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An Outsiders Guide to The Outside By j.frede

Inspired By Iceland - Attempting to boost tourism after the volcanic eruption, Icelanders have come up with this website to promote their country.

Sony Computer Science Laboratories exhibited a life-logging device for cats. The device can be used with the Twitter service and automatically posts comments in accordance with the activities.

The Corpora is an algorithm and a virtual living mechanism at the same time,using data collected from hundreds of sensors, it builds up a ‘harmonic’, ideal environment based upon the results. It is augmented reality architecture.

Stainless steel Micro Sim Cutter cuts a perfect Micro Sim out of your normal Sim. "Cut My Sim" consists of twelve stainless steel parts and doesn’t allow you to cut your card wrongly.

"Sorry, You're a Rockstar Now" Check out this funny commercial for the AdBand festival and find out what your life should look like if you ever take part of this experience...

"Left shoe!!! Right shoe!!!,” by artist Liam Gillick consists of a pair of sleek black leather brogues with perforated holes in the toe-box. Done in collaboration with traveling boutique Clemens en August

artist Paul Ramírez Jonas created a Key to the City, part scavenger hunt, part introduction to overlooked city monuments, from cathedral to neighborhood soda fountain, the project unlocks private rooms and displays in random locations .

Capture breathtaking aerial videos with this lightweight RC plane camera for RC planes, helicopters, kites, park-flyers, and more!

Primele makes beautiful calligraphy address stamps

Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. Hylozoic Ground by Philip Beesley is an immersive, interactive environment.

FriendsWithYou brings color and festivities to Toronto for the Wish Come True Festival in what will be their largest interactive installation to date. June 10th - 20th, 2010.

Mia Schmallenbach and French cutlers Deglon spent over 150 hours fine tuning this highly visual, yet practical knife block set, entitled "Meeting".

Graphic design and poster printing team Aesthetic Apparatus have their 10 year exhibition and art show 1 year late - showing the entire month of June, 2010 at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Working Lego printer by Squirrelfantasy is a Lego/felt pin printer adorned with Lego mini figurines making it an unusual masterpiece.

Heart of the Home: Electrolux presents the kitchen of the future. Imagine never having to use pans or pots again, never having to worry whether the ingredients are fresh or never having to look up a recipe in a cook book.

Visualizing the BP Oil Spill Disaster ~ as overlayed on your location to get a different perspective of how big it is!

With a gorgeous laser-cut wooden case for the book, The Whisky Trail by Liam Bonar is a beautifully documented resource on the heritage of whisky culture in Scotland.

POSTMONUMENT - The XIVth International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara.

Why do many products only serve a single function? This question served as an incentive for Neffa to look for unexpected and surprising combinations. One of the newest concepts is Ivy Xposed; a combination of light and plant.

Terrariums are making a real comeback, they even have their own article and slideshow in the NYTimes this week.

Simon Spilsbury takes on the Lions of Bath project. Look out for 100 lions in public spaces around Bath this summer. Spilsbury's Lion ‘Killerbite’ sponsored by Backup Direct can be seen on platform 1, Bath Spa Station.

The Little Horn Speakers turn the audio world upside down. They posses a life-like soundstage unlike anything ever heard. With the Little Horn Speakers, the soundstage gets bigger, the instruments spread apart, the stage unfolds.

Baxter of California is commemorating their 45th Anniversary with a limited edition cut throat razor crafted by American blade manufacturer, Hart Steel.

Dezeen have got together with New York architects WORKac to give away five copies of the second edition of 49 Cities, their study into design proposals for utopian metropolises.

The Electrolux E:Motion Trivet provides induction through a curved surface, allowing for traditional Asian wok cooking on flat induction cook tops.

iiDA asked undergraduate and graduate-level students in Japanese and international universities to submit ideas for "LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS". This is one of the winning designs.

Coast Modern Poster. Original artwork and poster design from Byron O’Neill—mixed and pulled by master printer Matt Mayer and team over at JDK.

Polo Jeans Co. Ralph Lauren commissioned over 50 of Europe’s most exciting young contemporary artists to customize stars made from the finest American denim. This piece from French artist L'Atlas is one of them.

Copywriter/Director Alec Brownstein won 2 Pencils and a Clio award for getting a job. This is how he did it.

Created by John Christenson, Nuzzles® are custom designed handmade wooden name puzzles, each with its own unique typographic style. Every puzzle is crafted from a single block of wood.

Some interesting examples and trends of “Meet the Team” pages. In any industry where the people behind a company are as important as the company itself, they add a personal touch and can lend trust to visitors.

San Francisco based Botany Factory makes amazing succulent terrariums in hand-blown glass vessels. Their production is like a science experiment, albeit one conducted with color, texture and visual composition.

This beautiful Lightcatcher for the Whatcom Museum was designed by Olson Kundig Architects. This project was to add an iconic object for the museum to make the museum’s exterior as active as the interior.

Critical Practice just completed this installation made of 4200 milk crates at Chelsea College, London as part of Parade [#30782]. The project explores the layers of predetermined design and spontaneous space creation.

The Moses Mabhid Stadium in South Africa for the FIFA 2010 World Cup features a cable-car that rides up the soaring arch to a skydeck for prime viewing and was partially constructed from the old stadium.

Rocket Car: A Coke and Mentos powered car.

Designer Elisa Sighicelli came up with a great idea for a fresh desk, Il giardino segreto. Available from Edizioni Plusdesign made of rosewood and birch.

A lovely deer vase (Hirschblüte) by Akari Luig (akamoyo) a German-Japanese design all-rounder living in Berlin.

Gap House is a newly constructed home built on a tight urban site in West London designed to minimize its carbon footprint.

"Horti & Horti" is part of Danese's "Waste Not" collection, a combination of previous and vintage designs to give them a new greener purpose. Horti & Horti is composed of a book shelf by Paolo Rizzatto and containers by Enzo Mari.

A re-look at Anish Kapoor first works done in 1979-80. 1000 Names was very much influenced by his journey through India in 1979 where little piles of pigment sold for cosmetic and ritual use at the entrances of temples.

What Google Creative Labs' Ed Kim is wearing, illustrated and posted each day on his Tumblr blog.

Tim Byrne repurposes and rebuilds old industrial machinery into tables -- the wheel actually functions to adjusts the table top height!