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Glo Pillow
The glo Pillow is an alternative to the traditional alarm clock. The pillow uses an LED fabric substrate below the surface to wake the user using light. This substrate also functions as a display, showing the time on the pillows surface using the grid of LEDs below.
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Random pic of the week
Defendius door chain guard helps you to protect your home against unauthorized entry. The chain is long enough to reach the far end of the maze.
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Sony Bravia KLV-40W400A
I just upgraded my 32″ Acer LCD TV to a 40″ Sony Bravia… using it to write this post. So big and bright in front of my face. This TV uses Bravia Engine 2; WCG-CCFL; Live Color Creation technology; 1080p24 input-ready; Digital Media Port; Bravia Sync (for Handycam camcorders); triple HDMI terminals. It has 30000:1 […]
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LG Black Label Series phone previewed!
Via Press Release: 18 April, 2008
We’ve got a sneak preview of the third in the highly stylish LG Black Label series of handsets, following in the footsteps of the successful LG Chocolate and LG Shine. Like its two predecessors, the phone is a combination of cutting edge tech with brilliant design, and it will be […]
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Rotator Bath Cum Shower
Ron Arad has designed a bath for Italian manufacturers Teuco, which rotates to become a shower.
Ron Arad uses the malleability of duralight® and Teuco know-how to present “Rotator”, an original space and a new enjoyable experience in which a continuous and unexpected flow of water becomes the protagonist. The slowly rotating basin transforms into a […] -
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Kohler Karbon Faucet
With its clean, crisp lines, the Karbon articulating faucet introduces a new geometry of versatile functionality to the kitchen. Intelligently engineered
to hold any pose for hands-free operation, Karbon allows you to streamline your work surfaces and workflow. You can extend the faucet fully to fill
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Veuve Clicquot Globalight by Karim Rashid
Via Press Release. April 15, 2008.
Karim on his design:
“When Veuve Clicquot asked me to design a new project for their champagne, to continue the sensual integration of the immaterial and the material as I had done with the Loveseat, I immediately drew an elliptical scribble around the VC rose bottle as if to denote the […] -
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A balancing book shelf, is not only an engineering feat in itself, but also a serious anxiety inducer. This bookshelf shifts and swings from side to side depending on the placement of your books. Weighted with hanging counter-balancers, you can even the playing field out at any time with a simple adjustment… or compassion.
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Spoon and Glove Art
MAD (Museum of Arts and design) has some really crazy or innovative displays. Jill Townsley’s piece “Spoons” looks incredible, constructed from over 9,000 plastic spoons and over 3,000 rubber bands and Susi Macmurry’s “A Mixture of Frailties” and is actually made from latex wash gloves, calico and tailor’s dummy.
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Ghost Chair
Very nice art piece but not so comfortable to sit…
“Ghost Chair shows the future feeling of a chair that does not really excists yet. Nobody is just normal and straight however it sometimes looks like it, even a chair has its extraordinary sides. Straight from the outside, but curved and wrinkled and impossible to excist […] -
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Digital Photo Frame Fridge Magnet
A cross between a fridge magnet and a digital photo frame… Digital picture frames are getting popular over the months, and a fridge magnet has been around since before I was born… Sooner or later, this should have been expected.
You can have cycling 66 pictures of all the family members with this 2.4-inch LCD screen, 32MB […] -
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Iris Coffee Table
Iris by Michaël Bihain is a coffee table that you can pile. It is made from a single sheet of steel and comes in black or white. Simply functional beauty.
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‘11? Table Soccer
The table soccer has been upgraded. Hand crafted by GRO design and TIM modeling, the players are machined in brass and chrome, the table itself is meant to be a bit architectural, like real stadiums, and minimal to not distract from the game. It’s on show at the upcoming Milan Design Week, 16th to 21st […]
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Micah Spear
I enjoy making people laugh, but more than ever I like making people think too. I hope this piece evokes some kind of humorous and yet thoughtful feeling about breakfast in bed. My work is sometimes playful, and by playful I mean I play on the edge of what may start to produce mixed feelings. […]
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Fold US Candidate
Can’t get enough of watch Hillary, McCain and Obama verbal tackles on TV? Want to be closer to them? Are they your Idol? Or just want to try some voodoo? Now you can a piece of them on your finger with this fold candidate… You can choose any or all of them on the link below.
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