The World’s Largest Sculpture Will Be A 500-Foot-Tall Pyramid Of 410,000 Oil Barrels
Christo, the legendary public artist, has been planning the sculpture called the Mastaba for decades. Is it now about to become reality outside Abu Dhabi?
How Cellphone Companies Have Resisted Rules for Disasters
When cell service goes down in an emergency, there are no plans in place to make sure people can still communicate.
What’s The Future Of The Sharing Economy?
Written by: Craig Shapiro
As more and more businesses start that are based on using existing resources instead of selling new ones, how can those businesses mesh with an economy built to facilitate consumption?
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SupperKing, An Airbnb For Home-Cooked Meals
Have some sick cooking skills but no one to serve it to? Wish you had someone making home-cooked meals for you? This new service will help make sure everyone can go to as many dinner parties as they want.
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A Retailer For Free Stuff, Created By Walmart, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Zipcar Vets
Yerdle--a new site where you can list things to give away--hopes to change how we view consumerism and make it easier to give unwanted purchases a second life.
This Vintage-Looking Vending Machine Dispenses Rare Books For Just $2
Installed at the Monkey’s Paw bookstore in Toronto, the Biblio-Mat offers book lovers a little randomness for their next read.
Cleaning Up Polluted Land With … Race Cars?
In Brooklyn, a brownfield lot--filled with soil too polluted to build on--was cleaned up by a strange new addition to the neighborhood: Ayton Motors, a performance race car engine company.
