You know that collection that is filling up your cupboards or shelves and has you questioning if it's becoming a hoarding scenario? In this case we're talking about vintage or antique teacups. While ...

A concise, comical explanation of Moiré patterns, via XKCD. Moiré patterns are interference patterns created when grids of different size or alignment are placed over each other. You’ve probably seen ...

Some hacks are born of genius or necessity, and others from our sheer ham-fisted incompetence. This is not a story about the first kind. But it did give me an excuse to show how easy it is to design ...

A plywood lamp is easier to build than it looks! In this project, I show how to create a globe lamp with a sculpted base at minimal cost. Using simple tools and affordable materials, anyone can make ...

IKEA and Sonos collaborated three years ago to build a table lamp with an embedded speaker. Embedding a Wi-Fi speaker inside a lamp isn’t as nutty a proposition as it might sound—we were quite pleased ...