A collection of links, handmade ideas, and design inspiration that we've stashed in our "Awesome" folder,
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So, this exists: 3D latte art created by a barista in Japan. Craziness.
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A library of cross-disciplinary interestingness and combinatorial creativity
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Awesome photos of long-abandoned North-African movie sets.
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In 2002, a startup named SawStop demonstrated a table saw that could miraculously cut through wood, but stop itself dead (video below) as soon as its spinning blade touched skin.
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Please, please. Someone buy me these to put in my house.
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Love every one of these. Now to go have some tea...
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Can you say, "Dream come true"?
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Oh great... now I want to build a boat.
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Anyone who's watched Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver surely remembers, or has remained haunted by, many images from the film, most
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Why do artists hate artist statements so much? And if they must write them, how can they make sure they're good?
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Weapons. Toys. Entire skulls. There's no limit to the objects we can 3D print these days, but the materials themselves haven't evolved as quickly—we're still stuck in a world of plastic, steel, and ceramic. That's all about to change, thanks to the work of a small Oakland fabrication studio called Emerging Objects.
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Modular lamp build with different elements allowing to change the speed of curve.
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Can you imagine Nicholas Cage as Superman? What about an Indiana Jones movie starring Tom Selleck?
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There's a content revolution...now if we can just figure out how to find something to watch.
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In the future, there are no laundry piles.
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Larry Moss and his team Airigami put together this 20-foot Acrocanthosaurus made out of balloons.
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Thank god for creative teenagers. I'm sure it will be a clever dinosaur.
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Here are 10 Stunning British Pub Signs for your inspiration...
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... and recorded it on Google Glass. The result is amazing. Go listen right now.
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The New Yorker has taken the economic segregation of our city and visualized it by matching up median household income from the census with subway stations.
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Last night, three works by the infamous British street artist Banksy popped up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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I'm not sure how you tell these are jokes (unless you read Japanese)...
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A short shot in 6-second vignettes.