Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 07/2015

A couple of British farmers named Bower and Chorley invented the crop circle as an easy and fun way to spawn a generation’s worth of…

Supplying more fun than can reasonably be expected at the optician’s, these intriguing lenses created by Hungarian designer Bence Agoston for a 3D printer enable…

Multi-talented musician, designer, and hacker Martin Backes from Germany has designed a robot to croon a pop ballad like a superstar from the ’90s. As…

In the 1980s, the elected-to-nothing wife of then-Senator Albert Gore Jr. made quite a splash for herself when she formed the Parents Music Resource Center…

If you’ve seen Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining–and who hasn’t?–then you certainly remember the deliciously creepy moment when Shelley Duvall’s Wendy Torrance finally takes a peek…

These business cards come from Chicago during the 1970s and early 1980s–a charmingly distinguished touch for what was after all in most cases just a…

On Dan Harmon’s weekly podcast Harmontown earlier this week, Dan and his friend and guest actor DeMorge Brown were discussing the phenomenon of commercials targeted…

I was aware of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock when I was growing up partly because my dad was sort of in the futurology business himself;…