This may seem like a sinister social engineering experiment conducted by a dystopian sugar-shocked dictator, but it’s just the Fühlometer, a performance art piece by Julius von Bismarck, Benjamin Maus ...

Sure, it’s annoying when someone tells you to smile — but, regardless of your mood, it’s totally possible to have your nails smile for you (and that’s never annoying). Slapping a smiley face or two ...

Facebook has introduced emoticons to status updates and new tagging options in the US after trialling the features for several months. Users in the territory can now select a smiley, sad or other face ...

This brings to mind Bhutan’s “gross national happiness” indicator. Residents’ happiness is an important component in making a city or country thrive, but it rarely gets analyzed or acted on. A crude ...