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GiraDora – a foot-powered washing machine that will change millions of lives

July 25, 2012

GiraDora – a foot-powered washing machine.

Two design students named Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You traveled from their homes in Los Angeles to Cerro Verde, a 30,000 person slum outside of Lima about a year ago. As students in the celebrated Design Matters program at Art Center College of Design, which focuses on social innovation, they had come to Cerro Verde as part of a special studio called Safe Agua Peru. Their goal? Develop a commercial product that alleviates issues related to water poverty, targeted at people who earn between $4 and $10 a day. (Video)

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Great New Product, Historical Perspectives, New Inventions

The X-Pen: A carbon fiber writing tool

July 19, 2012

The X-Pen has a sleek shape and clever design.

The X-Pen marries the incredible Pilot Hi-Tec C refill with a bomb-proof carbon fiber and machined stainless steel body to create pen that not only writes incredibly well, but looks great and will stand up to whatever you want to throw at it. The X-Pen will be one of the featured products at the 8th Annual DaVinci Inventor Showcase on Oct 13 at the Denver Merchandise Mart.

After the jump, inventor Kyle Kinghorn tells about his experiences creating this carbon fiber based pen and his successes on Kickstarter…

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Analysis, Business, Science & Technology News

Jonathan Ive – Apple’s quest for simplicity

May 23, 2012

Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive, the London-born head of design for Apple says “design is a word that’s come to mean so much that it’s also a word that has come to mean nothing. We don’t really talk about design, we talk about developing ideas and making products.”

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Crazy Photos, Crazy Stuff, Photo Perspectives, Science & Technology News

Crazy iPhone cases made by the 3D printing community

March 22, 2012

The gumPhone

Engineer Vs. Designer, a design blog has challenged the 3D printing community to create “the most absurd 3D-printable iPhone accessory” one can imagine (and, in turn, have a chance to win a MakerBot Replicator). The result? A whole basket-load of crazy. (Pics)

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Architecture, Photo Perspectives, Science & Technology News

The Wing House – an amazing recycled 747 airplane house

June 17, 2011

The guts of a retired Boeing 747 jumbo jet rests in the hills of Malibu, California. These parts aren’t just strewn around in the hills of Malibu. They have been constructed into the “Wing House,” which, as you can see, is aptly named: the roofs used to be wings. (Pics)

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