Colorful, Comfy Bench Is Made from Trashed Textiles

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

House Committee votes to end military biofuel programs

Filed under: Biodiesel, Emerging Technologies, Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USA So about those plans for more military biofuel production... A Republican-led group within the House Armed Services Committee recently voted to ban the U.S. Department of Defense from paying more for biofuel [more]

Toyota : commandez votre GPS avec une Nintendo DS

Toyota annonce la sortie d'un nouveau gadget permettant de contrôler le GPS de l'auto nippone avec une Nintendo DS. [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]

Disneys Cars Land Attraction Gets Website Video

Disneys Cars Land Attraction Gets Website – VideoBack in March, Disney released a teaser video of its upcoming Cars Land attraction which quickly got our interest given how great the Cars movie franchise (or at least just the first movie) has been. As we get closer to the official opening dat [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]

Official: Ferrari marks 60th anniversary of 250 GT

Filed under: Classics, Ferrari, Racing Surely the most important of the classic Ferraris is the 250 series. Over its decade of production, the 250 series gave us some of the most recognizable models of the marque's history, including the GTO, the Testa Rossa, the Lusso and the original California S [more]

Dezeen archive: South Korea

  Dezeen archive: this week on Dezeen we’ve featured a series of stories on skyscrapers in the Yongsan International Business district in Seoul, so now we’ve grouped together all our stories about South Korea. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » [more]

Samsung's Focus 2 arrives at AT&T today, a slice of LTE-equipped Mango for $50

Not long after Samsung's SGH-i667 "Mandel" looked like it would never see the light of day, the Windows Phone 7.5 device made its official debut at CTIA, dubbed as the Focus 2. As expected, the phone is officially on sale today at AT&T retailers across the US, giving folks another option aside [more]