Design

We're entering a new era of home aesthetics, and it's a lot more colorful.

Here's what's making your home look "basic", and how you can level up to luxury with these simple (and cheap) updates.

Christian Schallert of Barcelona, Spain lives in what many would consider to be a very small apartment, just 258 square feet. As you can see, he's still got everything a human being needs to live — a full kitchen, a bed, tables, and even a TV room — hidden in a special wall he built into his apartment.

What if instead of going online to find a map of your city, you could look directly under your feet? Artist and designer David Hanauer has created a series of rugs that takes Google Maps' satellite pictures of cityscapes and manipulates them into hypnotic prints.

When you hear about crop circles, the first thing that immediately pops to mind is strange, unexplainable alien patterns encoded in farmland. So what better way to celebrate NASA's rich history of space exploration than with some amazing corn maze crop circles?

We all know, of course, that the best part about eating Oreos is twisting them open and dipping them in milk. So why not take it to the next level to better flavor your milk with all that Oreo goodness?

What better way to celebrate something 'Star Wars'-related than with a massive light saber? The force was strong with BT Tower in London on September 15 when it was converted into a 581-foot saber to celebrate the release of the original 'Star Wars' trilogy on Blu-Ray.

There are some fictional characters whose hair is so iconic that if someone were to take the razor to their cranium they'd lose their whole identity. What would Mr. T be without his beard and mohawk? How about Leia without the buns?

A Russian architectural firm has developed a climate-controlled sleeping capsule the size of a "small dumpster" that has three self cleaning beds, wi-fi connections and room for luggage storage.

These iPhone cases, made to look like the side of a human face, make it appear as if a person isn't really talking on the telephone. They're just, you know, hanging out with their hand up to their face doing who knows what. Kind of quirky.

How would you like to live in your very own nuclear explosion? Sculptor Dietrich Wegner has designed a fort in the shape of a mushroom cloud, the visual associated with the mass destruction of powerful nuclear weapons.

In artist Gregory Kloehn's effort to "break down what a home can be," he was able to create a high end living space in a common dumpster.

We're all guilty of hitting the snooze button and sleeping a little bit longer in the morning. But with this alarm clock, if you don't wake up on time to defuse it, you're in for an explosive surprise.

These days cars come with some pretty sophisticated add-ons: rearview cameras that show what's behind you, driver alert systems that wake you if you're dozing off. These optional features are all well and good, but none of them hold a candle to the Honda Motocompo, a tiny, folding scooter that was sold as a trunk-sized accessory for the Honda City and the Honda Today from 1981 to 1983.

If you had a box of Crayolas as a kid, chances are the words "Burnt Siena" and "Goldenrod" evoke some nostalgic memories. Crayola introduced crayons to the world back in 1903. At that point, there were just eight colors per box. Within two years, the number of crayons more than tripled. By 1958, there were 64 colors in a box. These days, the Crayola box boasts 133 standard colo