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Could Robot Bottle Caps Be The Future Of Home Mixology?
The Connected Cocktail Project, created by Boston-based design consultancy Altitude, wants to revolutionize your happy hour. Their design prototype consists of a series of intelligent bottle caps that...
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Why Nike Is (Probably) Killing Off The FuelBand
On Friday, CNET reported that Nike is planning to layoff as much as 80% of the company's Digital Sport division, the team behind the Nike FuelBand. For its part, Nike is denying the scope of layoffs,...
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Bitcoin Needs A Better Logo
When people think of what a Bitcoin looks like, they often think of a large gold coin, straight out of Super Mario Bros., stamped with a cartoon style B. It's not a very serious logo for the digital...
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U.K. illustrator Richard Swarbrick is known for his vivid YouTube animations, which are rendered in a style that is best described as swirling chalk drawings. Swarbrick has used his ample talents to...
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Interactive Birthday Card Celebrates 25 Years Of Nintendo Game Boy
The original Nintendo Game Boy is turning 25 this week. To celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the plucky handheld console that changed the gaming world, web developer Petr Tichy has put together a fun...
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How Long Would You Have To Work To Buy A Burger In NYC?
How long would you have to work a minimum wage job to buy a car? Rent an apartment in San Francisco? Pay for daycare? Retire at 65? The relative value of a city's average wage is expressed in all sorts...
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MIT's Vibrating Supershoes Tell You Where To Walk
If you're dubious whether the prefix "smart" can be slapped on any more product names, prepare to be flabbergasted: MIT Media Lab researcher Dhairya Dand has invented smart insoles that help guide you...
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The World's Fastest Bike Looks Like A 90-MPH Space Dildo
Every year in Battle Mountain, Nevada, some of the world's top engineering minds meet to race exotic bicycles across the windswept desert in an attempt to set the world land speed record for...
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Victorian Bathing Machines: So Men Couldn't Get Their Rocks Off
Compared to our barely clad, spaghetti-strapped swimsuit styles, the bathing costumes of the 18th and 19th century seem laughably prudish. But those days, people worried that glimpsing more than a...
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The Slums Of Liberia Spring To Life In These Animated GIFs
What makes an animated GIF so compelling isn't just that it's an image in motion; it's that it's cyclical. It loops, and anything caught within it becomes like a gear. In a way, what makes a GIF so...
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A Clever Idea For Reinventing The Corporate "About" Page
Most companies'"About" page sucks. Composed of tiled mosaics of awkwardly grinning executives who clearly don't want their pictures taken, and broken up with some insipid verbiage written by a company...
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These Tiles Are Made Of Your Grandma's Old TV Set
Before the invention of super-thin liquid crystal displays, if you wanted to watch television or look at something on a computer, you needed a cathode ray tube (CRT). Big and bulky, CRTs displayed...
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How 3-D Printing Can Help To Cure Cancer
When scientists test drugs on cancer cells, they do so in the two-dimensional confines of the Petri dish. If the drug being tested works well, the next stage is to shift to the 3-D environment and see...
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Be Your Own Warby Parker With These Mix-And-Match Magnetic Glasses
Magne-Hinge, the newest product from masterful designers over at Nendo, lets you snap your glasses apart so you can mix-and-match components at whim. Magnets are what keep all the components of your...
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A Multinational Typeface Inspired By The Flags Of The World
In early 2014, the Grey Group advertising agency opened a new Singapore division in order to run campaigns for GlaxoSmithKline's numerous brands. Forming a multinational team comprised of people from a...
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How A Redesigned Meal Tray Is Saving Virgin Atlantic Millions
At 35,000 feet, small design decisions have big consequences. Ounces saved, in the design of aircraft equipment, can vastly reduce carbon emissions for an airline's entire fleet.Case in point: U.K....
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Codecademy Grows Up With New Pentagram-Designed Brand ID
Codecademy is the premier online platform for free coding lessons. Since launching in 2011, over 24 million users have submitted billions of lines of annotated computer code to help teach the next...
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NASA's New Martian Spacesuit Is Straight Out Of "Tron"
When humans first step on the dusty red surface of Mars, they will be doing so in a spacesuit descended from a design that the Internet chose: the Nasa Z-2 Spacesuit.The Z-Series is NASA's line of...
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The New York Times Logo Gets A Clever Revamp
The New York Times logo is an institution in itself. Often tweaked but never changed, the logo is a design classic--it's so rarely changed that when it dropped the period from the end of the old "New...
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From Stonings To Worm Eggs, The 2,500-Year-Old History Of Confetti
Confetti. It might look like brightly colored dross that you throw at a parade, but a new article by Cabinet editor D. Graham Burnett reveals the surprising 2,500-year-old history of confetti, from...
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