Next month Industrial Plastics is selling off its goods and shutting its doors. NYT View full entry
Wood.e is essentially electrified wood. Furniture made of Wood.e, with an electrical current of 12V, permits one to easily plug in different applications (plug and play). Wood.e is a built-up composite comprised by plywood and two integrated conducting layers. These layers allow for unprecedented... View full entry
Awesome collection of 360 types of stewardess uniforms from 211 countries of various airlines worldwide, collected by HLM steward Cliff Muskiet. View full entry
Personally, I'm not much of a video game enthusiast, but the new PlayStation Portable may turn me into one. Genious combination of technical innovation, marketing, and product design. CNN explores the latter in this review/gallery. View full entry
Dr. Vecchio has a soft spot for biomimetics and is pushing new uses for abalone as a lightweight structural material. | nytimes View full entry
The anticipation swelling behind dutch design magazine Dot Dot Dot is gaining momentum, as Poyner muses. | designobserver View full entry
UrbanWorkshop remixes the pogostick to offer, ka-blam, the pogohome furniture line. How springy. | stltoday View full entry
A pair of engineers in London, William Crawford and Peter Brewin, have invented a portable emergency shelter prototype that is erected with water and air to create a “concrete canvas”, or solid eggshell for a tent that is stored in a bag. Wired Check out the project site... View full entry
TecEco has "developed several cement technologies that have the power to effectively and economically transform city streets—and the built environment around them—into carbon “sinks”... View full entry
There's something massively wrong with "Massive Change," opening at the Art Gallery of Ontario today, and it's only partially due to its author... TStar View full entry
(speaking of homeless...) Koolhaas, after Prada show in Milan: It's not spectacular. Which is the best thing when you are alone. Balls, i tell you. | nytimes View full entry
Designboom offers an exhaustive photo-documentation of this years event, forcing me to mark off my calendar for next year. View View full entry
Bruce Mau is possessed by a sponge and discusses some recent work including exhibitions at Museum of Biodiversity in Panama (with Frank Gehry). | nytimes try to restrain yourself ... here it is. View full entry
Core77 reports on this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Looks like 2005 will see a lot of iPod knock-offs. Go View full entry
Is Karim Rashid God? Jackie McGlone from The Scotsman sure seems to think so. Read. View full entry