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    Home Automation Assistants

    As consumers become more focused on incorporating the Internet of Things (IOT) into their lifestyle, the ‘Lola’ Home Automation System is designed to help be the first step of many into the world of home automation. Simple to set up, ...
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    Muscle-Loosening Spheres

    The Hypersphere is a high-tech sphere, developed by Hyperice, that is designed to loosen up soft tissues before and after intense physical activities such as workouts. While most gyms these days offer medicine balls and foam rollers, what makes the ...
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    Naturehumaine creates living spaces for two athletically inclined children.

    ‘In Suspension’ by Naturehumaine Architecture et Design is an interior re-organization that has transformed the top two levels of a building into a double-height urban home for a client’s athletically inclined children, now grown adults. Say the architects, “The primary ...
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    12 Seats for Maximum Relaxation

    We’ve been known to post a perfect nap chair or two (or dozen) here on Design Milk so we thought we’d round up our favorites of nap’s past and add a few new spots to help you prepare for maximum ...
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    Co-Living: A New Metropolitan Way Of Life

    You think that co-living is a typical 1970s hippie concept? It’s all back now (but different) with The Collective, an innovative building concept that offers a next-generation co-living environment. With skyrocketing house prices, young Londoners have to find new lifestyles to afford living in ...
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    If the Science of Calories Could be Visualized This is What it Might Look Like

    Photographer Catherine Losing and set designer Katie Fotis were commissioned by Peta Bell for Mosaic, The Wellcome Trust’s online science publication, to illustrate an article on the problems surrounding calorie counting. The two artists took inspiration from the water and copper elements in ...
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    The mushroom man who wants the world to take fungi seriously

    Tell me about the hat you’re wearing. It’s made from a birch polypore mushroom. Our ancestors realised that you could get this tough bracket fungus off birch trees, hollow it out and put fire in it and carry it for ...
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    Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse

    We all know that cola and lemonade aren’t great for our waistline or our dental health, but our new study on rats has shed light on just how much damage sugary drinks can also do to our brain. The changes we ...
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    Objects with a Sensibility

    The interior, textile and concept designer, Charlotte Jonckheer is a graduate from the Design Academy Eindhoven (2014). Her work starts from an investigation of human behavior and observation of nature in order to create an obvious understanding between the object and its ...