The Raddest ’80s-Themed Wedding Cake Ever [Pic]

Cake Wrecks’ Sunday Sweets features the gnarliest cakes ever today, but this intricate wedding cake is my favorite. I’ll save you some squinting: in this one picture there are references to He-Man, Rainbow Brite, the Care Bears, the A-Team, the Smurfs, the Gremlins, the Goonies and Fraggle Rock. And… wait for it… that’s only the […]

Tech Start-Up Offers New Hires Free Beer, Skinny Jeans

Maybe before this week no one had heard of Hipster, a San Francisco company that lets people post queries and answers to others in their geographic area using the Web and a mobile phone, but with their new-hire incentives, everyone is talking about them. If you are hired by–or if someone you recommend is hired by–the […]

Space Age Designs from the PopSci Archives

Years before Sputnik launched and even longer before The Jetsons debuted, Popular Science was tracking Space Age trends in automobiles, appliances, architecture and interior design. Check out the PopSci gallery of Space Age-design articles from 1951 – 1968, which include everything from rocket-shaped cars to a lunar-base summer camp. [PopSci]

The Solar-Powered Bikini: Because Why Not?

New York-based designer Andrew Schneider spends about 80 hours each week stitching photovoltaic mini-panels into bikini forms with conductive thread. If you think you’d like an iKini (that’s right–an iKini), be prepared to drop about $200 for the custom-fitted swimsuit. Each suit comes equipped with four hidden pockets for carrying anything from a cell phone to […]

Disney Park Exclusive: Muppet Star Wars Characters

Starting this fall, visitors to Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort will be able to purchase exclusive Muppet toys in Star Wars costume. The articulated figures will be sold in two-packs, with Beaker as C-3PO and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as R2-D2, Link Hogthrob as Han Solo with Fozzy the Bear as Chewbacca, and Sam the Eagle as Obi-Wan Kenobi […]