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Just Like James Bond, The NSA Has A Q Branch
In the James Bond movies, all of the wonderful gadgets available to 007 came from the Q division. If you imagine Q putting out a mail-order catalog, then, it would likely be a pretty impressive affair,...
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It's A Shelf, It's A Lampshade, It's A...What Is It?
Look around your kitchen, and what do you see? Rectangles everywhere. Your refrigerator is a rectangle, your shelves are rectangles, your breadbox is a rectangle, and chances are, if you walk through...
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Pay Attention, Amazon! Students Have Designed The Perfect Cardboard Box
While some companies, like Ecovative, are tooling around with highly sustainable alternatives to shipping products around the world, two undergrads have just reinvented the humble cardboard container...
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This Furniture Has A Face
Even in a house full of the most beautiful furniture, life can get lonely. Likewise, there can be something austere, even impersonal in some of the most well thought-out interior design. The Neotoi...
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Marvel Comics Released The Best Wall Calendar For 2014 Way Back In 1975
Back in 1975, the world of comics was far more optimistic than today's sepia-toned universe of brooding, glowering violence. Superheroes still wore their underpants over their trousers, Spider-Man...
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Chopsticks Get A Makeover
Depending on whom you ask, the chopstick is either the most lithe and graceful utensil ever designed, or a hard-to-use stick that became vastly improved when someone got the genius idea to add three...
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Why Curved Glass Will Change Gadget Design Forever
The smartphones in our hands, the tablets on our laps, the computers on our desks and the televisions on our walls. We live in a blocky world of glowing glass rectangles. But yesterday at the Consumer...
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A Better Way To Store Eggs?
Eggs may be delicious, but they're also fragile and messy, qualities that make them particularly difficult to transport. That's probably why many manufacturers still package eggs in styrofoam or...
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This Photovoltaic Bracelet Knows When You've Had Too Much Sun
This is undeniably a nerdy reference, but in Looking Glass Studio's famous steampunk video game series, Thief, the eponymous cut-purse Garrett sneaks through the shadows with the aid of a light gem...
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Watch: A Beautiful Short Movie That Is A Filmic Palindrome
Palindromes--or sequences of symbols that can be interpreted the same way backwards and forwards--have been embraced by artists and designers in multiple mediums, from comics to poetry to classical...
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Infographic: Where Do People Live The Longest?
Everyone dies, but depending on which country you live in, you could die significantly sooner compared with people born in other countries. That's the takeaway from this simple but striking infographic...
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This Stunning Data Viz Captures 200 Years Of Oceanic Exploration
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth," writes Ishmael in Herman Melville classic novel Moby Dick, "I take myself to sea."Ishmael was not the only one. For hundreds of years, ships have...
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Did Polaroid Screw Up The Real-Life Instagram Camera?
Polaroid's story over the past decade or so has been an ironic one, to say the least. Buffeted on all sides by cheap digital cameras and smartphones, the instant camera maker opted to stop production...
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An App To Tell Your Boss To Go To Hell
Last year, inspired by a friend's misadventures trying to break it off with a girl he'd had a drunken fling with the night before, app developers Jake Levine and Lauren Leto created BreakupText, an app...
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The iPad Is A Solved Design Problem
Even way back in 2010, months before Apple debuted the iPad, the Consumer Electronics Show was a clearing house for a cornucopia of tablet designs, many of which tried to anticipate Apple's upcoming...
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Polaroid's Tiny Little Camera Cube Is Cute As Candy
The two major new products Polaroid showed off at CES this week couldn't have been more different. On the one hand, the Polaroid Socialmatic, a half-digital, half-instant camera with powerful...
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The Airbnb Of Wedding Venues Could Make You Elope
One cold February morning last year, my girlfriend and I woke up and spent the morning in bed drinking coffee and talking about how glad we were to be together. So around our third cup of coffee, we...
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Submerge Yourself In A Habitable Bubble Of Sound
Whether you're listening to Kind Of Blue on your home stereo, or jamming to Skrillex on a pair of monitors, the ultimate goal of any home audio gear is to create the illusion that you are floating in a...
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Insane Toy Gatling Gun Fires 672 Rubber Bands In Less Than A Minute
Surely any teacher who has ever known the indignity of a vulcanized projectile thwacking into his or her posterior while drawing on the blackboard has fantasized about whipping right around and...
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A Children's Book That Is "The Little Prince" Of 3-D Printing
Kids today are raised with clay and Playdoh, but the children of tomorrow will have a vastly more sophisticated tool available to turn the stuff of their imaginations into something they can touch. How...
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