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Throwable Camera Form Factors: Ball or Barbell?
There are at least two companies battling it out for the throwable camera market, which in its nascent stages consists of firefighters, emergency responders and the military, and which I believe will...
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Eric Cashion's Handmade Knives
Craftsman Eric Cashion is the one man shop known as Confederate Forge, and while I'm tempted to say he's got his work cut out for him, in actuality he cuts out his own work. Texas-based Cashion makes...
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What's the Most Transformative Object of Our Era?
People invented elevators, which eventually led to skyscrapers. People invented cars, which led to highways and then suburbs. The full extent of the transformative power these objects contained was...
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The MeCam: A GoPro for Non-Athletes?
GoPro-captured footage is awesome, allowing us non-extreme-athletes to witness POV footage from amazing perspectives we'd likely never otherwise see. It allows the recording athlete to document a...
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Radial Arms: Alternative Form Factor for 3D Printers?
The shape of a 3D printer is easy to envision: "Form follows function" dictates that they all have rigid parts aligned in the X-, Y- and Z-axes that the print head will travel along. But a fellow named...
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Renault x Ross Lovegrove Twin'Z Electric Car Concept
Renault and British designer Ross Lovegrove unveiled the Twin'Z, an all-electric cabon-fiber concept car at Milan's Triennale Design Museum last week. The electric motor on the Twin'Z is rear-mounted...
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Graduate Into an Industrial Design Apprenticeship at (11) in Boston,...
wants an Industrial Design Apprenticein Boston, Massachusetts As if graduating this spring wasn't exciting enough, you now have the opportunity to join (ELEVEN), a product development studio that is...
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Case Study: Greater Good Studio on Designing Everything but the Food, Part 1
Introduction: A Brief Exercise in EmpathyWhat food did you hate as a kid, that you now love as a grown-up?Mine was guacamole. I used to hate guacamole! My mom would make it fresh and serve it at...
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frog at SXSW 2013: The Crowd As DJ, Part 3 - The Results
A research report on the dynamics of crowd-sourcing music at the frog SXSW Interactive Opening Party, by Bonnie Reese, Mike Herdzina and Shaina Donovan—see Parts 1&2 for more...
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NYC Bikeshare System Now Open for Registration!
UPDATE: Streetsblog has more from today's press conference with Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson and DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan.After all of the drama with the delayed launch last year, I could...
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Qualy Block Stacking Collection Cans for Space-Tight Kitchens
Got a tiny kitchen with no room for paper, plastic and trash cans? The Qualy Block stacking cans are a clever way to combine rubbish and recycling collection in a small footprint. A cove molded into...
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Yea or Nay? FDRL's Wooden Kitchen Knives
Ian Murchison and Rohan Thakar are the industrial designers behind FDRL, a/k/a The Federal, an Ottawa-based design consultancy. Their forthcoming line of kitchen knives definitely demonstrate some...
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Salone Milan 2013: Triennale Explores The Syndrome of Influence
Alessandro Mendini reflects the playfulness of Alessi in a miniature town set on a backdrop of futurist painter Gerardo Dottori's work.In this year's deep-dive into Italian design history, Milan's...
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Make It Mean More as the Global Head of Design at Mars in Slough, United Kingdom
wants a Global Head of Designin Slough, United Kingdom Mars is a £24billion, family-owned company responsible for globally renowned brands including Snickers, Galaxy, Maltesers, Uncle Ben's, Dolmio,...
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Case Study: Greater Good Studio on Designing Everything but the Food, Part 2
This is the second half of a case study by Chicago's Greater Good Studio, who recently set out to redesign school lunch. See the first part, including Lessons 1–4, here.Lesson 5: Ask what you can make...
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3D Ear Scanning: Is a Customized Earbud Revolution on the Horizon?
Most of us are losing our hearing for some reason or another, either to poorly distributed sound from cheap earbuds or old age. Millennials seem to be destined to be shouting to hear each other in just...
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Herman Miller Presents the 'Everywhere in Your Day' Contest
Our friends at Herman Miller have recently launched "Everywhere in Your Day," an online trivia / scavenger hunt contest for a chance to win an Eames Lounge & Ottoman or one of four other prizes....
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Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club - Theoretical Physicist Ethan...
Tonight! Core77's Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club enthusiastically presents theoretical physicist Ethan Siegel of Starts with a Bang!Tonight's talk starts at 6pm at Core77's Hand-Eye Supply store in...
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Studio Moniker's "Do Not Touch" Interactive Video Celebrates the Pending...
During the end of their lifetimes as useful interfaces, no one threw a party for the rotary dial, the skeleton key or the crank people once used to manually start their Model T's. But Amsterdam-based...
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Google Glass: Here are the Stats, and Here Come the Stores. Also: Yea or Nay...
As Google Glass gets closer to its launch date, the search giant has released specs on what users can expect from the production models. The onboard camera will record 720p video and be able to shoot...
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