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Japan's Amazing Automated Restaurants
Kaiten or rotating/conveyor belt sushi restaurants were invented in Japan in the 1950s. More recently, a Japanese entrepreneur has put the concept on steroids, rolling out a chain of highly...
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Souda's Friendly Concrete Side Table
Just two years old, the Brooklyn-based manufacturer Souda is already producing a range of innovative and unusual products. Back at ICFF for a second year — in 2014 they took home the "Best New...
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A Camping Knife Embedded with Brooklyn History
Reclaimed wood is frequently touted as a resourceful way to reduce waste by reusing existing materials. What’s often missing from that conversation is how the reuse of these materials can also reclaim...
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Modular Cargo Bikes with Unusual Steering Mechanisms
As their name implies, XYZ Cargo cycles are built on a Cartesian grid. They're intended to be easy to put together, easy to repair and easy to customize. And the square-tubed cycles, which come in both...
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Watch a Master Bookbinding Technician Making Custom Boxes
Stuff comes in boxes, and we throw away or recycle most of those boxes. But every once in a while you buy something—fancy chocolates, an expensive bottle of booze, an Apple product—that comes in a box...
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Attention Design Entrepreneurs: Find an Undiscovered Niche in Need of Design,...
Many areas of design are already saturated. Want to get into furniture design? You've got thousands of competitors to contend with. But if you can bring your design talent to bear on an undiscovered...
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A Camera Bag with Camera-Inspired Hardware
As a product designer, it seems crazy to me that no one's really figured out the SLR camera lens cap thing. Which is to say, where do you put the cap while you're shooting on-the-go? "I hate that...
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The U.S. Government Has Their Own Official Color System
Last week a couple of contractors in a cherry picker repainted the orangeish-yellow support brackets for the Walk/Don't Walk signs on my corner:It never occurred to me that those colors are regulated...
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A Clever Way to Tighten/Loosen a Bolt When You Don't Have the Correct-Sized...
This video is entirely in Spanish, but it doesn't matter what language you speak—you'll grasp it. It's a clever workaround for when you're trying to remove a hex-head bolt and don't have the correct...
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Watching a Grown Man Unlearn How to Ride a Bicycle is Surprisingly Compelling
I had avoided watching this video because I assumed it was clickbait, but I was wrong. What we have here is a fascinating look at what happens when your brain is forced to re-write one of your body's...
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Collapsible Cooking: Sea to Summit's Fold-Flat X-Pots
In July of this year, camping goods company Sea to Summit will release their full line of collapsible X-Pots. By combining an aluminum base with a silicone body, the company has created pots that...
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