Pipe Trouble is a nice small game out of Canada that looks to get the player to balance competing interests around natural gas pipelines. The gameplay is laying pipes from a limited selection of parts, against a timer. There are some lovely moments where you’re just waiting for some protesters to get …
It’s one of those great Civ moments where the metaphors of game design come together to offer a sly commentary on the way the world really works, where a mechanic reminds you of something and you realise, oh yeah, this is us. This is something I’ve been obsessing over in …
A sensible essay by Nick Foster, puncturing some of the handwaving around 3d printing, and what it’s good for. Spoiler: 3D printing …
This is a delightful list by Matthew Herbert of the sounds his house makes, and the emotional resonances they contain. This probably …
“What we’ve found is that you don’t even need the elastomer backing,” Rogers says. “You can use a rubber stamp to just …
..there are friends for all seasons. … The ones who succeed have a way of making us try harder. I love talented …
This isn’t the first time Chalayan has investigated dresses which change – his most famous collection to nineties fashion students like me …
Grace Dent on the survivors of the pop system, and the price extracted from its young avatars. See also models and …
“My concern comes from direct experience. The very first wearable computer system I put together showed me real-time video on a helmet-mounted …
This is one of those delightful bits of lateral thinking that sometimes come up in science. Raindrops scatter microwave signals in a …