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Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2012 Recap by Abe Burmeister
Reporting and photographs by Abe Burmeister Outdoor Retailer (or OR to most attendees) is one of my favorite tradeshows around, as close to an asshole-free zone as you'll ever find in a business...
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MakerBots Make Things for the Future--and Save Machines from the Past
On the subway ride home I thought I'd peed myself, and discovered why the seller had been so eager to get rid of the machine. Cradled in my lap was a fairly rare 1965 overlock machine, Singer's 460/13...
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Core77 Design Awards 2012: Nest Learning Thermostat, Professional Runner-Up...
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BMW's Miniature Minis Helping Out with Olympic Events
Reporting by Rain Noe & Perrin Drumm Very clever, BMW. If you've seen the small cars whizzing across the lawn at the Olympic stadium for track and field events and have been wondering whether...
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Not Only the Lonely: Lonely City USB Hub by David Weeks for Kikkerland
The oasis of your workspace can sometimes get a bit lonely. Don't worry, it happens to the best of us. Fortunately, David Weeks recently designed a desktop USB Hub for Kikkerland to help battle the...
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Jeff Casper's Reclaimed-Shipwreck-Lumber-based Furniture
Time for our annual check-in with California-based industrial designer Jeff Casper. For those of you working with reclaimed lumber, about the best you can hope for is to get some timbers out of a...
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Tron Legacy: "Velodrome" by Crystal CG & Chemical Brothers for London...
One of my favorite parts of basketball games is the player introductions, which are essentially laser light shows to get the home crowd pumped up for the opening minutes of the game. I imagine that...
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Monocle's Five Most Loveable Cities
These five cities may not have made Monocle's Quality of Life index, but the magazine's urban experts say they "win in the simple living stakes." So while you might not want to pack up and move there,...
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Double Robotics' iPad-Based Telepresence Robot
Last year designer David Cann and engineer Marc DeVidts launched Double Robotics, a Mountain-View-based firm that aims to pair robotics with a "rich user experience that is seldomly found in the...
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Hidden Features: Tambour Table by Michael Bambino
As in Bruno Serrao's take on a minimal workspace with plenty of hidden storage, which is something like a desk-sized tacklebox (or jewelry box), the minimalist form of Michael Bambino's "Tambour"...
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Danny Hess' Handmade Surfboards and Handplanes
Statistically speaking, few of us are lucky enough to be able to make a living doing what we truly love. And by that math, Danny Hess is doubly lucky, having successfully combined two...
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Analog vs. Digital: Michael Shindler's Stunning Portraits Photographed on Metal
[all images via Michael Shindler] You'll never find an industrial designer complaining about using CAD versus a T-square and drafting pencil, but you'll still find photographers who swear by film and...
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Olympic-Inspired Furniture by James Henry Austin
Because lowering a pommel horse to bench height or stacking hurdles into seating would have been too obvious, James Henry Austin has gone for a more understated approach to translating the glory of...
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Critter, A Movable Kitchen for Culinary Nomads
More than any other room in the home, the kitchen has undergone the most dramatic changes in the last century. From the large basement battleships de cuisine of the early 20th century to Margarete...
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IDEO.org is seeking a Graphic Designer in San Francisco, California
Graphic Designer IDEO.orgSan Francisco, California IDEO.org is seeking an experienced Graphic Designer who is ready to apply his or her design chops to the nonprofit world? IDEO is looking for...
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After Winning Helicopter Challenge, MIT Researchers Keep Going: How to Get a...
Helicopters and airplanes both fly, but obviously their physical designs dictate they achieve that flight in very different ways. "[A] helicopter is working very hard just to keep itself in the air,"...
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What Happens to the Post-Olympic City?
The games were over in a matter of weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds—and won in ever-finer spans that follow decimal points as a testament to our technological prowess—but the buildings themselves...
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Stephen Kenn: Turning a Surplus Military Materials Bonanza into a...
It's like a designer's dream come true: L.A.-based Stephen Kenn stumbled across a warehouse loaded up with surplus military gear, freaking mountains of it. While his harvesting process appears to be...
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Laterelle Redesigns the Bike Seat for Better Ergonomics
Bicyclists and horseback riders have something in common: During the course of riding, their bodies undergo highly focused pressure on the crotch, an area of the body that is not designed for such....
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The 3D Printer Cloning Controversy: Debate Rages over Matt Strong's TangiBot
Engineer Matt Strong has generated strong controversy in recent days. Here's why: he's cloned the MakerBot Replicator, dubbed his version the TangiBot, and thrown it up on Kickstarter. His intent is...
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