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Delta Cycle’s Michelangelo holds two bicycles by just leaning against a wall.
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Novel Evokes Middle East’s Twitter Revolution, With Melting Paragraphs And Fold-Out Pages
In a new novel about the Arab Spring called Kapow!, the narrative is interrupted by upside-down paragraphs, floating plot lines, and other visual digressions-an echo of how the real events unfurled on social media.
Big Bloom, A Magnifying Vase That Supersizes Your Flowers
Fresnel lenses are all around us, but this vase puts the commonplace technology to work in an entirely new way.
Beautiful Images Of Earth, Taken From A Satellite 450 Miles Up
The U.S. Geological Survey curates the most remarkable satellite imagery, and offers it for sale.
Clever Beach Chair Has Storage (And Shade) Built In
The X-Z chair, by the Croatian-Austrian design collective Numen/For Use, has extendable flaps for keeping the sun and sand at bay.
The Beautiful Illustrations That Made Poe’s Stories Terrifying In 1919
These rare images, drawn to accompany an early collection of Poe’s darker short stories, hearken back to a golden age of commercial illustration.
A $16,500 Handcrafted Turntable From Germany
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A Lost Masterpiece, By One Of Modernism’s First Feminist Heroes
Cassina introduces a Modernist classic that’s never before been mass-produced.
A Fashion Line Shaped By Basic Geometry
Swedish designers Nakkna introduce a summer line based on simple shapes and platonic solids.
Talk To Your Plants For Dummy-Proof Gardening, Using A Sensor And An iPhone App
Using a Red Dot-award-winning Wi-Fi sensor and an iPhone app, amateur gardeners learn when and how to care for their plants.
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