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Holy Cow: This Amusement Park Ride is a Giant Rotational Molding Machine

This might be the world's first amusement park ride that resembles a product design production method. The engineers at Swiss outfit ABC Rides have developed the Tourbillon (a French word that is used...

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Industrial-Strength Storage

When the Armadillo Credenza first landed in our inboxes, quite frankly we didn't know what to do with it. Built from reclaimed steel and glass—with a whopping 60 steel arms, 78 bolts, and a dozen...

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Misburnt CDs + Angle Grinder = Pigeon Throwing Machine

The dumbest thing I've purchased in the past 10 years is a stack of 50 CDs at Staples. It seemed like a good idea back when we used to burn things for friends, but my current computer doesn't even have...

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Nifty, Space-Saving Kitchen-in-a-Box

Remember the Hoosier Cabinet, the all-in-one piece of kitchen furniture that predated modern kitchens? Austrian company Camp Champ has a similar offering, this one designed for modern-day...

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The Human Center of Design: In Conversation with Patrice Martin

As part of an ongoing interview series on the Autodesk Foundation's blog, ImpactDesignHub.org, Allan Chochinov, Editor at Large of Core77 and Chair of the MFA Products of Design program at SVA...

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What Exactly is Ticker Tape?

New York City is in a tizzy, as it's been announced that the U.S. Women's National Team will be honored this Friday with a rare ticker tape parade in the Canyon of Hero(in)es, lower Broadway's stretch...

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Why More Men than Women Participate in NYC's Bike Share Program

When New York City's bicycle share program, Citi Bike, rolled out in 2013, we were already well behind the times. The Netherlands and Denmark had them as early as the 1960s, and by the 1990s Paris had...

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Optimus Svea: Prime Swedish Camp Stoves That Won't Quit

In outdoor gear the meaning of "good design" depends heavily on the needs of the user. However, when a tool has been field tested around the world for over 60 years without needing an overhaul, the...

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Storing Vinyl Records on the Wall

Vinyl owners fall into two categories: those who play them and those who don't (but are still sentimentally attached to them). Both types might be interested in products that help them hang part of...

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Are You Selling Your Products Through Amazon? Here's How You Need to Package...

Much has been made in the press of Amazon's Kiva robots, the small-but-mighty Roomba-sized machines that carry entire racks loaded up with products. Here's some cool footage of them in action at...

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2015 IDEA Bronze Winners Announced!

The first group of winners in IDSA's International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) have been announced! This year is a momentous one for the prestigious design competition, marking its 35th year during...

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Making Machines that Walk

Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been working on his Strandbeests, kinetic sculptures capable of locomotion, since the 1990s. As part of their development he's devised wheel-free ways for them to move,...

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Brilliant Airplane Seat Design to Make Coach Even More Uncomfortable

Zodiac Aerospace's Seats Division bills themselves as "the leading providers of aircraft seats for passengers and crew," with teams of designers specialized in ergonomics and cabin layout. And one of...

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Beats Teardown Guy Tackles Two Authentic Pairs This Time

Avery Louie, the prototype engineer whose knockoff Beats teardown made the blog rounds last month, has subsequently gotten his hands on two real pairs of Beats. After tearing down the counterfeit pair,...

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Turning Kickstarter into Kickcontinuer

The company's name might be BigIdesign, but their latest product is tiny. Take a look at this thing:So, what did you think? Was it innovative? Underwhelming? A novelty that might be useful to have, but...

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Carnegie Mellon's Lego-like Modular Snake Robots

Longtime Core77 readers know that I hate robots and hate snakes, but I fully support the idea of robot snakes. And while Carnegie Mellon's non-snake CHIMP robot did not win the DARPA Robotics...

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New Star Wars Trailer Reveals Tons of "Real Sets and Practical Effects"

With the new Star Wars trailer already at 69 million hits, the creators knew they'd have to release something special for last week's San Diego Comic-Con, the annual geek gathering that can generate...

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Frames of Reference

With the reopening of the Cooper Hewitt last December, museumgoers can once again roam the halls of Andrew Carnegie's magnificent Upper East Side mansion—and now, thanks to a collaboration between the...

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How to Make Your Laptop Sprout Two Additional Full-Sized Screens

The compromise of mobile computing is that you've got less screen real estate than you'd have on a desktop. But the trio of Belgian entrepreneurs behind the Slidenjoy have come up with a way to let you...

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Video Demonstration of the Manual Labor of Design

Industrial design used to be a mess. I don't mean the field, I mean the work. ID'ers of a certain age will remember flushing spray guns in the model shop, the pain of cleaning and refilling a...

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