A Weekend Of Dark Beer With The World’s Greatest Stout Glass

A Weekend Of Dark Beer With The World's Greatest Stout Glass

It’s just not fair: every single grape varietal and wine style, including some that no one has ever even heard of (Kalterer See Auslese, anyone?), has its own specially designed glass. Even Coca-Cola now has one . But, for beer, your standard mouth-delivery vehicle is the same, whether you’re drinking the wateriest Bud Lite or a limited edition, quadruple-hopped, barrel-aged brew: either a shaker pint glass (so-called because it was designed for making martinis), or, if you’re super classy, the bottle itself.

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This Sink-In-A-Box Tucks Away To Keep Your Bathroom Tidy

This Sink-In-A-Box Tucks Away To Keep Your Bathroom Tidy

You know the old saying: the sink is the heart of the bathroom. But all too often that sink looks nasty, covered in toothpaste, and draped with a half-used container of floss. Here’s a sink that can cleverly hide everything away when you’re not spitting your mouthwash into it.

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WebOS Mochi design language released as open source

The legacy of Palm is almost all but gone but bits and pieces still live here and there. Now the team behind WebOS has just released Mochi, a software design … Continue reading

These Hand-Forged Kitchen Knives Are Works of Rural Art

These Hand-Forged Kitchen Knives Are Works of Rural Art

The world is not lacking for inexpensive kitchen knife sets—they’ve long been a staple of late-night infomercials and homeware bargain bins alike—but top-quality cutlery is much harder to come by . These blades from Chelsea Miller Knives offer a rare mix of artful simplicity and rugged sturdiness equally at home in New York City or rural Vermont.

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The Most Elegant iPhone Speaker Is Just A Single Piece Of Blown Glass

The Most Elegant iPhone Speaker Is Just A Single Piece Of Blown Glass

Here is a sleek way to showcase your iPhone’s looks and sounds. There are no wires or buttons or even plastic in this passive amp—just a single piece of glass, handcrafted to exacting proportions, that can wrap a room in sound.

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Stylish Sunglasses Made From Salvaged Shattered Louisville Sluggers

Stylish Sunglasses Made From Salvaged Shattered Louisville Sluggers

Nothing makes a fashion accessory more interesting than a backstory, and Shwood’s new limited edition line of sunglasses have a fascinating pedigree. They’re all made from ash wood salvaged from actual Louisville Slugger baseball bats shattered during games played around the world.

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Watch a Chunk of Lava Stone Get Grafted Onto a Carbon Fiber Bench

Watch a Chunk of Lava Stone Get Grafted Onto a Carbon Fiber Bench

The making-of video for Peugeot Design Lab‘s latest project contains no words—it doesn’t need any, since it shows every step of the process: From blasting a huge chunk of volcanic stone from its resting place to crafting a piece of carbon fiber to perfectly fit the rock’s jagged profile. The resulting bench looks like like something that might’ve emerged from the sand in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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The Untold History of Where Barcodes Come From

The Untold History of Where Barcodes Come From

When George Laurer goes to the grocery store, he doesn’t tell the check-out people that he invented the barcode, but his wife used to point it out. "My husband here’s the one who invented that barcode," she’d occasionally say. And the check-out people would look at him like, "you mean there was a time when we didn’t have barcodes?"

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Gorgeous Art Shows What Life Would Be Like in Cities Beneath the Sea

We often imagine humanity’s future in space, but what about in the unexplored depths of our own planet’s oceans? These incredible concept designs offer visions of what our future water world might actually look like.

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Here's What Happens When Nike Helps Design a Car

Here's What Happens When Nike Helps Design a Car

"Shoe companies are full of people who wanted to design cars," explains Jalopnik’s Jason Torchinsky in a post about this slick 1971 DeTomaso Pantera today. Nike’s own skunkworks design team had very different plans for this aging Pantera—check out their work below.

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