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Using Topobo, created in the MIT Media Lab by Hayes Raffle and Amanda Parkes, is like building a Lego robot you program with your hands!
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Studio Dror has gorgeous porcelain pieces, I love the gorgeous necklaces and the skeleton-like floral forms, but also some beautiful vases too.
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Andree Putman's Oceano trunk for Poltrona Frau reminds me of an old steamer trunk, but ten times cooler and better looking.
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A hotel gift shop in the form of a vending machine - selling high-end luxury items and design & cultural symbols instead of the expected t-shirts, toothbrushes and souvenirs.
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Tord Boontje's latest project involves kitchenware produce by South American artisan communities. A great execution of design intent, and working with their traditional techniques!
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MIT's SENSEable City Lab monitors tourists via Flickr, creating visual representations of their presence, showing their travels and interests.
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WIRED does an interview with Philippe Starck - his impossible chair looks gorgeous!
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Afro Coffee is a cafe that has started expanding into other product lines, all with gorgeous African-inspired packaging. This wine packaging actually has a working radio!
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Blow-your-mind architectural concept from Magnus Larsson: use bacteria to create a 6,000km long wall to prevent the Sahara Desert from spreading further. Wow.
209 Hearts![James May and volunteers are building a life-size house from Legos in the UK, which May plans to live in after its completion [for a few days].](http://www.notempire.com/images/uploads/lh1.jpg)
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James May and volunteers are building a life-size house from Legos in the UK, which May plans to live in after its completion [for a few days].
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Cool - Makedo is a building kit that lets you make things from whatever "found" materials you may have lying around.
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SP Architects designed this 'Pickles & Chutney Pavilion' with 3,000 mason jar lids hanging from the ceiling, and the jars creating the walls.
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The Claytable by Erwin Zwiers is designed so that users can leave their traces, as they play and mould the table's inviting clay surface.
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Plastic Logic - A cool e-reader in development for release next year - includes a touchscreen, so you can draw and mark up what you're reading!
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Shinichi Maruyama captures the mixing of water and ink with high speed photography.
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Scholten & Baijings : beautiful, bold colorful blankets. I wish I had one to cuddle up to this holiday season!
159 Hearts
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Peter Marigold makes these tables using scraps leftover leather from Fendi production.
154 Hearts
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SYNTHe is an urban green roof in LA developed by SCI-arc professor Alexis Rochas and his students.
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This Pavilion is inspired by termites, and is modeled after the inside of a termite mound.
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