A Blackwing pencil is baked at 1,000°C, then soaked in hot wax
Blackwing filmed its full pencil-making process. Behind a familiar object: two extrusion stages, a 1,000°C furnace, hot wax, grooved cedar and sometimes more than ten coats of paint.
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This black T-shirt reveals an adversarial pattern when heated
CVPR 2026 researchers combine thermochromic dyes, flexible heaters and an adversarial pattern. The shirt stays black at rest, then reveals the attack when heated.
Tom Stanton pushed a trebuchet through the sound barrier one iteration at a time
Tom Stanton reports 346.4 m/s from his latest gravity-powered trebuchet. The entertaining number is only the endpoint of a better story: simulations, cheap prototypes, measurement, breakage and redesign.
Can a typeface with two readings survive on skin?
Decoy Font fits two readings into the same letters. Tattoo artist Olivier Poinsignon is testing what happens when that optical trick leaves the screen and runs into scale, curvature, grey ink and healing.