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Crazier Examples of What New York City's "Taxi of Tomorrow" Could Have Been
It's already been two years since Nissan's NV200, aka the "Taxi of Tomorrow," was meant to begin replacing New York City's fleet. But uptake has apparently been slow, and I have yet to see the Gotham's...
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ICSID Changing Moniker, Will Drop "Industrial Design" from Name
ICSID recently held their 29th General Assembly in South Korea, where they announced a momentous change: No longer will they be known as the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design....
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A Design Classic, Now in 3D
The Swiss watchmaker Movado is probably best known for its Museum Dial watch, with a radically simple face designed by Nathan George Horwitt in 1947. Even if you know nothing about watches, you would...
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Yea or Nay? Crescent's X6 Pass-Through 3-in-1 Wrench Set
My selection of cheap sockets is a cobbled-together mess, and I hate having to maintain both Imperial and Metric sizes. I can hardly read the faint etchings on the sides, and it often happens that I'm...
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Magic Leap Releases Undoctored POV Video of Their Augmented Reality Technology
Magic Leap is secretive Florida-based company said to be working on a game-changing augmented reality system. The company's aim is to start with the user rather than the technology: "[We observed] that...
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Dutch Design Week 2015: Atelier NL's Site-Specific Ceramics
Like it or lump it, ceramics were shown in force during Dutch Design Week, ubiquitous in the subtle way that both a tabletop landscape or a single sculptural artifact can be presented in a space...
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Drafting Table Quarterback: Power Drill Teardown
In this installment of the Drafting Table Quarterback, we have a side-by-side comparison of two products near and dear to any design student, homeowner or design professional: Two 18v cordless power...
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Meet the Drafting Table Quarterback
When designing a product, designers face challenges from many different camps both within the company and externally. Good designers and good designs handle these challenges and create products that...
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How German Homes Maximize Energy Efficiency
We all know that your average American McMansion is a lot bigger than the standard German home. But increased American energy usage isn't just down to size; the very way that we Yanks build our houses...
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Are These Photos of Moons, or Frying Pans?
Earlier this year, NASA's Europa Mission Tweeted the following photo:"One of these is Jupiter's moon Europa," they wrote, "the rest are frying pans."We're sure you're trying to guess which of these is...
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Yamaha's Alternative to Driverless Cars: Robot-Driven Cars, Starting with...
Tesla rolled out their autopilot feature this month, and it seems a sure bet we're headed towards a future filled with driverless cars. But Yamaha's working on an alternative: Robot-driven cars. The...
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A Kiosk That Spits Out Free Short Stories
While slicing fruit, crushing candy and swiping faces have become commonly accepted forms of smartphone-based time killing, can't we do better, in terms of our intellectual health? Entrepreneur...
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Making the Ultimate Minimalist Pen
In 2012, Brooklyn's CW&T raised more than $280,000 on Kickstarter for Pen Type-A, a stainless-steel upgrade to the Pilot Hi-Tec-C, a plastic gel pen with a cult following among writers, designers...
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My Vote for This Year's Best Halloween Costume, and How Casey Neistat Built...
Call me a simpleton, but I think this is the absolute best Halloween costume I saw this year:Sadly there's no attribution, though the photo's all over social media. As awesome as that get-up is, in...
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Julie Anixter will be AIGA's New Executive Director
AIGA is embarking on its second century with new leadership. Today the esteemed organization announced that, beginning in January 2016, Julie Anixter will take the helm after Richard Grefé's tenure...
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Impressive Demonstration of the "Incremental Launching Method" of Bridge...
Commenting on the efficacy of levers, Archimedes reportedly said "If I had a place to stand, I could move the Earth." That "place to stand" is a key consideration in the building of bridges and...
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Classic Workwear with Contemporary Appeal
The new Fall/Winter collection is in! With it comes high-quality textiles, cozy layers, and classic cuts. These distinctive pieces hail from England, Germany, France, the U.S., and more, and are all...
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Bird-Biology-Inspired Bionic Boots
In your opinion, which of these animals is more majestic?To an American the choice is obvious, and there's a reason Don Henley didn't co-found The Ostriches. But as far as which animal we humans have...
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How to Build Your Own Supercar
It's every car-designer's dream—to design and build a supercar from scratch, with no constraints. Talking with Carlos Salaff, ex-Mazda exterior designer, I realize he is living that dream—he's the...
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Video of Wood Being Friction-Welded Together
Friction welding is a process whereby two pieces of like material, typically plastic or metal, are rubbed together at high speeds. The resultant heat essentially melts the adjoining surfaces together....
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