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Braille Label Maker!

I have to admit, San Francisco’s LightHouse, an informational station for the blind on Van Ness has always me thinking about brailles.  You probably know what I am talking about if you work in SF or you are a resident.

Anyways, the subject matter is a new design for braille label maker from a South Korean designer, way too cool, check out the pics.

Why didn’t I think of this earlier?

I would really like to see these at my local RiteAid drug stores.

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DIY Lego MP3 Player!

Check out this cool DIY Lego MP3 Player from Italy!  Nice work, looks like they did a good job.

During the Nuremberg Toy Fair I spotted the new version of the uber geek Lego Mindstorms NXT22 and some danish bricks gadgets like the Lego Camcorder, a colorful photo camera and this MP3 player. The cam and the photo camera seems ready to be marketed but seem that the Lego designers still got a lot of work to do on the MP3 player and its speakers…

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Speaker Design – Sound Shelf!

Check out this cool design for a speaker called Sound Shelf, basically a shelf with surround speakers built-in to the lining.  I could see this design take off if it reaches the market, do you?  It’d be great if they sold it as iPod dock speakers/shelves.

The iPod craze has definitely made a large market for iPod accessories, which happens to include speakers.  This would be great for teens and college students to have a spot for their school b

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DIY Robot Sculpture Made from Old Typewriters!

Check out these cool DIY robot

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DIY Coffee Tables made from old Car Hoods!

It seems like designers are getting more involved in the “green movement” with masterpiece DIY Coffee Tables like this, which are made from old Car Hoods.

Our advice, “re-use, re-make” and you can still come up with magnificent designs.

Using hoods from vintage American cars, Joel Hester handcrafts coffee tables in his Dallas, TX studio. Taking advantage of the bright colors of yesteryear and the p

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CFL Bulb 2.0

With CFL bulbs radically saving energy these days, there’s another feature about the CFL bulbs that will make bulb designers go crazy with funky bulbs like the one pictured above.

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Original Google Storage Server Made with Legos!

It’d be hard to believe but yes, Sergey Brin and Larry Page made their first 40GB Google Storage Server with lego casing.  Perhaps they might have been great lego-designers if they didn’t come up with Google.

The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford. Click to see the equipment in its laboratory setting on the basement floor of Gates Information Sciences. Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an eno

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SofaBox is not really a box you can carry around!

Here’s SofaBox, a giant portable sofa all encased in what seems like a stainless-steel box.  Let’s face it, you will probably never want to go anywhere with this so-called box.  However, it does beat traditional sofas as far as portability goes.

I think the designers really need to “re-design” to make it smaller and more portable.  This isn’t a well thought-out stuff.

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Custom Eye Lamp Just for you!

Check out these glass-blown eye lamps you can order that are exact clones of your actual eyes.

The hand blown glass eyeball lamps made by Glassblower Livio Serena in Murano are based on exact clones of your actual eye color. Order them through 5.5 Designers.

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Recycled Plastic Bottle Art – Sea Creatures!

With more and more designers and artists using recycled materials for their new art, here’s a cool array of sea creatures made with recycled plastic bottles.

The mere fact that plastic water bottles have transparent quality lends itself as the primary basis of our crafty plastic adventure. With that in our minds and fuelled with inspiration and fervor, both of us began the lengthy and labourous activity of sorting, cleaning, slicing, threading,…….etc.

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