Behold: the world's first solar-powered wind turbine!

Hatch Design's Egg Coloring Kit (and contest). Such cute packaging on the kits!

3 dimensional objects by Lionfish Design
These 3' to 7' lightweight fabric structures fold into a tube for easy shipping.

Ann Van Hoey is an industrial designer gone ceramic artist who takes paper to pottery, creating ceramic bowls in the form of origami paper folding.

A fun packaging filler alternative resembling paper banknotes that may get your recipient excited, then disappointed.

Happy April Fools Day from Google! It looks like there was plenty of fun putting together Gmail Motion BETA.

The Illegal Architecture movement in Taipei attempts to revitalize the city by organizing and building in non-government-mandated spaces.

The 747 program began production on the first 747-8 Intercontinental at the factory in Everett, Washington.

White O Residence designed by architects Toyo Ito & Associates.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's From Here to Ear (v. 13) at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art features finches and coat hangers.

Julien Vidame designed this coffee table on architectural principles, proportions then lines, and the lightweight trapezoidal structure comes in stainless steel as well as different colors.

'Babe' coathanger by young Swedish designer Anna Kraitz for Källemo.

The Complect Coffee Table by Matt Finder combines simple home assembly and high quality construction into a flat-packing table that doesn't look like one.

BAC MONO (Briggs Automotive Company monoposto, or single seat) designed to bring formula race car levels of handling, performance and thrill to the public road.

Nike and Liberty are at it AGAIN! New sneaker collaboration series!

NASA has just released the first close up pictures of Mercury taken by the Messenger spacecraft.

Great slideshow from the NYtimes exploring vintage typewriters and the people who love them.

Perfect for a classic cocktail. 'Jet Set' coasters in glossy porcelain and bold graphics by Jonathan Adler.

The WREX adjustable pocket wrench is a lightweight tool that fits in your pocket and boasts a trigger-lock adjustable wrench jaw and titanium coated knife blade.

Vanja Bazdulj's Rough & Ready series consists of industrial wool transformed into bright stret-art style chairs. The series will be at Designersblock at Ventura Lambrate during the Salone.

Google typographic tomfoolery

Woodworking for kids. This is a woodworking workshop at the Randall Museum in San Francisco.

ThinkGeek's Playmobil Apple Store complete with iPhone display and optional Line Pack (with a tiny Woz on a tiny Segway) for April Fools' Day

Coral House is a mixed-use building in Geneva, Switzerland, designed by Group8. Eye-catching as it is covered with colorful motorized fabric window blinds.

You can brew your own beer at home with a little help from this home beer brewing system from Oregon-based Synergy Brewing.

Fun and functional furniture by Matali Crasset for Danese! Double Side can transform from chair to desk and bench. It will be launched at Milan Design Week.

'Adrift' from artist Jeremy Geddes.The latest of his amazing 'cosmonaut' paintings to be released as a limited print.

If you are in NYC, check out DIG, an installation by Daniel Arsham of Snarkitecture at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, which explores the architecture of excavation.

It’s been an incredible week of wanderlust worthy posts at NotVentures. Discover St Barths, chateaus, how you can have dinner in the sky and more.

Great weekend bag from Killspencer.

Acclaimed photographer Ryan McGinley with his exhibition 'Somewhere Place' at Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam on April 9.

Great packaging for the UNICEF Celebrity Tap Project.

The turncoat ipad cover from Autum.

Justin Lamont's Full Moon and Hybrid chairs.

How Many Americans Have a Passport? The Percentages, State by State

The Cedar Strip Wood Kayak from Justin Charles has a classic elegance to its curves.

Coava Kone Stainless Steel Coffee Filter and Chemex Coffee Maker are gorgeous!

Coming this May from Phaidon, an extraordinary look at the history of the modern office chair. A Taxonomy of Office Chairs by Jonathan Olivares delves into the past of the utility seat that in the modern world has gained cult-like status.

Great packaging for Kingswood Wine, designed by Erica Craig.

The new ongoing videos series 'Swissness According to Diccon Bewes.' The author of the book 'Swiss Watching' shares his thoughts on Switzerland and attempts to unravel the true meaning of 'Swissness'.

R. Luke Dubois joins 21 dating web sites and aggregates the language used in the profiles of 19 million people. He then uses this data to create beautiful and insanely detailed city and state maps in A More Perfect Union.

Gorgeous identity for Space|Camp, a design studio and gallery space.

Gitta Gschwendtner designed the exhibit 'Dior Illustrated: Rene Gruaua and the Line of Beauty' for London’s Somerset House which features fashion drawings on gauze-covered boxes.

From 2007 to 2010, Gallup asked people in 148 countries all over the world what country they would consider moving permanently to. GOOD and Column Five Media share the results with this cute infographic.