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The U.K.'s Tallest Sculpture Will Let You Ride A Slide All The Way Down
The anticipation of what you'll see at the top of a tower can be exciting. Going down, though? Comparatively, that's a drag. Why go down the stairs or the elevator like a sucker when you can slide on...
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These Lamps Illustrate How Lamps Work When You Turn Them On
There's a reason lamps were the first electrical gadgets: they're simple. A simple switch opens or closes the connection between an electric current and a light bulb. The filament in the light bulb...
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Can An Apple A Day Make You A Better Designer?
For designer Ken Carbone, an apple a day keeps the designer doldrums away. An occasional Co.Design contributor, as well as the co-founder and chief creative director of New York's Carbone Smolan...
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Typewriters Suck. This Web App Proves It.
Typewriters are beautiful objects. They are charming and ingenious in a way that only something analog can be. They make sounds that strike a chord even in those born long after the thwack-thwack of a...
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This New Algorithm From Disney Research Could Revolutionize Home Video
We've seen before how much potential depth-sensing cameras have when it comes to the future of special effects. But a new algorithm from Disney Research could make it possible to do sophisticated video...
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This Wearable Can Help You Get Pregnant
There are lots of great apps out there for couples trying to get pregnant, or avoid it. Now, there's a wearable that promises to help women track their fertility more accurately.Your body's basal...
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7 "Cool" Architects Redesign The Iconic Series 7 Chair
The Model 3107 Chair—known more often by its official nickname, the Series 7—might very well be the most popular designer chair in the world. Inspired by Charles & Ray Eames' work with moulded...
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How "2001: A Space Odyssey" Changed Cinematic Design
From the sun breaking over a black alien monolith to the trippy, transcendent space baby, there are few films which have imprinted themselves upon imaginations as strongly as Stanley Kubrick's 1968...
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A Hedonist Bar In London Where The Air Itself Is Alcoholic
Most bars require you to actually order a drink to get drunk. Sam Bombas of Bombas & Parr thinks that's just wasting time. The U.K. architecture firm has just unveiled a new bar in London's Borough...
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An Upside-Down Roller Coaster Of Café Seats In France
French artist Baptiste Demombourg does outsider sculptures that repurpose old or broken objects, like making an indoor tidal wave out of smashed old windscreens. His latest piece is just as weird, but...
View ArticleTwitter Bot Automatically Generates Trippy Glitch Art
PixelSorter is a new Twitter bot by developer Way Spur-Chenn that automatically glitches out any image you tweet its way.After mentioning PixelSorter in a tweet with an uploaded image, it will then...
View ArticleThis Magic Glass Could Make Your House Cooler--Literally
On a sunny day, even an air-conditioned building can be too warm. A predominate factor is simply your windows, which let in heat in the form of invisible ultra-violet light even if they're insulated...
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The Future Of Home Decor: Vats Of Edible, Bioluminescent Algae?
From the beer we drink to the polio vaccine, humankind has a symbiotic relationship with all sorts of micro-organisms—but we we tend to not think of them as our roommates. Living Things is a new...
View ArticleThe Life Of A Blind Kitten Becomes The Year's Most Magical Indie Game
Is there anything sadder than a blind kitten? Yet Wanderment, a new indie game by developer Andrew Wang, makes the journey of a blind kitten across town into one of the joyous, magical interactive...
View ArticleThis Umbrella Teaches Women How To Fight Off Would-Be Attackers
In India, rape is a depressingly common occurrence. According to official statistics, rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India; nearly 25,000 women reported being raped in 2012...
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The Spork, Redesigned
The spork is sort of the ultimate kludge of a design. Take a spoon, put some tines at the end, and voila: you have an eating utensil that isn't quite as good as either half of its portmanteau. Things...
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Pokémon Palettes Turns Pikachu Into A Design Tool
Designers collect color palettes the way gamers collect Pokémon. So why not let designers collect palettes while capturing Pokémon? Boom. It's called Pokémon Palettes. So now you can.The idea of...
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NOAA's New Weather Map Turns Earth Into A Wondrous Alien World
Laid on top of a beautiful 3-D visualization of the world seen at night, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has launched WeatherView, a stunning new real-time wind model that shows the...
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This Bench Morphs Into The Branch It Was Carved From
For most of us, there's a slight disconnect between the trees that surround us and the wood that makes up our furniture. A couple hundred years ago, you might chop down a tree, plane it, and sand it to...
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The Death Of LOL: How Facebook Users Laugh
Conveying that you find something humorous in real life can be challenging enough. ("Is a smile enough here, or do I need to laugh?" or "Wait, they look hurt. Did I actually laugh, or just laugh in my...
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