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A Wild Proposal for Domed Houses Made of Inflated Concrete

"Binishells" combine concrete and heavy-duty balloons to create visually stunning, structurally sound, domed domiciles.

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This May Be the Ultimate Bike for Big-City Riding

The goal is to create a mode of transportation that provides exactly what is needed, when it is needed.

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An Ingenious Plane Design That Makes Room for Your Carry-Ons

London-based design firm Priestmangoode has solved the problem of carry-on storage once and for all.

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A Stylish City Bike With Useful Tech Touches

In an attempt to get more people biking, a nonprofit called Oregon Manifest holds an annual design competition challenging designers in five cities across the country to come up with a ride that’s so...

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A Gravity-Defying Robot That Draws Huge Abstract Artworks

Rising Colorspace is an abstract art installation. But instead of being painted by a tortured Pollock wannabe, it's made entirely by a finely tuned robot.

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Creepy Photos of Crumbling Soviet-Era Architecture

English photographer Rebecca Litchfield braved radiation and KGB-style interrogation techniques to capture the beauty of this bygone era.

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The Best Infographic for Comparing Rapper Vocabularies, From Wu-Tang to Yeezy

In partnership with RapGenius, Matt Daniels analyzed the vocabularies of noted wordsmiths William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, and Lil Wayne.

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Ex-Googler Creates Slick Kit to Turn Your Kid’s iPad Into a Teacher

Osmo uses the iPad's cameras and display to turn any kitchen table into an interactive learning lab.

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The Deep Design Thinking Behind MIT’s Incredible Origami Robot

The robots are made of "tunable metamaterials," composites engineered to have properties unlikely to be found in nature.

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A Photo App That Teaches You to Be More Perceptive

The goal of Cucalu isn't to stack candy, or fight off demons, but rather to uncover interesting settings, objects, and people.

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A Smartly Designed Bike Whose Handlebars Become a Lock

Denny, as the bike is called, has a number of understated, yet incredibly clever ideas.

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A Huge, Clay-Filled Robot That Replaces the Potter’s Wheel

This artistic automaton takes Play-Doh extrusions to their logical conclusion, but does not try to eliminate the trademark quirks of handicrafts.

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Formlabs Believes the Future of 3-D Printing Is With Pros, Not Tinkerers

Colin Raney's mission is to use the design thinking and business model innovation skills honed at Ideo to help Formlabs reach its true potential.

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The Cutting-Edge Butter Knife of Your Dreams Is Finally Here

Sliced bread is synonymous with innovation, but really, how wonderful is it if a chilled pat of butter can trash a piece of pumpernickel toast?

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An Infographics Genius Plots Out Another Insanely Detailed Year of His Life

For nearly a decade, Nicholas Felton has tracked his interests, locations, and the myriad beginnings and ends that make up a life in a series of sumptuously designed "annual reports."

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This Illustrator Makes $100K Selling Virtual Paintbrushes

Illustrator Kyle Webster’s client list includes The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, but last year more than half his income came through the sale of virtual paintbrushes. These...

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Using the Internet of Things to Create Cute Long-Distance Interactions

This is what the Internet of Things would look like in a Jane Austen novel.

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NASA Needs to Adopt This Cool New Logo

The mark pulls off a hat trick, referencing NASA's illustrious past, nodding to its dreams of taking us to new planets, and ditching the dated features of the old logo.

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Nike Helps Design a Swank Jet for Traveling Sports Teams

A concept cabin that is meant to swaddle athletes in supreme comfort---and, in doing so, unlock their peak performance.

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Is Apple Watch’s Pressure-Sensitive Screen a Bigger Deal Than the Gadget Itself?

The feature, initially limited to the Apple Watch, could mark a major change in touch computing if it's added to the iPhone and iPad. The post Is Apple Watch’s Pressure-Sensitive Screen a Bigger Deal...

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