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This is a bedroom furniture project named Dreamscape, comprising of one King size bed and two sets of bedside cabinets. The King size bed comes with two bed storage drawers whilst the two sets of bedside cabinets has three drawers, one of which has a secret concealed compartment under its top. This is one design […]

 Tricy Nicole Predki, a University of Colorado student,
in a sensor suit that controls her dance music.
Plants that send thank you notes, player pianos that follow the dancer’s movements, and umbrellas that warn you of upcoming rain are just a few of the uses of embedded computers described in this article from the NY […]

Image of a migraine by Dr. Anne Adams
Patients with FTD develop artistic abilities when frontal brain areas decline and posterior regions take over. The disease alters circuits in the brain, changing the connections between the front and back parts, resulting in a torrent of creativity.

If you’re like me you get frustrated by the fact that all gas masks tend to look alike - standard military issue chemical warfare prevention stuff. Well, you can start to breath a little easier (even if it’s through a mask) because famed designer, Diddo Velema, has gone out of his way to make gas […]

ThinkGeek has started carrying $100 remote-control cam-glasses with a discreet, 1.3 megapixel camera built into the temple. This is the beginning of the end for photography bans.

Lausanne, Switzerland
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Created by Chinese display manufacturer Seekway, this prototype 3D LED display cube was created using a 16×16×16 grid of interconnected color LEDs (that’s a whopping 4096 individual diodes) and can display moving images in color. Pretty slick as you can see from the video.

Moov is probably one of the most amazing toys you will see this year: a do-it-yourself 4-in-1 vehicle kit for kids aged between 5 and 12. Now it’s a racer, now it’s a carver, now it’s a tricycle, now it’s a scooter. How cool is that?

Designers have been exploring the idea of the glass see-thru bathtub.  Here are 7 interesting designs.  If you don’t mind doing tons of cleaning, or have a maid and just don’t care, this might be exactly what you’re looking for.
 
 

 
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This room is based on a classical optical illusion design, but very cool. A secret diagram after the jump.
 

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This video describes the thinking that went into the Penguin House in Tokyo. People in the US have a hard time relating to this, but the architect is brilliant in how he approaches this. (w/pics)
 

 Leonardo Da Vinci’s life and work is well known — but his own face is not. Illustrator and activist Siegfried Woldhek used some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo. Here, he walks viewers through exactly how he did it.
 

The ZZ Plural Z Alpha Douglas Adams fan club raises funds by selling “Beeblebears,” two-headed, three-eyed, three-armed teddy bears fashioned in the likeness of Zaphod Beeblebrox.

 
 Yes, it actually works, but that doesn’t mean its practical. More of a form of functional art. Video after the jump.

ZnSe nanowires grown on a ZnSe particle which appeared as a heart shape.

Toronto man has been the first to get an eyeball tattoo. Basically, he has turned the whites of his eyes blue.

 
You won’t be able to fully understand this post until you get past the jump.  The worm bridge is an amazing piece of photography.

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When we hear the phrase “How Web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site,” we always think of another phrase, “funky fresh beat.” This is because we are woefully out of touch with modern hip-hop.
 

This strange looking contraption is a battery powered vehicle. It putters around a New York art gallery looking like…art. What’s interesting about it is the driver or drivers. It’s course is directed and steered entirely by flies. The plastic bubble is filled with large houseflies, and the food and water that nourishes them. […]

The TreePee
Do you like camping but can’t stand wallowing in the dirt with all those bugs and worms? Then the Treepee is just for you. Hang it from the nearest sturdy tree, stake it down on all four corners, and suddenly you have yourself a floating paradise in the wilderness.
Other designs after the […]

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This is a short clip from “The Job,” a comedy filmed by Screaming Frog Productions.

Men use public bathrooms decorated with female mannequins at a shopping center in Sao Joao da Madeira, northern. You might be surprised to come across a scantily clad model in a public bathroom, but shoppers at Portugal’s Eight Avenue mall in Sao Joao da Madeira are beginning to like it. Spread across the mens’ […]

Artist Bert Simons creates these stunning sculptures using the same technique as developers would use when creating a 3D game. But takes it a step further and back into the physical world by printing them out.