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The Inventor Of These MagSafe Headphones Thinks He Outsmarted Apple
Over the past decade, untold numbers of people have taken a look at the MagSafe cable charging their MacBook and thought to themselves, "Wouldn't it be fantastic if there were a MagSafe for headphone...
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A Pen For People With Parkinson's
Lucy Jung never thought much about designing for sick people. Then she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She recovered, and the experience has driven her toward what she now thinks of her calling: to...
View ArticleWatch A Calligrapher Recreate Famous Logos In Mere Seconds
The best logos in the world are so precisely crafted that every aspect—from the color to the shape—has been plotted to the nth degree, typically with digital tools. Which makes it all the more...
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5 Lessons On Apple Watch Design From Evernote
Although the Apple Watch isn't out until April 24, popular note locker service Evernote has already released an app for it. Unsurprisingly called Evernote for Apple Watch, it allows users to dictate a...
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This Clever Lamp Grows Out Of Your Wall
Off-center lighting is the only way to go in your living room, but it comes with a lot of trade-offs. Lamps have ugly cords you can trip on, and they either take up a big part of your floor or a big...
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Volvo Creates A Glow-In-The-Dark Paint To Save Cyclists' Lives
In collaboration with Grey London and the spray paint company Albedo 100, carmaker Volvo has created a new reflective paint that is invisible in sunlight and easily washes off. Now Volvo is encouraging...
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How Design Could Help Prevent Subway Deaths
It's a rare, if particularly awful, public health problem: people drunkenly falling onto subway tracks, then getting hit by a train. In Japan, the West Japan Railway Company, which oversees much of...
View ArticleThis Stroller Doubles As A Bike Seat
Sometimes when I see parents in the wild, I just can't believe the amount of things they are capable of carrying. The average parent seems to me like a walking, talking version of Fibber McGee's...
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Pentagram's New School Rebrand: Best Thing Ever Or Unbearable Monstrosity?
It's appropriate that Pentagram's new algorithmic typeface for the New School looks like a wonky take on the Star Wars font, because to paraphrase the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Internet has reacted...
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MIT Student Develops A Facebook For Depression
Koko, an upcoming app based on an MIT experiment, is designed to build the world's first social network for dealing with depression. If it takes off, it could change the way some of us think about our...
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Never Walk Home In The Dark Again With This Simple App
A 2007 campus sexual assault study by the U.S. Department of Justice found that one in five female college students is the target of an attempted or completed sexual assault.Needless to say, on...
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Nendo's New Glass Tables Bring A Little Bit Of "Miami Vice" To Your Living Room
How do Euclidean shapes dress up when they hit Miami? Japanese design firm Nendo's latest is a collection of three low tables that look like panes of softly frosted glass, glued together with neon.A...
View ArticleHow Google Destroyed Internet Explorer, Visualized
Sometimes visualizations are really bad at conveying information about an entire data set, but really good at telling a story about just a couple data points. Case in point? This chart tracking global...
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In This Museum, You Don't Learn About Senators. You Are A Senator.
How do you design an experience that makes learning about the U.S. Senate fun? You let visitors role-play senators. Opening this month, Boston's Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate is to...
View ArticleHow To Design The Googleplex Of Schools
When the city of Alexandria, Minnesota, asked community members what they wanted in their new high school to be like, they replied, "like the Google campus." So they hired John Pfluger of Cuningham...
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This Insane Video Game Puts Pac-Man, Pong, and Space Invaders In A Blender
Among gamers, every video game is ultimately described as a mash-up of game titles. For example: "It's like Doom and Sim City and Flappy Bird, smashed together and served to you on a plate with your...
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Bringing Romance To The Apple Watch
Every designer I have spoken to about designing for the Apple Watch says the same thing: 99% of all possible app features are going to be better on your iPhone than on your wrist. But for apps like...
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Behind The Redesign Of The THX Deep Note, The World's Most Iconic Audio Logo
So famous that it has been sampled by Dre and parodied on The Simpsons, the THX Deep Note is one of the most recognizable pieces of computer-generated music in the world. Although it contains only one...
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A Giant Funhouse Wind Turbine: Your New Apartment?
Only in the Netherlands would someone want to turn a wind turbine into a futuristic tourist attraction. Proposed for Rotterdam, the Windwheel is part amusement ride, part residential space, part green...
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Gorgeous App Lets Kids Build Their Own Robots
Kids love robots, from R2-D2 to Optimus Prime. Now there's an app that lets kids build the wildest robots of their imagination from scratch, then send them out into an alien world to explore. It's...
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