Cool Hunting Video: Reverend Gadget’s Art Car: Electric innovation at Burning Man 2013 with a solar-powered art car

Cool Hunting Video: Reverend Gadget's Art Car


Among the dust in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, we spent six days braving the mayhem of the 2013 Burning Man Festival. There were plenty of interesting and strange characters roaming the playa, but…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks: The passing of a political hero, growing crops on the moon and the color of 2014 in this week’s look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Mandela, Captured by the Camera This past Thursday, the world mourned the death of Nelson Mandela. Passing away at the age of 95, Mandela is best known for his leadership role in the movement to end apartheid in South Africa. To look…

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Morgaw Shock Absorbing Bicycle Saddle: An innovative design increases flex and rider stability while cutting tension both on and off road

Morgaw Shock Absorbing Bicycle Saddle


As an answer to the cyclist’s favorite component to complain about, Slovakian designers have developed a new type of bicycle saddle called the Morgaw. The lightweight, carbon-based saddle combines a modular rail system with two small…

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Interview: Alexander Valdman of Giro: Giro’s Design Director on creating for the innovative New Road collection, Kanye West and city cyclists

Interview: Alexander Valdman of Giro


Spring 2013 saw the introduction of Giro’s cycling lifestyle collection New Road. While the initial launch was semi-soft, Fall 2013 made waves when launched a month or so ago…

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Moss Robot Construction Kit: Design, build and control robots at home

Moss Robot Construction Kit


A far cry from Stretch Armstrong, Moss is a new dynamic robot construction kit that allows kids to build their own controllable toys. After over two years of prototyping, Colorado’s…

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Under Armour Theatre Shanghai : The Maryland-based brand’s first Chinese store introduces the experience of sport through film and design

Under Armour Theatre Shanghai


Few things are as American as the idea that with a great work ethic, any individual can achieve anything—be it as grand a dream as becoming the president or a professional athlete or as seemingly basic as earning an education. While this fundamental…

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ListenUp: Lou Reed Tribute: Our brief look at the iconic artist’s musical legacy

ListenUp: Lou Reed Tribute


Lou Reed: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean After 71 colorful years the immensely influential musician Lou Reed (born on 2 March 1942) passed away on Sunday, 27 October 2013. Not since Elvis has rock’n’roll…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : A million lines of code, an air pollution vacuum, NIGO for Uniqlo UT and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. The First Pedal Cycle, on Steroids The largest chemical company in the world, BASF SE, partnered with design studio DING3000 to answer the hypothetical question, what would the first pedal cycle have looked like if its historic inventors had today’s advanced materials…

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Outlier Minimal Backpack: A packable bag that’s stronger than steel and as light as a feather

Outlier Minimal Backpack


Over the years many have come to expect material innovation alongside considered design from Outlier. And for their latest bag, the brand has delivered just that. The incredibly lightweight and aptly named ,…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Modular phones, petrified bird photography, the Empire State Building’s green roof and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. The Ultimate Swiss Army Knife Cumbersome? Yes. Ornate? Certainly. Over the top? Absolutely. The Wenger 16999 Swiss Army Knife from around 1880 has roughly 100 functions—some necessary and some superfluous. From a built-in saw to…

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