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December 19, 2014
An Elegant iPhone Speaker Dock Made Out Of Cararra Marble
How do you know marble's coming back into style? Designers are making iPhone docks out of it.
Marble is winning me over in 2014. Just a year ago, the only objects I owned made out of marble were salt-and-pepper shakers that my wife wouldn't let me get rid of. Fast forward a year, and I'm lusting after the Ovo, an iPhone speaker made out of a beveled cylinder of marble that looks just gorgeous.
This Nifty Gadget Could Finally Divide And Conquer The Airplane Armrest
Make an in-flight elbow war a thing of the past with this $30 gadget.
As much as any other aspect of flying, the humble armrest represents the erosion of comfort and convenience the average American passenger has faced over the last 30 years. On flights that are increasingly jammed full of bodies, the average passenger is so squeezed in that they have to share one (or both). But thanks to a clever new product, you might never have to elbow your neighbor in the ribs over an airline seat again.
App Lets You Create A Musical Score For Your Grief
Joy. Shock. Grief. They can be tough feelings for an adolescent to articulate, so this app lets them speak in music.
It's difficult for any of us to articulate the nuanced pangs of the human emotional spectrum, which is why we rely on other media—art, photography, and music—to explore those feelings when words fail. But could we streamline that artistic release? Could we just use an app to reach catharsis?
Nike Lawsuit: How 3 Top Designers Allegedly Stole IP And Left For Adidas
Co.Design obtained Nike's lawsuit against three former designers who left to found an Adidas design studio. Here are the highlights.
There are no two bigger rivals in business than Nike and Adidas. Nike owns a 17% share of the global sportswear market, Adidas owns 12%. Nike has leveraged cutting-edge design to increase its foothold, while Adidas has watched sales plummet, even following its $150 million World Cup sponsorship.
Why Uber Needs Baidu
On Wednesday, Uber announced a "strategic partnership" and investment with Baidu, China's search giant. The potential is huge.
Beijing cabbies have a penchant for screechy Peking Opera and a habit of hacking up phlegm. When they're not puffing away on cigarettes, they roll the windows down, filling the car with the Chinese capital's notorious smog. But with 66,000 taxis serving the sprawling city of 21 million people, the laws of supply and demand are on the drivers' side.
Design Legend Louise Fili Photographs The Gorgeous Typography Of Italy
Fili shares her three-decade love affair with Italy's typography and vintage signage in a gorgeous new book.
Renowned Italian-American designer Louise Fili's love of typography and graphic arts stems from a specific moment during her first trip to Italy, at age 16: As she was leaving the Milan airport, a striking billboard for the classic Baci Perugina chocolates caught her eye.
December 18, 2014
Does Discussing Your Religion At Work Make You Happier?
A new study finds that being open about religion in the workplace leads to higher satisfaction.
If you have a crucifix on your office wall or a nativity-scene mouse pad on your desk, you might be happier at work, new research suggests. The collaborative study at Kansas State University revealed that people who openly discuss their religion in the workplace are happier on average than those who don't.
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12 Holiday Gifts You'll Want To Keep For Yourself
The team at The Wirecutter spent hundreds of hours in their test labs to find the best gifts of 2014.
The best gifts are often things that people wouldn't get for themselves. Sometimes it's because those items are too expensive or luxurious, and other times it's because they didn't even know they needed the item until after they received it. Over at the The Wirecutter and the The Sweethome, we spend all year squirreled away in our test labs, spending hundreds of hours trying to suss out the best items that would fit most people's lives. So which of these make the best gifts this holiday season? We've put together a list of our favorite things from our collection that we think will make great gifts—even if you secretly buy them for yourself.
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The Quest To Reproduce The Scent Of A Rose, With Designer Microbes
Stop and smell the genetically engineered yeast.
Once upon a time, perfume was a luxury only kings and queens could afford. The technology of fragrance originally involved crushing up flowers, until the French perfected the technique of extracting and concentrating essential oils from plants instead. Later, chemists came along who could whip up a recipe for a fragrance in a lab, giving us the mass-produced scents that the proletariat know and love.
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Here's The Big Problem With Sony Releasing "The Interview" On Demand
It may be a long time before anyone (legally) sees the Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy. And not because of North Korea.
Yesterday things quickly unraveled for the Seth Rogen, James Franco comedy The Interview, which depicts a fictional assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. After a message from the hackers known as Guardians of the Peace threatened violent attacks on movie theaters if the film was released, all the major theater chains pulled out of showing it, and then Sony itself canceled the movie's Christmas Day release.
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