Mobile World Congress turns an otherwise interesting city into an overpriced sewer overrun with suits. Have witnessed the inside of more taxis and limos than …
Handmade, with traditional metal bowl on the base as an anchor.
Laser etched Aluminium body at the From the Fab Cafe, Shibuya. Cost 5,000 Yen per half hour – enough to create some stencils. Laptops come in …
If you want to understand a person – look at their shoes, or lack of. As the most frequently used interface between ourselves and our …
In Merkato, Addis Ababa.
The use of thorny branches to discourage kids from hopping on passing trucks as they slow on the incline.
There are dumb bells, and there are smart bells – these made from machine cogs. From 300 Birr (~17 Euro) for the pair.
Camera removed from this Shanghai ATM machine. Our relationship with sensors? The obviousness of what is being sensed an how? The ease at which sensors can be …
New article up on The Atlantic on shanzhai innovation.
This is innovative. But if you think its innovation – you’ve not travelled outside your little bubble.
Guerilla inserted book mark – presumably placed by the budding author in the retail outlet.
Visitors to China wanting to duplicate a lost car key (or interested in knowing how easy it is to remotely steal someone else’s key) should …
There’s something quite delicious about prising open a closed platform.
In Dehdaadi, northern Afghanistan.
Evolution of the street charging services in a city where only a few have uninterrupted access to mains electricity, and many have none. With each …
A twenty year old Sony calculator wrapped by a carpenter made casing, and still in use by its one owner – a Mazar e Sharif …
New round clock hanging in an old square clock casing – taken in Almaty II station.
The stuff you do to retain the ideal state of an object – that sweet spot of use. And the motivations for keeping an object in …
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