Spirit-preserved flowers, top secret USBs and plot lines captured by infographics are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

Habitat's Bobby Desk Lamp in Jade Green

The Bottle Hanger Shot GlassCard - which is origami'd into a functional shot glass by Fifty Five His

Raul Lemesoff's book-tank is a mobile work of art and advocacy for peace and literacy.

Photographer Yan-Alexandre stumbled upon the set of Michel Gondry's next film, The Foam of the Days, and discovered these beautifully hacked-together cars. The attention to detail is stunning.

Graffiti street art in sheffield , home is where the heart is by faunagraphic and rocket01

Incase Box Case for the iPhone 4 and 4S ~ while i wasn't sure about it from pictures, once i felt it in my hand, it makes my iphone feel amazing. Also awesome packaging.

Tripwire, by visual artist Jean-Michel Albert and composer Ashley Fure, is a kinetic installation using computer controlled vertical strings. The installation has a simple, yet amazing visual and audio output.

Cast with sensors ensures quick recovery from bone fractures

Sandworks is an ecological tectonic system based on sand's self-organizing behavior, providing a temporary architecture in desert areas. In this instance, the project is an Eco-resort in Redsea, Egypt.

Clip on Fisheye, Polarizing or Mirage lenses for iPhone, iPad or anything really...

Squish Studio is located in Fogo Island, Canada, and designed by Saunders Architecture.

Fun line of Worktop Saver Designs for Joseph Joseph by Brad Woodard.

Kitchen Budapest and UrbanCyclr visualize the beautiful patterns created by the bike traffic of Budapest.

data.anatomy [civic] by Ryoji Ikeda created entirely from data from the Honda Civic.

MEDICI is a low chair with a comfortably reclined posture. - designed by Konstantin Grcic.

Popcorn Bacon! Black Hogg, a new Los Angeles restaurant, features deep fried bacon, fried olives, and a great selection of high end tacos.... bone marrow, pork belly, and anything else you can wrap a tortilla around.

The ExoHand from Festo, an exoskeleton that can be worn like a glove.

Adriano Studio's foosball tables for the Teckell Collection, '90° minuto' and 'intervallo' for B.lab italia.

The Ballavaz planter series from Kul Designs, a system of self-watering modular planters.

Wyatt John Little's 'Bird Poop Chandelier' with playful pendants.

The Sip Panel House by Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolph.

Top Secret USB, combining modern data storage with old school wax-stamp security. Created by Rob Hermes and Marlies Romberg of Studio Her-berg.

Gorgeous aerial footage of London shot by Jason Hawkes.

Adorably designed/packaged DUO Sparrow Key Rings ~ they go home to the bird house, and are a whistle as well.

"Fiction" mini film for Vitra by Florian Böhm ~ i love that it shows their pieces in REAL LIFE, not treating them like museum pieces, but part of your home.

The SSB-1 Erik Heywood for BOOK/SHOP. Made in California of natural birch ply, each unit is cut and trimmed by hand to ensure an exact fit, then matte clear-coated, edge-banded, and hand rubbed with a light finish of natural beeswax.

Cute set up of bucky balls, wire, and a battery for a little motor...

Though World Tapir Day was on April 24th, it's not too late for this fun DIY Tapir Mask by Natalya Zahn.

The Chicken Chair by Sebastian Errázuriz

Post Living creates unique pieces of furniture featuring exclusive art prints - pictured is 'The Owler' series from Pete Fowler.

Poster of the skin with tattoos as advertising salon Chaos Crew Tattoo Studio.

Sarah Pease uses 12 truncated pentagonal pyramids to form a dodecahedron.

limited edition art printed ceramic plate. (31,5 cm) by Hugo Mulder

Chinese artist Liu Wei creates chaotic cityscape installations; some using stacked schoolbooks, others with edible dog chews.

Kaitlyn Schoeck created this Astronaut Glove Assistant, which uses Muscle Wire to increase pressure and improve dexterity.

Wax Tableware Lets You Make (and Melt) Your Own Dishes

Infographic: What makes a prize winning novel?

Supercharged - The new french website about sport cars, tuning, oldies, customs & race. Galleries, videos & daily news!

Cool swing made from reclaimed hickory salvaged from a railway depot in Alabama.

CNsilk is an ongoing project from the MIT Media Lab's research group Mediated Matter. The project uses a robotic arm to weave string to produce structure, much like a spider.

Zak Zarak is a desk lamp designed by Lutz Pankow for Ingo Maurer.

Deadaleas is an amazing shelf, made ​​of wood and steel. Designed by Fanny Dora.

RISD furniture student Laura Kishimoto created 'Shadow Box,' a challenge in vacuum forming to achieve complex geometries in a bass wood frame.