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Forget about the Aeron chair. Canadian company Modern Work Environment Lab has designed a work chair and desk all in one. But wait, there’s more. The Emperor 200 is workstation hand built to your specifications with features like a touch screen command center, electric powered leather seat, air filtering system and vitamin …
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The Story of Sushi from Bamboo Sushi on Vimeo.
Bamboo Sushi is a Portland, OR restaurant with a mission. It bills itself as the first certified, sustainable sushi restaurant in the world. Which means it wants to offer the freshest and best fish possible, while also saving oceans and marine life. It uses the guidelines established by Monterey Bay Aquarium and Blue Ocean Institute …
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It sounds like a real Homer Simpson moment. Mr. Kipling, a U.K. brand of snack cakes, has taken a novel approach to bus shelter advertising. Its new outdoor campaign features poster sites that dispense free cake. Each day, 500 slices of Angel Slice will be distributed from each of 19 …
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Most iPhone cases are little more than a plastic shell. Protective? Sure. Serviceable? Okay. But when you have something as beautiful as an iPhone, why cover it up with a piece of cheap plastic? Gizmon iCA has another solution: turn your phone into a camera. Not a camera-phone, but near-full-fledged …
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Manhattan Born: East Village I love You! from Manhattan Born on Vimeo.
Manhattan Born is a design studio based in a storefront gallery space in New York City’s East Village. Just a few blocks from where we’re located here at Fuel. To celebrate the opening of its new space, the shop put together a little animation that features a few toy-like creatures wandering the East Village neighborhood. …
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Earlier this year, design student Andrew Capener decided to redesign the classic Scrabble game so that it could be experienced with different typefaces. His concept—the A-1 Scrabble designer edition—would be available in the font of your choice or with an assorted font pack. The board itself was made …
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The concept couldn’t be simpler. Sign up. Spend a few bucks a month. Get razor blades mailed to your door. For any guy who has wandered down the aisles of Walgreen’s looking for the right refill only to discover that the $25 package is either behind the counter or in some security box, …
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Craft brewers are not just changing the way beer is made. They’re also changing the way it is marketed. Witness what Brooklyn’s Sixpoint Brewery is doing around its new Resin brew–getting hopheads as interested in the science of how this beer is made as how it tastes. This is one potent IPA: using the …
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Sure we’ve had our fill of cat videos. But cat video games? Friskies cat food used SxSW to debut a new iPad game, You vs. Cat, claiming the world’s first dual-species game. The game, in which human and cat battle it out for a piece of animated cat food …
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Fans of Monty Python are celebrating the 35th anniversary Blu-ray of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Then again, how do you get someone who has seen a movie hundreds of times to buy the umpteenth reissue? How about an accompanying iPad app? The app, called Monty Python: The …
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