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Underground Beer Cooler Pops Cold Brews Out Of The Earth
Beer-loving folks normally prefer their beers nice and cool, even ice cold if it’s a hot day. Keeping a six-pack cool is easy if you have a bucket of ice, a good-sized cooler or a refrigerator. All of these require the use of electricity at some point.
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Google Makes the Subtlest Logo Change in the History of Logo Changes
You didn't notice it, but the design geeks on Reddit did. Google moved the "g" right one pixel and the "l" down and right one pixel, one eagle-eyed Redditor noticed on Sunday. Apparently, this was done to fix a very slight problem with the kerning of the letters.
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Apple's lost future: phone, tablet, and laptop prototypes of the ’80s
Apple's focus on design has long been one of the key factors that set its computers apart. Some of its earliest and most iconic designs, however, didn't actually come from inside of Apple, but from outside designers at Frog. In particular, credit goes to Frog's founder, Hartmut Esslinger, who was responsible for the "Snow White" design language that had Apple computers of the ’80s colored all white and covered in long stripes and rounded corners meant to make the machines appear smaller.
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NASA designs sandals to make sure astronauts are getting exercise
Don’t like to exercise? Well, no one’s forcing you, unless you’re an astronaut. NASA allots two-and-a-half hours each day for astronauts to exercise while in space, and the health consequences of skipping it for a few days are much more severe than that time you got ice cream instead of going to the gym.
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Let's Reivent The Bookshop
Bookshops are closing down like nobody’s business. So do they need rethinking for the electronic age? Rosanna de Lisle asks four firms of architects and designers to create the bookshop of their dreams
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How to Design a Billion Dollar Company
Question: What do Airbnb, Snapchat and Uber all have in common (besides multibillion-dollar valuations)?
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This Airline Is Saying Goodbye To Reclining Seats
If you hate sitting behind a reclined airplane seat, we have some excellent news for you. Monarch Airlines announced Thursday that their fleet's new "ergonomic" aircraft seats will not recline. The new seats feature a slimmer, lightweight design that will increase legroom.
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Silent rooftop wind turbines could generate half of a household's energy needs
Small, vertical axis wind turbines are the right size for residential and urban areas, but so far, they have lived in the shadows of their larger, horizontal axis counterparts. The power output is significantly lower (although a study has suggested that for the space they take up, they're more efficient) and the noise they produce is louder than most homeowners can deal with.
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Google Glass Still Trying To Look Cool
When Google announced its Google Glass partnership with Ray-Ban and Oakley maker Luxottica in January, headlines blared that Glass had likely solved its fashion problem. Luxottica makes cool eyewear, so their take on Google Glass will be infused with cool, and people will wear it, the logic goes. But those cooler Glasses won’t hit the market until 2015, the company projected.
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Intel aims to eliminate all PC cables in 2016
Goodbye rat's nest! Intel says wireless power, docking and connectivity will form the basis of its post-Broadwell "Skylake" reference designs.
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No Power? No Problem. Coke Creates Bio Cooler for Villages Off the Grid
Behold Coca-Cola's newest happiness machine: the Bio Cooler, a soft-drink dispenser that doesn't need electricity or batteries to operate. The unit, developed by Leo Burnett Colombia and the International Physics Centre in Bogota, uses two cooling methods based on ancient technology. Watering the plants atop the device produces evaporation, and a mirror at the top is used to convert gas into liquid inside the cooler.
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Nadeem Haidary Crafts An Everyday Razor To Paper Cut Your Hair Off
Folded into existence by Nadeem Haidary, 'paper cut razor' is a project that uses an everyday mishap as an influence for a seemingly mundane task.
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The Man Who Made the World Cup Trophy
In 1971, the organizers of the World Cup found themselves without a cup to call their own. The year before, Pelé’s Brazil had won the tournament for the third time, which meant they got to keep the trophy. As Brazil’s captain, Carlos Alberto, held the trophy aloft on a blazing hot day in Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium, there was a sense that the title, previously kept by the winning team for the four years in between tournaments, really was coming home.
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Here's NASA's New Design for a Warp Drive Ship
In 2012, NASA physicist Harold White revealed that he and a team were working on a design for a faster-than-light ship. Now he's collaborated with an artist to create a new, more realistic design of what such a ship might actually look like.
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The PSD to WordPress Conversion Process
The following guide will show you the process of building and creating a customized website from PSD design creation to Wordpress Conversion.
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Pixel perfect: the story of eBoy
Wedding, despite what its name may suggest, is not a very pretty part of Berlin. It’s drab, seedy, and has long been among the city’s poorest areas. Today, it’s home to a large immigrant population, mostly Turks, as evidenced by the kebab houses and hookah bars that line its gray streets. But the twin forces of change and gentrification are slowly seeping into Wedding, as they have across much of post-Cold War Berlin.
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30 Floor-to-Ceiling Windows Flooding Interiors with Natural Light
We can experience the sky's exclusive colors, the gradual change in tones of the leaves, roaring waves crushing on the boulders nearby, the bustling city l
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Nike’s Data-Driven Design for Team USA’s Ultra-Thin Jerseys
When the US men’s soccer team played Ghana in Natal, Brazil yesterday, the temperature reached the mid-80s and the humidity outlook was, basically: Expect your sweat glands to sprout sweat glands. But the crazy thing about Brazil is that while it might feel like the dead of summer in one city, it could very well feel a crisp spring day in another. This unpredictability is tough enough on athletes, who ideally train in conditions that reflect the climate they’ll be competing in.
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How Cities Use Design to Drive Homeless People Away
Saying "you're not welcome here"—with spikes.
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A 3D-printed car is coming that stretches the boundaries of design
Local Motors has been building cars with the help of community-submitted part designs for years now, but this September, it has far more ambitious plans: creating a working, 3D-printed electric vehicle, also based on a design by someone from its community. The contest ran during May, and a winner — along with several runner-ups — was announced earlier this month. Local Motors is already printing out initial models of the winning frame as a test, and it's even given one a drive around.
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