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Month: March 2013

Waste Not: 1890s Urinal Turned into a Sandwich Shop

Sit at a counter embedded into a wall of urinals and enjoy a nice sandwich at Attendant, an eatery in London built in a former men's bathroom. While it's virtually unrecognizable after an ...

Self Snuggling: 7 Super-Cozy Full Body-Wrapping Seats

Forget your chair-and-blank combination - with these ultra-warm wonders of domestic design, curling up with a good book has never seemed more enticing. Speaking of chairs and blankets, Aga ...

Algaculture: Symbiosis Suit Produces Food from Breath

Inspired by 'plantimals', photosynthetic organisms like lichen, sea slugs and salamanders that welcome algae into their bodies in order to thrive, the Algaculture Symbiosis Suit aims to enhance ...

Image Hacking: 40+ Glitch Art Photos, Paintings & Videos

Surreal, dreamlike and often haunting, databending creates digital or analog image errors for artistic effect. An art form in which corrupted files are either created or mimicked in photographs, ...

High Seas Venture: SF Tech Incubator in International Waters

Imagine heading out from San Francisco to a bustling technology hub closer than Silicon Valley ... yet an entire country away. Set only a dozen miles from the coast, this incredible incubator is ...

Going Downhill Fast: 12 Abandoned Ski Resorts

These dozen doomed ski resorts, like most seasonal winter businesses, can fall off the financial cliff by something as ironically simple as a lack of snow. ...

Elemental Elegance: 14 Amazing Photographs of Elements

We all learned about the periodic table of elements in high school, but for most of us that's where our knowledge of the elements ends. Japanese chemist and photographer R. Tanaka is showing the ...

Tentsile: Extreme Travel Tree Tents Hang Like Hammocks

Hikers and campers have long been used to hanging food packs out of reach of bears and scavengers, but these tensile treehouse shelters take things a few steps further, allowing you to loft your ...

Not a Glitch: Cabinet Carved with Disorienting Design

No, there's nothing wrong with your screen - this intricate wooden cabinet was actually carved to resemble an image error. The 'Good Vibrations' storage unit by designer Ferruccio Laviani ...

Mobile 3D-Printed House Factory in a Shipping Container

Yet another candidate has entered the race for the world's first 3D-printed house, with a mobile 3D printing factory in a shipping container that can produce the components on-site. Dutch studio ...

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