Cognitive Surplus Washi Tape!!! 36 amazing colorful science + nature inspired designs - like Genetics & DNA, Equations that changed the world, Ornithology, Electronics, Brain scans, Mushrooms, Lab Glassware, Jellyfish, Night Sky and more.
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Stunning new collection of puzzles from Brainstorm Puzzle Co. Finally a California one! And fun ones for Mushroom lovers, Foodies, Campers, and more!
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FEATUREDThe unofficial NOTCOT guide to parenting... aka collage brain dumps of products that have worked for us has continued @GrowAndExplore. Hard to believe the NOTkid is now 2!
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11 U.S. National Scenic Trails Puzzle from Brainstorm Puzzle Co. Chunky colors and winding pathways highlight the best features and hotspots along the 11 U.S. National Scenic Trails. 500 pieces, 18x24" frame size!
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Solange Jewelry - currently mesmerized by this British jewellery line. Lonestar Cosmic Spinner Ring, Pisces Anglerfish Ring, Memory Bank Brain Locket, and fuck off handwriting ring.
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Ombre Pine Tree Puzzle from the Brainstorm Puzzle Co. is 500 pieces with a final size of 18"x24" for easy framing. Made in USA.
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The Dimpl Collection from Fat Brain Toys are perfect for babies (and as all ages fidget toys!) There's something so satisfying about pushing the silicone dimpl "buttons"... and the latest Dimpl Wobbl is mesmerizingly fun for babies.
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Manus is a set of ten industrial robots that are programmed to behave like a pack of animals. Each individual robot shares the same central brain. So instead of acting in isolation, they have behaviors that ripple through the group as people walk by.
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Nervous System Coral Cups are finally available for pre-order (and will make it for the holidays!) Computationally-generated and handcrafted in porcelain, the Coral Cup is inspired by the form of brain coral. It's been amazing to follow their process.
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Design Legend David Carson and artist Thijs Biersteker created a brainwave controlled globe showing us that if we lose focus on climate change the world goes to shit.
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FEATUREDHowliday Surprise just arrived from TCB Studio (Taking Care of Business Elvis & Aretha style) - the brainchild of Charmaine Choi in collab with illustrator, Annie J Lim. Check out their print, tote, notebook, wrapping paper, dog treats and more!
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OffBits from Fat Brain Toys. Each kit enables you to create at least 3 unique "out of the box" models, plus an infinite number of possible designs created by your own imagination and includes a special five-in-one SuperTool.
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1000 Piece National Parks Puzzle by Brainstorm. Features all 59 current U.S. National Parks. Sales help support the National Park Foundation.
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Talking Brains is an exhibition that creates experiences, incites imagination and shows how language connects to our biology. from Barcelona Indissoluble+Inmedulla+zfc_architects
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Format's new chatbot will test your creative brain. Answer a few questions and find out whether sparks fly out of your basal ganglia, ideas connect in your pre-frontal cortex or juices flow from your amygdala.
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VIDEOJohn Lewis #BusterTheBoxer holiday advert. Who doesn't love animals... jumping on trampolines?!?!?!
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VIDEOMOEF's Helmet Hair - as they brainstorm a helmet kids would want to wear! Inspired by Playmobil (not Lego!) hair that has been 3D scanned, scaled, and 3D printed for their prototype!
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Climate Inaction Figures - toy-inspired likenesses of prominent public figures who claim, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that there is no reason to act. They are the brainchild of creative directors Cabot Norton and Arturo Aranda.
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The ‘Truck Art Project‘ is the brainchild of iam Gallery Madrid and businessman and art collector Jaime Colsa. The goal is innovative yet simple: to bring avant-garde art to places where art has not been shown before.
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IDEAS FOR THE BRAVE (IFTB) is a submission-based, open source platform for brainstorming. It is a call for brave ideas from within and beyond the walls of ICRAVE, encouraging designers to dream, invent, and innovate.
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The Appalachian Trail print by Brainstorm Prints & Goods is an 18"x24" 4 color screenprinted poster that illustrates and documents the most memorable spots on the AT for both section and thru hikers.
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Being a lord of Dogtown is one thing, but becoming a lord of the workshop is something else entirely. Skateboard deck made with Huon Pine, one of the earths oldest living organisms by Noddy Boffin, the brainchild of Elliot Gorham
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VIDEOGlass Brain visualizes real-time source-localized activity recorded via EEG.
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Adam Voorhes beautifully documented a collection of rare human brains held at the University of Texas. The photos plus an essay from journalist Alex Hannaford are now available in the book " Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital"
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Chocolate Skulls Gone Nuts by Ruth & Sira Garcia. Chocolate skulls with walnut / candy brain.
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Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space written by Dominic Walliman and designed and illustrated by Ben Newman.
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Classics Reimagined: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Olimpia Zagnoli illustrates the Wizard of Oz in a new series by Rockport Publishing.
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A Visual History of Typewriter Art from 1893 to Today with Barrie Tullett's Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology.
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Skull Brain Pink by Emilio Garcia x K.Olin tribu, porcelain made in Limoges, France.
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Take a look inside the sketchbooks of Vincent VanGogh through Molly Oldfield's The Secret Museum.
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VIDEOAurora, sculptures of flame. These brain-like images are photos of flames created by igniting alcohol, from Fabian Oefner.
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Beautiful macrophotography from Jimmy Kong. We especially love looking into the eyes of those jumping spiders!
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Lapolab's Brain Grenade ~ coming in 2014 if we're lucky!
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SkullBrain Bleu de Four Porcelain by Emilio Garcia, made in Limoges, France.
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Toronto's multi-tooled design studio JACKNIFE, comes up with a brainy solution for the RGD's inaugural Design Thinker of the Year Award.
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The Galerie Perrotin art gallery in New York City is introducing a kaleidoscope of eight mighty polar bears brightly colored and feathered. They have been frozen in motion, jumping, flying, brawling, snoozing.
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Lovely illustrations from The Crows of Pearblossom, the one and only children's book by Aldous Huxley.
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Prism Kites EO-6 (EO = Expandable Object) The original brainchild of Phil McConnachie, the EOs are dynamic box kites that soar like a traditional single-liner, or with a tug on the line they become playful tumblers with a fascinating range of tricks.
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Cykno, an electric bicycle upholstered with fine leather. It is the brainchild of Bruno Greppi, Luca Scopel, Gianpietro Vigorelli and Riccardo Lorenzini. It is light (weighing only 26 kg) and strictly Italian.
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BLACK COW is the world's first vodka made from cow milk. This is the brain child of Jason Barber, a farmer from Beaminster, Dorset.
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Double-sided, reconfigurable poster designed by Andrew Lu explaining the monoamine hypothesis, a theory that attributes mental illnesses to chemical imbalances in the brain. Poster can be folded or to display information exclusive to a given topic.
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Photographer Adam Voorhes and journalist Alex Hannaford document and find the history behind a collection of malformed brains at the University of Texas.
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Logiq Tower™ is a brainteaser extraordinaire. With more than 22,000 possible solutions, the stroke of genius is but one move away.
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How the power of swarms help us fight cancer, understand the brain, and predict the future.
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FEATUREDA close up look at ARThropod Brain by Tokyo Plastic and Emilio Garcia opening at the Toy Art Gallery. Brains + bugs + 3D printing + hand painted high gloss metallics + skull faces + giant jumping brains and so much more…
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A look at the elegant illustrations and figures from The Speech Chain: A Vintage Illustrated Guide to the Science of Language.
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Toy Art Gallery presents “ARThropod Brain” by Tokyoplastic and Emilio Garcia, new work inspired by electron microscope images, macro photography and the often mind boggling weirdness of the insect world. Opening tomorrow!
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Brainstorming room at Sid Lee’s office in Montreal. The oversized door frame is a clear indication that anyone passing through the door is about to enter a some kind of fantasy world. The room, although small, is versatile, stimulating and of course, quite far-out.
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Skull Brain Porcelain by Emilio Garcia x K.Olin tribu .
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Bembo's Zoo is Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich's alphabet book, 26 different animals constructed entirely of type for his daughter.
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A look inside Billy Kiosoglou and Philippin Frank's "I Used to Be a Design Student: 50 Graphic Designers Then and Now".
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Vintage Disney science illustrations from 1956 introduce us to 'Our Friend the Atom'
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VIDEOThe latest episode of Inside Koenigsegg by Drive is Inside the Brain of a Swedish Bombshell. The episode takes a peek inside the bespoke electronic controllers that comprise the brain and soul of a Koenigsegg.
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FEATUREDNOTpuppy, Bucky, learns to jump catch... and it results in some of the craziest expressions and bizarre off the ground body twists!
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Beautiful illustrations of Calvino's stories by the late Yan Nascimbene.
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VIDEOThe Centrifuge Brain Project, a mockumentary from Till Nowak.
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A look inside Katrina van Grouw's stunning The Unfeathered Bird: An Illustrated History of Avian Anatomy.
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VGB (Visual Brain Gravity) Leave Your Mark stamp for clients.
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VIDEOIf a movie changes its scenario depending on audience's feelings, will you know the end of the movie? HyperPresence reads audiences' brain activities and give possible 4 scenario from 1 movie. It's a brand new movie experience!
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VIDEOSupermajor by artist Matt Kenyon is a mind bending installation that uses sound, vibrations, and flickering lights, to trick your eyes and brain.
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Beautiful new covers from Jessica Hische for Penguin’s forthcoming Drop Cap series.
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Artist Gustav Metzger hooked his brain up to a 3D-carving robot while he thought about nothing.
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Beautiful visualizations of Nobel prize winners by Italian information visualization designer Giorgia Lupi and her team at Accurat.
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H-57's f minimalist pictogram flowcharts of famous characters. This is Marie Antoinette.
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Skull-A-Day creator Noah Scalin discovered the hidden brain of a Jack-O-Lantern.
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Emilio Garcia's Skull Brain (the brainy follow up to the Jumping Brain!) ~ see the making of in this flickr set.
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Typometry – a typographic eye chart that's perfect for serious type nerds.
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VIDEOInsane in the Chromatophores! A closeup look at squid chromatophores set to Cyprus Hill's Insane in the Brain.
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Literary Jukebox, a daily quote from a favorite book, thematically matched with a song. Great side project from Maria Popova.
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Google animations portray the difficulties of media plan. [EN SUB]
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Learn the rules of the sport with Curly's pocket guide to running, jumping, cycling, riding, kicking, lifting, poking, hitting, rowing, firing and throwing things. Developed by Wilson Fletcher and illustrated by Ryan Todd.
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The Naughty Nineties, a saucy Victorian pop-up book for adults only, in animated GIFs.
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VIDEOCliff Jumping. Slow Motion. Good Music.
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'Gumi', the soft colored polyurethane foam modules for kids are perfect for jumping, playing, sitting, balancing and relaxing. Created by designers Cecilia Rappallini and Erika Salerno.
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FEATUREDContainer gardening ~ it can be as creative as you are! Here's a look at some of our favorite options as we brainstormed on what to do in the yard!
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Beautiful illustrations of turtle anatomy from the 1820s in Anatome Testudinis Europaeae by the German physician and naturalist Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus (1776–1827).
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VIDEOAlessandro Brighetti's stunning Schizophrenia, a moving piece that makes fantastic use of ferrofluid. (But sadly the skull/brain are just objects in the liquid)
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'Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution', a beautiful collection of 230 tree-like branching diagrams, culled from 450 years of mankind’s visual curiosity about the living world and our quest to understand the complex ecosystem.
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VIDEOBraingate is a neural interface for controlling computers as well as physical devices. In this instance, a paralyzed woman is able to pick up her coffee and drink it by controlling a robotic arm with her thoughts.
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FEATUREDBirds made from LEGO, fitness minded furniture and camel jumping all feature in this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.
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Ed Ou's fantastic photos of men jumping over camels in the remote region of Tehama, Yemen.
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FEATUREDA look at the fantastic exhibition 'Brains: The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection, which captures the brain as a cultural object as well as fascinating component of anatomy and medicine.
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Stunning diffusion spectrum imaging to infer the position of nerve fibers in the living human brain.
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'My Soul' by Katharine Dowson is a laser-etched lead crystal glass formation in the shape of a brain, created using the artist's own MRI scan.
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Frederic Terral of Right Brain Terrain releases 'Eternal Optimism' featuring 15 Free downloadable wallpapers.
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Michaël Harboun’s Transcendenz brings together the ideas of augmented reality, Brain Computer Interface and social networks to live philosophical game-experiences.
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VIDEOJumping from number 45 to 20 on US album charts this week, Gotye's Making Mirrors might owe some of its popularity to the haunting single 'Somebody That I Used To Know' (with Kimbra) and its visually-stimulating video.
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FEATUREDBulletproof skin, solar flares and the vision of jumping spiders are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.
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Researchers have discovered a unique visual attribute called image defocus that jumping spiders use in attacking and catching prey, proven in part by spiders jumping with deadly accuracy in green light, but fumbling in red.
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VIDEOBoardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 2 by Brainstorm Digital is mind blowing. The show's visuals are amazing and once you have seen this, you will know why.
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A collection of vintage Swiss stamps from the 1940s-70s.
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An awesome interview with former Apple Creative Director, now Brand Director of Crumpler! We picked his brain and became privy to his creative philosophy and what makes the Crumpler brand such an excellently designed, well-loved product.
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New Winter Solstice infographic design by BrainstormOverload - download the free holiday card version.
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The 2012 Studio on Fire desk calendar! This year the theme is the Positive Apocalypse, featuring include brain-feasting zombies, a yeti, transfigured animals, Earth being devoured and a rainbow explosion.
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VIDEOAllan Jones gives a TED talk on a map of the brain.
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Vintage Halloween postcards from the New York Public Library.
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Snake + Herring wines, with packaging by brainCELLS.
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It’s amazing how many of these eyes are embedded in our brains and associated with some mischievous cartoon character. Designer, Yoni Alter, did a great job with this collection.
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A fascinating look at 'sentimental cartography', mapping the human psyche.
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Dude Watchin' With the Brontes and other witty literary and historical comics from Kate Beaton in Hark! A Vagrant.
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'The Evoking Brain Trust' latest work by R.Yuki Agriardi.
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VIDEOExtraordinary footage of the courtship of the peacock jumping spider in Australia.
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Toy Art Gallery opened a new showcase store on Melrose in LA last night featuring Emilio Garcia's Brain Evolution series.
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Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer — a magnificent collection of 75 typewriter-transcribed letters, 38 stunningly illustrated envelopes, and more than 60 postcards and illustrations.
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Artist Yaron Steinburg re-imagines his own brain as a miniature city made out of cardboard houses, flickering lights, and an electric toy train.
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Latest design, Shoot for the Moon. Fifteen free downloadable wallpapers. By Frederic Terral of Right Brain Terrain.
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Close your eyes and imagine a squadron of sci-fi robots, old school TV sets and flying squirrels. Now you have a taste of bRainbow.
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The Controversial Wall Of Brainless Soldiers by Streetartist BLU.
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Northern Hemisphere Star Chart print by Brainstorm is a two color 18" x 24" limited edition signed and numbered screen print. You can pair it with their Southern Hemisphere print for a set of all the stars in the sky!
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Comparing the London 2012 Olympic Games medal with past medals.
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VIDEOMusical instrument that can be played and controlled by thought alone. Brain music rock n' roll!
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From the secret laboratory in B-Reel’s London office, comes this brain-bending experimental project from B-Reel UK creative director Riccardo Giraldi. Mind controlled Scaletrix!
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Ricard Vila's new generation plotter. Ecological, noiseless, ergonomic and easy to use. Produced by TKT brainpower.
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Beautiful illustrations by Peter P. Plasencia for Franz Born’s 1964 book Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future.
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Artist JC Rivera's latest custom: A Jumping Brain-custom named: "Silly Shark Attack!"
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A visual map of what happens in our brains when we are in love by Scientific American.
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Nothing says morning like a piece of toast jumping in a toaster. Day Maker from Habitco is a bedside phone charger/alarm hub, lets you know it’s time to rise and shine with a little added 'pop' from your phone alarm.
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The parallax graphics in cop car jumping, multi-touch skater game Ollie Punk will seem like their bursting right out of your iPad.
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New / Free digital downloads from Frederic Terral & Right Brain Terrain.
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FEATUREDHUGE brain and microchip coffe table/ottomans (?) by Daniel Rohr ~ limited edition, and displayed with brain scans projected above!
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VIDEOAutotuned TED Talks ~ "Ode to the Brain" is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Borrowing powerful words and images from so many great scientists.
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FEATUREDEmilio Garcia's new Jumping Brain: Limited Edition Brain Hues in the wild ~ a close up look at the packaging, Jumping Brains and more...
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Solovyov Design ~ amazing "Insight" brain bulbs!
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FEATUREDJumping Brains ~ now in colorwheel form ~ the super limited edition pearlized sets are on sale tomorrow, see the making of pics too!
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TED may be about the coffee as much as the talks. This year the TED conferences will include 7 coffee bars run by international all-star baristas, including World Barista Champions.
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Mercedes Benz Left Brain/Right Brain ads ~ beautiful graphics out of Y&R Interactive Tel Aviv
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The POC Cortex DH Helmet is equipped with the patented MIPS system to reduce the rotational forces on the brain in the case of an oblique impact.
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Brain Cube - Jason Freeny has sculpted a fully functional Rubik's Cube in the form of a brain...
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Red Bull Media + Brain Farm = The Art of Flight snowboard video. The trailer only touches the surface of how amazing this video is going to be.
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Package design from brainCELLS for Graci, a premium cider range from Harvey River Bridge.
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Jules & Jeremy Furniture Design is the brainchild of Dutch designers—and childhood friends—Jules Ponsioen and Jeremy Nagel, which features innovative, highly functional tables, shelves, and seating are simple yet visually striking.
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FEATUREDBourbon Balls and Ice Brains! The Ice Ball trend continues with Maker's Mark ice ball molds and Fred Brain Freezes
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Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century- a new book by Carl Schoonover.
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Right Brain Terrain LLC releases four new limited edition prints, featuring a handmade process that is unique to each print.
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It's always fun to revisit vintage packaging. Gotta love the Chadwick Magic Brain Calculator from the 50s. It never makes a mistake and can add, subtract and multiple up to 99,999,999!
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"Ocean" is the long awaited third addition to the screen printed set that includes "Atmosphere" and "Earth". By Brainstorm Print and Design.
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Fred Brain Freeze! Forget perfect ice balls, perhaps brains are what's needed in my scotch.
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VIDEOCerebra Electronica. Controlling the interactive LED Facade of Ars Electronica Center Linz with Brain Computer Interface.
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"Colour Rhapsody" is a book about the origin of hearing and the impact of music on our brains. Optical and acoustic experiments make it possible to "see" music in a different way.
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You could argue that the iPhone's biggest UI leap was turning the user's finger into a stylus. Now, with the PLX XWave headest, you can turn your BRAIN into the stylus. Or your finger? My head hurts already.
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Skull made with slices of real human brains at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum, created by Skull-A-Day artist Noah Scalin.
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Dream Catcher - Latest limited edition handmade print from Right Brain Terrain. Linocut, woodblock and rolled ink on 100% recycled kraft paper.
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Valkee anti-depression light therapy device. Valkee ear signaling device aims light at your brain to ease winter depressive symptoms.
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