Postable Jewelry

Posted on May 7, 2008 Under Design

Everyone loves receiving mail the old fashion way. There's a certain romance to getting a physical letter or a postcard. And jewelry is always romantic. So it was obvious to London-based designer Nutre Arayavanish to put the two together as…

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Vivo Barefoot

Posted on May 7, 2008 Under Fashion

Two weeks ago, a detailed article appeared in New York magazine that made many, including myself, rethink something we've taken for granted for so long -- walking. In particular, walking in footwear. If you take a look at how the…

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STIX glasses

Posted on May 6, 2008 Under Gadgetry

If you've ever found yourself in the rare, but nonetheless frustrating predicament of needing to eat sushi while you have only your glasses on you, Brad Gressel's got an inventive solution. The American industrial designer's STIX eyeglasses give you a…

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Activate Drinks

Posted on April 28, 2008 Under Food

So many energy drinks, so little bladder control. For most health conscious people out there, the biggest problem with the plethora of Gator, Power, Sobe, and other prefixed aides and waters is that we all want to believe that they're…

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Ten Thousand Cents

Posted on April 15, 2008 Under Art

We make no pretense about being "all about the Benjamins." However, we are particularly about this Benjamin because it's actually the work of 10,000 international artists (each paid one cent using Amazon's Mechanical Turk labor distribution tool), who could only…

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Adam Kalkin: City Center Lofts

Posted on April 3, 2008 Under Design

There once was an old woman who lived in a shoe; unfortunately, it was extremely impractical in that it wasn't very spacious and always smelled of feet. We think she would've been much more at home in the U.S.'s first…

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Bang & Olufsen: Touchless Remote Concept

Posted on April 3, 2008 Under Gadgetry

If you're at all like us, you like to sit back and enjoy the occasional bag of Cheetos while watching your favorite TV shows. The problem with that is you end up getting orange dust all over the clicker to…

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Nubrella

Posted on April 2, 2008 Under Life

The hands-free Nubrella looks as dorky as a grown man playing with G.I. Joes (note I didn't say anything about Star Wars and light sabers), but when you're confronted with pulling winds and fighting to reverse an inside-out umbrella, you're…

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Behance Inspiration: Imagining the Future

Posted on March 25, 2008 Under Design

Japanese Industrial Designer Mac Funamizu has an eclectic Behance portfolio with projects that range from a tea cup with a detachable handle to fantasy mobile computer displays. We are particularly lusting for one of his latest concepts titled Future of…

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OWL: Objects With Light

Posted on March 24, 2008 Under Design

We're not sure what your relationship with lighting is like, but we've had a long love/hate thing with lamps. There was the Banned-In-College-Halogen-Torch-Lamp phase in college, the First-New-York-Apartment-Track-Lighting phase, and currently the Take-Me-Seriously-I'm-A-Professional-Writer-Goose-Neck-Lamp phase. What London artist Georgiosi Ignatiou does…

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