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Low Lai Chow
Low Lai Chow is a spacebar invader and freelance writer from Singapore. She travels light and is working on exercising demons from her past.
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Bendable TV screen may be a thing of the future
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If the new patent from South Korean electronic giant Samsung is anything to go by, we might all one day be able to bend TV screens to make the viewing angle display a whole lot better. Using infrared or Bluetooth, the remote control can transmit commands for the flexible display panel to rotate at an [...]
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Barman device lets you mix perfect drinks using your smartphone
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When systems coordinator John Gallagher tried to make the perfect Long Island Ice Tea for his wife six years ago, he thought there had to be a easier way to mix drinks accurately all the time. Now in 2013, he has developed The Barman, an elegant little box you can put your glass down on [...]
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Glowing plants can light up your home, sans electricity
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Think of lighting indoors, and bulbs naturally come to mind. Now a three-man team from San Francisco are turning these bulbs on their heads and turning to plants as light solutions in their place. That’s right, we’re talking about real plants that glow. It’s good news for those with green fingers. Using synthetic biology techniques, [...]
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MaKey MaKey: Hook up random stuff and use it as a keyboard
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Wow. MaKey MaKey is an easy-to-use kit that lets you hook up anything (well, anything that can conduct a bit of electricity) to your computer using alligator keys and cables, and then hit these random objects as computer keys or mouse buttons. The power is yours to do this will cost you just US$49.99. If [...]
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Landfill Harmonic: Music made from trash
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A few years ago, garbage picker Cola teamed up with local musician Favio Chavez to cobble together instruments out of trash for some Paraguayan kids living in their slum. That’s violins and cellos from oil drums, flutes from water pipes and spoons and guitars from packing crates. The Landfill Harmonic — you have to love [...]
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Skateboarding in slow mo through India
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Kilian Martin totally killed it in this video directed by Brett Novak, and now he’s back with another Novak-directed short film of him skateboarding in slo mo through India. It’s sick and beautiful at the same time, especially when it’s so well-aided by the Other Lives tune ‘Take Us Alive’.
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Man crates deliver only bragworthy gifts for men
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Man Crates claims to deliver only bragworthy gifts for men, which means no ugly neckties, socks or aftershave. Literally packed in manly crates too (no frilly ribbons or wrapping paper), these gifts are themed according to what kind of man he is: carnivore, survivalist, beer lover, snack enthusiast, gamer or athlete. The Grill Master Crate, [...]
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Loci: 3D sculptures of flight patterns
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Copenhagen-based creative and interaction designer Andrew Spitz’s loci is a pretty cool 3D-printed sculpture made out of flight data. Through custom software, the user can connect to Tripit or Foursquare, import his past flight data, and then select specific flights worth remembering, such as flights taken for a honeymoon or a gap year. Each loci [...]
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Nature shots featuring the photographer’s hands and feet
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Massachusetts-based artist and photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen, who was born in Helsinki, has a curious photography process. Wherever he roams, he emerges with photo perspectives that are really unique by merging his body with his surroundings. Among his works, the ones from his Hands and Feet series really stand out.
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Bastard chairs: photo series on makeshift chairs in China and Hong Kong
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Michael Wolf, whose works we just can’t get enough of, has a fairly new series focusing on makeshift chairs in China and Hong Kong. Endearingly dubbed ‘bastard chairs’ thanks to their questionable origins, these snapshots show a lot of spunk and personality from their unseen makers.
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Whimsical hidden self-portraits by Wataru Yamamoto
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For Japanese photographer Wataru Yamamoto’s Drawing a Line series, Yamamoto walked into the Kumano virgin forest armed with a large-format camera and a long cable release to trip the shutter with. The result: intriguing self-portraits that hint at the spot where he was standing at (he can hardly be seen), thanks to the clearly visible [...]
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Kim Jong Un looking at things, too
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Following art director Zachary Smith’s brilliant Tumblr blog, Kim Jong Il Looking At Things Tumblr, which shows, er, the esteemed leader looking at things when he was still alive, someone else has gone ahead to set up a Tumblr of his successor and son, Kim Jong Un, looking at things too. We like the original [...]
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Laser light guns destroying random stuff
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Patrick Priebe, who makes a business out of building laser light guns and gadgets, has a YouTube channel that come peppered with irate video text descriptions that go “DON’T ASK FOR PARTS PLANS TUTORIALS”. At first we wondered what was up with all that screaming, but if you take a look at one of his [...]
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Want to fight cockney zombies in London? This way, please
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Seemed like quite a while back since we mentally hyperventilated over the fact that Wish.co.uk actually organized zombie-fighting adventures in malls, so you can imagine how thrilled we were to find out that they’ve now emerged with even more zombie fun. There’s the Zombie Boot Camp, where you can learn how to shoot zombies down [...]
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Floating cloud couch levitates with magnetic force
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Hong Kong-based designers David Koo and Zheng Yawei came up with this astonishing concept design for a couch that we can only dream about for now. Yes, it’s a levitating couch that makes use of magnetic force from the bottom base to stay afloat. And it looks like a cloud. Their design nabbed an honourable [...]
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