GEARFUSE Technology, Science, Culture.

Among the lunar-phase calendars usually found stacked in crystal shops and New-Age book stores, a radial version by designer and type founder Dimitre Lima stands out. Read More »

To reboot their product line, Polaroid have appealed to the highest authority: they've named Lady Gaga their creative director. Her photographic sunglasses may be a caprice; her new digital instant camera offers retronovation with technical flair. Read More »

Emeco's famously sturdy aluminum "Navy chairs" aren't cast—they're cut, pressed, rolled, and buffed—but their manufacture shows them to be part of a metal caste system, and players in a dance of fabrication. Video after the jump. Read More »

An Android-powered projector-in-a-lightbulb inspires images of a world in which every gadget wants a heart—or at least a brain. Read More »

In the business of getting to space, an access of sublime ephemerality. Video after the jump. Read More »

A breakneck desktop adventure offers an uncanny sense of what daily life is like for a tech blogger. Video after the jump. Read More »

From 1905, a troupe of schoolboys show off their puzzling foil uniforms. Students in an experimental Utopian lyceum? Or visitors from the future? Read More »

Bidding starts January 13 on five hundred pieces of space-race memorabilia—including a headset worn by Charlie Duke, capcom for the Apollo 11 mission. Read More »

A handy bluetooth gadget for keeping track of your cell phone and alerting you to calls reminds us that there's no end to reminders. Read More »

Traditional media mavens don't like the messy, loosely-joined conversation that is the Web and the dynamics of the new public sphere. Trouble is, they're also the dynamics of the old public sphere. Read More »