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Easybreath mask and snorkel innovation

LB — Thu, 22 May 2014 00:28:54 +0000

After many years of few changes in the old mask and snorkel setup, this is an interesting innovation. It just won the 2014 Oxylane Innovation Award (I have no idea what that is, but I suspect it’s just the first of many awards for this contraption).

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Unplugged eco-barn in Normandy, from the Eco House Book

LB — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:05:29 +0000

These photos are from an an article by Terence Conran in UK’s Telegraph online, based on his new Eco House Book(Octopus, 2009). This house is completely off the grid, and was built by one man alone over an 18-month period.

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2thewalls

LB — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:40:40 +0000

2thewalls is the closest thing on the internet to the much-missed and now cult-status Nest: Quarterly of Interiors. Finding 2thewalls is a bit like falling down the rabbit hole, and not just because reading it feels like deciphering text printed on a zebra crossing.

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Roger Tallon’s helicoid spiral staircase

LB — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:59:20 +0000

This disassemblable spiral staircase by French industrial designer Roger Tallon is, not surprisingly, in the design collection of the MOMA. It is both ingenious in engineering terms and beautiful.

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Livingstones, a sort of minimalist Flintstones

LB — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:05:06 +0000

This is the one kind of pillow you actually can’t have too many of. The pillow rocks, called Livingstones, are by Smarin, a French design company named for designer Stephanie Marin.

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