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The Cactus is a hybrid kinda appliance, one that moves from a freezer to a refrigerator to a food warmer. Consider it as a food storage box that keeps your eatables either warm or cold, depending upon the requirement. Designed for use in nuclear households, the appliance goes against the typical principle of conducting heat from the outside to cool the inners of a fridge.

As a heat box, the temperature is maintained at 55 degrees C, which is ideal for thermal insulated for food. The frozen foods section accommodates up to three pizza boxes and the beverage compartment has been designed keeping standard bottles and cans in mind.

The Cactus scores a full ten on the design department. It’s very kawaii in looks and everything inside it has been designed keeping food specifics and usage in mind.

Designer: Erik Edward Kim

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Le richissime collectionneur d’art Dakis Joannou a demandé à son ami l’artiste mondialement connu Jeff Koons de lui peindre son yacht. Appelé Guilty, ce bateau de 35 mètres pensés avec le designer Ivana Porfiri propose des couleurs impressionnantes, faisant de ce dernier une véritable œuvre d’art véhiculée.

There’s no denying that levitation of any sort is pretty awesome—whether you’ve only seen it in movies or our previous coverage of magnetic levitation, levitating table lamps or this hovering LED. There’s something about seeing something move with no visual force that’s so intriguing. You may have seen this shape-shifting water video from science and illusion videographer Brusspup as it hit the Internet early in 2013:

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News: a fighter jet incorporating 3D-printed parts has successfully completed a test flight, making it the first combat aircraft produced using additive manufacturing.

Defence contractor BAE Systems announced yesterday that the Tornado aircraft fitted with components printed at a Royal Air Force base completed a successful test flight from the company’s airfield at Warton in Lancashire, UK, last month.

The firm’s combat engineering team is now using 3D printing to design and produce ready-made parts for four squadrons of Tornado GR4 aircraft at RAF Marham, a Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, UK. Components include protective covers for cockpit radios, support struts on the air intake door and protective guards for power take-off shafts.

They estimate that use of the technology will cut the cost of repairs, maintenance and service to the Royal Air Force by more than £1.2 million over the next four years, but also paves the way for using 3D printed parts in other military equipment.

“You are suddenly not fixed in terms of where you have to manufacture these things,” said Mike Murray, head of airframe integration at BAE Systems. “You can manufacture the products at whatever base you want, providing you can get a machine there, which means you can also start to support other platforms such as ships and aircraft carriers.”

“If it’s feasible to get machines out on the front line, it also gives improved capability where we wouldn’t traditionally have any manufacturing support,” he added.

The US military has been developing its own 3D printers for the frontline for some time, enabling soldiers to quickly and cheaply produce spare parts for their weapons and equipment, while NASA is developing an orbiting factory that will use 3D printing and robots to fabricate giant structures such as antennas and solar arrays in space.

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Suffice it to say that the Mac Pro was easily the best thing Apple did this year.

Core77 2013 Year in Review: Top Ten Posts · Furniture, Pt. 1 · Furniture, Pt. 2
Digital Fabrication, Pt. 1 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 2 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 3 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 4
Insights from the Core77 Questionnaire · Maker Culture: The Good, the Bad and the Future · Food & Drink
Materials, Pt. 1: Wood · Materials, Pt. 2: Creative Repurposing · Materials, Pt. 3: The New Stuff
True I.D. Stories · High-Tech Headlines

The preponderance of Jony Ive-related headlines this year suggests that technology and design are as deeply connected as ever, and we certainly saw a fair share of interesting innovations from Silicon Valley and beyond. That didn’t stop Quartz’s Christopher Mims from boldly asserting that “2013 Was a Lost Year for Tech, though I felt that he overlooked the implications of Google Glass as a sign of the times. Even so, his suggestion that it “doesn’t count” due to its “tone-deaf design” only underscores the importance of industrial design in the technology sector (more on Glass below). IDEO’s Tim Brown, on the other hand, offers rather more positive outlook—and a telling follow-up to Mims’ optimistic 2012 year-end roundup—at least to the effect that iterative feedback loops and decimal-pointed-versioning hold the promise of exciting new developments in 2014.

If Toymail demonstrates the power of the Internet of Things from an early age…

Based purely on anecdotal / qualitative data, it seems that the ‘Internet of Things’ has surpassed ‘Digital Fabrication’ as the Next Big Thing—wearables, in particular, have taken on the buzz of 3D printers before them. But unlike the broader domain of digital fabrication, the connected devices have more commercial potential than the 3D printer’s cousins—open-source CNC mills, wire benders, etc.

Of course, 2013 will mostly be remembered—at least in the short term—as the year that Google Glass came out, not least for the subsequent backlash to the limited launch of the eyeglass+HUD form factor. Mat Honan’s chronicle of his year with Glass offers at least a few insights into the actual experience of the $1,500 device (though his refusal to wear it on public transit, when he’s out for dinner or drinks, at movies or around kids speaks to Mims’ point that it’s inherently alienating), but its impact as a novel cultural artifact. And in some ways, Mims is right in dismissing Glass as a gamechanger: Frankly, I still can’t help but do a double-take each time I see it in public, and it’s simply too soon to tell how significant Glass will be in the long run.

From L to R: Google Glass, Melon, No More Woof

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