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Tech NewsDesignThis Hard Shell Suitcase Is Made From Recycled Carpet
This hard shell suitcase might look like just another piece of high-end luggage, but scratch its surface and you’ll realise it’s made from recycled carpet. No, really. Developed by New Zealand designer Daniel Mclaughlin, Terracase is a hard shell suitcase made from a heady mixture of recycled carpets and bio resin derived from rapeseed oil. … Continued
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This Smart Transforming Tote Is the Only Grocery Bag You’ll Ever Need
Mother Earth-lovers everywhere are, at this point, pretty used to carrying around reusable totes for their shopping excursions. In San Francisco, they’re almost as ubiquitous as non-tossable water bottles—especially since a checkout bag ordinance was passed last year that charges customers a cool dime for every paper sack they need. Walking with bags in hand … Continued
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Boost Your Typophile Street Cred With These Beautiful Font Flashcards
Whether you’re an old pro or just beginning to take an interest in type, Fontspotting—a downloadable font flashcard game—is so jam-packed with typographical details that you’re pretty much destined to learn something new. And the best part? It’s totally free. Of course, you’re more than welcome to make a donation to the Australia-based duo behind … Continued
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How a Crumbling 1960s Stadium Was Resurrected to Host the World Cup
When the 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Brazil next year, matches will take place inside of Mineirão Stadium, a 50-year-old venue that was in ruins only a decade ago. But thanks to some careful renovations at the hands of BCMF Arquitetos, it’s new again—and ready for a little soccer action. The opening of … Continued
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9 Adorable Cartoons That Illustrate the Most Productive Types of Space
“Going to work” means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but for most of us? Welp, it probably involves lots of sedentary hours sitting with pretty poor posture at a desk that’s not quite the right height, staring and staring and staring at a screen. But! The times, they are … Continued
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A Retro Dock For the Public Radio Lover’s Smartphone
It’s by no means the first wooden dock designed to serve as a home base for your smartphone, but few are as charming as this faux radio by Areaware, which combines beech wood and brass to create the perfect bedside spot to rest your handset over night. Available in November, the dock features a hidden … Continued
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Explore London’s Tube In 3D With This Hypnotic Real-Time Map
Back in June, London’s transit corporation decided to release all of its information about bus and train departures to the public. That way, administrators probably figured, eager developers could use that data to build better transit apps. But the move has also resulted in some pretty interesting creative projects, too—like this one, which lets users … Continued
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Seoul’s Government Installed a Giant Ear to Collect Citizen Complaints
There’s something unsatisfying about making a traditional complaint. As you’re filling out the form, you can almost see the government bureaucrat crumpling it up and throwing it away a few days later. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just yell at the pencil pushers directly? In Seoul, you can. Outside Seoul’s City Hall sits … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignThis Misbehaving Robot Wants to Scribble All Over Your Walls
There’s still no robot that can successfully fake unconditional love or a child’s innocent laughter. But now, thanks to a team of German tinkerers, there is one that can emulate a child’s uninvited wall art. Vertwalker is a project by the Berlin-based creative studio Sonice Development. Using a series of custom sensors, it darts from … Continued
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You Can Download Your Next Desk From This Open-Source Ikea
Ikea’s not the only place you can get a build-your-own-furniture puzzle. If you’re into the whole open source thing, there’s a new repository of completely free furniture designs that are ripe for the downloadin’. The only hurdle? You have to actually make the pieces before you can put ’em together. OpenDesk, furniture designers Joni and … Continued
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A Beautiful Analog Clock for Dummies Who Are Bad at Telling Time
I have a confession to make, and I’m sure I’m not alone: I’m really bad at reading analog clocks. I learned how to when I was a kid, and I even wear an analog watch today, but some 15 years of digital crutches in between has made reading old-school clocks kind of a drag. You … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignMost Beautiful Items: August 10 – 16, 2013
You’re in the home stretch for the weekend. You haven’t crossed that much-desired finish line yet, so in the meantime, check out some of the wonders of design, art, and architecture we found this week. A trailer so beautiful that it will make you want to go on a road trip https://gizmodo.com/a-trailer-so-beautiful-that-it-will-make-you-want-to-go-1094621368 Behold, the new … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignA Clock That Conceals The Time Until You Find Its Sweet Spot
Inspired by the seemingly random clouds of data points recorded when a performer’s wearing a 3D motion capture suit, J.P.Meulendijks’ Mocap clock requires just the perfect angle to interpret the time. That’s because the numbers around the clock’s face are actually made of small white dots mounted to black pins at varying heights. So when … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignArchitecture Student Converts School Bus Into Cozy Home
School buses are so much fun. The springy seats, the awkward-to-open windows, the rumbling engine—it all hearkens back to a time in your life when you were younger, happier and worry-free. But did you ever imagine living in one? Hank Butitta did. By his last semester at architecture school, Butitta had grown weary of doing … Continued
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This Deceptively Pretty Map Shows Every Traffic Death on Earth
Death by car is random and sudden—which, unfortunately, means it tends to fall into the category of “accidental,” and hence, unpreventable. But with traffic deaths set to outpace AIDS/HIV and malaria in the developing world, the UN is trying to change that perception—and this shocking interactive map ought to help. Right now, 1.2 million people … Continued
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Robo-Bookshelf Demands Access To All Your Antiquated Media
Books, DVDs, CDs? This Robox shelving unit, designed by Fabio Novembre for Casamania, is happy to gobble up all of your outdated forms of media. But that doesn’t mean it only has an appetite for information and entertainment. Not at all. It’s equally adept at storing your classic Transformers—or to a lesser extent Go-Bots—collection. Plants … Continued
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Tweetdeck Just Got a Little Bit Prettier
Tweetdeck’s got a gift for you today. No, unfortunately it’s not fixed notifications, but it’s still a step in the right direction. Meet the new, prettier tweet panel. It makes firing off 140-char screeds a little more pleasant. https://gizmodo.com/tweetdeck-just-got-worse-and-twitter-blames-google-932378381 Instead of the old, gross white box that would pop up in the middle of your … Continued
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Design a Better Street For Your City With This Free Web App
Have you ever wanted to be an urban planner? How about a landscape architect? Are you an urban planner or a landscape architect or do you just really love cities? If you answered yes to any of these questions—and maybe even if you didn’t—you’ll love Streetmix. Streetmix is a free web app that lets you … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignThe Saga of Star Wars’ Toys Is Almost Better Than the Actual Movies
As much as the original Star Wars was a revolution in filmmaking that gave birth to the summer blockbuster, it was also responsible for the idea of marketing and merchandising the crap out of a film property. It all started with a hastily-designed line of action figures and toys that collectors are still desperate to … Continued
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Alexander Graham Bell’s Failed Flying Machine Reborn As a Floating City
In 1899, the inventor of the telephone set out to solve another problem: The airplane. He failed miserably. Really, really miserably. But this summer, a team of architects and engineers have resurrected his 106-year-old design for a flying machine for a very different purpose: As a model for floating, solar-powered structures. In the early years … Continued