Meet the Forever 21 Thread Screen, a display entirely unlike the smartphone screen you’re used to seeing your photos on—unless your phone is a 2,000-pound machine consisting of 6,400 spools of thread.

In the lead-up to this year’s SB Innovation Open, we’re catching up with some of our favorite paradigm-disrupting startups from past years. This week, we have an update from Thread. When we last met ...

Since its founding in the mid-1980s, the Berkshire Hills & Dales Spinners Guild has been meeting once a week to play with fiber. Some card, some spin, and some knit. Enjoying the chance to socialize ...

High up in the southern sierra of Mexico’s state of Oaxaca, an innovative nonprofit business inspired by Mohandas Gandhi is helping Indigenous Zapotec families to weather the economic storm that COVID ...

Chicago-based Into It. Over It. is the no-longer-solo project of Evan Weiss, whose latest album Intersections came out last year. (We caught up with him on tour earlier this year.) The video for ...

Our city, in large part built on the dreams of Hollywood moviemaking, has had a long history with metamorphosis. Transforming ordinary-looking actors into diverse characters such as 16th-century ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Model of a section of a ring spinning ...

Italian researchers have discovered that common backyard spiders, when sprayed by carbon nanomaterials, can produce silk several times stronger than the most resilient spider thread known. Their work ...

4K displays are tack-sharp, plentiful, and getting cheaper. But UltraHD screens will never be as cool as this low-res 0.02K display for a simple reason: Instead of using OLED or LED, this screen ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - In the old days of prohibition, "raveling a thread" was just a fancy way of saying that you were speaking your mind. Throw in some drinks and comedians -- and you might be in for ...