The ACG Nike Air Mowabb is being re-released!  This shoe debuted back in 1991 and it is definitely on my top 10 list (of shoes I have actually owned).  According to hypebeast, pre-orders are now being accepted at atmos-tokyo and are set to be released on January 31st.

Apparently it all started in a small town in Turkey more than 150 years ago…
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This is pretty scary - The European Space Agency has just released images showing all the satellites and human-made debris now orbiting space as a result of 51 years of launching stuff since Sputnik.

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Two words you don’t hear together too often these days are “abandoned” and “city”, which is exactly what this gaggle of strange resort pods in Taiwan seems to be. Said to be haunted by the ghosts of those who died during it’s construction, this site remains untouched by developers and likely will indefinitely.

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Core77 just posted a great link to a collection of information about Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car. For anyone who is a fan of old Bucky this is a must see, it includes photos of the car and even the original patent drawings from the 1930’s!

It is too bad that the these bottles stopped being produced about fifty years ago. This is a great example of turning waste into useful products. This idea of “upcycling” is a term that was coined in the book Cradle to Cradle and is a philosophy that should integrated into all design. Mr. […]

Paul MacCready — aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight — talks about his long career. If you have the patience to make it through to the sixteenth minute of this lecture, you will see 2 of the most incredible flying machines ever built, and a third which is probably flying over your […]