Nuts and Bolts ID: How Much Design Can You Get Into a Garbage Can?

While this informercial below cracked me up… …I can’t deny that I hate pulling the bags out of the large garbage can I keep in my stud...

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Did These Earthworks Work?

In these days of Google and Wikipedian certainty, it may seem like our world has few mysteries left. We know how henges were built and t...

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The PocketPlug: A Smartphone Case that Plugs Directly Into the Wall, No Cables Necessary

Usually when you pull something out of your bag that deploys two prongs, you’re about to tase somebody. But this here is a smartphone ca...

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Casey Neistat Launches Studio Series, Shows Us How He Keeps Stuff Organized: Red Boxes

When you picture an ordinary filmmaker’s workspace, you picture piles of camera and grip gear alongside coffee-table tomes on the French...

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Does No One Else Find This Ridiculous?

Bike Grouch Alert: So it’s come to this. That there is   Lucid Design ‘s “Kit Bike," which, like an IKEA shelving unit, can be as...

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Company Invents Shotgun Suppressor and a Strange Superhero

I’ve got a friend from Alabama who told me that growing up, most families she knew kept shotguns in the house. When you heard a noise in...

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How to Improve the Audio Quality of Vinyl Records with Wood Glue

One of the first things you learn in the ID shop at design school: Wood glue is for joining wood, welding is great for joining metal, ac...

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Instagram Page Reveals TSA’s Everyday Smuggles

A harpoon gun, hand grenades, Bat-a-rangs (twice!), a “morning star" spiked flail, a 60mm mortar round, and of course handguns: The...

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Man Scares the Living Crap out of Parkgoers by Chasing Them with Grim Reaper Costume Hooked Up to Drone

Tom Mabe is a comedian and sort of professional prankster, with a   YouTube channel   documenting his feats of fooled-ya. While I’m gene...

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Happy Birthday America! For This Year’s Fireworks Shows, Please–No Dogs or Computers

Happy Fourth of July! We know that our non-Yank readership doesn’t care about our special day, especially you Brits. In fact, Stephen Me...

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Tooshlights: Traffic Signals for Bathroom Stalls

I never thought anything could be done to speed up bathroom lines. But a company called   Tooshlights   is claiming that their product c...

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A Brief History of Unusual Objects Designed to Kill People from Far Away, Part 1b: Mongolian Thumb Rings

[Images by   Fiddler49 ] By mastering the assembly of compound materials, the Mongols had created an incredibly powerful bow, as we sa...

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More Design Issues with Soap: How to Handle Raw Meat and Dispense Cleanly?

I’ve always bought my soap pump bottles from a company I used to work for, because I remember doing the renderings and CAD drawings for ...

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When Form Follows Fugly

I consider your average sinkside soap dish a design failure. They either have no drainage, leaving the bar to sit in a puddle of water t...

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How Much Hot Air: Heimplanet Inflatable Tents

You may have seen   Heimplanet   inflatable tents bounce around the Internet before, and they’re doing it again. These tubed geometric t...

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Are We There Yet? The Vessyl Uses Molecular Analysis To Tell You What You’re Drinking

Quick and easy molecular analysis is, by most accounts, still a long way off. Many a project claiming the ability to scan an object and ...

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May the Force Be-knit You

When George Lucas first spun his neo-mythical space yarn back in the ’70s, he probably had no idea how deeply it would weave itself into...

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Spicing Up Your Address: Floating House Numbers

There’s a building around the corner from me that I always notice, because they’ve got these sexy little floating numbers on the front o...

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