Moons of Uranus, a trans-Pacific solo flight, and the health dangers of smoking: today's hits in the history of science and technology.

A documentary that helps us glimpse one of modernity's unlikeliest and most enticing of possible ends: the open-source cracking-open of industrial society.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A ukulele is still a better option for guitarists on the go. But Amidio's OMGuitar approaches the six-string "interface" with refreshing sensitivity.

In the age of the ebook, a ruminative turn to the inner work of building palaces of memory.

From Tiepolo's Immaculate Conception, a generative rush of uncanny planes emerges not as narrative, but a separate object of contemplation.