Sagaform Self Watering Cone - an elegant variation of the cone where you fill your water bottle, screw it into the cone, and flip it into a potted plant to self water!
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Yiu Studio's great packaging for Rivet & Sway is an online shopping boutique focused exclusively on women’s prescription glasses.
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Potting Shed Creation's recycled wine bottle terrariums ~ growing horizontally with moss or sedum.
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Toll's Toy, a push wheel, spinning toy and skipping rope from Drache&Bär (Grzegorz Cholewiak and Lena Hensel).
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VIDEOGocen is a handwritten notation interface for musical performance and learning. The device lets you interpret written musical notation and play instruments simultaneously by converting the written notes into a playable sound.
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Just spotted at Siggraph - DIYlilCNC just introduced the DIY CNC machine 2.0. This version gets bigger and better, allowing you to mill larger pieces faster.
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Themis Prism Designed by Clara von Zweigbergk for Artecnica
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A first look at Ernesto Neto's Latest installation for Nike's Flyknit Collective at London's 1948 space.
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VIDEOFound the Shader Printer at Siggraph... lasers activate thermochromic ink, allowing the designer to color and draw on any 3d shape, and freeze it to erase and start over! Imagine the custom toy/commitment-phobe possibilities!
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Amazon Lockers ~ instead of having things shipped to you, these have been popping up in grocery stores/drugstores/etc where you can pick up your package.
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Demetriades + Walker Architecture's New York Boardwalk House.
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FEATUREDBotanicus Interacticus by Disney Research at Siggraph. Turning plants into interactive sensors, demonstrated by their beautiful booth, letting you caress, grab, and poke their plants, creating visualizations in the magic mirror.
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Six of Clover from the 'Fashion Playing Cards Series by Connie Lim.
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'Happy Cut' assists in cutting a cake with the accurate number of pieces so that every body gets to go home happy.
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'OBJECTIFY THIS: Female Anatomy Dissected and Displayed' is a group exhibition of paintings and illustrations featuring the underlying anatomy of the female body. September 7–29, 2012 at Design Cloud, Chicago.
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Woods Bagot and several other international architects, raise public awareness about the role of the design and construction industry in the aftermath of natural disasters.
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Nike and Liberty London's latest collaboration, a floral patterned track spike, the 'Mirabelle' Victory Elite.
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SparkTruck, an educational build-mobile that travels across the US encouraging kids to find their inner maker!
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Fascinating look inside the Olympic training camp of China’s world record-breaking weightlifters.
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VIDEOAura is living interface that uses plants to control a lamp inside. Developed by german based designer Viktor Kölbig.
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ASCII Streetview, real-time Ascii Art conversion of Google Street View panorama's done in WebGL by Teehan+Lax Labs. This is a look at London's Royal Exchange.
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"Is Counterculture Getting Mainstream?" Curating the Venice Architecture Biennale's Guerilla U.S. Pavilion
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Wired Science physicists on how pole vaulters go over the top.
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Corten apartments, a late 17th c complex in the town of Vigonovo transformed by 3ndy Studio in collaboration with Philippe Daverio and the sculptor Giorgio Milani with a new facade.
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Merve Kahraman's mythology inspired hybrid collection.
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Robotic camera systems, vintage portraits and other techniques that are changing Olympic photography.
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Beautiful temporary sand art, A Sign in Space at Spain’s Laga Beach by Gunilla Klingberg. Love the giant rollers!
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The limited edition Laguiole Golden Gate Bridge Folding Knife.
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1:1 model of the Aston Martin DBR1/2 on a parts tree! That means it is life-sized, 20.8-feet long and 11.3-feet high, weighing between 1,100 and 1,320 pounds. Created by Evanta Motor Company and to be auctioned at Goodwood.
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FEATUREDFlying penguins, media camouflage and the dynamics of sport all feature in this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.
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FEATUREDUnboxing of the iPad/iPhone charger/desk lamp by Philippe Starck for Flos. The D'E-Light is now available in a beautiful matte black!
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A series of little bronze hands has been installed in central Wellington, New Zealand. Their purpose is to hold offerings. Anonymous tokens of generosity or thoughtfulness.
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“Hatwalk,” a collaboration between the Mayor of London, Grazia magazine, and BP through which public statues are topped with giant hats!
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Munnyworld Reticulated will be released on 8/8/12 at 9pm est.
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TheCoolist visits the Farm of the Future: Green Sky Growers, a high-tech, software-driven living ecosystem just outside of Orlando, FL.
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Lovely new lines of pretty prints from Isak.
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Oreo's Daily Twist ~ a lovely way to browse the calendar... a memorable oreo take on something that happens each day!
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Ron Arad to Bring a Levitating Circular Cinema to the Israel Museum Next Month
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Snickerbacken 7 is an inspiring café, exhibition space and a concept store all in one in Stockholm.
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Fuck Yeah Fluid Dynamics celebrate the Olympics by taking a look at the dynamics of sport.
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FEATUREDToy Hack! This Project Squadt K11 Boomer by Ferg is now a functioning spy camera! The latest from NOTlabs, see the making of and video of it in action.
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A look at London's Olympic venues from space!
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Ornamental bird in english sycamore and black walnut, Finished in a range of colours. Designed and hand crafted in the uk by Jacob Pugh.
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VIDEOBeautiful patterns formed by droplets of alcohol in oil as a result of hydrodynamic instabilities resulting from the velocity and density gradients between the liquids.
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Love the screens at G Clinic 7f by KORI architecture office.
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Kkis Ice Cream Canapé, an interesting bowl/cone type contraption for enjoying a trio of ice creams by Martin Jakobsen.
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Gorgeous proposal for a new natural history museum in Denmark by BIG architects.
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The Loft Evo Chair by Zbigniew Strzebonski.
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Taoyuanju Office in Tianjin, China by Vector Architects
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VIDEOWatch the making of the Pressed Chair by Harry Thaler for Moormann.
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The Sriracha Rooster Sauce Lollipop, a tasty firestorm.
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Marco Stefanelli's Breece Collection created from sawmill waste and branches embedded with resin and LEDs.
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The Veracruz 60 Apartment in Mexico City by JSa Architecture.
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Firefighter Vodka, playful packaging design by Timur Salikhov.
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Baby weedy sea dragons, a first for Monterey Bay Aquarium!
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Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa's most recent work is title Cosmos, and has been put on display at the Kyiv Biennale in the Ukraine.
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VIDEOThe Stone Spray Project by IAAC students Petr Novikov, Inder Shergill and Anna Kulik and is a robotic arm that 3d prints sand with a special water and adhesive mix.
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DoodleMum ~ amazing daily doodles from Angie Stevens of moments in her life with her family, pets, and other adventures!
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Boon's BUBBLES ~ suction cup bubble bath toys (in two colorways!)
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The SUBACO line of micro bathrooms from Spiritual mode for compact living without compromising design & function. The bathrooms offer customizable options which include sinks, toilets, stand up showers and pint sized tubs.
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Dwell Studio COLORATURO is developed by designer and early childhood educator Karen Hewitt, founder of the Learning Materials Workshop
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The latest Annie Lebovitz for Disney ~ Jack Black, Will Ferrell and Jason Segel star as the Hitchhiking Ghosts of the haunted mansion and Russel Brand as Captain Hook.
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Hoppop Baby's Rambla ~ a trio of adorable little waterproof creatures that can't fall over and have different sounds (sand, bells, balls)
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NANNER - Boon & Chef'n's hand held banana slicer
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How well do you know your Olympics Logos of years past?
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SLIPS (Self-healing, Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surface), a synthetic material that utilizes nano/ microstructured substrates, capable of repelling just about anything you can throw at it. Created at Harvard's Wyss Institute.
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Little Lion Studio has the cutest Koala on tree branch wall decals!
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FEATUREDChocolate Bars! Delicious, artisanal chocolate bars... and the stunning packaging to go with them! A super round up ~ please add your suggestions too!
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Scroll to share the Hong Kong ocean pollution problem
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San Churro Cubitos Chocolate cubes or european truffles...
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A 3 globe pendant by Tony Oliver of Baltimore.
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A peek at Chuao's new chocolate bars ~ from Honeycomb in Dark Chocolate and Crisp kettle cooked potato chips and a hint of sea salt in Milk Chocolate ~ to new maple bacon, firecracker, spicy maya variations and more!
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FEATUREDA roundup of fasion’s finest from NotCouture.
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Combining pencil stubs and washers for spinning top/drawing tools...
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Amazingly adorable SALT BIRD from Our WorkShop ~ also tempting, the bird egg cups, and bird milk jug and sugar bowl... together the cutest bird family for your kitchen! (and check out the packaging!)
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Go Eco is a minimalist design created by Hong Kong-based retailers Goodss Passion. The idea behind this concept was to make recycling a fun and convenient routine, rather than boring and bothersome.
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Our WorkShop has adorable Tree Tea Towels ~ one for each season! (This is winter!)
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Chip print ~ limited edition of 100 from the 1hundred shop!
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Chicken and waffles ~ liquid waffles in a maple shell!
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VIDEORacing In Slow Motion IV is the 4th in the series. The details that the video reveals are amazing and offer a whole new view on the world of racing.
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The Reboot Record Player is a new-age version of the record player by Siddharth Vanchinathan.
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Mackmyra Svensk Whisky is a Swedish distillery located at Gävle (an hour and a half’s drive north of Stockholm) and founded in 1999 by eight friends. It worked so well that in 2011 the partners decided to construct a new building.
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Build's identity for children's TV channel PlusPlus is based on this cute family of animated characters.
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VIDEOThe $9 Cardboard Bicycle was created by Israeli designer Giora Kariv. He explains his prototypes and how they are made in this video from his shop.
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FEATUREDThe mini radio controlled MINIs at the Olympics ~ deliver/retrieving a single hammer, discus or shot or two javelins. All the details from BMW, and times we've spotted them on tv!
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The V4 house' by Studio mk27 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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100 years of world records captured in an interactive infographic by GE and R/GA.
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Eliza Southwood and Hackney GT have turned East London's Wilton Way Cafe into a celebration of cycling.
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Incredible short by Studio Bart Hess, "swimmer shaved".
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Sine Series - Beautiful generative design items by Clement Zheng Zhihan.
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Hang on, what's the new black again!? Great project "Is the New" documenting every instance of the phrase "is the new" from 2005.
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Laser Cut Olympics VIP Invitation for Hilton Worldwide: Designed by The Marketing Arm and laser cut by Artifacture, this uses a unique accordion fold to reveal a collection of iconic London architecture.
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Flower chain contains a chain of loops to hold small pots of plants and flowers, great for greening small spaces.
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LECT-UTOPIA is a reconfigurable bed for dreaming, reading, loving, eating, procrastinating, watching movies, chilling, thinking and sometimes also sleeping.
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VIDEO2yr old Emma had a condition called arthrogryposis, which meant she couldn't move her arms. So researchers at a Delaware hospital 3D printed a durable custom exoskeleton with the tiny, lightweight parts she needed.
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Tom Poulsom extends his LEGO bird series to tropical birds.
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Step inside Wendy, the crown jewel of this year’s Warm Up at MoMA PS1
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Roto-A-Matic: Rotofugi has brought a 1960's vending machine back to life. It "creates for you a plastic toy right in front of your eyes" - in this case, Tim Biskup's the Helper Dragon which is 4.5 inches of blow-molded polyethylene art!
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The Dallas AIA Emerging Leaders Program has designed a playground (within the confines of an existing loading dock) for CityWalk@Akard, an affordable housing mixed-use building in Downtown Dallas.
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Emergency food kit for Refugees in Dadaab-Africa that would help them to grow their own insects as food.
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Surf Pop Popsicles with wooden surfboard sticks! ... with flavors that reflect sun, sand and sea. Sun= habanero peppers, lime, mango. Sand = almond, black sesame, caramel. Sea = cucumber, vanilla, mint.
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#49399
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The full face mask Pixelhead acts as media camouflage, completely shielding the head to ensure that your face is not recognizable on photographs taken in public places without securing permission.
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Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray]
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Boglárka Nádi's beautiful stamps inspired by Hungarian folk tales.
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Mini Cooper R/C cars are being used for javelin and discus retrieval in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Mini Minis!
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The Oculus Rift VR Headset is a wide angle virtual reality display designed specifically for gaming.
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#49394
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Modern city prints for Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Swallow X CLOCK from Haoshi Design uses 12 delicate handmade flying swallows to replace the boring numbers in ordinary clock.
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Indoek Wax Kit - Hand Shaped by Todd St. John. The comb tines are on the bottom edge and the scraper is a detachable lid that is seamlessly held in place by two magnets.
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FEATUREDHighlighting the absurdity of some Yelp Reviews ~ here are actors reading them! Hilarious.
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Otília Erdélyi's redesign of the humble egg box.
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Ryan Todd collaborates with OKAY Studio and YCN to produce a kinetic window installation and instore graphics for GAP's flagship store in Milan.
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VIDEOThe Walls Have Ears, pretty typographical murals surround Hackney Wick (not far from the Olympic Park). Great work from the folks at Bread Collective, based out of East London.
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'Immaterials – the form of meta data' by Onformative with Christopher Warnow for Weave magazine.
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Jason Davies visually demonstrates the relationship between prime numbers.
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Mirador House is a minimalist home located in Lima, Peru, designed by 2.8x Architects. The project was challenging in that the surrounding topography was particularly uneven and steep.
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Watch penguins fly overhead in this ring-shaped pool at The Sunshine Aquarium in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo.
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FEATUREDIce cream cupcakes, homemade peanut butter cups and the blue spruce are all part of this week’s delectable roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.
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FEATUREDCartoon Network turned 20 ~ and this insane poster rounds up SO many characters in one image. Can you find them all?
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The Triple Distilled Diagram of Alcohols from Pop Chart Lab.
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São Paulo-based architect Guto Requena is talking a stand against "ugly", standardized buildings.
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Monsoon season in Mumbai, India just got brighter. An artistic duo that goes by the name Black Balloons has created a line of colorful hand-painted umbrellas to weather the storms.
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Lovely photos from Sara Cwynar using objects to create still life in beautiful colors. The Accidental Archives series.
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PressureAID: Watertight hearing device for swimmers, water games fans
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A Day on My Plate: Athletes’ Meals. Photographer Michael Bodiam’s Inventive Still Lifes Reveal the Diets Behind Sporting Success
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A Japanese engineering company called Fasotec will convert an MRI scan of your unborn child into a 3D-printed replica that you can use to adorn your mantelpiece.
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Wordsmith Craig Damrauer Reworks the Sporting Lexicon of the London Games to produce A New Math Guide to the Olympics.
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Leo Villareal’s BUCKYBALL ~ a huge glowing sculpture will come to NYC in Madison Square Park in Oct 2012.
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Lin Morris Handmade Deck Chair by Gallant & Jones - A North American white oak deck chair hand crafted in Vancouver.
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The ideaco RACK&STOOL helps keep your living room tidy and provides another surface.
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Sony Xperia (with Bompas and Parr) has made the world's most expensive jelly robots and hidden them around the UK. The stunt is based around director Wes Anderson’s Made of Imagination ad with the Xperiabots.
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FoldaRap ~ the 3D printer you can fold/pack flat into a briefcase!
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A rainbow sprinkler of paint by Edwin Deen.
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Aqua installation at Dover Street Market by Zaha Hadid.
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The Harbin Institute of Technology in China have created this robot that can both walk and jump on water.
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Kelly Kettles - An essential piece of camping equipment for Irish Fishermen for generations it can provide you with boiling water for hot drinks for 2 within 3-5 minutes.
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