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In Defense Of Starbucks' Red Holiday Cups
Did you hear? Starbucks'2015 Red Holiday Cups are causing conservatives around the country to lose their frickin' minds. They claim by releasing a holiday cup that doesn't explicitly say "Merry...
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MIT's Weird Snake Bot Could Be The Future Of UI
Unless you're a raging Luddite, you probably have electronics pouring out your ears. You have your smartphone, your laptop, your fitness tracker, and God knows what else. But what if one gadget could...
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Mix Smoothies To Match Pantone Colors
Pantone Smoothies is a new Tumblr that matches smoothie recipes with their Pantone color. Avocado smoothie? That's a Pantone 5787. Blueberry smoothie? A Pantone 644. Strawberries, raspberries, and...
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Google Puts Doodles On Its Self-Driving Cars
Google has expended a lot of energy making its self-driving cars look adorable and nonthreatening (as opposed to Christine-like motorized murder machines). Now the fleet of self-driving ladybugs is...
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The London Underground's New Map Encourages You To Walk Between Stops
Trapped in a steel tube underground, it's hard to gauge how far you actually travel. If you're just going a couple stops, are you better off walking? Transport for London, the government body...
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Snoop Dogg Taps Pentagram To Brand His New Line Of Weed
Snoop Dogg, aka Snoop Lion, aka Snoop Doggy Dog, doesn't make any bones about it. He loves pot. The rap icon has just launched Leafs by Snoop, a brand of cannabis-based products including custom...
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Infographic: The Color Wheel Of Book And Movie Titles
Dorothy, the British makers of all things infographic, are back with a couple of new prints that explore the vast spectrum of color mentioned in book and film titles.The first print, The Colour of...
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How The New Republic's Redesign Is Chasing Millennials
One hundred and one years old this month, The New Republic is probably America's oldest liberal political magazine. But its readers are younger than ever. While the vast majority of The New Republic's...
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Eucopia: A Birchbox For European Design
What makes European design so distinctive? "The way it brings beauty to everyday living," Jason Toon founder of Eucopia, says. "European design has beauty, function, and simplicity, all together in a...
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MIT's 2,000-Pound Megalith Can Be Moved With A Fingertip
Last spring, MIT teaching assistant Carrie Lee McKnelly lost both her parents to a fire. As a tribute, her design students gathered on the university's front lawn to erect a 2,000-pound concrete...
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This App Lets You Control Your Smartphone By Drawing
Long before we started swiping and tapping on touch screens, mouse gestures were touted as the humanist way of interacting with our computers. Simple patterns you traced on screen by holding a mouse...
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The World's Lightest Folding Bike
The weird thing about most foldable bikes is that even though they're designed to collapse, they tend to be pretty heavy. That's because they need to be sturdy enough to handle a rider's weight in an...
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A Lethal Weapon Designed By A Computer
Humans have been building bows for thousands of years—there's some evidence that they go back 70,000 years—but can computers design one? That's the question amateur archer John Briscella of the...
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This GIF Keyboard Gets Right What The Others Do Oh-So-Wrong
GIF keyboards are a rising force when it comes to App Store popularity. We've written about at least one in the past. So Giffage can't claim to be the first, second, or even twelfth GIF keyboard on...
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The Cuddliest Blanket Ever Has 3-Inch-Thick Stitches
Ukranian designer Anna Marienko has been featured on Co.Design before for her beard growing calendar and visualizations of sound waves. Her latest project, though, is her snuggliest yet: the Ohhio, a...
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Genius System Uses Magnets To Keep Your Clothes Perfectly Folded In Cramped...
We all like the idea of folding clothes. Maybe we even do it, from time to time. But let's face it: less of us than we want to admit fold clothes properly, and even fewer of us can manage to keep our...
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The Better Alternative To Google Cardboard Is A VR iPhone Case
Last week, the New York Times sent out approximately one million Google Cardboard units to Sunday subscribers, giving many people their first taste of virtual reality. But while Cardboard is an...
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The Bacteria of NYC's Subway Turned Into Art
Ever wonder what germs are really growing on those subway poles? Brooklyn-based artist Craig Ward decided to find out. After riding all 22 of New York's subway lines, he collected bacterial samples...
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Silly DIY Tools For Urban MacGyvers
Form Us With Love might be our favorite Swedish design house: talented enough to get away with selling $29,000 Nightlights, yet approachable enough to design the perfect all-purpose chair for Ikea. The...
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Google's Deep Dream neural network tends to hallucinate in dog faces, because the database it trained on had a disproportionately high number of dogs pictures in it. But what if that database had been...
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