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Let Valet.com Be Your City Guide
Any weary traveller knows that the best way to experience a city is through the eyes of a local. That's where Valet.com steps in. The newest offering from trendspotter Josh Spear, Valet.com is a...
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The Bicycle Thief, and Self-Lugging Luggage: Introducing Hop, the Luggage...
"Always go for the Samsonite, son." Nighttime in downtown Manhattan, about a year ago, and I see this kid tearing down the street on a BMX bike—with a piece of carry-on luggage balanced on the crossbar...
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DRC 2012: Designing a Design Research Conference, Day 1
The lovely welcoming committee! It's definitely fall in Chicago! My morning walk to the Spertus Institute was quite refreshing with the breeze coming off the lake and leaves blowing all around on the...
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Nidaplast Materials: If Honeybees Could Make Polypropylene
Speaking of insect architecture, a French company called Nidaplast uses honeycomb grids to solve problems both large and small. For 25 years they've been extruding polypropylene into a shape bees...
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A Whiteboard for all European Innovators
In June I wrote The English Language Innovation Bias, an opinion piece that Bruce Sterling kindly posted on his blog. It discussed how the dominance of the English language in innovation discourse...
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Spotify is seeking a Visual Designer in New York, New York
Visual Designer SpotifyNew York, New York Spotify is seeking a Visual Designer to will work within the Product Team to create progressive, inspiring, and relevant visual design solutions. He or she...
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Is Building a Design Knock-Off Okay for Personal Use/Edification?
Many of us armed with tools and skills have, at some point, seen something we wanted to buy—then decided we'd rather build it ourselves, either to save money or for the fun of it. So, here's a sticky...
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Leno Looks at Lexus' Loom (LFA Factory Tour)
Whether or not the coming decades bring the decline of car companies, that industry's contribution to manufacturing, and the trickle-down effect it can have on other industries, is incalculable. We've...
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LAST CALL: Draw Up a Chair for The Battery Conservancy
Just a friendly reminder that there's just a few more weeks left to enter The Battery Conservancy's Draw Up A Chair Competition for innovative, portable outdoor seating in the public park. The 25-acre...
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With Experimental Hybrid Laptop/Tablet Form Factors, Lenovo Tries Covering...
You'd think two of these would've been axed at a design meeting, but Lenovo's either taking no chances, holding off on making tough calls, or using an appeasement strategy to deal with internal design...
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BASF Develops Plastic, Injection-Molded Automotive Rims
Chemical giant BASF has developed a new type of polyamide containing long glass fibers, and this "Ultramid Structure" plastic, as they're calling it, can then be pelletized for injection molding....
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The Human Hamster Wheel: Chris Todd's Tredalo
Chris Todd was planning to "walk" from Wales to Ireland across the Irish sea in his personally constructed Tredalo. Burning about 36,000 calories over two days of operating this human-sized hamster...
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Dominic Wilcox's GPS-Embedded Footwear is Less TomTom, More ToTo
In the beginning of Yojimbo, Toshiro Mifune's ronin character stands in the wilderness and throws a stick in the air. After it lands, he carefully aligns his feet alongside the stick for several...
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Max Lamb's Round and Round Table, Borne of an Unusual Tool
You've got your Form Follows Function, but there's also the more interesting (if less alliterative) Designer Follows Tool. London-based furniture designer Max Lamb discovered a tool set for tapping...
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Vienna Design Week 2012: Valentin Vodev Shares Secret Stories Behind J. & L....
Within the Passionswege ("pilgrimage ways") craft and design project of Vienna Design Week, Vienna-based designer Valentin Vodev was asked to collaborate with J. L. Lobmeyr, the renowned Viennese...
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BioLite is Seeking a Senior Product Engineer in New York, NY
Senior Product Engineer BioLiteNew York, NY BioLite, a cutting edge clean technology company is seeking a seasoned mechanical engineer and design for manufacturing specialist to develop home-energy...
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PredictGaze: Using the Camera in Your Phone or Computer for Gesture Control,...
When we first saw the Leap gesture control interface for the Mac, we were blown away. Earlier than that, gamers and hackers were taken by the Wii and the Kinect. Now a new group of creators is working...
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More Bug Nest Casting: Scott Turner's Termite Mounds
When it comes to casting bugs' nests, looks like Walter Tschinkel's not the only game in town; scientist and SUNY biology professor Scott Turner also produces "endocasts," though he does them of...
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Thought At Work 2012: RIT's Student-Run Industrial Design Conference
Industrial Design students of the Northeast...UNITE! The students at Rochester Institute of Technology are holding their annual Thought At Work conference this October 26-28th. What forces are shaping...
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Johannessen & Clarke's OSSA Folding Chair
Here's a very different take on the folding chair: The OSSA, created by Vancouver-based design duo Johannessen & Clarke. The pair (Solveig and Krystin, respectively) met while they were third-year...
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