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July 27 2012
Lightweight Webs Could Help Scientists Explore Rainforest Canopies

Lightweight Webs Could Help Scientists Explore Rainforest Canopies

Yvonne Weng’s student proposal for an airborne system supporting rainforest medical research has won praise from architects and scientists alike.

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A Cave? Nope, Just Thousands Of Empty Milk Bottles

A Cave? Nope, Just Thousands Of Empty Milk Bottles

Got milk bottles?

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A New Cap From McDonald’s That Protects Against Hot Coffee

A New Cap From McDonald’s That Protects Against Hot Coffee

McDonald’s and scalding hot coffee. You’d think that the fast-food giant would want to delete that association from our popular imagination, forever. Alas…

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Telling Australia’s History, Through Chairs And Lamps

Telling Australia’s History, Through Chairs And Lamps

Broached Commissions uses the spirit of down under for creative inspiration.

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Margaret Atwood Wants To Make Artists And Fans Into Webcam Buddies

Margaret Atwood Wants To Make Artists And Fans Into Webcam Buddies

Pretty soon you’ll be able to video chat with your celebrity crush.

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The Week That Was: Wacom’s New Tablet, Foot-Powered Washing Machines, And Fat Jennifer Aniston

The Week That Was: Wacom’s New Tablet, Foot-Powered Washing Machines, And Fat Jennifer Aniston

It’s Co.Design’s top stories of the week!

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Infographic of the Day

Infographic: Every Trip To The Moon, Ever

Infographic: Every Trip To The Moon, Ever

Who remembered that we’d gotten it wrong so many times?

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A Survival Kit For 30 People That Turns Into A Stove

A Survival Kit For 30 People That Turns Into A Stove

Inspired by last year’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Hikaru Imamura transformed an oil drum into a care package with enough provisions to sustain 30 people for two days.

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Path 2.5 Inches Closer To Human-Centered Social-Networking

Path 2.5 Inches Closer To Human-Centered Social-Networking

How do you increase engagement on a social network? Path 2.5 aims to more closely mirror subtle real-world interactions.

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Infographics: Using The Olympic Rings To Show Vast Inequalities

Infographic of the Day

Infographics: Using The Olympic Rings To Show Vast Inequalities

Gustavo Sousa uses the "beautiful and elegant" logo to show discrepancies between participating countries.

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Stamps That Meld London’s Olympics With Its Landmarks

Stamps That Meld London’s Olympics With Its Landmarks

Designed by Hat-Trick, the four stamps fuse pictures of athletes with London’s iconic structures.

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