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The London 2012 Olympic Cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick was a genuine work of brilliant design, embodying the Olympic spirit. First off, the massive structure replicates the floral motif of the dandelion, one of England’s foremost symbols. Secondly, the flower has 204 petals, with each one representing one of the participating countries. According to Britain’s Daily Mail, “the petals are copper and the [...]
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Kickstarter projects for gadgets are often exciting and the iPhone and Android Charge Card, by Noah Dentzel and Adam Miller, is no exception to this general rule. Kickstarter is a great place to foray into the creative collective subconscious, find and support projects that would otherwise collect dust on the shelves and in the drawers of their designers. Charge Card is a [...]
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Unlike another concept watch by Cartier we recently featured, the Cartier Astrotourbillon Carbon Crystal Watch is one luxury item that will, indeed, find its way to the market. The first information on the release of this watch first hit news sources all the way back in 2009. The superb item features a Caliber 9460 MC movement, made in-house for and by Cartier, [...]
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The Bond 50 box set is about to be released and in celebration of the 50 years of James Bond movies we’ve had thus far, here’s a trailer with a montage of Bond’s coolest cars. The action flick franchise is famous for several things: its women, villains and cars. And since we’re on the topic of cars, these illustriously include Bentleys, Audis, [...]
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If the above images look like something taken out of a sci-fi movie with gadgets, you should know it’s just the JVC Adixxion Camcorder. That’s the new release from JVC: a pocket-sized device that can hold underwater down to 16.4 feet—not to mention it’s completely freeze-proof and dust-proof. You can take it on safari with you, or at the top of the [...]
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You really don’t know luxury watches until you see the Cartier ID Two Concept Watch, which we found on Hodinkee.com. The watch spent no fewer than five years in research and development and it marks a new stage in the watch-making technology employed by Cartier. Essentially, the watch features a very sophisticated system, patent-pending for the time being, that allows energy to [...]
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The amazing sand art piece featured here today is Walking Drawings by Evewright, produced over the course of the past eight years. For the piece, the London-based artist required major community participation, in order to produce three designs that, put together, comprise one monumental installation. It took two days to create the last piece, captured on video below. Dozens of Shire horses [...]
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The most amazing thing about good design is that it can bring a sense of wonder to the most banal of spaces, as does Kinetic Rain by Art+Com, a kinetic installation in Terminal 1 at the Singapore Airport. The Changi Airport has been adorned with well over 600 aluminum drops painted gold, who move according to a fifteen-minute long choreography. The ‘dance’ [...]
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Today we bring you something a little bit different from we’ve gotten you used to: the amazing campaign titled Save the Arctic by GreenPeace. The eco-warriors have summoned the talents of Jude Law, who provides the voiceover, and Radiohead, who chipped in with the soundtrack. The result is a touching, heartwarming awareness ad, over one minute and a half long, called “A [...]
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The graphic arts are just as valid on building walls as they are on canvas, says graffiti artist Conor Harrington with his brand new murals in Italy. He may not be Banksy in terms of notoriety just yet, but he certainly has a ‘voice,’ a.k.a. a visual style all his own. Basically, he attempts to appropriate any location, by blending elements of [...]
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Today we take a look at one of the rides of the future: the C-1 Roling Smartphone Electric Vehicle by Lit Motors. The small San Francisco-based company helmed by designer Daniel Kim has produced a cool-looking car, which, essentially, is a minute, single-seat electric car for urban roads. It features electronically-controlled gyroscopes, which allow it to maintain its upright position even after [...]
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The bloggers behind Depth of Speed definitely know their vintage rides, which is why they were so excited about a drive with a 1957 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing. The video, which you can watch in full below, is aptly titled ‘Poetry in Motion,’ since the grace and elegance that this car exudes are truly one of a kind. The story is as simple [...]
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If you think there’s nothing cooler than your Xbox, then brace yourself for the hotly anticipated Xbox SmartGlass App. It was recently released during the E3 by Microsoft, albeit strictly in teaser form. It’s set to launch for the consumer later this year, and, essentially, it’s an application which can connect smartphones, PCs and tablet with the Xbox 360. The technology behind [...]
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It’s been a while since we last featured news from the world of the movies, but the trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s latest, Django Unchained, really is newsworthy. The film, whose trailer we found on DailyMotion, is a dark comedy in pure Tarantino style, if we’re to believe the hype in the video trailer. First off, it’s got his sense for action and [...]
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Gadget freaks will know that a parametric speaker for the iPhone and iPod such as Richard Haberkern’s Soundlazer is an awfully cool concept, but allow us to explain it for everyone else, too. This type of speaker sends sounds via ultrasonic carrier waves, under the shape of a focused beam. The quality of sound is incredible and no one but the person [...]
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Vimeo is a great source for amazing images and concepts, and that’s how we found our featured “Venice in a Day” time-lapse video, done by Joerg Niggli. The videographer and photographer in based in Switzerland and professes to being “interested in things of all kind, the order of events, details, in land- and cityscapes.” He captured a day in Italian tourist town [...]
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We’ve just celebrated Louis Daguerre 224th birthday, so it’s only fitting that us photo buffs should find some way to express how the art, though it’s gone through significant changes since the first photo he took, strikes us as the very definition of perfection. One such way we came up with is through presenting the cinematically-composed snaps of Canadian photographer Richard Bernardin, [...]
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