To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...
The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
At Artful Ashes, Greg and Christina Dale and their team of expert glassblowers create entrancing custom memorials to celebrate those who have passed away....
Olga Noskova's cakes are truly out of this world. More works of art than confectionery, they have brought her international fame over the recent past. Her...
In recent years, MIT Media Lab has been tinkering with a futuristic digital interface. A display consisting of white, plastic pins bundle together like pixels...
Ukranian artist Pavel Vetrov made two opposing worlds collide in the realization of his design concept 'Sunday'. Sunday is a hotel room with a perfect...
