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If art students ruled the auto industry, here's what we'd be driving

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 12:01pm

Students at the Royal College of Art in London were tasked with dreaming up what shape light, economical cars could take in this day and age. What did they come up with? Vehicles that are quirky and awesome —...

Magic Wave is a floating sculpture run by pure mechanics

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 9:36am

Artist Reuben Margolin just installed his Magic Wave at the Swiss Center of Technorama near Zurich. The sculpture is made of 450 aluminum rods hung by 256 wires connected to 3,000 pulleys and sliding bars. The whole thing is controlled...

Height-adjustable hanging lanterns: Better than floor lamps?

Friday, December 12, 2008 - 8:53am

What's the problem with floor lamps? Right, exactly — they're made so that "one size fits all." Not so much if you're over six feet, and you end up staring into the white-hot bulb every time you stand up....

Mario's world is brought to life with fully working mystery boxes

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 2:31pm

Artist Antoinette J. Citizen has put together a room making me wish I could be a kid all over again. Called "Landscape," it's a pretty faithful recreation of what a level from Nintendo's iconic Mario series of video games...

ZiPP Light Shades can zip open into a flower, or closed into a seed

Kevin Hall

Monday, December 8, 2008 - 11:29am

Do you ever get bored with the way your lights look? The ZiPP Light Shade, by designers Arash and Kelly, have a simple polypropylene covering that you can adjust depending on how you feel. All zipped up, the covering...

$6,500, 8-foot-tall phone booth lamp is one big way to show your love of London

Kevin Hall

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 12:39pm

Finn Stone's Phone Booth Lamp should appeal to any Anglophile out there as it's fashioned after the classic red metal phone box, the kind which are found all over London. Finn Stone's booth is made from fiberglass and, while it'll...

Bunker bank protects your hard-earned cash in rough economic times

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 2:35pm

Putting your money in a bank isn't looking like the best idea these days, at least not a real one. What other kinds are there? Well, there's the pig-shaped variety, though that's probably a little too obvious. This Bunker...

Oxygen tank lamp is the perfect gift for smokers

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 9:18am

Are you looking for that perfect gift for the smoker in your life? Something that says, "hey, your shortsightedness is going to come to a point sooner or later." Or, "hey, in the future, you'll die slowly thanks to your...

The Specchio wi-fi photo frame may be prettier than your pictures

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 4:05am

Parrot's Specchio, a wi-fi enabled digital picture frame designed by Parisian Martin Szekely, sure is shiny — it could double as a mirror. We dig how slick and modern it is, and that it doesn't slack off despite being...

14 examples of cutting-edge lighting design

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 2:39pm

From holes in rooftops to flickering torches to glowing light bulbs — the world of household lighting has come a long way. Nowadays artists and designers alike are stretching the boundaries of form and function when it comes to...

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If art students ruled the auto industry, here's what we'd be driving

Magic Wave is a floating sculpture run by pure mechanics

Height-adjustable hanging lanterns: Better than floor lamps?

Mario's world is brought to life with fully working mystery boxes

ZiPP Light Shades can zip open into a flower, or closed into a seed

$6,500, 8-foot-tall phone booth lamp is one big way to show your love of London

Bunker bank protects your hard-earned cash in rough economic times

Oxygen tank lamp is the perfect gift for smokers

The Specchio wi-fi photo frame may be prettier than your pictures

14 examples of cutting-edge lighting design

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