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James Jarvis x Coca-Cola 125th Anniversary Cans
Coke invited James Jarvis for making the art of the 125th Anniversary cans. Coca Cola keeps up the great taste.
The Cosmonaut: A Wide-Grip Stylus for Touch Screens
Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt are raising funds for The Cosmonaut: A Wide-Grip Stylus for Touch Screens on Kickstarter! The Cosmonaut is a minimal, wide-grip capacitive stylus for touch screens. Perfect for sketching and doodling on any tablet.
From the people that brought you the Glif comes another technology enhancing invention.
The 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps
Fred Wilson at Carsonified's Future of Web Apps conference in Miami 2010 and what you're fucking up on if you're not incorporating into your web app.
Norwegian Wood (and Fabric)
Nice site for furniture (I think) design group LK Hjelle out of Norway. I could have switched to English, but I enjoyed browsing the site thoroughly in Norwegian.
A Two-in-One Table for Tiny Apartments
Ahhaproject's Double Life can transform from a work surface to a dinner table in two dead-simple steps.
Love this simple concept.
Tweet Rings
The world's first Twitter rings! Sometimes a quick tweet means so much, it should be saved forever. Wear your favourite twitter message with you always.
While I don't have an intense emotional attachment to any tweets I've received, I do like the trend of physical products being customized and made to order. Also, I can't really imagine anything more ubiquitous as a character limit than a tweet, so all in all, well done.
Table Folds Like Origami, Becomes Four Tables in One
The table was designed by Mathilde Witt Mølholm for her graduation thesis at the Aarhus School of Architecture, in Denmark, and it makes efficient use of geometry to grow and shrink in a few easy steps.
Love this table. So simple, so great.
Genius soap dispenser
Today, most of the soap we use is liquid soap, which contains a lot of water. Block soap instead is more concentrated and therefore has some ecological benefits: You don't transport unnecessary water around. In place of plastic bottles you can simply use paper for packaging. The solid blocks can easily be piled and allow a greater space efficiency in a truck.
Surfstation