Colorful, Comfy Bench Is Made from Trashed Textiles

This odd-looking bench is stuffed with shredded textile leftovers. [more]

BYU wins SAE 'Formula Hybrid' competition

Filed under: Ethanol, Green Culture, Hybrid, Lightweight We can't say we've ever seen a Toyota Prius rip through a slalom course like this, either. A team of engineering students from Brigham Young University won the 2012 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Formula Hybrid competition at New Hamp [more]

Photos du jour : Corvette C3 Stingray (Cars and Coffee Paris)

La Corvette C3 est probablement celle qui a eu les lignes les plus extravagantes de la série ! Entre 1968 et 1982, elle a pas mal changé de style, mais a toujours gardé cette forme si particulière. Aujourd'hui, c'est la génération de Corvette [more]

ROCCAT adds "achievements" function to new Savu gaming mouse

ROCCAT's latest peripheral brings some of its past innovations together along with a couple that you won't find on anything else. The new Savu Mid-Size Hybrid Gaming Mouse offers a unique peripheral-based achievement system and a customizable light bar in addition to extremely precise optics. .. C [more]

One Street Tweeter - the Twitter-powered road-painting printer

The G8 Summit, the annual meeting of leaders from eight of the world’s largest economies, is always a popular venue for protestors who don’t like what some of those leaders are doing. While you may not be able to make it to this year’s upcoming event in Maryland, an advocacy group known as One [more]

New MINI JCW Engine to Get Improved MPG, Automatic Transmission Option

New MINI JCW Engine to Get Improved MPG, Automatic Transmission OptionThe John Cooper Works (JCW) MINI lineup will all get a revised 1.6-liter engine based on its predecessor with performance numbers being the same at 208-hp and 207 lb-ft of torque. While that may be disappointing to some, the chan [more]

Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week

Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week.We released our annual Most Creative People list this week. As usual, it was wildly popular. Though we have decided not to include its content in this week's top 10, you can read about it here (in case you missed it). We have some [more]

In Daymond John's World, For Every Startup, A Sexy Celebrity Pitchman

"I think tech is lacking sexiness," says Shark Tank personality and FUBU founder Daymond John. "I want to bring my understanding of lifestyle and culture to Silicon Valley." He's getting started by pairing socially savvy entertainer Pitbull with club-booking startup EzVIP. In William Shatner's 14-y [more]

Facebook Acquires Karma

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Because simply having the largest IPO in U.S. history isn't enough for Facebook, the social network also went shopping. The social gifting mobile app called Karma is announcing that it has been acquired by Facebook. The company's cofounders, includ [more]

Twitter Partners With NASCAR For Live Coverage Of All-Star Races

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Twitter and NASCAR announced a digital partnership Friday that will bring NASCAR enthusiasts the tweet-by-tweet of the Pocono 400 race on the weekend of June 10. Twitter will curate #NASCAR tweets from drivers and commentators, as well as celebriti [more]

Motorsports: Record number of Shelby Cobras to take part in Monterey Motorsports Reunion

Filed under: Motorsports, Classics Last year, the Monterey Motorsports Reunion announced that the Shelby Cobra would be the featured marque for 2012 in honor of the company's 50th anniversary. It's shaping up to be quite the celebration. Earlier this month it was announced that no fewer than 45 com [more]

Harmony Tower by Studio Daniel Libeskind

Skyscrapers in Seoul: this skyscraper with a pointy midriff is the second of two stories about buildings designed for the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, by architect Daniel Libeskind. (more…) [more]

Kudo Tsunoda: 'Waiting for the next big thing isn't about waiting for the Kinect 2'

Last summer, try as we might, we couldn't get too much out of Microsoft's creative director for Kinect Games, Kudo Tsunoda, about what's next from the interactive peripheral. More recently, in an interview with Venture Beat, Tsunoda was a little more verbose about what he thinks the next big thing [more]