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A model of the ring using a combination of cow marrow-bone and etched silver. The inscription reads Ab Intra, "from within".

"The project is seeking couples who want to donate their bone cells - a couple having their wisdom teeth removed would be ideal. Their cells will be prepared and seeded onto a bioactive scaffold. This pioneering material encourages the cells to divide and grow rapidly in a laboratory environment, so that the scaffold disappears and is replaced by living bone tissue.

The couple's cells will be grown at Guy's Hospital and finished bone tissue will be taken to a studio at the Royal College of Art to be used in the design of a pair of rings. Following consultation with the couple, the bone will be combined with traditional precious metals so that each has a ring made with the tissue of their partner."

"Ned Troide was singularly famous for scoring 72,999,975 points on the video game Defender, the highest score ever recorded, in a single session lasting 62 1/2 hours. What is less known is that he also created a curious set of Heavy Metal end tables."

"Plable is a table, which has a normal tabletop and an imaginary world on the underside.

With this table, children can build their own imaginary world on the underside of the table, which is their secret special place, with opposite gravity. Adults can use the surface of the table as usual.

The movement, such as moving tea cups, that happens on the tabletop will be a trigger of the happenings on the underside. They can show children some exciting tricks and do their own things at the same time.

The connection of the surfaces gets children and parents together. It also might help children and adults to play together more often through their normal activities in the everyday environment.

"IPIFINI's Programmable Liquid Containers use buttons on the container's surface that release additives (flavors, colorants, fragrances...etc) into the liquid. These additive buttons let the consumer choose different versions right at the point of consumption. A programmable cola bottle with buttons for lemon, lime, vanilla, and cherry flavors as well as a caffeine button allows for 32 possible choices of soda."

such a nice collection of shop displays from japan

very neat PingMag interview with Oded Ezer, an Israeli experimental typographer.







A letter is something that came up from culture, it is an artificial sign for something which has a meaning and long history behind it. What I'm trying to do is to understand this process of creating and re-shaping this cultural element.

In the last 20 years, and especially in the early 90s when the internet became so important in our lives, English became so strong! Strong to such an extend that speakers of other languages often feel that their own language is not enough. I believe in the contrary, though! I think English is boring and other languages and writing systems are utterly important for the mainstream - which is English now - because they bring some fresh air!

Keeping and experimenting in Hebrew, my own language, is one of the most important things I can bring into the mainstream. But of course there are parts where English is unavoidable.

"Fridge magnets may one day be able to fix bad grammar and change the words to something they think is more appropriate.

"The idea is that each magnet is aware of the other magnets on the fridge and they transmit information between each other," says Australian digital artist Pierre Proske.

Each fridge magnet consists of 16-character liquid crystal display, rather than a magnetic strip with a printed word, Proske says.

The magnets can randomly generate a word, categorise that word (as a noun, verb, adjective or adverb) and transmit the category to any words they are placed next to.