St. Maurice’s Abbey in Switzerland was built in a rather precarious place. Constructed in 515, the building stands tall against a steep cliff that is prone to rock slides. Damaging rock slides. Mor…

The Knock Clock is pretty ingenious, what with its knock-knock get the time action, but I can’t help but feel sad for the little woodpecker trapped within. Not even a single air hole. How long does he …

I don’t know how old this Besom Holder organizer is or if you’ve seen it before. Don’t care. There’s something about the duality of this clean design that required posting today. I’ll take two. [bookof…

I really can’t tell if this model’s beautiful life is about to be saved or snuffed out by some kind of bulbous brain sucker. More »

Yesterday, Macitynet showed off some pictures of the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch practically drowning in the now-famous iPhone 5 cases, pointing toward a thinner and wider design revamp. But MacRumors hire…

This Labor day, be thankful that NASA engineers have worked so hard to keep the satellites they build from raining down upon the Earth like a biblical hell fire of scientific progress. More &ra…

The latest office trend sweeping the nation is stand up desks, according to the Wall Street Journal. A growing number of employees at companies like Facebook and Google are tossing aside their chair …

The Robie House is at the pinnacle of American architecture. One of the first houses to be turned into a national landmark, Lego has released a replica kit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 101-year-old masterpi…

Apple’s obsessive compulsive, super-spartan, Kubrick-meets-Superman’s-Fortress-of-Solitude industrial design goes way beyond phones and tablets. ifoAppleStore points out the meticulous, somewhat-insane…

This is neither the setting of a new Star Trek movie nor a preview of a new id Software game level. But it looks like one of the pits of a Death Star. Or the core of the Large Hadron Collider. More…