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This incredible dress was made out of 24,000 extremely thin 2mm x 2mm LEDs, thousands of tiny crystals to reflect the light, and enough batteries to power it for an hour. Called the GalaxyDress it is described as the "largest wearable display in the world". It is on display as the center piece of the "Fast Forward: Inventing the Future" exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The museum commissioned the dress for their permanent collection. Continue

The unusual artwork of David Buckingham is on display at the Packer Schopf gallery in Chicago until November 14th. Buckingham is from LA. He goes out to junkyards and into the desert where he scavenges for metal that he cuts, welds, and recycles into new and far more interesting forms. Here are a few of his p… Continue

This TED video is of Daniel Pink a former speechwriter for Al Gore and now a motivational speaker. He describes why the incentives used in business today do not work for creative tasks and outlines a new methodology that can produce far better results. From my own perspective he is dead on. I am far more motivated by autonomy and purpose than I am by the promise of a once-a-year bonus or raise. Most everyone here at theMet is creative in one way or another so I am very interes… Continue

This graphic (courtesy of Forbes) shows the locations and carbon emissions of the 200 dirtiest power plants in the world. I happen to live right under the red blob on the Ea… Continue

These videos by GoViral show some of the best European advertisements of 2008 that went viral. Most of these ads never appeared in the US and I never saw them until I came across these vids on the GoViral.com website. They show some really inventive work!

The ads are divided up into general categories and each video presents a different group. The one above is for Electronics. Here are the others.

Public Service and NGO (non-g… Continue