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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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Here’s a video that I found recently that I thought was really inspiring. The video has great production value and was thoughtfully put together. Going on long rides in bad weather with friends is one of my favorite things to do in life. This video did a great job of capturing the essence of mild [...]
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Increasingly, the consumer is expected to give up their freedom and privacy in favour of commerce. This somewhat ironic solution to the problem is provided in the form of this designer wrist mirror titled Private Space. Here, freedom and privacy have themselves become commercial products. These Private Space wrist mirrors are available in different colours [...]
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Artist Blake Fall-Conroy built this cool Minimum Wage Machine, which doughs out a penny every 5.035 seconds in real-time for as long as the user cranks it up by turning a handle. It certainly has a socially-conscious ring to it, which Fall-Conroy professes to be into. The Make blog has more technical details on how [...]
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There’s something very cool about licking off the last scrap of dinner off your plate only to find a plughole in the middle of it. Of course, if your consumption preferences lean towards the junk food variety, the TOO by Blu Dot Ruse dinnerware only makes it easier for you to think depressing thoughts about [...]
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How impossibly cool are these chairs that YOY design duo Naoki Ono and Yuuki Yamamoto presented recently at this year’s Milano Salone? They’re practically off the coolness meter. Dubbed the Canvas series, these are classy screen-printed canvas artwork of chairs that can be propped against a wall and then sat on. Simply, wow.
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Here’s a product that’s both pragmatic and innovative: a light generator that charges your gadgets on the go as you pedal. Targeted at cyclists, the Siva Cycle Atom is a 1300mAh removable battery pack that takes the idea of green transport one step further — it harnesses kinetic energy from all that pedaling to charge [...]
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Tom Haney produces animatronic figurines that gesticulate on their own; the creation, of which, requires an unique assortment of skills like sculpting, carpentry, and mechanical prowess. Although some see his work as a reaction to today’s throwaway society, he sees it as a way to reconnect with the past. ‘I cherish traditions, not trends. I [...]
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Paula Tantsurina is a Tel Aviv-based toy designer. For years, knitting has been her greatest passion, but she found a demand for her goods not so long ago. As she says: ‘There is nothing in the world that can be compared with making toys. It’s not just creating a doll, but creating a whole world [...]
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CRUX is a personal USB library that brings greater ease and convenience to the storage, usage and management of multiple USB thumbdrives. It integrates the functionality of a multi-USB hub with the charm of craft and fabric to bring you a techtile solution.
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The Grabit Robot Multipurpose Holder was inspired by the world of art toys and minimalist design. Grabit is the first creation by husband and wife team Leo and Angie Fajardo, and it’s now live on Kickstarter. This little robot is not only cute but also functional: it can keep your toothbrushes free of germs and [...]
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An app that records and monitors what you speaks in your sleep at night? Yes, it exists. That’s not all. In fact, a documentary is now being shot revolving around people whose lives have been changed since they started using the app. As the trailer shows, a guy discovered his singing voice, while a woman [...]
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Whoa, look what we found via Make Magazine: a contraption that actually turns water to wine. Well, sort of. Dreamt up by Party Robotics’ Robert Kaye and Pierre Michael, the water-to-wine cooler has only been rigged and gutted in a really clever way, that’s all (‘Our solution was to hide an identical water bottle below, [...]
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Due to its changeable weather conditions, Auckland is well known for experiencing four seasons in one day. MetService, a weather website in New Zealand, has built this unique outdoor web browser that shows the weather accurately. The idea promotes that the MetService website reports the weather as fast as it changes – rain, hail or [...]
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Wow, this is completely bonkers. The Photon, a 3D scanner that’s positioned by Toronto-based Matterform as the world’s first, truly affordable 3D scanner for anyone, basically lets, well, anyone take a physical object and turn it into a digital 3D model. The possibilities are seemingly endless there: print out the model as a 3D replication [...]
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