Atlas

Artist Unearths Large Hadron Collider With Psychedelic Mural

7:00AM October 8, 2010 | Sam Biddle

ATLAS, the incredibly complex particle detector that processes the experiments running inside the even more incredibly complex Large Hadron Collider, is not open to visitors. But CERN has a compromise: an enormous, gorgeous mural of ATLAS’ guts. More »

This Is Simply The Coolest Pop-Up Book Ever

4:00PM November 12, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

It may not overheat in the presence of bread, but this pop-up book has the most accurate paper Large Hadron Collider ever. Figures that a book would make ending of the world by firing that bad boy up look fun. More »

Gadgets

Rand McNally Releases Atlases for Kindle, Has Odd Vision for the Future of Maps

11:19PM December 18, 2008 | John Herrman

Rand McNally can’t be happy with everyone dropping their bulky atlases for GPS units and nav-enabled phones, so they’re fighting back. But they seem a little confused.

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Mobile

Atlas Kinetic Mobile Phone Actually Powered by Tacky

10:10AM February 14, 2008 | Matt Buchanan

Stripped down mobile powered by everyday movement? Sounds good. Looks… ahhh…straight out of an overblown late 80s sci-fi novel mutilated by early 90s CGI. The description was even promising.

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