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What Google Could Learn from Windows 8 About User Experience [Windows 8]





Windows 8 is built on the idea that the web has great functions, but a lousy user experience—and it uses apps to pull everything into a bright, clean parallel world. FastCo Design's Austin Carr shows...
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Roll Up Blanket Chair Gets Extra Cozy If You Can Figure Out How To Use It [Furniture]





Design is often described as a perfect balance of form and function, but sometimes the former can outweigh the latter. In chair mode, the Collerette has a built-in rolled up blanket forming its arms and ba...
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Cloud City: A Spectacular Sculptural Constellation of Mirrors and Steel [Design]





Yesterday, atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, artist and architect Tomas Saraceno debuted his most recent work: Cloud City. A spectacular sculptural constellation, Cloud City is a mirror...
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Own a Piece of NYC's Past With a Chair Made of Old Water Towers [Beautiful]





This chair seems to slowly shift like waves on a lake gently undulating on a quiet breezy day. It's certainly fitting—the low-lying lounger is made from reclaimed wood from a New York City water towe...
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Hang This Portable Swing Kit Anywhere for an Instant Playground on the Go [Video]





Whenever the urge to swing strikes—whether your're in an industrial-looking warehouse, a busy construction site, or a crowded sidewalk—as long as you can find something overhead that's sturdy e...
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This Watch Might Have Saved Someone's Life in Vietnam [Watches]





Luxury watch makers seem to be caught up in an arms race to include the most exotic materials in their timepieces. From genuine volcanic ash, to metal from the Titanic, to a face stamped from the bodywork ...
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Giant Paperclips Turn Any Slab of Wood Into a Sturdy Table [Furniture]





Whether it's an old door, a shelf you no longer need, or maybe even a section of floorboards, anything flat and broad can become a functional sturdy table with a set of these Tick table legs. They're basic...
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What Is This? [What Is This]





Garth Britzman's "Pop Culture" is an environmentally green art project, comprised of 1,500 recycled plastic beverage bottles. Each bottle is filled with colored water and hands from a string of varied leng...
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Would You Live in a Church? [Architecture]





Just outside of Adelade, Australia, there's a pedestrian-looking, bluestone church deserving of a second glance. Inside, the 1877 house of worship has been completely renovated and transformed into a thoro...
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Is This Modern Shelf Just a Rip-Off of KerPlunk? [Furniture]





We can't help but draw comparisons between Julien Vidame's Parallel Bars Bookshelf—created from just a couple of pieces of plexiglass with strategically drilled holes and an array of anodized aluminu...
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Building Block Coffee Table: Bored Kids and Hip Decors Unite! [Wish You Were Here]





Was there anything worse when you were a kid than visiting someone whose home was completely devoid of toys? An hour of conversation felt like a lifetime of boredom, but this building block coffee table en...
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The Foosball Table So Stylish, It Doesn't Have to Hide in the Garage [Desired]





Because they're commonly banished to rec rooms and basements and bars, foosball tables are rarely judged for their looks. In fact, the vast majority of them are very ugly. But after seeing this fine piece ...
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Poorly Dressed: Stop Here, We’ll Make For the Summit in the Morning



It’s okay, go on without me, I can camp out on this kneecap here.

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Clip These Adorable LED Cubes Anywhere the Sun Don't Shine [Lighting]





There's no shortage of compact stick-on, clip-on, magnetic LED lights out there. And if you want your product to stand out, you better focus on features or design. So Osram has concentrated on the latter w...
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Why Weren't Hammers Designed With Magnetic Handles In the First Place? [Wish You Were Here]





Designer Jung Soo Park has managed to drastically improve the functionality and capabilities of the lowly hammer. But he didn't accessorize it with useless add-ons only good for attacking non-existant zomb...
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How to Cram an Entire Room into a Box [Design]





Somewhere in the grey area between architecture and gadgets lies the room-in-a box—an unholy chimera of comfortable seating and multi-tool functionality. Our friends at Oobject have assembled twelve ...
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Magnifying Glass Vase Greatly Exaggerates Your Gardening Skills [Plants]





Even if the garden you planted in the spring ends up looking like a devastated warzone by the summer, you can still impress your friends with what appear to be giant healthy blooms thanks to this magnifyin...
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Dancing Dragon Towers Will Have a Breathable, Scale-Like Skin [Design]





Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, an architecture firm that is arguably one of the world's leading designers of skyscrapers, has just unveiled plans for a pair of towers that will grace the skyline in Seoul, Sou...
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Could There Be a Cooler Maurice Sendak Tribute Than This Awesome Axe? [Video]





Maurice Sendak was important to us here at Gizmodo: His stories inspired us to follow our own internal compasses when our parents told us to stop wasting our time skateboarding or making movies or playin...
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How Tupperware Almost Didn't Make It Into Your Kitchen [Drawing Board]





Tupperware is a bit like Kleenex; No matter the brand, if it's a plastic container designed for leftovers, you probably call it by a single brand name. That's because, when it comes to designated plastic v...
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Double-Ended Shark Coffee Table Oozes Great White Class [Furniture]





Not only is this the perfect living room accessory for putting your feet up while watching Shark Week, but both of those tooth-filled gaping jaws on this shark-themed coffee table look like they'd serve as...
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The Best Designed Vintage SUV Is Hand Built with Taste [Video]





The ICON Bronco is a praise the lord beautiful vintage SUV that prides itself on its attention to design. ICON scours around for old Broncos and then strips it down, reverse engineers it and makes it bett...
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Your Chariot Awaits...Your Snacks [Beautiful]





Imagine loading this table up with snacks on the top shelf and beverages on the bottom, then rolling it out to your immaculately decorated modern living room for some serious hedonism—maybe a long mo...
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Like Snowflakes, No Two Of These Complex Fractal Puzzles Are Completely Alike [Games]





The whole 3D phase gave puzzles a bit of a temporary renaissance, but a Boston-based design shop called Nervous System hopes to revive them yet again with a unique twist. And 'unique' is the key word here ...
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Ingenious Folding Ladder Practically Disappears For Easy Storage [Video]





The occasional time a ladder comes in handy makes it worth keeping one around, but they can be cumbersome to store in the meantime. So a Barcelona-based design shop has re-thunk the folding ladder idea, an...
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The House That Can Live on the Water or in the Trees [Architecture]





Imagine spending a summer floating down a river in this magnificent barge, stopping only for food and water in some random backwater town, then returning to the top deck cargo net hammock to resume the laz...
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Soccer Goal Chairs Are the Only Way Children Will Voluntarily Sit Down [Design]





Hyper kids are the absolute worst. Little tyrants they are. Trying to get them to sit still for five seconds? Impossible! What if you could turn sitting into a game? Like a real game; not that lame, thinly...
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The Race Car-Inspired Chair Designed Using Direct Feedback From Your Butt [Design]





Furniture designers have a general idea of what makes for comfortable furniture, thanks to years of research, intuition, and user feedback filtered down into theory. But much of this has largely been drive...
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Clamp Shelf Tightens So Your Books Never Fall Again [Wish You Were Here]





In one fell swoop designer Colleen Whiteley has put an end to the novelty bookend industry with her brilliantly clever and simple Hold On Tight Shelf. And here's to hoping that every single furniture maker...
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This Mobius-Inspired Chair Totally Belongs on the Set of Mad Men [Design]






"The Up-Chair is an extremely emotional product." Hello, copywriting win. But truly, this chair is something special. Design by Martin Bellendat for Tonon Italia, the Up-Chair uses an integral solid-color...
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A Totally Badass Backpack Made of Salvaged Bike Boots [Design]





Hammarhead Industries is a Philadelphia company known best for their repurposed motorcycles, but their latest creation—the HHI Day Pack—is gorgeous enough to deserve some time of its own in the...
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Teal Panels Are Like Lego For Campers Who Hate Tents [Wish You Were Here]





As the story goes, Lawrence Drake wanted to go camping with a pop-up camper instead of a tent, but his ride could only tow 1,000 pounds. So to stick it to the 'camping-man' he invented a set of lightweight...
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The Best Towel Rack Is the One You Barely Notice At All [Design]





The world of contemporary towel racks just got a whole lot more interesting with this minimal, yet tantalizing design. More »



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Simple Design Update Makes the Classic Wooden Deck Chair Infinitely More Useful [Furniture]





Sometimes change is a good thing, as is demonstrated by the simple updates Numen made to the classic folding deck chair found on swanky cruise ships around the world. A new 'X' design not only adds an opti...
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Polish Architects Build Stereotype-Reinforcing Upside-Down House [Video]





With a last name like Liszewski, I've heard every single Polish joke and stereotype there is. But I'm going to assume that Polish architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozanski have just spawned at least one...
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All Ready-To-Assemble Furniture Should Be Held Together With Rubber Bands [Design]





How many times, while assembling Ikea furnture, have you stripped out a screw hole, lost piece of hardware, or finished the project, only to realize that the whole thing leans to the left? What if assembli...
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Proof That Even A Screwdriver Becomes Obsolete [Design]





Stanley Works has been making hand tools in New Britain, Connecticut, since the middle of the 19th century. Some time in the 20th, the company came up with this terrible screwdriver. It has a handle with ...
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This Incubator Humanizes The Hospital [Video]





Childbirth, though wonderful, can also be quite traumatic. That can be particularly true for the parents of premature infants, who often spend several weeks in a neonatal ICU while their children rest in ...
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Amazing Candy Store Looks Like It Was Drawn By Kids [Architecture]





When the Red Design Group was hired by Sweet Enough to design the interior of its first retail store, it ran with the idea of a 'kid in a candy store'. In fact, it actually looks like they hired a group of...
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Sadly, This Photoshop Mirror Doesn't Include a Magic Wand Tool For Baggy Eyes [Design]





If only getting ready in the morning was as easy as opening Photoshop and going to town on your face with its myriad of correction tools. That's the tantalizing dream this Retouch Mirror from Atypyk promis...
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You Can Burn This Working Wooden Blanket For Extra Warmth In the Middle of the Night [Design]





Obviously not satisfied with the miraculous modern marvel known as the Snuggie, German designer Elisa Strozyk created her own unique blanket—drawing inspiration from a warped tile floor instead of th...
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This Silicone Rolex Watch Isn't Ashamed That It's an Incredibly Obvious Fake [Watches]





Any random person on the street could easily spot Shelter Serra's silicone Rolex watches as being obvious knock-offs. But that's exactly their point. They're cool because they're so obviously fake—no...
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Artist Turns Tree Stumps Into Beautiful Children's Toys [Wish You Were Here]





Most people see tree stumps as nothing more than an eyesore, or an excuse to play with dynamite to removing it. But designer Hilla Shamia sees more. In fact, looking at this beautiful rocking horse she cre...
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12 Awesome Designs from the Guy Who Invented the Jambox [Design]





From the looks of it, Swiss-born Yves Behar may have beaten Apple at its own minimalist design game. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of his best creations. More »



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Change the Shape of This Lamp With the Pull of a String [Beautiful]





Overhead lighting is possibly the least flexible way to illuminate a room. Flip a switch, the bulb goes on, and light shines down. End of story. It you want to switch up the lighting for, say, a little mor...
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Concrete Light Fixture, Never-Melting Ice Sculpture, and More [Most Beautiful Items Of The Week]





We were given a bumper crop of furniture, art, and design pieces to droll over in the last seven days. A sleek iPad dock, a 120-pound chandelier, and a lounge chair that doubles as a work space, among othe...
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