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Riding A Surfboard Made By An Old Apple Designer
1:00AM Jaimal Yogis | Jaimal Yogis is an award-winning journalist and the author of Saltwater Buddha. Here he takes a ride on the strangely shaped surfboard by ex-Apple designer Thomas Meyerhoffer on SF’s Ocean Beach. More »
Design
Digital Ruler
7:30AM Brian Lam | This wooden, yet digital, concept ruler combines “values of a traditional ruler, with advantages of a digital interface.” I think it still needs lines, but how cool is it that it sets the zero point wherever you start measuring? More »
Design
I Love Trackpads!
6:00AM Brian Lam | Somewhere, as I transitioned from being a proud desktop user with parts scattered around my room, to the being a dedicated laptop user, I forgot how to use a mouse. And today, I embrace the swiftness of the trackpad. More »
Design
Share Aware Lamps: The Greenest Way to Pick Fights at Home
12:00PM Wilson Rothman | Here’s one way to raise energy consciousness: Share Aware lights are connected to each other by radio, and share a finite amount of energy. When you make one brighter, the others get proportionately dimmer, but dim yours, and the rest get brighter. I can’t see any problem with that. More »
Design
Liquor Master Says You Take Sculpture, Liquor Seriously
12:30PM Wilson Rothman | It takes a connoisseur to pay a fortune for a sculpture, but it takes a maniacal boozehound with major ducats to burn to buy one to stash his (or her) liquor. More »
Hardware
Silver Circuit Goo For Thinner Gadgets
10:00AM Brian Lam | The NYTimes has a post on Vertical Circuits, a company that has developed a 3d circuit stacking technology using a silver based epoxy—goo, basically—to closer fuse flash memory chips together. More »
Gadgets
Today, The Gadgets Will Know My Fury
12:00PM Brian Lam | Today was a bad day. Unrelated, gadgets were misbehaving. Someone had to pay for it. More »
Design
Skin Furniture Gives Me
11:20AM Wilson Rothman | Furniture doesn’t usually make me want to throw up. But this desk-and-chair set, from designer Nacho Carbonell’s titillating Skin collection, makes me think about the stuff inside me that I don’t like to think about.
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Skin Furniture Gives Me Nam Tropic Thunder Flashbacks
11:20AM Wilson Rothman | Furniture doesn’t usually make me want to throw up. But this desk-and-chair set, from designer Nacho Carbonell’s titillating Skin collection, makes me think about the stuff inside me that I don’t like to think about.
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Design
Houdini Chairs Ensure Your Guests Will Stay for Dessert
1:40AM John Mahoney | That is, unless they are Houdini incarnate. Or maybe David Blaine. These are made by designers CTRLZAK and will debut at an Italian design show next month. [Core 77] More »
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