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Turning Old Barns Into New Furniture
The furniture pieces you see here all look quite old, but in fact, they're brand new. They're all made by Furniture from the Barn, a Pennsylvania-based outfit that gets their raw material, as their...
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Wowhaus' Nifty Portable Field Trunk
There's next to no information on this thing and the image quality sucks, but I had to write this up because I've never seen a furniture piece like this before. It combines an old-school toolbox with...
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Nixon is seeking a Senior Designer in Encinitas, California
Senior Designer NixonEncinitas, CaliforniaThe Senior Designer must be highly organized, able to work efficiently on multiple projects in a tight deadline oriented environment and follow through with...
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You Can Download Google's Design Document for Their Vacuum-Assisted Linear...
If your place was burning down, what would you grab? I'd leave the most expensive thing I own, my computer, since my data's in the cloud and a laptop can be replaced. Instead I'd go for the old,...
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Tool Terminology: A Drag Link Socket is a Large Hollow-Ground Screwdriver Bit
Sears Employee: "I'm pretty sure they don't make that...and if they do, we don't sell 'em."I previously wrote about gunsmithing/hollow-ground screwdriver bits here, and in the two years since, my...
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CoreToon: Pressure-Sensitive Stylus
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TrailerTails: A Smart, Inexpensive Way to Reduce Shipping Container Wind Drag
For industries involving physical things, square edges are good. They make furniture parts easier to join, I-beams easier to connect and shipping containers easier to load and stack. But once you load...
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Clever Mirror Hack for Drilling Straight Holes With a Power Drill
What I really wanted for Christmas was a drill press. Being able to drill a hole that's dead-nuts perpendicular to your material is a crucial DIY skill, and one that I can manage most of the time by...
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Things That Look Like Other Things: Fat Boys Deluxe Edition Pizza Picture Disc
If you have yet to settle on a New Year's Resolution, how about this: Eat more pizza in 2013. I mean, let's face it, everyone loves pizza. (Hell, one of my friends even got a pizza tattoo on her arm......
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DCI / Decor Craft Inc. is seeking an Industrial Designer in Providence, Rhode...
Industrial Designer DCI / Decor Craft Inc.Providence, Rhode IslandDCI is looking for an industrial designer with a minimum of two years of professional experience, who is passionate about design and...
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nCycle, the First Electric Bicycle Concept of 2013
Here we go again: the nCycle is the first of what will hopefully be many new bicycle designs that will validate our measured optimism about electric bicycles in 2013. Designers Skyrill and Marin Myftiu...
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A Potential Killer App for Touchscreens: Restaurant Tables
Aside from cell phones and tablets, we've seen touchscreens integrated into voting machines, vending machines and musical devices. Perceptive Pixel's Jeff Han integrated one into an industrial...
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IDSA International Design Excellence Awards 2013 Accepting Entries through...
The Industrial Designers Society of America's annual awards program has been open for exactly a month now, but designers still have over seven weeks to prepare and submit their entries. This marks the...
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Qualy Design's Snow-Globe-Like Spice Jars
When it comes to kitchenware with a sense of humor, Qualy Design is something like Alessi, except they're based in Thailand. Their take on seasoning shakers is something like a spice jar mixed with a...
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Frumpy Chairs: Hand-crafted Plastic-molded Seating by Jamie Wolfond
Frumpy Chairs, "Poly" and "Mary-Kate" (left to right)Toronto born and raised, Jamie Wolfond is currently a senior at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. We first profiled his...
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Low-Tech Remedy for a Small Screen: A Magnifying Glass?
Had to LOL when I saw this Mini Cinema for iPhone. We've seen non-powered sound amplifiers for iDevices before, that essentially use seashell properties to magnify the acoustics. But here someone's...
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LUNAR is seeking an Interaction Designer in San Francisco, California
Interaction Designer LUNARSan Francisco, CaliforniaLUNAR is looking for an experienced mid-level Interaction Designer with a passion for conceptual thinking and strong storytelling skills, who loves to...
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A Signature of the Times? (Or, a Tenuous Link between Barack Obama and Ryan...
via American ThinkerFrom NPR via Mashable: "As many had expected he would, the president did sign the fiscal cliff agreement with an autopen. The bill was back in Washington, D.C., while Obama was in...
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Below the Boat Puts the 'Laser Cut' in 'Lacustrine'
Besides anagrams and pizza, I also have a keen interest in digital fabrication and maps. "Below the Boat" is a new company that combines the latter two: besides lakes, the site also offers laser-cut...
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Rob Honeycutt's USA-made 'Elroy' Customizable Bluetooth Earbud+Remote
As the founder of Timbuk2, Rob Honeycutt spent over a decade and a half in the messenger bag industry, before selling the company to move on to his next venture. The former bicycle messenger has since...
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