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We tend to associate polluted water problems with under-developed countries and rarely give a thought to how we would cope with a situation when our fully developed city comes under the siege of Mother Nature’s fury!At times like this, contraptions like the Happy Basin for instant purified drinking water can come as a relief. The basin includes nano ceramic filters embedded in the holes at the bottom of the cup that help in the filtration of polluted water. You simply need to push the basin into the water body and let surface tension buoyancy take its course.

Clean, precious water; up for slurps!

Designers: Woo sik Kim & Duck soo Choi

London practice Caruso St John Architects have completed an art centre in Nottingham, UK. (more…)

Construction has begun on a combined residential project and market hall in Rotterdam, designed by Dutch architects MVRDV. (more…)

There was once a time when one could get almost everything one wanted in cans, and it seems that that craze for canned stuff hasn’t died out and this tower of cans replicating a screenshot of the Tetris game is a testament to just that as was the case with the Pacman Can Art.

The work of some of the Tetris crazed architects, patricodacious at the Smith group of architects, this design looks pretty neat and revives fond old memories of hours spent in front of those huge consoles playing Tetris. Its a strange thing that they thought to fuse together two iconic items into a single piece of art. Or maybe they just got bored of waiting around for the recession to end. Even though it looks decent I doubt the creator of this piece was very good at Tetris because he seems to e in pretty bad condition(or at least that’s what the tower cans say)

To conclude it must be said that the piece looks good and the idea isn’t too shabby either, but the question here is: what is the expiry date on those cans? I mean won’t they go bad sometime?

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Canned Tetris Art

Would you believe me if I say that the kettle like product pictured above is actually a humidifier? Well, true! Designed by Jongchul Kim, the Ultrasound Mint humidifier wearing the mask of the kettle produces cold and smoggy steam to humidify

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Thick vinyl looks almost like pudding skin or licorice in FURNI’s collaboration with Toddland, and vegan-friendly accessories are never frowned upon, especially when they look sumptuous and vintage-inspired. This flannel-lined bag gives books a cozy ride, but there are only 100 of these available. Numbered series. [via limited hype]

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Old-school lickable stamps jazzed up a pair of heavy Our Legacy boots, snapped by Klang and making the rounds. At first, we thought why not? until we saw that the paper stamps were “artfully” peeling off. Unless you’re pro-shellacking these on, you’re going to have to hit the desert to avoid problems with moisture-related peeling. A great conceptual piece that might do better on the bookshelf. [via selectism via klang]

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A person who drives 60 miles to work every day has different needs than someone who drives across town. So instead of designing electric cars to match the performance of petroleum-powered vehicles, researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s ChargeCar initiative think that EVs should be designed for individual commuting needs. To that end, ChargeCar hopes to create a so-called “commute ecology” based on crowdsourced data to develop EVs for different types of commutes.

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Ever thought of bringing the street furniture home? Well, New Barcelona design studio, “Emotion Lab” is here with something to leave you dazed. You actually have street furniture in your den, not literally! Inspired by street furniture, Tom Allen