A closer look at the 'steak knife' teeth of the tuatara reveals that it saws as it chews.
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Twelve new prints from Eliza Frye's desktop wallpaper series.
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Eyejusters, readjustable eyeglasses that allow users to change their own prescription.
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Daniel Firman's gravity-defying elephant sculptures.
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Cute songbird shaped paperclips, Puhlmann Bird Clips.
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In The Rock,a fire station in a cave in Magreid, Italy by Berg Meister Wolf.
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Dogs & Cars, cute illustration series from Emmanuelle Walker.
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VIDEOResults from a 5 day workshop held in the SCI-Arc Robot House, taught by Kruysman-Proto, focusing on synchronous robotics. Dynamically reconfiguring a geometric primitive to create bullet time light drawings.
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'I am a Camera' by Luke Evans and Josh Lake from Kingston University, who "wanted to bring our insides out, so we ate 35mm photographic film slides and let our bodies do the rest."
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The simple genius of Muji strikes again with transparent sticky notes...
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FEATUREDWhale-watching in Sri Lanka, breakfast with kangaroos and Scottish boltholes are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.
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Bug Music Videos released their first iPhone and Android apps to celebrate their 5th Birthday. Bespoke video playlist from their 30 shows by comedian Adam Buxton.
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Eco-Seat-Play for Kids. Made of durable recycled cardboard, designed by Dominika Błazek for LaboratoryArt.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT's Must Have Camera Phone Add Ons ~ both physical (lenses, flash colors, etc) and digital (iOS + Android apps!) Here's a list of some of our favorites!
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This year's Serpentine Pavilion in London by architects Herzog, de Meuron, and artist Ai Wei Wei, finally opens to the public June 1.
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'Standard number 4' by Marc Ferrand, Gardens Garden.
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Dagmara Berska & Barbara Dzieran won a Gold Medal at the European Design Awards held in Helsinki for their Medialab Warsaw poster.
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Beautiful photos of the process behind Chazutsu tin cannisters for tea and drygoods storage created by Kaikado.
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Between Folds / British Butterflies, a beautiful work by Francisca Prieto displays all of the plates from A History of British Butterflies by the Rev. F.O. Morris, B.A., fifth edition, 1870.
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Ar Vag, a collapsible boat consisting of boards and a waterproof skin. Designed by Thibault Penven, a student at the Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL).
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Project Summer House in Southern Burgenland (Austria) by Judith Benzer Architektur describes a simple sharp-edged cubature, fitting into its surroundings.
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FEATUREDWatch our Magic Crystal Tiara grow in time lapse! A fun Selfridges exclusive from Bompas & Parr and one of a selection of fun tiaras in their Big British Shop.
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Pingtuated Equilibripong, a regulation sized ping pong table that converts into a dining table by Akke Functional Art.
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VIDEOAwaglass timer, a beautiful bubble-filled hourglass from Studio Note.
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Animal bookends, with a sirloin detail inside!
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'Conservatorium Hotel' by Piero Lissoni in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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So many baby birds! Remember BBC Springwatch? It's that time of year again! Lots of live streaming cams in lots of wild bird nests!
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"Do what you feel to be right in your heart, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, damned if you don't". - Eleanor Roosevelt - letterpress print by Two Paperdolls
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VIDEOThe latest Bytesize Science video features a cool demo of synthetic vocal cords that mimic the vibration of human vocal cords. These polymer vocal cords may help repair damaged vocal tissue in singers like Julie Andrews and Roger Daltrey.
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Experience Vivid Sydney, largest celebration of light, music and ideas in the Southern Hemisphere... from now to 11 June 2012.
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Base Camp X's Prometheus Fire Piston - "Through the rapid compression of air, the tinder placed in the piston recess an ember is born in a flash. The piston receiver is hand turned from Tennessee Hickory."
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Veggie Burger Bunny! The veg variation of Joe Ledbetter's Burger Bunny made especially for KidRobot.
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Mission Workshop's Arkiv System of modular bags...
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A first look at a wild European mole in its natural habitat underground as it cleans and beheads earthworms!
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Never Forget Spaceship Earth ~ here's a tee for all the Buckminster Fuller lovers from Art In The Age (it comes in mens and womens sizes)
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FEATUREDOxford Street's HIGHEST tea + crazy rooftop golf at Selfridges between landmarks made of jelly, fondant + icing! The Big Rooftop Tea & Golf Party with Bompas & Parr and Daylesford Organic.
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Yum Yum London's fun animated characters become a limited edition toy set!
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Exclusive coverage on the worlds first pop-up hotel in Tulum, Mexico. Plus, exciting details about pop-up hotel #2 in Mykonos Greece!
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MCA Memorial Billboard in Los Angeles, collaboration between Shepard Fairey and Glen E Friedman - RIP MCA.
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VIDEOThe Sauber Formula 1 team has chopped one of their race cars in half over the last 2 years in order to explain the design and technology behind these high performance machines.
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The MoneyMaker by HoldFast is a very handy and stylish Multi-Camera harness enabling the user to carry two or three cameras.
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Williamsburg Brooklyn inspired wallpaper, by local designer Dan Funderburgh, for the Wythe Hotel.
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VIDEO'Screen Walls' is the result of an 8-week workshop through Boston Architectural College, centered around the design, fabrication, and assembly of an architectural screen wall using Radlab's robotic arm!
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Baja Burner is a travel-size stove designed by Snow Peak.
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The InCog Multi_Tool is the manifestation of the obvious – keep your bike tools (hidden) on your bike. Designed by Joshua Brassé.
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Mind the System, Find the Gap @Z33. About codes, systems and structures.
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Just About Now by Maarten Baas and Laikingland used for measuring periods of time: coffee break, meditation, nap, business meeting..
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'Fragment' is a cast aluminum chair by German designer David Geckeler. Three legs, great choice of color and a unique way of producing furniture.
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FEATUREDFestival wristbands don't have to be plasticy anymore, even with RFID tags in them... here's a look at the adorably illustrated new cloth/RFID Bonnaroo 2012 ones!
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A clever handyman's multitool available at the MOMA store that contains a hammer, adjustable wrench, pliers, wire cutter, file, blades, and a screwdriver with a twelve-piece bit set concealed in the handle.
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Toothpaste from around the world, misspelled food labels, and newsstand paper weights are just some of the objects you'll find in the tiny Museum located in an old freight elevator on Cortlandt Alley in NYC.
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A phone with a built in radiation detector! The Pantone 5 107SH Android phone by Sharp for Softbank.
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FEATUREDTokyo Milk Dark Femme Fatale and Fate & Fortune collections have incredible packaging and point of sale displays... and smell great as well!
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Alexander Girard Color board book from Ammo Books celebrates the vivid, playful, sophisticated world of 20th century design icon who created iconic textile designs for Herman Miller.
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Snare Tables consist of a frame with three equal profiles and a hand turned bowls made from either natural or black stained solid chestnut, designed by Warm.
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How to make a book cover disguise for your wireless router.
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Interesting Seafood set of cutlery designed by Wong Chi-Fung for Jia.
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'Rattlesnakes' a photo series by Matt Rainwaters.
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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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FEATUREDPiñata cupcakes, freezing olive oil and the Strawberry Rhubarb Shrub are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.
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The stunningly beautiful Romanesco Broccoli with mesmerizing fractal like growth... you can get heirloom seeds to grow your own!
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RoboSpider, just one of Wired's menagerie of robot animals.
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Mörike Gymnasium by Klumpp + Klumpp in southern Germany.
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I Wish I Said Hello is a street art project aiming to take the Missed Connections network back to the public space. Stickers are created from Cragislist stories and pasted at the physical location where they happened.
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Cathy McClure's Ferris Wheel and Carousel in "Midway" at the Moss Bureau
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This Museum of Endangered Sounds was conceived to preserve the sounds made famous by old electronics equipment.
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Laser engraved walnut bicycle handlebar made by laser cut studio in Helsinki.
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FEATUREDArt In The Age's newest spirit: SAGE! It's a delicious follow up to Root, Snap, Rhuby... and take a peek into its organic distillery, GreenBar Collective in downtown LA! The copper still it's made in is a work of art.
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Who Do You Know Game. A new fun WebGame that tells you how many of your Facebook friends you actually know.
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4iiii Sportiiiis Heads Up Display for Athletes ~ clip it to glasses, and it guides you with multi-colored LEDs. A simple tap of the unit gives you a verbal update on your current performance and can be programmed to visually respond to data from ANT+ devices.
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By choosing the theme of family Mani Zamani would like to reach a wider audience and tell a story to both adults and children through these wooden figurines.
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ORIRI is a grid based carpet system for unusual polygon carpets, made of 100% wool felt and natural cork and it comes in many colors and forms.
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Salt Made From Tears ~ The range from Monster Supplies includes flavors of sorrow, laughter, chopping onions, and more!
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FEATUREDSelf Stirring Pot! A cleverly designed pot that uses convection to constantly stir itself.
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'A world without petrol' transforms forty gasoline pumps (bowsers) into useful and playful items including a London telephone box, a garden trellis, water fountain, and coffee machine
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VIDEOThe new VW 'See Film Differently' campaign from Ivan Zacharias in collaboration with DDB London.
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Fun info-graphic style and 'functional' illustrations from Tobatron.
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Produce Calendars, part of Chasing Delicious: Kitchen 101, breaking down the seasonal availability of various fruits, vegetables and herbs.
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FEATUREDSculptures made from supersoakers, beauty in rotting vegetables and the sleek Lamborghini Ankonian are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.
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Blindry is a clever window blind that turns into a fold-down laundry rack for drying clothes indoors. Designed by Kim Bobin and Ko Kyungeun.
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FEATUREDHow do you breed jellyfish? Here's a look at the breeding of Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) at the Horniman Museum & Garden's Aquarium.
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'Harvest Pavilion' by Vector Architects in Kunshan, China.
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The Boston Public Library's Print Department is home to more than 350 vintage travel posters, most dating from the 1920s-1940s, the “Golden Age of Travel.” And you can purchase prints!
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Ilott vintage cameras, loving restored classics.
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Amco Houseworks Serrated Ice Cream Scoop - nice faceted inner surface to keep the scoop from suctioning.
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Wireframe series from studioellsworth and [lhooq] design.
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Ixoost is a unique Docking station made from old cars parts!
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Yellow Treehouse Restaurant by Pacific Environments Architects. The tree-house concept is reminiscent of childhood dreams and playtime, fairy stories of enchantment and imagination.
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The Small Coal Man’s Travelling Theatre, by Aberrant Architecture.
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VIDEOGreat video realized by Stephane Benini for Clash Production of artistic discipline of Parkour through the stunning Luxembourg architecture.
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An HP Cardboard briefcase that becomes a cardboard workspace designed by GOODSTUPH.
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The beautiful Yoobi Sushi on Lexington in London's Soho designed by Gundry & Ducker Architecture Ltd.
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Fat or Fiction, the 'breaking down nutritional information bite by bite' from designers Anna Brooks, Christina Winkless and David Paul Rosser.
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Liquiguide, a revolutionary super-slippery coating to liberate your ketchup developed by MIT.
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The World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Pavilion
by Aalto University Wood Studio students.
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'Quantity has a quality in itself' by Douglas Young, artwork created from plastic water guns showcased recently at the Hong Kong Art Fair.
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