FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes saucy Victorian pop-ups, glass blowing and indoor tents.

VIDEOWatch as record covers are transformed into notebook covers in 12 Inch Notes.

VIDEOPlant Study by Kurt Kaminski showcases beautiful biology, collected around Los Angeles and filmed under a microscope.

VIDEOWTPh? What the Phonics by Momo Miyazaki and Andrew Spitz is a device that helps with pronouncing the street names in Denmark.

VIDEOAudible color by Hideaki Matsui and Momo Miyazaki recognizes shades of color as sounds.

VIDEONASA's incredible footage of the X1.4-Class Solar Flare on July 12, 2012.

FEATUREDCheck out @NOTlabs on instagram for a peek at what we're up to ~ lately we've been building walls for our Makerbot and 3D printing hippos!

VIDEOLacoste x Mark Jenkins, tape art in Paris for the perfume Eau de Lacoste.

VIDEO‘Particles, a light installation by Daito Manabe & Motoi Ishibashi at YCAM.

FEATUREDCap Ferret, the Maldives and Mauritious are all featured destinations this week in our roundup from NotVentures.

VIDEOoceaniaeuropeamericasafricaasia by brazilian born artist Gustavo Sousa is an attempt to visualise the dissiparities between the world's 5 continents.

FEATUREDNOTlabs Laser Project! The making of the Dumbrella San Diego Comic Con 2012 signage! See the full process from lasering to black metal pipes to SDCC and more...

FEATUREDSan Diego Comic Con 2012 ~ here's a peek at the fun that jumped out on preview night! From hover boards and monstrous creatures from the Hobbit ~ to angry woebots and kobe ~ HUGE transformers to shrympees + much more!

VIDEOThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas commissioned artist Tim Bavington to create a monumental piece of public art work. From concept to completion, this beautiful video tell the story of Bavington's "Pipe Dream".

VIDEOJean Jullien's egg-filled Le Nid (The Nest) for a space in Nantes.

VIDEOMoritz Heller's wordcollider inspired by visualizations of particle collisions at LHC CERN.

FEATUREDSparkling Blueberry Lemonade, Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes and the Camemburger all feature in this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

FEATUREDMophie Juice Pack Powerstation Pro - we put this rugged splash/dust proof USB external battery pack through the paces at Bonnaroo to charge iPhone and htc sensation

VIDEOYaron Hirsch's Animal Vegetable Mineral. The damage of the caterpillars to the tree is translated to functional and aesthetic elements.

VIDEOThe making of Harris Tweed from shearing to stamping!

VIDEOGlass blowing at the John Pomp Studio in Philiadelphia.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes lost art, printed vascular networks and cable car rocking chairs.

VIDEOA pop-up shop for Odin New York’s fragrance collection, this temporary retail installation creates an unexpected moment embedded within an East Village storefront.

FEATUREDLASERS!!! Uncrating of NOTlabs' Rabbit Laser 80-1290. From 1100 pound crate into the house, it packs an 80 watt laser and a workbed of nearly 4'x3'... see the details and setup!

VIDEOGymkhana FIVE: Ultimate Urban Playground; San Francisco from Ken Block and DC is the newest video in the series which features some amazing stunts, drifts, and jumps around SF.

VIDEOCliff Jumping. Slow Motion. Good Music.

VIDEOThe London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Gareth Newman teamed up with MINI for the London 2012 Limited Edition MINI's unique tribute to Team GB.

FEATURED50 years of gadgetry and 007 style on show at Designing 007 - Fifty Years of Bond Style at the Barbican Centre. Fantastic exhibition capturing the design behind the films.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NotVentures includes dining in the Dolomites, camping in hanging tents and an escape to Paris.

VIDEOBBC’s animated olympic promo video!

FEATUREDPlanting made easy! Daniel Robson's project, the Plot Seed Wheel gives users customized seeds to suit their gardens and come in separate plantable pods, so you don't even need gardening tools!

VIDEOAnimated promotional video for Joule's Lab, a Mexican juice cleanse laboratory.

FEATUREDOur Skateboard Ceiling Fan! A NOTlabs experiment ~ we got tired of the old fan, and decided to try out skateboards as fan blades!

FEATUREDYou know you want a vacuum forming and rotational molding kit in a wooden box. Great project to get manufacturing and design into school, Micro Make by William Banfield.

FEATUREDInside Nature's Giant anatomical scale models! Great project work from Ross Penrose for the amazing series. The models are precut and detailed by laser, ready for assembly and come with a book about the species too.

FEATUREDA peek at what you'll find on the NOTCOT/NOTlabs instragram these days...

VIDEOKinetic Rain installation at Singapore's Changi Airport.

VIDEOThe theme was 'The Year Distilled', and we instantly took to creating a load of tactile pieces to represent the internet. These got ground up, distilled, until, at the end, one bottle of pure awesome web.

VIDEOYIU studio's packaging design and identity for Dovely Tea.

VIDEOBerlin based architect & designer Van Bo Le-Mentzel designed the one square meter house.

VIDEOGregory Euclide's stunning whiteboard artwork.

FEATUREDCherry-Berry Sangria, Beer & Pretzel Cupcakes, and s’more d’oeurves featured this week at Tasteologie and Liqurious.

VIDEOResearchers from the University of Pennsylvania 3d print sugar templates that are later injected with blood vessels, creating working vascular networks.

VIDEOThe evolution of the F1 car. From 1950 to today.

VIDEODesigning 007 - Fifty Years of Bond Style - opens this Fri at The Barbican. Two short films made to promote it: one explores his personal style; the other the world that he inhabits...

VIDEOJust in time for the 4th of July, this entertaining video showcases the chemistry of fireworks, hosted by renowned pyrotechnics expert, John Conkling, who literally wrote the book on the subject.

VIDEOMercedes-AMG gives a virtual guided tour through the headquarters in Affalterbach, Germany where over 1000 employees design, engineer, and manufacture these high performance cars.

FEATUREDWire Wonderland from Hayley Dix spotted at New Designers 2012. Beautiful wire sculptures perched on real branches.

FEATUREDA phone made of jello, double-decker cable cars and plethora of axes are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

VIDEOCasting Unpredictability by Adam Smith. Robotic scanning and cutting of concrete to make masonry units.

VIDEOA Colloid Display, this sonically controlled soap bubble could be the world's thinnest transparent display.

VIDEOKiBiSi's new Capital headphones for AIAIA.

VIDEO11 Months, 3000 pictures and a lot of coffee, watch as an engine is stripped to pieces.

FEATUREDPrint your own toys! We unbox the MakerBot Replicator and 3D print Free Universal Construction Kit toys ~ first up, connecting Lego and Lincoln Logs and Kinex and Lincoln Logs... and that's just the start!

VIDEOCorridor Digital released a new trippy short film - Photoreal.

FEATUREDOur latest hatchlings ~ baby pheasants! Can you believe this little guy is sitting in an ESPRESSO cup? See more hatching pics and videos!

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NotVentures features skiing in South Korea, Brazilian hot spots and amazing underwater attractions.

VIDEOFifth Wall, an interactive app for 2wice that transforms the iPad tablet into a new kind of performance space. Created by Pentagram's Abbott Miller in collaboration with choreographer Jonah Bokaer and 2wice publisher Patsy Tarr.

FEATUREDThe Weird and Wonderful jewelry of Kate Gilliland, who turns nature's tragedies into beautiful works of wearable natural history in a stunning range from tiny bird skull cufflinks to toadlet rings.

VIDEORube Goldberg machine created as video projection art for Alys Beach Digital Graffiti event by Josh Van Praag.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes strawberry shots, edible glass potato chips and s’mores pudding pie.

VIDEOThe Catch by Mercedes Benz UK is a wild stunt where former F1 driver David Coulthard and pro-golfer Jake Shepherd set a new world record for farthest golf shot caught in a moving car. The speeding SLS AMG caught the ball 275m away.

FEATUREDA peek into the amazing Sonos Studio space in LA... demo the Sonos system in every combination in this acoustically optimized space, enjoy art installations, musical performances and more! The bathroom walls are covered in skateboards!

VIDEOdeadmau5 feat. Chris James - The Veldt (Music Video) - cute lion king-esque animation...

VIDEOUn petit plat pour l'homme is a short 3D animation film by Corentin Charron from Supinfocom Arles about cooking in space.

FEATUREDAnimator Jimmy Thompson loves Draw Something and John Mayer and combined both in this video for "Queen of California."

VIDEOOskar Peet and Sophie Mensen's Syzygy: Eclipse Lamp.

VIDEOBikeBorg, a project from students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design exploring the interaction between bike and rider.

VIDEOPoChih Lai's Milk Brother/Moka Milk Frother.

FEATUREDFelt volcanoes, sushi rollers and ferrofluid skulls in this week's roundup from NOTCOT.org.

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!

VIDEOTextscapes from Ars Electronica Futurelab in Vienna Airport. The dynamic installation is created by the movement of aircrafts. Every takeoff engenders a hill, every landing a valley.

VIDEOFlippy Cat recreates Vincent van Gogh's 'Starry Night' from just over 7,000 dominos.

VIDEOOBEY x Keith Haring ~ nice video with Shepard Fairey about the new collection!

FEATUREDPlaying with and installing the U-Socket USB Power Outlet! Is it technologically advancing your house, or another silly luxury?

VIDEOBMW M5 'Bullet' - The world's fastest sedan recreates super slow-motion bullet footage on a much grander scale. The result: High Performance Art.

FEATUREDJoey Roth's latest ~ the self watering planter! Made from naturally porous unglazed earthenware you simply need to fill the reservoir and your plants/soil will do the rest...

FEATUREDThe randomness found at Dwell On Design 2012 ~ from robots to wireframe oxen heads, bubble buildings to stargate like trellises, shot glasses from cut mini bottles to squishable big ass fan donkeys.

FEATUREDThe latest additions to Lladró's Parrot Party collection are beautiful! And again, the parrots are so detailed they nearly look real...

FEATUREDCOATT Morse Code Jewelry has beautiful packaging, and is displayed on Wasara disposable paperware... (Thats the SOS message!)

FEATUREDKohler's booth at Dwell On Design is a great use of a shipping container that opens up... and colorful bath tubs cut to create couch/love seats to lounge in while charging your phone/etc!

FEATURED LED Glühbirne Nature Bulbs by Process - a beautiful LED light bulb design... stunning in person!

VIDEOa little sneak peek inside the minds of one of today's most interesting musicians/producers: Matt Dear

FEATUREDAnimated fabric sculptures, vintage-inspired bathing suits and beautiful leathergoods are all part of this week’s roundup from Notcouture.

FEATUREDDom Pérignon new limited edition with David Lynch's launch party in Hollywood: Endless champagne + lasers + molecular gastronomy + kinects + The Kills + Diplo + top hats + chalk +bubbles + more...

FEATUREDRaphael Kim's Rotifer Farm is a home designed to explore interactions between humans and this microscopic world of rotifers. Spotted at Show RCA 2012 ~ it's a beautifully glassy project...

FEATUREDLet's grow some chilis! A look at the variety of chili peppers available and a peek at our attempts to grow some from seeds!

FEATUREDThese huge floating neon insignias were inspiring at the Dom Pèrignon limited edition David Lynch launch.

VIDEOA Lego Turing Machine was made to celebrate the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth way back on June 23rd 1912, which you too can celebrate at the Science Museum’s Code Breaker exhibition that opens today!

VIDEOSusanne de Graef's The rhythm of light for La Chance a chandelier that rises and sets.

VIDEOMimeisthai, a sound installation by James Théophane which turns conversation into visualization. Mimeisthai visualises topics being talked about in the auditorium right at that moment.

FEATUREDMcDonald's shares an inside look it what it takes to make their burgers look good in a picture.

VIDEOA smell-sound sculpture «Flying Glasshouse» by Oswaldo Macia showing at Galerie Coucou, Kassel. June, 2012.

VIDEOFascinating pretty little video from Louis Vuitton on how to pack...

VIDEOSingapore graffiti artists Inkten and Clogtwo team up for a character painting session with Woes from Los Angeles.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious features Guacamole Deviled Eggs, Zebra Cakes and Sloe Gin Fizz.

VIDEOHoldfast, a furniture range from Sam Weller uses the holdfast clamping system typically used for holding material to the surface of a workbench.

VIDEOValerie, My Crystal Sister by Lucas Maassen + Roche. Another stunning project from Confrontations at Vitra Design Museum. The chandelier is based on Maassen's own DNA!

VIDEOA Chocolate Mill! From Studio Wieki Somers teamed up with chocolatier Rafael Mutter for Vitra Design Museum's exhibition “Confrontations".

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)

FEATUREDAleksandra Mirecka’s LAVA lemonade. For 2012 Show RCA, Mirecka turned a corner of the new Battersea campus’ into a fun little café where you can sip on homemade lemonade from handmade glasses with adorable straws!

FEATUREDSunglasses meet jaws at Show RCA 2012. Emma Montague was inspired by the relationship between the shape of the jaw bone and sunglasses when she put her Ray Bans down beside a mandible...

VIDEOCute music video for Passion Pit's Take a Walk presented by Columbia Records and The Creators Project, a partnership between Intel and Vice.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org features meat slicing machines, robotic arms and giraffes in the swimming pool.

FEATUREDCeramist and illustrator Sophie Alice Wiltshire's amazing naturally inspired work at Show RCA 2012

FEATUREDPop open the trunk of the 2012 Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé to find yacht inspired teak flooring hiding a mini fridge, custom glasses, and a bench seat for two...

FEATUREDEsource, a sustainable bicycle powered cable recycling system for informal recyclers in developing countries. Fantastic project from RCA student Hal Watts.

FEATUREDJon C Flint’s Bank of Morals (Moral Wealth vessel number: bk001) - The three vessels feed the plant different types of water depending on your spending and an imbalance between them will cause your money plant to suffer!

VIDEODepth of Speed's latest episode: Poetry In Motion looks at a stunning Mercedes-Benz 300SL still being driven and enjoyed to the max (like a car should be!) SO beautiful!

VIDEOGergely Wootsch’s charming animation "This is Not Real". A young boy's chimerical journey from a small English town to the Himalayas with an all defining conclusion.

VIDEOMulberry’s short film "Skirt" directed by the talented Amanda Boyle, featuring Natalia Tena (from harry potter/game of thrones) has won Best Fashion Short at the Vimeo awards in New York.

FEATUREDDarragh Casey’s Shelving the Body, a fun playful project that reinterprets our relationship with objects and shelves. Love his family shelf portraits too! What a fun and playful project!

FEATUREDHow to hatch your own eggs! NOTCOT Special feature! Lots of pics and videos to show you the process we went through to hatch our chicks and ducklings!

FEATUREDBeautiful web-like signage for the Central Saint Martin's 2012 Graphic Design Grad Show!

FEATUREDA first look at the Central Saint Martin's 2012 Graduate Show! From animating bike wheels to household waste turned into liquid fertilizer, beautiful illustrations to optical illusions (see the vids!)

FEATUREDHave you ever seen ducklings swim underwater? Our tiny baby mandarin duckling dives and swims (eyes wide open!) under the water. She also makes a bit of a splash and while water runs off a duck's back, she still get very wet!

FEATUREDAn aviator hotel, cycling through northern Argentina and visiting the Vatican in a day are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

VIDEOSelf healing materials - Watch plastic break, bleed, and heal itself using microcapsules that react to injury just like our bodies do.

FEATUREDSPODEE! "A Depression era hooch that mixed up homemade country wines with garden herbs, spices and moonshine." Packaged in a fun milk bottle ~ from the folks that brought us Art in the Age, Hendricks, and more! Delicious!

VIDEONantsune's new Libra 165C meat slicer - it 3D displacement scans the meat as it goes through to perfectly cut each slice to be the same weight.

VIDEOSonos SUB - "stunningly designed wireless subwoofer that takes the whole Sonos Wireless HiFi System one seismic step closer to the full body experience music was meant to be." Fun video showing off what it can do.

VIDEOAmazingly clever 'granular jamming' robotic arm technology by Cornell Creative Machines Lab can pick up an egg and pour a glass of water.

VIDEOVideo showcasing the production side of the Tiny Little Chairs pendants. From 3D design to rapid prototyping to moulding to polishing. Brought to you by Bruxe Design and Consult.

FEATUREDLítill terrariums taken to a new level with balloons, blown glass, and fabric stalactite like structures are the star of Jette and Fabrik, Lauren Coleman’s latest exhibition opened at Direktorenhaus Berlin on the 1st of June.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes gentle persuasion, jalapeno-cheddar hamburger buns and a spiral vegetable tart .

VIDEOTime lapse of a Whale being spray-painted on the front of The Violet Hour (A chic Chicago bar that constantly changes the art work on it's large wooden facade).

VIDEODiscover the future of transport in this video directed by Le 7e bureau.

FEATUREDAdidas Samba's have been a classic indoor soccer shoe since 1950... they've now adapted them to golf shoes... and here's a close up look at the packaging and details of their latest 3 limited edition colorways!

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org features monkey orchids, a grass-filled cathedral and apocalyptic chicken coop.

VIDEO'The proof that we are soulmates' with illustration and Animation by Emanuele Colombo by Drake Martinet.

VIDEOAn insight into the work of Loughborough Design School finalists in the run up to the degree show 'Design Delivered'. Prototypes are made using a mixture of traditional methods and cutting-edge technology.

VIDEOCyclists shot at 1000 frames a second, with spit, sweat and snot, disgusting yet beautiful. The Fireflies, committed to raising money for Leuka, a charity formed to support Research & Treatment of Leukaemia in London.

VIDEOBeautiful crystal-filled music video for Ryan Teague's Cascades directed and produced by Craig Ward.

FEATURED24 hours of light in Iceland, island hopping in Thailand and hillwalking in the Scottish highlands are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

FEATUREDFrom little tadpoles to tiny toadlets! Watch our tadpoles as they grow on their journey from tadpole to toadlet!

VIDEOJames Leng's Point Cloud, an Arudino controlled wire mesh that visualizes the weather with over 300 feet of wire thread, and 966 intersection joints.

VIDEOThe Industry City Distillery in Brooklyn, NY, distills its own sugar beet vodka with a DIY distillery set up built in-house with the help of The City Foundry.

VIDEOHugo de Kok & Kay van Vree's Flatten On, a look at various foods, flattened!

VIDEORaw + Unfiltered, a look behind the scenes at the American Design Club's Raw + Unfiltered at ICFF from Karlsson.

FEATUREDCeleriac panna cotta, cinnamon applesauce spice cake and the revised bee’s knees are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

VIDEOKyle McDonald and Matt Mets's 'Blind Self Portrait Machine' creates a machine-aided drawing. The user keeps their eyes shut as a moving platform guides their pen using computer vision to track their face and create the line drawing.

FEATUREDBubble-filled hour glasses, eaten photographic film and rattlesnakes like you’ve never seen before are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

FEATUREDHotelify your bathroom ~ just because you aren't at a hotel, doesn't mean you can't experiment with fun new toiletries! Here are some fun sets for guys and girls to try out ~ whether for you or to stock your guest bathroom!

FEATUREDRobots and Yetis and other Makershed fun we found at Maker Faire!!!