Humanoid Robot Pepper is a Robotic Counselor Aldebaran, a French robotics company, has dedicated itself to creating helpful humanoid robots. Pepper is amongst the company’s latest, billed as the first humanoid robot exclusively designed to live with humans. It’s programmed to communicate with its human hosts through touch, voice, and emotion. What that means is that if someone nearby is sad, the robot will pick up on that, and attempt to cheer you up....

Our long-standing obsession with abandoned places was piqued when we saw this series, an artful look at the abandoned military bunkers of the second world war. Photographer Jonathan Andrew has traveled across Europe to document the decay of WW2-era military bunkers, standing strong and stoic against time. These bunkers in The Netherlands, France and Belgium have been marked by graffiti, by wear and discoloration, but their concrete shapes remain firm against invisible invaders from a fading history....

The Airbnb Portland office is a design collaboration by Aaron Taylor Harvey and Rachael Yu. It serves about 200 employees who handle inbound calls from Airbnb hosts and guests, a support framework for the entire Airbnb network. The design duo of Harvey and Yu spent a month getting to know the Airbnb Portland employees to create a space that met their needs. The result is youthful but refined, open yet varied, creating an inspiring place to work, meet and break....

AudioTool Music Synth – Just a decade ago, this browser-based synth/sequencer would have been on the cutting edge of computer music entertainment software. Hobnox’s AudioTool music synthesizer manages to do in your web browser what Propellerheads ReBirth did on your old PC. Fire up a classic drum machine (like the 808 or the 909), a bass synthesizer (like the 303), add effects and you’re making music. Is this sounding like Greek to you?...

Artist Ben Tour has developed a series of watercolor portraits with touching character and expression. The Vancouver-based painter has been featured in galleries all over the world, starting from his first exhibition in Toronto, Ontario in 2000. His greatest work is in his touching watercolor portraits, a range that includes subtle colors and happy mistakes. His prints are available for purchase, but to get a sense of his perspective check the gallery below and pay his website a visit....

As Shere Khan of the Jungle Book pointed out, the thing that separates human beings from other animals is really our ability to harness, control, and utilize fire. Perhaps the only reason we’re still on Earth is how adroitly we’ve learned to use the burning red flower, which is why it is imperative to learn how to always keep it on hand. You’ll never want to find out what life is like when you’re miles from the nearest Bic lighter, which is why keeping one of the 14 best firestarters nearby is a safe way to live....

The signature element of the Braun BN0042 Watch is its rounded-square case. The curvy corners of its exterior make for a pleasing design, one that feels approachable, not stuffy. This stainless steel case holds a scratch-resistant mineral glass above a three-hand display, rolling slowly around a 60-mark dial. A date dial sits below the arms’ center, and only a small Braun logo shows above. In total, the watch features a minimal design, where function commands form and there are no extra complications in its spirit....

Casa Folha Gallery

At first glance, the renovated Cloud House by Mcbride Charles Ryan appears to be a typical historic home in Melbourne, Australia. The structure flows into into three distinct parts consisting of the rectangular front of the home, a square bright red center of the home serving as the kitchen and finally the cloud shaped nature of the back of the home. The striking red kitchen acts as the center, or heart, of the home as it contrasts with the mainly stark white walls of the first portion of the house....

Cubic Boutique Hotel Gallery

David Fokos has a rare perspective with landscapes both natural and industrial. His photographs capture a world where time stands still, where moments merge together to form a single portrait in still life. By pushing his shutter to the limit, his lens sees the world in the slowest of motion, using the camera’s “unique ability to ‘average time’”. David Fokos carefully constructs a frame, sets his shutter speed slow and lets nature paint the picture....

GAD Mobile Art Gallery by MMW Architecture Gallery

If you don’t plan on scaling the Matterhorn or spending the night on the shores of the Antarctic, the Heimplanet Mavericks tent can still be useful for you. However, if you don’t want to spend nearly $7,000 on a tent (yikes!), you can opt for the more accessible Heimplanet Cave Tent. It provides much of the same functionality at a lower wind rating, but at only 1/10th of the price....

Why Lather is Bad Most shampoos use sulfates to accomplish that rich, foamy appearance, and that’s the only benefit. They give you the look of cleanliness so you feel good about using that product. The other thing that they do is they dry your hair and scalp out, so if you already suffer from flakes, split ends, dry, itchy scalp, or have damaged hair, that lather is making your issues worse, not better....

We’ve all been there, crushing on someone but still totally clueless as to what they want. Does a girl want to hang out more? Does she want to be friends, or does she like you in a romantic sense? Although there’s nothing wrong with making new friends, it’s important to be able to tell the difference between a friendship and something more. So, How to Tell if a Girl Likes You?...

How The Polo Shirt Came To Be To comprehend how these shirts should be worn, we must first comprehend where they came into being. Though the name would lead us to believe that it was once made to play polo, it was made for another white collar pastime, tennis. Fashioned by tennis maven René Lacoste in the 1920s, it was built to be light enough to breathe like a jersey, yet bear a collar that could be flipped up to cover the neck during sunny games....

Threading this particular needle and keeping all the moving parts working in tandem to achieve a look of casual elegance doesn’t require much, but if you go out there without a plan, then you’re going to be found wanting by women, business partners, fashion mavens, and those who know how to put together a snappy ensemble. When you’re ready for the ultimate in business casual, all you need is this guide to wearing a pair of dress shoes with jeans....

Jennifer Lopez for V Magazine Gallery

Those legs weren’t made just for walkin’. The people at M+O Design Studio see the leg not just as a tool of transport or an object of desire, but as a canvas for artistic expression. M+O have developed a series of stockings called “Le Queues de Sardines“, a screen-printed collection of stockings and tights. They’re colorful, playful, serious, artistic and sexy, a varied range of stockings with different colors, characters and patterns....

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