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The defendus labyrinth door chain is by the Art Lebedev studio in Moscow. Crazy projects, a real assertive design attitude.
Product features:
Chain style Doorlock forces you to solve a maze to exit
100% Titanium Alloy Construction
8″ chain
10 mounting screws included (2 extra)
Tested to 700lbs of force.
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The Fail blog is a site for sharing all things that FAIL with the world:
via failblog
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via PinkLadies and BBC
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Dr Annette Davison, Music, University of Edinburgh: BSc (City) MA (Exeter) PhD (Sheffield)
Annette’s talk discussed the subjects of eavesdropping, sound and it’s context in safe living. Film sound + music are little discussed as they are unseen. But they work hard to generate how we are able to believe what we see on [...]
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Michiko Nitta graduated from the MA Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art in 2007 and presented her recent work of the Extreme Green Guerrillas (EGGs).
Her starting points for this work came from the fact that environmental damage is extreme and the ordinary green people are in fear from upcoming disaster but the [...]
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Computers to merge with humans
10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die - GigaOM
BBC NEWS | Health | Virtual tube ride ‘paranoia hope’
Saudi woman killed for using Facebook - News - Tech.co.uk
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Pregnant US man hails ‘miracle’
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Are you a considerate passenger?!! Watch the film here on the TFl website?>
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New organs of perception
Download Susanna’s presentation> new organs of perception
Susanna Soares is a recent graduate form the MA Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art, She is currently a researcher/lecturer at Syracuse University in Upstate New York. Susanna’s work explores the current and the future implication of nano, bio and [...]
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The MRI Steak: The Meat of Tomorrow
Nanofilter: Fossil from a Nanotech future
‘Design and Futures Thinking’ by James King (designer)
Check out his presentation here
Dressing The Meat of Tomorrow
There is a real technology that allows us to take a small sample of animal tissue and encourage it to grow, separate from the original animal’s [...]
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‘Double Agents: Modern Design in the Cold War’ by David Crowley (Royal College of Art)
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The SpotShotter tool is a gunfire detector gadget. Its wireless sensors pick up the sound of gunshots and differentiate sfrom other loud noises, such as fireworks. When a gun goes off, a sound wave registers on the device, which sends a message within seconds to the police dispatch computers. It can detect gunfire as close [...]
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RSA - Risk Commission - News
RSA Journal - December 2007: Brainjuicer+ psychometric tests for young people and risk
Miss Bimbo website promotes extreme diets and surgery to 9-year-olds - Times Online
man who is pregnant - Google Search
TED | Talks | Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life (video)
Passage Oublie
PUNDO3000.com
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via buzzfeed and The Times
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In a series of nine reports, Eurasia Group identifies the key regions around the world where political risk will be especially acute in the coming year. Locations include the usual suspects including the US, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan/Afghanista, Russia, South Africa + Turkey. They also flag up some red herrings in the risk survey! In addition, [...]
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YOUprison: Some thoughts on the limitation of space and freedom
An exhibition curated by Francesco Bonami as part of the World Congress of Architecture in Turin from June to Spetember.
Twelve reflections on the limitation of space and freedom. Twelve cells on a real scale constructed by as many architectural offices at the Sandretto Foundation in Turin. [...]
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