Tag: Toronto - Page 2
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3D scanning + 3D printer = Fun
Designers are just beginning to figure out what 3D printing is good for; the killer app will probably surprise us all.
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A picture is worth: Life in the Toronto bike lanes
You would think that a week after the snow storm, the bike lanes might be working again. You would be wrong.
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It's a Popup Pallet Modular Shipping Container Office of the Future
Heather Dubbeldam doesn't miss a meme with her Popup Office for Toronto's Interior Design Show
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New Study Finds Link Between LED Billboards and Likelihood of Highway Crashes
Swedish researchers find that drivers look at them more often and for longer times.
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Sustainable Design Is MIA at Toronto's Interior Design Show
It used to be a big deal, marketing design products as green. It doesn't appear to be anymore.
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Revisiting the Avant-Garde Work of Castor Design, from Fluorescent-Bulb Chandeliers to a Concrete Ice-Fishing Hut
The imaginative industrial design of this design firm -- which reuses materials both to create objects and speak about our culture -- has always been ahead of the curve.
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How Greater Efficiency Leads to Greater Waste, Or Jevons Paradox in the Mens' Room
Proof that the apocalypse has arrived: Now we have TVs running ads over urinals. This is wrong on so many levels.
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Ideas Competition Proposes the Green Line, a Linear Park on a Toronto Transmission Right-of-Way
Who needs a High Line when you have a Green Line running through the city?
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7 Pedestrians Hit By Cars in Toronto in 45 Minutes This Morning, And They Blame the Victims For Wearing Dark Clothing
It's time to start a Slut Walk style movement for Pedestrians, to dress in black and take back the streets.
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Study Finds Cyclists and Pedestrians Spend More In Stores Than Drivers
The reason is simple: It's easier on a bike.
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Directionless and Mindless Toronto City Council Rescinds Proposed Plastic Bag Ban
Even without Rob Ford, we are so screwed here in Toronto.
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Photo of the Day: Twilight on Dufferin Street
A walk of only one mile demonstrates that it is not how far you walk that matters, it's where.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Removed From Office For Conflict of Interest
The buffoon Mayor will be gone in 14 days.
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The Biblio-Mat is an "Antiquarian Book Randomizer", a Vending Machine For Old Books
It's all over the web these days; I had to see it and try it.
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Glass Towers May Be Sexy, But They Need To Put A Coat On
We keep building towers out of glass, and it makes no sense.
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Considering A Move To Canada After the Election? Here Are Some Tips For TreeHugger Types
There is a lot of green to be found north of the border, but you have to know where to go
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Plastic People Campaign To Overturn Toronto's Plastic Bag Ban
We got it by mistake, but now that we have it, we are going to fight to keep it.
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Study Shows That Dedicated Bike Lanes Cut Injuries in Half
Not only that, but if you build them, the cyclists will come
