One hundred years ago, a breathtakingly confident Austrian published an influential and unique work of philosophy. The 1922 edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is bilingual, with each page of the new English translation opposite one from the German original. …
Every so often, I order little things from random corners of the Internet, not because I need them right then and there, but because I have a certain feeling that, one day, I might build something with them.
I don’t remember how I first came across Travis Lin’s DSTIKE. They…
Four long years ago, I introduced a project to ridicule and exploit our ex-president’s irresponsible use of social media.
[Trump] really likes to use Twitter. He uses it to express strong opinions about all sorts of things. Occasionally, those opinions are targeted at publicly traded companies. …
It’s a pandemic outside, many of us are working from home, and I found myself buying a webcam for the first time since the last century. I was not the only one.
The webcams out there today, they do the job. You just plug them in and get a pretty…
Look, I may have accidentally summoned some demons from the pixel art underworld. I don’t know what is happening to these little creatures, but it sure doesn’t look good. They appear to be melting and turning into other objects. …
There’s something special about the layout of a print-edition newspaper. A news website has infinite vertical scrolling space, but a printed front page is fixed to the same size every day. This constraint creates a very particular aesthetic and — if done well — a sense of typographic balance.
Screens live a double life. They serve us dense information in bright colors, only to transform back into black mirrors. We have gotten used to it, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
As more and more connected devices arrive in our homes, it’s a good time to remember…
A while ago I made a smart mirror for my bathroom. Maybe you’ve seen it. It started with a particular image in my mind. I wanted to build a piece of technology for the home that feels new and futuristic, yet simple and clean. The mirror blends in seamlessly with…
Like many who call the United States their home, I have been worried and confused by the start to Donald Trump’s presidency. It’s hard to know how to react to the misdirected anger, the blatant racism, and the “alternative facts”, which are increasingly threatening our civil liberties and our planet…
Sometime late last year I realized that I wanted my ordinary bathroom mirror to be more like the future we were promised in the movies.
There doesn’t seem to be anyone selling the product I was looking for. The individual parts, however, were fairly easy to get. …
