Audi has just revealed their high-tech endurance racer, the R18 TDI, which is chock full of carbon fiber and every automotive advancement possible to continue dominating the world's most difficult motorsport.

New: Streetview Sudan. You probably saw your own house in streetview, now it's possible to see the streets in Sudan. An intriguing fundraising campaign from The Netherlands for Cordaid.

'ParisLovesYou' Chair by French designer Laurent Corio for Maison Desalle. A contemporary genuine Parisian Bistro chair.

Bone, Johnson, and a group of IDEO designers bring back the tactile nature of playing music and creating mix tapes with their C60 Redux.

A large square in Córdoba, Spain, that hosts public events such as a twice-weekly market, has been transformed into an architectural array of water lilies thanks to Madrid architects Paredes Pino.

This is Parisian lifestyle. 'I am a Parisian Lady' photographed by Baudouin.

Cute tags for New Republic by Jeffrey Docherty.

Gift Guide: TVs in Kitchens ~ the gadgets and gizmos that help make it even easier when cooking! (And a taste of some of the Tasteologie Editors' favorite cooking shows!)

Wooden Molecule Building Set!

Another incredible photo series from Stephen Alvarez. This one is of Madagascar's Stone Forests.

Coffee and Cream ~ Modernist Cuisine shares a little sneak peak of their upcoming book and some fun high-speed video of creamer hitting coffee.

From Beyond ~ "The Moments That Defined YouTube in 2010" Channel

'Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking' by Artist: Catherine Chi - 5 color, 18"x24" handmade silk-screen print. Edition of 100.

Interesting stencil art of famous F1 cars and other machines including Ayrton Senna's 1988 McLaren MP4/4. Limited prints available.

Yabu Pushelberg's Avenue Road showroom in Toronto, Canada.

dwellstudio puzzle - wooden stacked animals

DeckONE package design by Homer Liwag with a gunmetal box.

Great spice packaging for Muse by Wink.

Ona Bags The Union Street - camera and laptop messenger bag

High performance particle effects in your browser using the Material Point Method ~ Drag the fluid around with your mouse.

Details - The 71 Most Stylish Presents You Can Give—or Get—This Season - love the layouts

Ona Bag's The Roma ~ a DLSR Insert for just about any bag...

How Was Your Day? Calendar ~ where you fill in the emoticon of how your day was...

Packaging that works with the design of doorstops for Dolop.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #20: Fawn & Forest are giving away the incredible Brinca Dada Emerson Doll House - the ultimate modern doll house!

Inception The App ~ fascinating (free) app that adapts music to the pace of your life...

Wooden Books by Kid O ~ Things that Go shown above, and there is also an Animal Homes book.

Gift Guide ~ TV/Movies we love to stream in the background....

The Leatherman Style ~ is impressively sleek and modern looking... for a keychain sized multi tool!

Mini: Vending machine projection - Awesome video, love the concept and execution

Welcome to Nice Beer Lake! Adorable pint glass and coaster set by Aesthetic Apparatus!

Nicholas Brawer's Rolls Royce, Bugatti, Mercedes, Bentley & Jaguar Grill Decanters

Zoo! Creatures Of Curiosity is a beautiful 110 page hardback cover book - featuring a scientific journal of make believe animals illustrated and drawn by artist Karl Addison - written and researched by Jennifer Weitman.

Imagine if Angry Birds was a pixelated game of the 90s... by penney design

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #19: Diesel Sweeties is giving away two bundles ~ one pixel skull set (shot glasses, socks, tie!) and one pixel robot set (tote, socks, tie!)

The Kraken Rum - takes its deliciously inspired branding to a new level and launches a STORE! With gorgeous lamps and shower curtains, posters and moleskines, tees and handkerchiefs... and more!

Yet another weird story from the Museum of Modern Fiction - "The Chinese Monk, his Indian Guide & their White Elephant"

"Never Judge..." a group show at Stolen Space, in association with Penguin, which celebrates the art of the paperback book cover such as the piece shown here by Filthy Luker

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #18: Hard Graft! Chance to win one of the lovely leather/felt phone fold cases!!!

Apex VJ - Visualize your favorite tunes online

Keyne Dupont's Entre les lignes - gorgeous details on this table

Stop-motion PSA for MTV Staying Alive Campaign.

Phone case lust ~ the new Pocket Phone Case from Hard Graft ~ love when they bring back leather pockets on felt...

Rena Dumas Architecture have recently completed this beautiful retail space for Hermès within the premises of a 1930s swimming pool in Paris.

Penhaligon's Travel Atomiser - your fragrances, ready to go!

Root Beer Jelly on Pork Belly on Crispy Grits... and other southern meets socal meets molecular gastronomy dishes at Vu.

Nerf Star Wars Clone Wars Electronic Blaster - Clone Trooper

Berti Cutlery Cigar Cutter with Wood Base

New ad for the Google Nexus S - Agency MUH-TAY-ZIK / HOF-FER - Production company 1stAveMachine - Director Asif Mian

After months of anticipation and several teaser videos from BMW, the 1 Series M has been unveiled in final form with a new ad and plenty of glossy photos.

This swimming pool by Hélio Oiticica & Neville D’Almeida will be open for MOCA LA visitors to try out (swimsuits available in the gift shop) on Dec. 12. Part pf “Suprasensorial,” a show in Latin American light and space art.

"Escarpolette" Collection are hanging seats designed by Tom&Caro and shown at Biennale Internationale de Design de Saint Etienne 2010

Hunsett Mill house by ACME Architects in Stalham, Norfolk county - UK.

Apple Engineer Andrew Carol built a functional Historical Computer, The Antikythera Mechanism, allegedly the oldest version of a scientific computer.

SIWA (pronounced shiwa) briefcase by Naoto Fukasawa is made entirely from highly water-resistant paper produced by Onao paper company in Japan.

Front around the clock, the new wall clock designed by the Swedish Front for Porro.

Signed and numbered limited edition of 30 slingshots by Christopher Jarratt. Each slingshot is made from a found tree branch in Epping Forest, England.

Beautiful new print by tracciamenti - inspired by an article that she read about the detailing and embellishments of haute couture dresses, and the women in Asia who are employed to complete the work.

Air Guitar Prototype using Kinect, created with openFrameworks and open source drivers by Chris O'Shea

Amarant by Spell for LEF is a combination of a magazine holder and a side table. Inspired by flowers we named it Amarant meaning ‘eternal abloom’.

The Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses), a versatile open source hospitality solution that is portable, reusable, and adaptable to multiple environments and locations.

A watering hole with a retro look and feel from nightlife impresario Keith McNally: Schiller's Liquor Bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan has been open for a few years but seems from another century.

Stephen Johnson's Wonderland Candleholders.

The Adelaide Zoo show off thier adorable baby frogmouth.

Konstantin Grcic's Netscape at Design Miami consist of suspended seats.

The Adirondack Firestone Company makes a Firestarter that comes in a stylish stoneware pot and looks a bit like a marshmallow.

Raw-Edges (Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay) from Israel took a saw and some boards to redesign classic furnitures like this little table called Cut Attache'z.

20 Music Apps to Rock Your iPad

GIRO ONE by DESIGNJOO is tree-shaped and designed with nontoxic, recyclable material, ABS, with high impact resistance as well as abrasion resistance and LEDs.

"If Santa Claus came from Japan, he would be a vending machine" is the latest action by MUJI Spain.

Holiday Giveaway #17: Super awesome gift pack (hand picked by NOTCOT) from Fred! There's so much goodness in here, not enough room to even list it out!

TALLWORKS is a small design studio located in Los Angeles that helps brands and concepts grow to the next level. To help celebrate the holiday spirit, they decided to spruce up their logo's antlers with a bit of holiday cheer.

Lanterna Lamp, the new lamps collection designed by Bevk Perovic Arhitekti for Vertigo Bird.

NOTCOT Holiday Gift Guide ~ Going GREEN! Literally! All about gorgeous ways to integrate plants at home....

Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope pictures of insects and spiders.

Veteran tilt-shifter CITYSHRINKER's worldwide limited CITY PACKs featuring Melbourne, Paris, Tokyo, London and Berlin! Ultra cute!

Perrier Jouët's Dandy Champagne Bag ~ gorgeous holiday 2010 set, limited edition of 40, see all the details of what's included!

Where will your next adventure take you? Get carried away with this gorgeous roundup from Notventures.

A new green file format: WWF . Save as WWF, Save a Tree.

"The All Seeing Eye." - Lord of the Rings newest currency.

Holman House by Durbach Block Architects is set on the edge a cliff in Dover Heights. Living and dining areas cantilever out over the ocean, with amazing views from glass window structures, and a terrace with an outdoor pool.

The ‘Hungry Animals’ ( aka the whale that ate the elephant which ate a hippo which ate a turtle which had eaten a bird ) is a stencil set and small puzzle.
A tiny story of big animals eating small animals, all in the shape of a toy.

Edward Horsford‘s High-speed photography is quite amazing. He captures a balloons pop at 1/40,000ths of a second.

Creative outdoor campaign for Leica "Sharpest Details". Concept by Advico Y&R Zurich.

Thomas Paul Octopus Shower Curtain

From mono-coloured rooms to sleeping under swimming elephants, Maastricht’s Château Bethlehem Hotel is a frighteningly creative place, where hotel management students get hands on experience in forward-thinking hospitality.

'House of Trough' is a dwelling east of Hokkaido by Jun Igarashi Architects.

National Geographic has made a list of the Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010. This unidentified purple octopus is one of 11 potentially new species found during a July deep-sea expedition off Canada's Atlantic coast.

Commissioned for Wallpaper* Handmade, an exclusive exhibition and special issue of the iconic lifestyle magazine, Miranda Watkins has created ‘Martini’ a travel cocktail set produced by A.R. Wentworth of Sheffield.

Stunning Toronto home of Dr. James Stewart, designed by Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe of Shim Sutcliffe.

The Blue Print Cleanse KIT ~ fun designer holiday packaging - a specially crafted box by Brooklyn artisan, Aaron Somers, made of vintage reclaimed Southern Yellow Pine, finished in a natural beeswax oil which can be used as a planter!

Glowbelly Steamboat by Tan Lun Cheak of the Little Thoughts Group is a glass table lamp that can be used to cook food.

Bend Desk is a prototype interactive display that takes the digital workspace from the screen to the desktop by the media computing group at RWTH Aachen University.

iPhon4 History edition: Stuart Hughes encrusts iPhone 4 with T-Rex Tooth and Prehistoric Meteor.

Grumpy Bean Plushes~ "Artist Andrew Bell and plush master Lana Crooks bring our Cafe Grumpy coffee bean logo to life!"

Flensted Penguin Mobile!

Makerbot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer!

The new hue for 2011: Honeysuckle pink, an intense pink, specifically Pantone 18-2120 TCX.

Japanese architectural firm Studio Velocity designed a curved building located in Nagoya city, Japan.

Holiday Giveaway #16: Fitzsu! The awesome modern gift store fits our kitchen theme today with a chance to win the Boomerang Wok and Alea 16 pc. Stone Trivet!