Dancing Dragon Towers Will Have a Breathable, Scale-Like Skin [Design]

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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill , an architecture firm that is arguably one of the world's leading designers of skyscrapers, has just unveiled plans for a pair of towers that will grace the skyline in Seoul, South Korea with an absolutely stunning dragon-like facade. More

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Could There Be a Cooler Maurice Sendak Tribute Than This Awesome Axe? [Video]

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Maurice Sendak was important to us here at Gizmodo: His stories inspired us to follow our own internal compasses when our parents told us to stop wasting our time skateboarding or making movies or playing with gadgets. In an unhappy coincidence, we visited Best Made Co.'s New York City workshop on the day of Sendak's death. They were pretty broken up about it.

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GE And Quirky Team Up To Develop The Milk Jug Of The Future

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For just about a week now, GE and product development network Quirky have been running an interesting contest — they’ve challenged people to come up with ways to improve everyday objects by making them “smarter with software” . Unlike the traditional Quirky production and development process though, the winning concept will be fashioned into an actual working device by the end of the month.

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How Tupperware Almost Didn’t Make It Into Your Kitchen [Drawing Board]

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Tupperware is a bit like Kleenex; No matter the brand, if it's a plastic container designed for leftovers, you probably call it by a single brand name. That's because, when it comes to designated plastic vessels that can be sealed and then opened and then resealed again, Tupperware was the first

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3 fun time-watching apps: Qlocktwo, Uniqlo Wake Up, Doubletwist Alarm Clock

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Time is the most naked manifestation of our irrelevance and perhaps that is why I am fascinated by all means of time-telling.

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Microsoft search guru outlines big Bing changes

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Microsoft’s top search guy took to the Web today to show off a refreshed interface for Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, said the design better incorporates the user’s social media contacts in a new sidebar which brings in their Facebook and Twitter contacts’ relevant posts

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Your Chariot Awaits…Your Snacks [Beautiful]

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Imagine loading this table up with snacks on the top shelf and beverages on the bottom, then rolling it out to your immaculately decorated modern living room for some serious hedonism—maybe a long movie marathon or a serious gaming session. Sure, there are lots of glorified TV trays that can do that.

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The Best Designed Vintage SUV Is Hand Built with Taste [Video]

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The ICON Bronco is a praise the lord beautiful vintage SUV that prides itself on its attention to design. ICON scours around for old Broncos and then strips it down, reverse engineers it and makes it better than it ever was

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Like Snowflakes, No Two Of These Complex Fractal Puzzles Are Completely Alike [Games]

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The whole 3D phase gave puzzles a bit of a temporary renaissance, but a Boston-based design shop called Nervous System hopes to revive them yet again with a unique twist. And 'unique' is the key word here since every puzzle is cut with a different fractal pattern

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The House That Can Live on the Water or in the Trees [Architecture]

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Imagine spending a summer floating down a river in this magnificent barge, stopping only for food and water in some random backwater town, then returning to the top deck cargo net hammock to resume the lazy float to nowhere. That's all that comes to mind when looking at this magnificent wood creation.

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