The price and design of the Dyson Air Multiplier may blow you away
Look up "fan" in the dictionary and here what you'll see: fan |fan| noun 1. an apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation. So what do you call an object designed to create a current of air for cooling or ventilation that doesn't use rotating blades? Dyson, ...
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Newton and Vibram FiveFingers offer the benefits of bare feet
Question: What's the single best designed piece of running equipment? Answer: It's a pair of gear you already own—your bare feet. Most running shoes, it turns out, do more harm than good. The problem is that these shoes are designed to "protect" your feet in a way that they weren't meant ...
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Cool lighting selections from Fire Farm, Flos and Oggetti Luce
Lumens is our favorite source for modern lighting. The online store has all manner of high-end designer lights. They are also have hot deals on cool lights up to 40% off the retail price. Here are three of our favorite lights at Lumens: Femme Fatale Pendant by Fire Farm The Femme Fatale ...
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Catena: very cool, very expensive
Could you build a clock out of a nob, a single-gear motor and a bicycle chain? That might seem like an impossible challenge of the sort only MacGyver could accomplish. Yet that's exact what Andreas Dober managed with the Catena Wall Clock. The Catena—named after the Latin word for "chain"—rotates a vertical ...
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The Swedese Libri bookshelf system is cool simplicity
Spot Cool Stuff loves the high design simplicity. Which is exactly why we like the Swedese Libri bookshelf system. And we aren't the only fans of these bookshelves—the Swedese Libri won the Best New Product Design award at the 2008 Stockholm Furniture Fair. What's so cool about the Swedese Libri? We love ...
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This house can be all glass . . . or not
There are advantages to living in an all-glass house: the views, the natural sunlight, the passive solar heating on chilly sunny days. There are disadvantages too: the lack of privacy, the unwanted extra heat on warm days, the common wisdom ban on throwing stones while living in one. So what's ...
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