Newspaper Furniture

David Stovell's Sunday Paper products consist of tightly rolled newspapers tied together into seating furniture. The furniture inspired by newspapers left outside of shops on a Saturday night, explore the "compressed life cycle" of the material. This does remind us of our earlier post 'Creativity with newspaper', and here too the newspapers are been put to good use.

56 Leonard Street

56 Leonard Street, a 56-storey residential condominium building in New York designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron. The tower will house 145 luxury residences, each with its own unique floor plan and private outdoor space. The typical floors are shifted at the base and top of the tower to create large terraces for the higher-priced costing units. Balconies are used for the floors in between, blending indoors and outdoors seamlessly together.



The building's defining corner will be the site of a specially commissioned sculpture by Anish Kapoor. Homes in the building will range from 1,430 square feet to 6,380 square feet, ranging from $3.5 million to $33 million. The construction is supposed to be completed by end of 2010.

World's Largest Arch Bridge in Dubai by 2012

It’s always the ‘largest’ or the ‘tallest’ or the ‘most expensive’ kinds of terms only that can epitomize the construction coming up in Dubai. The latest on the list is the World's largest Arch Bridge. The mile-long bridge will be 670 feet tall at its highest point! And it’s gonna encompass 12 lanes of traffic with a metro line running down the center. Estimated to be able to carry over 2,000 vehicles per hour in each direction, this bridge will be built at a whopping cost of 817 million dollars!

Glass Keyboard by Kong Fanwen

This glass “no-key” keyboard, designed by Kong Fanwen, could be a nice alternative to the “Really Cool” waterproof keyboard that we featured last month. The plan is to use a tiny camera with motion capture technology that will track your fingers as you type. Unfortunately, at this time, this is just a concept.

Bulb Table

Here’s another good idea for saving living room space or for having extra chairs when confronting with unexpected visits. “Bulb” table comes from designer Marta Antoszkiewicz , it has an intriguing look and it appears to be very practical.

BlackBerry Bold: Boldly Takes on iPhone

RI­M a­nno­­unce­d to­­da­y­ i­ts­ la­te­s­t Bla­ckBe­rry­ 9000, a­ls­o­­ kno­­wn a­s­ the­ Blac­kBe­rry­ Bold. D­u­e to­ its bla­ck­ co­lo­r­ enclo­sed­ in a­ ch­r­o­m­e bo­r­d­er­, it’s h­a­r­d­ no­t to­ no­tice th­e sim­ila­r­ity between it a­nd­ th­e iP­hon­e.



Th­e Blac­kBerry­ Bold­ is­ n­ot p­uttin­g up­ a figh­t with­out bein­g well-p­rep­ared­. It h­as­ 3.5G H­S­D­P­A s­up­p­ort, WiFi, Bluetooth­, GP­S­, 480x­320 res­olution­ s­c­reen­ (twic­e th­e res­olution­ of th­e m­os­t rec­en­t Blac­kBerry­ C­urve), p­h­y­s­ic­al QWERTY­ key­board­, trac­kball loc­ated­ un­d­er th­e s­c­reen­, full-featured­ d­es­ktop­-s­ty­le web brows­er, 2M­P­ c­am­era with­ vid­eo rec­ord­in­g c­ap­abilities­, built-in­ c­am­era flas­h­, an­d­ 5x­ d­igital zoom­. D­efin­itely­ a worth­y­ c­om­p­etitor to th­e iP­h­on­e.


Un­fortun­ately­ for RIM­, th­e Blac­kBerry­ Bold­ h­as­ y­et to h­ave an­ offic­ial laun­c­h­ d­ate. Th­e iP­h­on­e will be up­grad­ed­ with­ n­ew features­ very­ s­oon­, an­d­ we d­on­’t kn­ow h­ow s­h­in­y­ th­e Bold­ would­ look by­ th­en­.

Touch Hear

The Touch-Hear is a futuristic design concept by the Design Incubation Center. By touching a word or phrase, one can listen to its related information, like its pronunciation or its meaning. The gadget whispers the missing information into the ear, without interrupting the flow of reading. With this one, all the knowledge will be at your fingertips, and you never need to stop to jot it down or to go through the dictionary.