How to Build an Evaporative Cooler Christin, wordpress.com Portable Swamp Cooler. Click for larger image.How to build a low-cost 12 volt evaporative cooler. My husband and I built two swamp coolers that we use to air condition our tent when we camp in hot, dry weather at Burning Man. These compact units b… http://flip.it/sqcvn Related … Continue reading Build your own evaporative cooler
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Can Urban Planning Turn Brooklyn Into the Next Silicon Valley? Kyle VanHemert, wired.com WXY presents a smart vision for any city seeking to accommodate innovation. http://flip.it/rrvpO
Frameless Geodesic Dome rigsomelight.com What is it? It’s a frameless geodesic dome designed to be easy to fabricate and build. It is 18 feet wide at the widest point and about 13 feet tall. It feels very spacious for it’s 209 square foo … http://flip.it/WSm4Q Related articles Tiny frameless geodesic home costs only $2100 (boingboing.net)
Thrive with Less Christina Nellemann, tinyhouseblog.com Can you not only live, but thrive, with less? A group of six college students from Michigan decided to take some time out of what they felt were lives of excess to live more minimally. They filmed the lifestyle experiment last year and made it int… http://flip.it/uGijv Related articles … Continue reading Thrive with less
Growing shoes and furniture: A design-led biomaterial revolution by Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Aug 18, 2013 5:00 pm UTC, arstechnica.com The natural world has, over millions of years, evolved countless ways to ensure its survival. The industrial revolution, in contrast, has given us just a couple hundred years to play catc … http://flip.it/P6gTH
Don’t You Wish You Were In One of These Beautiful Natural Pools? Eric Limer, gizmodo.com You’d be crazy not to love stark, modern design like the stunning Tangga House, but the natural look can be beautiful too. Take these awesome man-made pond pools from Water House for example. You can’t tell me you don’t want … Continue reading Natural, biological swimming pools
Cramming Into A Tiny House May Not Be So Bad Lily Hay Newman, gizmodo.com Between crippling recessions and human environmental impact things have gotten complicated, and frankly kind of negative. That may be why the small house movement is so appealing. Downsizing everything means less stuff to buy and maintain.… http://flip.it/CsudH Related articles At First, … Continue reading The economic benefits of a tiny house
Specialized Turbo: Powerful Electric Bike Makes Cycling No Sweat Sam Laird, mashable.com The Specialized Turbo may represent the future of personal urban transport. The electric bike that hit the American market this year looks sleeker than its clunkier competitors, has the speed to easily pass cars on streets and offers the off-road… http://flip.it/jjeYS Related articles … Continue reading Specialized turbo
A Tour of the Bus hankboughtabus.com Hi! I’m Hank, and I bought a bus. In architecture school I was tired of drawing buildings that would never exist, for clients that were imaginary, and with details I didn’t fully understand. I p … http://flip.it/yfI7s Related articles Fair play for machines: Chomsky's misreading of Turing, and why … Continue reading Hank bought a bus
Varibike lets you pedal with your legs – and your arms Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com Earlier this year, we heard about a proposed arm- and leg-powered bicycle known as the 4StrikeBike. At the time, we knew that if it were to reach production, it would be facing some competition from the existing Raxibo Hand-Tret-Velo. Now, it … Continue reading Varibike lets you pedal with your legs – and your arms
Udacity design course emphasizes design for everyone Rani Molla, gigaom.com Understanding what constitutes good design isn’t just important for technology startups and enterprise companies – it’s important for the rest of us, too. Design — both good and bad– is a larger part of our daily lives than you might… http://flip.it/rQvVa
How Emotional Design can Give your Website Much More Impact Flin Nortier, thenextweb.com This post by Flin Nortier was originally published on the blog of design agency Soda Studio. As an interaction designer, how often have you run into projects where you’re asked to ensure a great ‘user experience’, without… http://flip.it/lMe4Z Related articles Why we … Continue reading How Emotional Design can Give your Website Much More Impact
How to Stay Productive When You Work in an Open Office Lauren Lee Anderson, thenextweb.com This post was originally published on the 15Five blog. It’s very likely that if you’ve worked in an office at all, you’ve worked in an open-plan office. As a reaction against hierarchical workplace structures and a means to mov… http://flip.it/NRxE7
Couple Leave Their Jobs to Build a Recycled Windows Love Nest Ana Lisa Alperovich, inhabitat.com To make their dreamlike home and watch the sun set over the mountains, the romantic duo came up with the idea of building the whole facade from windows. That way they will get… http://flip.it/RUBwm
A Couple Leaves their Jobs to Build a House of Windows in the Mountains of West Virginia Christopher Jobson, thisiscolossal.com For their very first date, photographer Nick Olson took designer Lilah Horwitz on a walk in the mountains of West Virginia. While chatting and getting to know each other during a particularly scenic sunset the … Continue reading A house of windows
3-D Printing On Demand Is Now Available From Your Friendly Neighborhood Geek fastcoexist.com Do you ever say to yourself: “Gosh, I really need to 3-D print this thing right now?” Well, now that 3D hubs is bringing the sharing economy to the technology, you can probably get it done just down the street. For most … Continue reading 3-D Printing On Demand Is Now Available
How To Design A Better Office For Both Introverts And Extroverts BY CHRIS CONGDON, fastcompany.com Could a “palette of place” give workers control and choice over where and how they work? One company goes deep into work space. Ask workers what bugs them most about the office, and chances are they’ll tell you they can’t … Continue reading How To Design A Better Office For Both Introverts And Extroverts
Anxious People Prefer More Personal Space By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Because they perceive threats as closer, according to a new study. How close can something get to your face before you blink? That’s basically the method scientists use to determine “defensive peripersonal space,” the safety bubble of… http://flip.it/9mGZW
Morphocode wants to put studio lofts on top of offshore wind turbines. Related articles Morphocode wants to put studio lofts on top of offshore wind turbines (gizmag.com) Morphocode Designs a Secluded Retreat Atop an Offshore Wind Turbine (inhabitat.com) Offshore Wind Turbine As A Lofty Abode (earthtechling.com) Offshore wind turbine concept includes a loft apartment at … Continue reading Morphocode wants to put studio lofts on top of offshore wind turbines
You GREW a House?! (Yes... and so can you!) | Mushroom Tiny House. Related articles "A tiny house mostly made of mushrooms" (transitiontotiny.wordpress.com) Mushroom House: The Tiny Home Stuffed With Mushrooms (creativecloseup.com) Mushroom Tiny House (ecovative.wordpress.com)
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