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NewsRich Neeley’s Book Chargers
In a delightfully clever combination of old and new, Rich Neeley has been taking actual vintage books and giving them new lives as iPhone chargers.
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NewsCufflinks That Double as USB Drives, Wi-Fi Spots
In what may be the ultimate fusion of practicality and style, Brookstone are now selling cufflinks that offer both Wi-Fi and data storage.
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News3D Printer Makes Cupcake in 60 Seconds
Most of us associate printers with ink and paper, but a new 3D printer has more to do with chocolate cupcakes and other delicious desserts.
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NewsWin a Copy of The Summer Guide by Concrete Playground
Well folks, it’s that time of year again, when the rising mercury sends us outdoors en masse, pumping our concrete playground with an energy of revelry and renewal.
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NewsIkea Builds Apartment in Paris Train Station
The Swedish design giants are turning more heads with their latest advertising stunt in France.
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NewsThe Song Map
This is what the world would look like if you could build a city from your iTunes library.
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NewsThe Blackbox Mobile SMS Message Printer
A nifty little mobile printer that produces your text message conversations on paper.
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NewsMake Food Not War
Stage a war in the kitchen and attempt to replicate these deliciously evil masterpieces.
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NewsTrot Around Your Own Globe
These do-it-yourself kits allow you to customise your own vintage globe with different travel routes, photos, banners and travel stickers.
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NewsCreate Your Own Personalised Soft Drink
Online users change the percentages of whatever ingredients they choose to go into the drink, and can further determine the drink's colour, name and label.
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NewsBernardo Bajana’s Offensive Police Shield
Bad news for Occupy protesters: Bernado Bajana has created a new riot shield which does much more than just shield officers.
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NewsHow Happy is Your City?
A giant emoticon erected above this Bavarian city is set to measure the general mood of the people below.
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NewsRooftop Farming in Berlin
Fish frolicking in beer barrels and a vegetable patch atop an old malt factory in Berlin enjoy the ultimate symbiotic relationship.
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NewsWake Up to the Muppet Crew
Imagine waking up, and the first thing you saw was this wall decal. There is just no way you could ever start the day in a bad mood.
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NewsA Beer Cooler that Doubles as a ‘Photoblocker’
A product that will soon solve the first-world problems faced by many party animals.
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NewsVending Machine for Welcome Home Signs
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport Bannerxpress allows people to print welcome home signs from a vending machine at the airport.
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NewsThe World’s Funkiest Contact Lenses
The Japanese have a particular skill when it comes to making useful objects much more compact and convenient.
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Sydney: The Summer Guide
Welcome to the inaugural Concrete Playground Summer Guide, a comprehensive shortlist of the best this city has to offer over the next three months
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NewsThe World’s First Functional Painting Typewriter
To the delight of fetishists of redundant technology, an American artist has created a typewriter that paints.
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NewsFrom Barley to the Bottle in the Heart of the City
Watch your beer 'grow' from start to finish at this temporary inner city brewery.
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NewsThe Little Printer
Little Printer partners with Arup, foursquare, Google, the Guardian and Nike to produce itty bitty newspapers to slip into your back pocket and read on the go.
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NewsBasil Bangs’ Beautiful Beach Brollies
Basil Bangs' beautifully designed beach umbrellas will allow you to spend a sensible day at the beach while still looking hip.
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NewsThe Spirit of Youth Awards Set to Grow in 2011/2012
With the competition's expansion into unprecedented categories, there are now more opportunities for Australia's finest creative minds to showcase their work to the world.
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NewsAdidas to Launch $1 Sneaker in India
Adidas is looking to the subcontinent for its new major growth market.
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NewsIt’s Just a Plant: The Children’s Book on Marijuana
The story of a young girl's educational journey as she comes to understand cannabis, explained to her by her parents, a doctor and a kind gang of Rastafarians.
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NewsUrban Beekeeping Hits New York’s Rooftops
Philips has tapped into the growing beekeeping trend and designed a sleek looking urban beehive.
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NewsTurn Your Smartphone Into a Robot
Romo smartens up your already intelligent smartphone by turning it into a robot.
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NewsDialug Saves You Time and Power
This clever plug and socket design with in-built timer lets you save power.
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NewsA Finnish Greenhouse Fit for Living
Gardening enthusiasts will be able to spend even more time with Mother Nature in this wonderful garden shed.
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NewsThe MAMA Bike Rack
Continuing the trend of ingenious bike accessories, the MAMA bike rack allows your two-wheeler to literally stand above the rest.
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NewsPaula Scher’s Amazing Maps
Scher's pieces offer an individual distortion of the world and strong commentary about our society and often chaotic lifestyles.
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NewsTurn Your iPhone into an Antique Typewriter
This new, limited edition app puts an antique typewriter in your pocket.
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NewsCharge Your Devices in Style
The OXO multicharger is like an executive penthouse for your devices.
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NewsVanishing Fruit Stickers that Dissolve in Water
Scott Amron has come up with an ingenious and hygienic way to get rid of fruit stickers once and for all.
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NewsSweden’s Treehouse Hotel
The hotel has five different rooms, all of which are themed differently and offer much more than your standard bed and complementary chocolate.
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NewsAlpina Bike Spins your Vinyl Records as you Ride
Dutch designers have created a cycling/music machine that plays vinyl records as you ride at a consistent speed.
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NewsPost-It Watches For People Who Forget Stuff
The days of writing notes on the back of your hand are over. The Post-It Watch has arrived.
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NewsHelsinki Named 2012 World Design Capital
Helsinki is not only a city of freezing winters and scary death metal bands, but the world's capital of innovative and sustainable design.
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NewsSteve Jobs’ Biographer Interviewed on 60 Minutes
Walter Isaacson shares the story behind the story.
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NewsThe Mona Lisa Recreated with a Single Line
It's incredible the things an ordinary person can do if they just have the appropriate felt-tip pen.
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NewsBrooklyn Man Turns His Life Into An Exhibition in a Dumpster
In the ultimate act of not being able to let go, an artist has transferred the detritus of his past into a perusable dumpster.
