehicle shares a lot of DNA with products from Elon Musk's other venture, Tesla.
SpaceX just lifted the curtain on its updated Crew Dragon spacecraft, which will transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The interior shots reveal a design that is just what you might expect from CEO Elon Musk, who also serves as the head of luxury electric car brand Tesla—one of Fast Company's most innovative companies this year.
Pitch Perfect: How Universal's Digital Marketing Helped It Have The Best Year Ever
Periscoped premieres and meme-inspired Snapchat filters have played a hand in the studio's record-breaking, gangbusters year at the box office.
If you've spent any time on social media in the last few weeks, you're almost certainly now aware that this Friday, 
The Part of Stephen Colbert's Uber Interview You Didn't See
Angry cab drivers reportedly interrupted the Late Show interview—twice.
When Uber CEO Travis Kalanick appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night, his company's political problems followed.
Who's Most At Risk From Climate Change? Not The People Who Caused It
Global warming will hurt some parts of the globe more than others.
As climate change gets worse, the tiny African country of Eritrea might be one of the worst places in the world to live. Droughts and floods will ruin crops on subsistence farms. Hotter weather will spread disease like malaria. Rising sea levels along the coast will make groundwater too salty to drink. And because the country is one of the poorest in the world, it's also one of the least prepared for those changes.
If The Masters Of The Art World Designed Bikes, They'd Look Like This
What would a bike by Claude Monet, or Frank Stella look like? To celebrate a museum's 100th birthday, Handsome Cycles tried to find out.
There's no shortage of bike museums around the world, but there aren't too many bikes that are displayed alongside paintings by Claude Monet and Frank Stella. But these bikes by Handsome Cycles are an exception: they are designed specifically to complement three showcase pieces in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA).
Exclusive Interview: Everybody's Working For The Weeknd
The chart-topping artist talks about those epic VMA ads, his relationship with Apple Music, and the art of being a brand.
On the song "Tell Your Friends," The Weeknd sings, "Last year I did all the politicking/This year, I'm a focus on the vision." And since his voice first mysteriously dropped online back in 2010, it's been clear the 25-year-old Toronto native has had a shrewd strategy all along. From no pictures or interviews at the start, to building his name and spreading the word through key associations with artists like Drake and Ariana Grande, then appearing on soundtracks for blockbusters like The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey—all bricks in the foundation for becoming one of the biggest acts in music.
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