Unitasker Wednesday: Cool Cones

All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!

Is eating store-bought ice cream bringing you down? Well, let Cool Cones turn that around!

Cool Cones: Like an ice cream cone without the yummy cone!

Cool Cones: Like the multipurpose spoon and bowl, but with only one very specific ice-cream-related purpose!

Cool Cones: Perfect for when your child just wants to eat a single tablespoon of ice cream!

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Room Within a Room: An Enviable Home Office

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pIf you work from home and live somewhere that’s blessed by cold, long winters, you’d probably agree that keeping the home office warm during the day, when no one else is home, is both a challenge and a waste of energy, often requiring heating the entire house. Fed up, Berlin-based a href=”http://davidsonrafailidis.net/”Davidson Rafailidis/a decided to amend the situation and built a smaller, insulated room inside a larger one, framed out with lumber, lined with plastic, and connected to a window, with a regular, hollow-core door for entry. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/room_within_a_room_an_enviable_home_office_17520.asp”(more…)/a
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Granny wall shelf

With the Granny a classic tradition has incorporated into a contemporary product. The floating shelf is a nostalgic ode to grandmother’s cheerfu..

London Design Festival 2010: Table for two? Hel yes!

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pDuring the London Design Festival, a magical temporary restaurant sprung up in East London. There are tables with canopies of branches and food foraged from imaginary urban forest served on a very special collection of plates gathered from the people of Helsinki. A few weeks ago, far away in Finland, the people of Helsinki were invited to bring a plate (and its story) in exchange for a lovely meal. The plates collected throughout the event form the crockery collection of the restaurant at a href=”http://www.helyes.fi/”Hel Yes/a, and their original owners’ stories are available to all./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/london_design_festival_10/london_design_festival_2010_table_for_two_hel_yes__17519.asp”(more…)/a
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Mayo Clinic is seeking a Service Designer in Rochester, Minnesota

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pThe selected individuals will use human-centered and participatory methods of Design Thinking to identify unmet patient, provider and institutional needs to create new service concepts and/or business strategies. To complete projects, most of which are cross-functional in nature, the incumbents will conduct observational research, interviews and workshops; generate conceptual frameworks; formulate insights related to research data synthesis; and communicate findings/concepts to project sponsors./p

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‘Two go’ by Yael Livneh

Il designer israeliano Yael Livneh ha partecipato alla ‘seoul cycle design 2010‘ presentando questa idea: una normale cassetta di plastica per trasportare il latte che all’occorenza, si trasforma in un seggiolino con schienale. Da perfezionare sicuramente ma lo spunto è ottimo.
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'Two go' by Yael Livneh

'Two go' by Yael Livneh

‘Ten Years’ Apple Infographic

Come dice l’articolo da cui ho preso questa infografica: in 10 anni la potenza di un desktop è finita tra le nostre mani. Che cosa ci aspetta nella prossima decade?
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Mosh Apparel

Mosh Apparel è un nuovo brand indipendente made in italy capitanato da Giacomo Cassani. Lo trovate per ora solo sul loro bigcartel ma come inizio, promette bene 😉

Indianapolis Museum of Art Overhauls Security, Lays Off 53 Staff Members

In an interesting move we’ll be curious to see play out and how it might influence other institutions across the country, this week the Indianapolis Museum of Art has undergone a major personnel change in their security department, firing more than thirty of its security guards and laying off 23 part-time gallery attendants in an effort, as the Indianapolis Star reports, “to save $600,000 annually.” To replace them, the museum will use reserve police officers who will be in charge not just of overseeing the museum security, but also its surrounding park and parking lots. And to replace the attendants, students from Indiana University/Purdue University-Indianapolis will be used, earning less than the previous employees and working as part of a work study program. Clearly understanding that the news would be met with some concern, the museum has posted this entry on their blog, explaining the changes and why they were forced to make them. As one of the largest museums in the country, it will be interesting to see if this move, if successful, winds up influencing other organizations to make security changes of their own.

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