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Chair by Eric Ku

Make Or Spell Chair

Here's a great idea from Eric Ku. A self assembly chair whose constituent parts spell... CHAIR. One can imagine a whole range of spell-furniture: TABLE, COFFEE (table), BED, SHELF. Cool.

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chopsticks plus by Aïssa Logerot

Spooch: Spoon Chopsticks Combination

This is an idea called chopsticks plus by Aïssa Logerot. A combination of chopsticks, spoon and (in the second project) toothpicks. It's a good idea but in China the soup usually comes last, i.e. after the chopsticks have been…

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Toshina Escargot vacuum cleaner

Toshiba Escargot

Gotta love the Toshiba Escargot vacuum cleaner. It's small (about 22cm), light (2.2Kg), quiet (65dB) and can be carried over the shoulder so there's do dragging the box on the floor after yourself. Have vacuum will travel.

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Le Meridien bottle Christmas tree

Shanghai Shopping Malls Christmas Decorations

Christmas has come to Shanghai's shopping malls in the form of large outside displays. For example, outside of Le Meridien on Nanjing Road at People's Square is a Christmas tree built out of Heineken beer bottles.

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Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale

Either The HKGSHZ Or The SHZHKG Biennale

Two biennales, two cities, two web sites. It's either the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale or the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale. Go figure.

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Maniwa wooden car by Sada-Kenbi

Wooden Car

This wooden car by Sada-Kenbi has a top speed of 90 kmph and is street legal in Japan. It's a single seater and is driven with handle bars like a motorbike. Get your motor running... Sada-Kenbi are a furniture maker…

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Tel Aviv University nanotubes

Self Cleaning Solar Panels Possible

Researchers at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology at Tel Aviv University have published in Nature Nanotechnology a paper describing a new way to way to control the atoms and molecules of peptides so that they grow to resemble…

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Milan international festival of lights

Milan's International Festival Of Lights

Milan's international festival of lights includes this building project by Mario Nanni called 'la luce della musica' projected on to La Scalla.

For more building projections see: Sydney's Luminious Festival and Architectural Projections.

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