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Design
1:35PM Dan Nosowitz | Egg Collective’s Stump Light is exactly what it sounds like. It’d be a thematically appropriate bedside table-light combination if you’ve got a cabin in the woods, or a seriously dilapidated urban apartment. [Unpluggd]
Stump Light: Light From A Stump
1:35PM Dan Nosowitz | Egg Collective’s Stump Light is exactly what it sounds like. It’d be a thematically appropriate bedside table-light combination if you’ve got a cabin in the woods, or a seriously dilapidated urban apartment. [Unpluggd]
Design
3:10AM Jesus Diaz | This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with these tapes. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant three-dimensional tapes. They are bas-relief mosaics made with old wood cuts. His other gadgets are even more impressive. More »
This Is Not A Photoshop Collage, It’s A Wood Carving
3:10AM Jesus Diaz | This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with these tapes. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant three-dimensional tapes. They are bas-relief mosaics made with old wood cuts. His other gadgets are even more impressive. More »
Peripherals
This USB Pendant Will Save Your Long-Distance Relationship
11:40AM Rosa Golijan | OK, so they won’t really save any relationships, but the idea behind the Presence in Absence USB pendants is almost sweet. You keep digital scrapbooks on your pendants and then swap those instead of bodily fluids when you finally reunite. More »
Peripherals
Wooden Automata iPhone Dock Cranks From Vertical To Horizontal
7:00AM Jason Chen | This Automata iPhone Dock by Murtaza Lakdawala is clever and useful, a combination rarely found in DIY projects. All you have to do is crank and the dock turns from vertical to horizontal. More »
Toys
DIY Bathtub Steam Boat Is Authentic With Putt-Putt Sounds
11:30AM Rosa Golijan | Forget remote controlled and Mr T rubber duckies. Actually, forget rubber ducks altogether. What I want is some bubble bath and this DIY bathtub steam boat. Yes, it’s a real, functional, bathtub-sized steamboat. And yes, it’s complete with putt-putt sounds. More »
Phones
Docomo Teases World To Pun Their “Touch Wood” Prototype
1:40AM Mark Wilson | Aside from a name that clearly doesn’t mean in Japanese what it does in English, Docomo’s Touch Wood phones deserve a bit of attention. More »
Vehicles
Wood-Framed Renovo Bicycle Reminds Us Of Simpler Times
12:00PM Don Nguyen | With all the technological advances, it’s easy to forget how devilishly beautiful bikes are. Designer Sean Denham and Renovo Bikes hope to change that perception with their new wooden frames. More »
Design
Laird Hamilton: Science And The Surf Board
6:00AM Wilson Rothman | Laird Hamilton is as tech savvy as surfers get. Here he looks at the shapes and materials that make boards great—what’s changed over the years, and what hasn’t: More »
Science
Wood Is The New Bone
10:53PM Mark Wilson | Don’t let the hippies hear that wood may make a better artificial bone than titanium. We’ll never live it down. More »
Design