Archive for February, 2009

Aside from the need for a perfectly positioned wall outlet, there is a lot to like about designer Sung-Pil Hwang’s Plug-In table. It serves as a bookshelf, lamp and gadget charger all-in-one.
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Quick, what can you do with some metal sheeting, LEDs, a mirror, and wire? Make a lamp, of course!
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The building that MAD itself designed barely has so few enclosures, they must be planning to install bathrooms in the elevators. You can see it in the foreground above, and in the gallery below, along with three equally transparent concepts from BIG (which looks like a Wii), Emergent (which looks like it was designed by [...]


Rainfall, Waterfall, Rainfall, Waterfall
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I don’t know what to say, just click and view it…
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While their major competitors (and even some allies) in the mobile space seem bent on changing ideas about how we interact with our portable devices, the company proved once again that it’s content to rest on its laurels and learn little from its mistakes.
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What do you do with 4,000 decommissioned oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico? Instead of blowing them up
—costing millions and killing aquatic life—Morris Architects’ Hotelier At Sea project turns them into Dubai-esque luxury hotels.
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In a composite of images taken by the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile, the newest picture of the Carina nebula reveals glowing dust and brilliant star clusters in stunning detail. Carina sits about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation of the same name. The nebula gets its red and purple hues from hot hydrogen [...]


Whether you want to learn how to create vibrant motion graphics, breathtaking special effects or cinematic footage, today we got it all. In this post, we want to showcase some of the best After Effects tutorials around to make your message stand out. You will find After Effects tricks and techniques for all users from [...]


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Between all the new digital cameras pooped out before the upcoming PMA show and the crazy cameras buried inside cellphones at MWC, it’s a good time to go over why more megapixels isn’t necessarily better.
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The spectacular collision between two satellites on February 10 could make the Shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope too risky to attempt. Before the collision, space junk problems had already upped the Hubble mission’s risk of a “catastrophic impact” beyond NASA’s usual limits, Nature’s Geoff Brumfiel reported today, ….
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The CIA estimates that more than half of the UFOs reported in the 1960s were really American spy planes. Here are six (no longer) secret aircraft that people have mistaken for extraterrestrial flying saucers.
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On a 9-inch, 3G-equipped, almost-pocketable computer, running the best consumer OS money can currently buy. It costs around $400. Do you want one too? Here’s how to get yours.
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Of course, luxury like this comes at a price. First class airfare from New York to Geneva, Switzerland starts at $5,567.68. The folks back in steerage class will pay $420.18 for the same ride, minus the posh accommodations and the haute cuisine dining experience (“You and you alone decide when the kitchen opens,” SWISS’s first [...]


Zaha Hadid has applied her love of curvy, metallic design into this cutting edge faucet
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Plasma toy!
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It runs Windows Mobile …and has a resistive touchscreen…but other than that…some nice looking specs.
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City planners recently unveiled plans for a new way for people to get where they’re going: electric taxis that will lack drivers.
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Apple’s latest patent to be hinting at a new tablet.
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I would kill for something like this: An extensible OLED display that could be physically expanded to fit different aspect ratios. Bonus amazing detail, a mini-projector to display small images and icons on the desk
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It needs some small aesthetic fixes here and there, but I would like to see something along these lines coming from Apple. And I like the fantasy specs too.
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The tea shark may look cute. He may elicit a chuckle. But when this tea strainer is hanging from your face, feasting on your Chapstick-marinated bottom lip, you may reconsider that open-minded position.
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If you had $15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account, would you save the world from the economic crisis or build a Death Star, destroy the world, and move on to invade the galaxy?
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Today’s inspiration comes from LiveJournal user tebe_interesno, a talented Russian artist from Moscow, famous for his creative photo manipulations. Creepy!
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