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Fabulous Prefabs: 13 Luxury Portable Abodes That'll Move You
How often have we looked at a design and imagined what life would be like if that were ours. Why settle into a mindset where we believe that all the best things in life are for others and not for us? Let’s strive for excellence in our designs and plans, dreaming and imagining ideas that’ll turn our ordinary dwellings (and ultimately our lives) into something spectacular.
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Morph: a bold seating concept for the flexible future of economy air travel
Air travel on a budget isn't often pleasant. Despite huge leaps forward in comfort for the upper classes (and the more recent "premium economy" class), the economy section of a cabin is more often...
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The Devel Sixteen Is A 5000hp V16 Hypercar Of Horrors
With a spec sheet reading much like a child’s ultimate Top Trump card, the Devel Sixteen – seen here for the first time at the 2013 Dubai motor show – is the definition of insanity. Its mid-mounted V16 engine produces a claimed 5000hp (yes, five thousand), which will catapult the the Devel from 0-60mph in 1.8 seconds. In the words of Jeremy Clarkson, 1.8 seconds is now…until now. As for the hypercar’s top speed, you’ll see 560kph, apparently. That’s 348mph in real money.
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Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births
The idea came to Jorge Odón as he slept. Somehow, he said, his unconscious made the leap from a YouTube video he had just seen on extracting a lost cork from a wine bottle to the realization that the same parlor trick could save a baby stuck in the birth canal.
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Turn Any Wall Into a Death Star With These Mix-and-Match Tiles
Tom Spina Designs has a long history of bringing wonderful Star Wars-inspired creations to life. We still wish we could have snatched up the Han Solo Carbonite desk the company created, and now we desperately want these brilliant sculpted modular tiles that make any surface look like you're up close and personal with the Death Star.
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Who Made That Redskins Logo?
When the newly formed Boston Redskins traveled to Chicago’s Soldier Field to play the Bears on Oct. 1, 1933, the visiting players were barely recognizable. The owner, George Preston Marshall, ordered team members to smear themselves with face paint before going out onto the field.
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Touch Board: Interactivity Everywhere
Now anyone can transform touch into sound (and so much more!) with the Touch Board, an easy-to-use Arduino-compatible device.
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Qatar stadium design critics: it ‘looks like a vagina’
AECOM Technology Corporation posted a short video animation of the design for Qatar’s new Al Wakrah sports stadium Saturday, which under almost immediate criticism for its resemblance to female genitalia. Buzzfeed’s Matt Kiebus noted that the $120 billion project bears little resemblance to an ancient dhow boat “that Qataris traditionally used for pearl diving.”
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One very clever farmer…
And also very useful if a family of giants comes for tea.
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Philips' LED carpet brings the bioluminescent jungle indoors
Philips has partnered with flooring company Desso to develop "light transmissive carpets." The concept integrates LED lighting into fabric, enabling a number of applications. One area that Desso — a big name in commercial and industrial flooring — is interested in is signage. By controlling which areas of the carpet light up, Philips and Desso are able to integrate information into the floor, be it guiding arrows, logos, or text.
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Top 10 Revolutionary Projects by Zaha Hadid Architects
Famous all around the globe for her futuristic and unique creations, Zaha Hadid is an exceptional architect whose name is recognized in all the corners of the earth. She is best known for the distinctive futuristic design of her buildings which synonym for modern architecture. Her practice is responsible for numerous amazing projects, most of which are revolutionary and extremely impressive.
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Windows 9 Concepts: Designers Imagine the Next Microsoft Operating System
Windows 8.1 is here, but unfortunately for some users, it brings almost no visual improvements, except for a Start button that doesn't do anything..
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Crossrail: Britain's biggest archaeological dig will transform London
Crossrail is not just about engineering: artists, designers and archaeologists are all involved in the £15bn new railway. As the amazing tunnel-boring machines approach halfway, Rowan Moore dons his hard hat and goes below
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10 Easy Tips For Brightening The Darkest Rooms Of Your Interiors
While you may not realize it, if you have been feeling tired, cranky, stressed or just not in a great mood, look to your home and it’s sources of natural light. It’s a proven fact that humans respond, act and feel better in a home that has plenty of natural light but also has light inspired decor.
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Steve Jobs Initially Hated The Idea Of White Apple Products
In 2001, Apple started making all of its products white. This happened even though Steve Jobs was not a fan of the idea.
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A Simple Solar Oven Makes Salt Water Drinkable
Italian designer Gabriele Diamanti (@GabDiamanti) has invented Eliodomestico, an eco-distiller running on solar power, to provide safe drinking-water for people in developing countries. A very simple way to produce healthy, bacteria-free water. Eliodomestico is an open source project.
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A really great visualization of what can be achieved with Projection Mapping
Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera.
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Inside Vertu, makers of the world's most expensive phones
Vertu started life in the late 1990s as an indulgence for Nokia's designers. Led by Frank Nuovo, the group set out to explore what a phone could look and feel like if its design were unconstrained...
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A Glittering LED Wonderland That People Are Waiting Hours to See
Walking into one of Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms is like walking into a completely different universe. The door shuts behind you, and suddenly you find yourself surrounded by what appears to be a galaxy of shimmering LEDs. The scene is beautiful, in a surreal, space-age fairy tale sort of way. But it’s also a little jarring in its intimacy; it’s almost as though you’ve been instantly transported from a whitewashed gallery into Kusama’s buzzing, obsessive mind.
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Design Christmas with these wonderful gift ideas
Do you love design? Would you like some exciting ideas for your Christmas presents? Here you will find a rich selection of wonderful design items perfect as Christmas presents for your friends and family. Not the usual Chrismas gift.
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