Design
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Unlock the Door with Your Fingerprint
Posted by Alice Truong Wed May 2, 2012 10:59 AM ET | 0
Say goodbye to keys. A new door handle design uses biometric authentication to unlock. Though such types of door locks already exist, Grabit excels with its strategically placed fingerprint scanner, allowing people to unlock and open the door in ... Read more
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Design Concept Expands Pringles Can into Chip Bowl
Posted by Alice Truong Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:44 PM ET | 0
Pringles is a well-engineered snack, and the genius lies within the can holding the chips. But a team of designers has taken that concept a step further to create Bloom Chips. Instead of a straight cylinder shape, Bloom Chips’ ... Read more
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Designer Nori Brings Fortune, Longevity to Sushi
Posted by Alice Truong Tue Apr 17, 2012 01:39 PM ET | 0
Class up your next DIY sushi dinner with designer nori. After a tsunami ravaged Japan last year, a client tapped ad agency I&SSBDO to improve nori sales. In an attempt to mix the new and the old, the agency ... Read more
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Retired Jaguar Finds New Life As a Bookshelf (Photos)
Posted by Alice Truong Fri Mar 9, 2012 11:25 AM ET | 0
After this Jaguar drove its last mile, Dutch design studio Denieuwegeneratie converted it into a tall bookshelf for Dutch Mountain, an underground villa that opened in December. Great auto design can translate into great interior design. The process... Read more
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Help Launch a New Folding Electric Bike: The CMYK 2.0
Posted by Derek Markham Wed Mar 7, 2012 01:16 PM ET | 0
Want to see a versatile electric commuter bike hit the market? Help launch the CMYK 2.0, a folding electric bicycle from the good folks at Brooklyness, by jumping on their Kickstarter campaign. I’ve got a confession to make: I ... Read more
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Got a Good Sense of Direction? Try Navigating this Transparent 9-Floor Glass Maze (Photos)
Posted by Alice Truong Fri Mar 2, 2012 03:01 PM ET | 0
Getting lost has never been more beautiful. The Cubed Maze³ by Phil Pauley is a nine-floor mega-maze concept designed to use a recycled flexible glass-based polymer. With multiple stairs, glass ramps and transparent-wall partitions, the maze will... Read more
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Simple Yet Elegant Reading Lamp Owes Its Good Looks to a Magnet
Posted by Alice Truong Fri Feb 24, 2012 04:12 PM ET | 0
The Magneto is an elegant reading light that includes a few simple parts: a beam connected to a base and a conical diffuser held by a magnetic ball. That last ingredient is what makes the lamp interesting. The magnet ... Read more
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Crowdsourcing the Ideal City Bike: Bordeaux’s City PIBAL Streamer
Posted by Derek Markham Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:54 AM ET | 0
It’s a bike, it’s a scooter, it’s a designer transportation device for bike sharing in Bordeaux. When Bordeaux wanted to expand its bike sharing program, it turned to its citizens for input, garnering 300 responses, and the... Read more
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Building a Church With LEGO (Photos)
Posted by Alice Truong Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:20 AM ET | 0
Behold, a LEGO church. While not exactly a house of worship, the pavilion you see above served as a temporary public space for performances and exhibitions for the Grenswerk Festival in Enschede, Netherlands. LOOS.FM, which designed the pavilion... Read more
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Pizza-Shaped Paper Plates Help Avoid Greasy Fingers
Posted by Alice Truong Fri Feb 17, 2012 05:46 PM ET | 0
Occasionally, you come across a new concept that’s so simple you wonder: Why hasn’t anyone done this before? Case in point: a paper plate that sits between the pizza and its cardboard box. The Paper Dish is made of ... Read more
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Seeking America’s Top Inventors, Machinists and Engineers to Compete for a Huge Grand Prize
Posted by Courtney Siegel Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:44 AM ET | 0
Are you a designer who can build? Are you a machinist who can design? We’re looking for America’s most creative and daring techies, machinists, inventors and engineers to design, build, and blast their way to a Grand Prize on ... Read more
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Ingenious Mechanism Turns Any Fixed Gear Frame into a Folding Bike
Posted by Derek Markham Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:55 PM ET | 0
Bikes which fold up aren’t new, but the idea does tend to be along the same lines as most new products – you can’t really retrofit your old bike, so you need to buy a whole new one. But ... Read more
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Bathing in Knowledge in a Tub Made of Books
Posted by Alice Truong Mon Feb 13, 2012 01:14 PM ET | 0
Here’s an ambitious home improvement project. Vanessa Mancini decided to create a functional bathtub made of books. The idea? To bathe in knowledge. The idea is of immersing oneself in knowledge, books, truths, and ‘cleaning’ or... Read more
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Bookcase Grows with Your Library
Posted by Alice Truong Thu Feb 9, 2012 01:08 PM ET | 0
If you thought bookcase design was simple, you’ve been spending too much time at IKEA. Reinier de Jong’s REK bookcase is one that “grows with your book collection,” according to the product page. “The more books the... Read more
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Bang! Bang! Open this Door by Pulling a Trigger
Posted by Alice Truong Thu Feb 2, 2012 02:19 PM ET | 0
Believe it or not, door knobs can be unsettling, especially when they look exactly like a gun. But Geekologie seems to find the logic behind this gun door knob: Door knobs: they’re round and hard to grip with greasy ... Read more
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