-Via Notcot

A friendly nod to a universal design with a sleek finish and playful colors. Perfect as occasional seating or accent piece in any room of the house.

-Via Notcot

I love packaging designs that are subtle and yet make a world of a difference. For example this wavy Cellotape may not seem so brilliant at the moment, but for a mother who covers endless notebooks in brown paper at one go, this is a definitely a boon. Invariably the end of the tape just fuses to the circle and is hard to find! ‘Tape with Easy-to-Find End’ is just that…..easy! Yeah, dispensers are an option, but folks like me are stubborn, scissors and tape is the only way for us!

-Via Yankodesign

If you’ve always considered yourself a fan of the villains in old silent movies as well as a dapper dresser, then picking up the Moustache Tie Clip is pretty much a no-brainer. Now you can tie up a damsel in distress to the nearest set of railroad tracks, and look good doing it. Damn good.

And should any ne’er do well heroes rush in to save the day, you’ll be glad knowing that your Tie Clip is made from shiny silver or gun metal. So there’s a chance it could catch a bullet for you, though we wouldn’t recommend trying that little theory out.

-Via Instash

These beautiful and enormous outdoor planters would be a perfect addition to the dream backyard or rooftop garden. The pots are built with a “self-watering tube system” and are wheeled for portability. We can only imagine how peaceful it would be to relax poolside by these babies when the sun goes down. And unfortunately due to their prohibitive price point, that must remain only a dream for the time being. Unless there is a reasonable DIY someone can think of?

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German company Zendome started making exhibitors large domes, now they have produced a home edition.

-Via Notcot

Brooklyn based artist Shane McAdams is taking the ordinary and doing extraordinary things, namely, ball point pens. If you told me that Shane created the images above using just ball point pens I’d tell you that you were crazy. There’s so much depth in the color and shape, it nearly looks like something you’d have to make in Photoshop. I’d be really curious to hear how he makes these pieces, I don’t have the slightest idea. What I do know is that these are beautiful and I want them on my walls.

-Via Thefoxisblack

“Yep, the bottom of this 3-1/4″ tall, porcelain mug features the imposing head of a great white shark lunging up at you.” Buy it here.

-Via Likecool

Postcarden a mini-garden for your desktop, by Another Studio.

-Via Likecool

Recompose is a new system for manipulation of an actuated surface. By collectively utilizing the body as a tool for direct manipulation alongside gestural input for functional manipulation, we show how a user is afforded unprecedented control over an actuated surface. We describe a number of interaction techniques exploring the shared space of direct and gestural input, demonstrating how their combined use can greatly enhance creation and manipulation beyond unaided human capability.

“Our system builds upon the Relief table, developed by Leithinger. The table consists of an array of 120 individually addressable pins, whose height can be actuated and read back simultaneously, thus allowing the user to utilize them as both input and output. Building upon this system, we have furthered the design by placing a depth camera above the tabletop surface. By gaining access to the depth information we are able to detect basic gestures from the user. In order to provide visual feedback related to user interaction, a projector is mounted above the table and calibrated to be coincident with the depth camera. Computer vision is utilized to determine and recognize the position, orientation, and height of hands and fingers, in order to detect gestural input.”

-Via MIT Media Lab