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Design
Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Is Stronger Than The Wall It Papers
6:10PM Dan Nosowitz | Holy crap, you guys, bomb-proof wallpaper. This stuff is strong enough to keep very heavy flying objects from breaking walls — in tests, one thin layer was enough to keep a wrecking ball from knocking down a concrete wall. More »
Gadgets
MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads And More
1:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Diana Eng, who you might remember as Project Runway’s premiere nerd designer, took a look at MIT’s Media Lab and found some pretty cool stuff, mostly run off of Arduino microcontrollers. Check it out. More »
Design
6:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Chuck Anderson, creator of Windows 7’s laid-back, cerulean-cool default wallpaper and login screen, showed me the evolution of his work — including Easter eggs, avoiding Mac tropes and why flaming skulls didn’t make the final design. More »
Ask The Artist: How Windows 7’s Home Screen Evolved
6:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Chuck Anderson, creator of Windows 7’s laid-back, cerulean-cool default wallpaper and login screen, showed me the evolution of his work — including Easter eggs, avoiding Mac tropes and why flaming skulls didn’t make the final design. More »
Design
3:20PM Rosa Golijan | While tearing down the new Apple iMac, the folks at iFixIt got requests for wallpaper quality images. They most certainly came through with these two stunning shots of full-frontal openness. I’m almost blushing. More »
New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot
3:20PM Rosa Golijan | While tearing down the new Apple iMac, the folks at iFixIt got requests for wallpaper quality images. They most certainly came through with these two stunning shots of full-frontal openness. I’m almost blushing. More »
Design
Customise Your iPhone With Your Own DNA
1:42AM Jesus Diaz | As if my iPhone didn’t have enough of my DNA in the form of grease fingerprints, dead skin cells and other precious bodily fluids, now I can add some more of it in wallpaper form. More »
Design
Urban Renewal, OS 9 Edition
8:40AM John Herrman | Spotted by a reader outside of Providence, Rhode Island (what isn’t “outside of Providence” in RI, anyway?), some charming little OS-9-themed graffiti on an abandoned nightclub. Wallpaper-sized shots after the jump. More »
Science
NGC4522 Is Where God’s God Lives
2:40AM Jesus Diaz | The new camera in the Hubble keeps sending mindblowing desktop wallpapers to Earth. This is NGC4522, a massive galaxy in the massive Virgo Cluster, where galaxies spin at 10 million km/h. NGC 4402 is just as impressive. More »
Design
Digital Wallpaper Doesn’t Require You To Dress As Tron Guy
4:00AM Jesus Diaz | No LEDs were harmed in the creation of this digital wallpaper for the offices of Hirzberger Events in Vienna. Only projectors were used to illuminate the static black and white stripe wallpaper and make it appear alive. Absolutely stunning. More »
Design
This Would Make For An Interesting Coffee Table
10:40AM Jason Chen | As DeviantArt artist DivineError noted: Windows are made glass, so why not glass Windows? Download the wallpaper at DA. [Deviant Art] More »
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