May 2010
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Listen To Ratatat's New Album LP4
Ratatat’s New Album, LP4 is streaming right now in entirety on NPR. With spaced out broken beats, eclectic samples and instrumentation, it’s a solid listen while you work. Listen
Unplug Design's Dream Ball
Unplug Design created the easy to build dream ball with one thing in mind - to improve the lives of impoverished children. The different sized balls can be mad out of boxes - allowing sports, such as soccer, to distract from hardships of life.
April 2010
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Powered by the Sun
Solar Impulse, a solar airplane designed to fly around the world using only solar power made its first flight on April 7th, 2010 over the Swiss countryside. This plane is the size of an Airbus A340 but light as a sedan!
via Wired
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Bikestation DC
Bikestation DC is one of many Bikestations popping up across the U.S. DC’s was created by Mobis Transportation. This is the first east cost location for Mobis and offers bike parking, rental, repair, sales, and a member’s area with changing/locker rooms in a simple modern structure adjacent to Union Station.
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Energizing the Relation Between Science and...
Harvard’s Schools of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be adding a new course this fall – but not taught by an engineer! Chef Ferran Adria will be teaching Science of the Physical Universe 27, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter”. Adria is known as the godfather of deconstructivist cuisine, and his 3 star restaurant in Roses, Spain, El Bulli, is famed as one...
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Converse Skateboarding (Spring 2010)
I’ve always felt like the original converse kicks “look” two narrow. These con-skate CTS-mids have a bit more substance to them, a mid-level cut, and some pretty rad textures.
Purchase them online at Converse Skateboarding.
(via Sneaker News)
March 2010
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Ping Pong Dumplings!
Rolling with their dumpling trend, London’s Ping Pong Dimsum opened a US outlet in DC’s Penn Quarter. Their food stands up to their slogan: little steamed parcels of deliciousness. The food and drinks are served up in a sleek modern restaurant/lounge. Don’t miss the Char Sui Bun - honey BBQ pork in a fluffy flaky bun.
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MIT Media Arts and Sciences Building
The amazing features of this lab go far beyond the structure itself, but the Maki and Associates designed building is certainly one of a kind.
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Nike Aina Chukka Woven
Nike Sportswear is rolling out the Aina Chukka Woven model - launching next month, but available for pre-order here.
(via Hypebeast)
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Sustainability @ Stowe
Stowe Mountain Resort is the first North American ski resort to receive the Audubon Sustainable Community Certification. The resort was granted the award for their local food sourcing (83% of food), embracing Vermont’s rural heritage, serious energy conservation, creative employee ride share program, and eleven other awesome attributes. Go Stowe!
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Nike's Recycled Jerseys
This is pretty cool. Nike just announced that the official 2010 South Africa World Cup jerseys will be made from 8 recycled Plastic Bottles. Nice little step towards sustainability from the sportswear uberbrand.
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Seafood Watch
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has digitizied their handy wallet sized flyer on seafood. The Seafood Watch iPhone app gives you the option of Sushi or Seafood (essentially English or Japnese). From there you can select your chosen fish/dish to find out the eco rating, description, other names, and notes.
Tag Your World
We’ve been having a blast at SXSW, and the highlight by far has been Stickybits. The concept is simple - tag real world objects with a Stickybit unique barcode. Then use a mobile device to tag it with links, video, images, and text - any kind of digital content. Then other people can view that content with the SB mobile app - and add to it! Things get pretty fun, pretty quickly…
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Style, Tech & Comfort - The New Swiss First
Swiss rolled out its new first class on select routes flown by its new A330-300. In addition to the luxuries offered in its competitive set, Swiss offers the biggest screen TV in its class you can sync to your own electronics, and a modern atmosphere designed by the UK firm Priestmangoode that you won’t mind admiring for the long-haul.
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Tiamo's Sustainable Escape
The Tiamo Resort at South Andros Island, Bahamas offers luxury, style, and most importantly minimal impact on the natural environment. The resort is leading the way for eco-tourism by deriving nearly all its energy from solar panels, growing organic food on property, and constructing guestroom “cottages” with natural, sustainable materials.
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Designer Healthcare
Why not infuse good design into everything we do? The design firm Priestmangoode sees no boundaries with design - and looks to improve efficiency, service, and the look and feel of healthcare.
(via PSFK)
February 2010
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Light Blossoms
Jaw dropping Urban Light concept by Phillips! These solar powered lights open and close, as well as orient to the moving sun just like a flower would. Uh-maze-ing!
(via Inhabitat)
Knoll Wasilly Chair
Designed in 1925 - Made in Italy - Designed by Marcel Breuer
The original is available at hive
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Space Camp 2.0
Virgin Galactic’s Eve spaceship - after a three day training in New Mexico, travelers will fly to 360,000 feet for a 5 minute weightless view of the earth and universe followed by a 90 second reentry to home.
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Canada Beats USA
Canada beat the US - this time to the airline iPhone app. Air Canada’s highly useful and free iPhone app allows travelers to log in to their account, check-in, or check a flight’s status (and more) all with a user friendly interface. C’mon United and Delta.
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2050: America Connected by High Speed Rail?
Via Good
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US Job Loss
The Whitehouse released this job loss visualization.
(via Flowing Data)
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Get a Shiner
Shiner, aka Joe Manus, makes some amaaing eco friendly contemporary furniture.
(via Design-Milk)
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Gourmet Cheese Steak
Check out the most popular and delicious dish at Jose Andres’s Bazaar at the SLS Beverly Hills. Air bread filled with cheddar cheese, topped with sliced kobe beef. Don’t eat Red meat? This sprawling restaurant feeatures two dining rooms, a bar, and pastry shop.
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No Packaging, Whatsoever
A new store in London offers no packaging at all! Tasty whole foods, herbs, spices, anything you want, you must contain… yourself.
http://beunpackaged.com/
(Via Good)
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Eco Work-module
Need some fresh air for inspiration? Some alone time to cultivate some new ideas? This modular office definitley is where it’s @.
(via NGWE)
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TabletTalk →
Tablet hotels introduced TabletTalk this week - this new blog hits on travel and 21st century global living.
WatchIDEO envisions the future of play. I actually think there are a few good ideas in here, but the music and certain scenarios freaked me out!
To share your own idea of the climate change future, submit your video at the Living Climate Change site.
Clae Classics
Clae lifestyle footwear fills the void between sneakers and shoes - classical styling and simple lines.
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Roads of Death
Woah, I’ll “go for it” but some of these roads look insane. View the 19 most complex and dangerous roads in the world here!
Expressive Architecture
Taschen’s latest release from their Architecture Now! series is a multilingual book focusing on 79 designer Restaurants and Bars around the world. Add this book to your collection of coffee table books for $39.99 or leaf through online - you may recognize your favorite hangout.
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Andaz to open #5 on 5th Avenue
Hyatt’s upscale and designer Andaz brand will open their fifth hotel (second NYC hotel) this spring. Very few photos for this 5th Avenue hotel have been released, but guestroom prototypes are available online. Andaz has won awards for their uncluttered and urban architecture, such as at the Andaz WeHo.
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Foot in Mouth in NYC
Around the corner in NYC’s West Village from some commercialized japanese NYC landmarks, HAKATA TONTON served me “authentic kyushu Japanese soul food” at attainable prices. What knocked my socks off was all over the menu: pigs feet. Whether steamed or fried in dumplings or pan seared, spiced and straight up, these dishes have serious umami! We finished our TONTON experience...
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