rotorooter is sponsoring a contest in which this pimped out toilet is the ultimate prize – enough said. via porcelain
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hair machines
when one of your products is described as “it does some treatment on balding head and over-secrete fat pelt” (the ozone active oxygen biopelt, first from the left) it seems to follow that you are selling image over content. and that’s why you need design: to make something with very little technological differentiation (ok, none) […]
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tracking sketch
brandon sullivan has invented a drawing machine that makes a unique piece of art as it is shipped – essentially a pencil-studded ball in a paper-lined box. it was inspired by his earlier vibratory drawing machine, a far cry from tinguely’s originals. what is interesting about this new method is that it could be functional […]
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eat my words
i guess it’s finally here: pringles prints are one of the first products to take advantage of edible ink to print custom messages on mass-produced food. this idea has its roots with david small‘s research at the medialab’s counterintelligence group in the late 90s. instead of bad jokes, he printed nutritional information and poetry on […]
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product black box
toby mckey’s laptop became famous for inadvertently taking and uploading pictures while it was being repaired at some ‘secret’ facility, although in the meantime the photos mysteriously disappeared (the one above was salvaged and purportedly shows a flextronics facility in tennessee). as in airplanes, a ‘black box’ for products could become part their value rather […]
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beer bricks
in 1961 john habraken designed the WOrld BOttle: a new beer bottle for heineken that upcycles into a building material, turning an often-disposed and hard-to-recycle product into an empowering tool for do-it-yourself home building.
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green gadgets
some of the problems i had trying to find out the environmental impact of consumer electronics are 1) different guides exist that rely on different standards 2) the companies make misleading declarations and seem to be actively removing information about their processes and 3) few alternatives exist – all electronics are made of the same […]
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creation story
natalie jeremijenko started a wiki called how stuff is made to tell the story of how various products are made, from wine bottles and american flags to colombian flowers (above). the anemic collection requires people to submit manufacturing processes to wikipedia, providing that the manufacturers are proud enough to reveal their standards.
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