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    DNA App Store

    While driving and listening to National Public Radio one day, Justin Kao heard about the discovery of a “sweet tooth gene” that makes you more likely to crave sweets. “Oh my God,” thought Kao, who has always loved cookies. “I ...
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    Turning Junk Furniture Into Sidewalk Living Rooms

    Booklyn-based photographer Justin Bettman has been creating open-air living rooms on the streets of New York, alongside set designer Gözde Eker — using only abandoned or donated furnishings. Set In The Street is a collection of interior portraits with scenes built from domestic ...
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    Parents can sleep while the kids play in this amazing multi-level master bedroom

    Every parent knows how precious those extra couple of hours of sleep are on the weekend. But if your little early risers are in the habit of barging into your bedroom at 7 AM on a Sunday, this room is ...
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    New LED “Li-Fi” is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi

    You may soon be able to connect to the internet nothing more than a simple lamp. Li-Fi, or “light fidelity”, is a new wireless technology that just premiered at the Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile tech fair – ...
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    Pleated Inflation is an amphitheater composed of 990 porous structural pleats.

    Pleated Inflation is the name of a permanent informal amphitheater in Argeles, France designed by architect Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY. The lightweight, selfsupporting structure is composed of 990 3mm aluminum shingles, each overlapping its neighbor to form tangential continuity and ...
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    Luxury Pop-Up Hotel Travels With You Wherever You Go

    Usually, you start looking for a place to sleep once you have deciced where you are actually going on a trip. In this case, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Emmy Polkamphas turned that idea upside down with her pop-up hotel. To ...
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    Modern Day Building Blocks

    The Garden Apt. i?s a collaboration between Paris based Miriam Josi and New York based Stella Lee Prowse. The two product designers began collaborating during their time at Parsons The New School For Design in New York City. Graduating in ...
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    3D-Printed Off-Grid House Comes With A Truck

    International architecture firm SOM came up with a 3D-printed off-grid house that’s transportable to any place thanks to its unique combination with a truck. The truck and the house that come together are separable, but share one wireless energy system. Meet AMIE ...
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    A GUEST HOUSE WITH ACCESSIBILITY AND MOBILITY IN MIND

    With sweeping views of Silicon Valley, the Overlook Guest House was built on a steep, almost unusable lot as a fully accessible home for a mobility impaired, aging in-law. Designed by Schwartz and Architecture, the wooded hillside proved challenging during ...