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  • Hansacanyon's new faucets: LED's change color to show temp of water
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  • Hot Wheels: The rollwagen from mueller moebel
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  • Muji Oven-Range: When will we see the monster movie, Muji V. Ikea, in which whole cities are destroyed?
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  • "sinking furniture": A new design direction from Nendo and Intoto
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  • Royal College of Art 2005: Eelko Moorers minimal high heels give new meaning the words "strap on"

  • Weighing a Manhattan Condo Glut : "the number of new condos hitting the market this year is more than double that of last year"
  • The Animated Atlas: A cool animation of the growth of our country from 1790
  • The Toddy Cold Brewer: Brews coffee without any energy consumption or bitter acids

    Writer's Almanac:

  • Today is the birthday of the man who gave us Charlotte's Web, E.B. (Elwin Brooks) White
  • POEM: "Cherish" by Raymond Carver

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    Comments (11)

    Those "shoes" are just hideous! Although, if combined with some form of seating, I could almost see how they could be part of a Very Special Chair &.

    posted by Anne on 2005-07-11 10:36:34

    anyone know if we'll ever see muji stores here in the US? tried looking at their website, but it doesn't seem to say. their stuff seems to be exactly my kind of thing, & i'm sure i'm not the only american who'd love to spend $$$ at their stores...

    posted by sooj on 2005-07-11 13:41:10

    Isn't some Muji stuff available at MoMA?

    posted by mary on 2005-07-11 15:01:27

    The downtown MoMA Designstore has a Muji shop, including some furniture.

    posted by patrick (the other one) on 2005-07-11 15:25:24

    Treehugger has gone mad! A cold coffee brew system does NOT need a specialty chunk of plastic . . .

    posted by guido on 2005-07-11 17:35:43

    mary & p(too) - thanks. only problem is...i live in sf. oh well.

    posted by sooj on 2005-07-11 18:06:09

    sooj--
    Send me your order and I'll go shopping!

    posted by patrick (the other one) on 2005-07-11 18:50:36

    The sinking furniture will go great with Frank Gehry's proposed buildings in Brooklyn:

    http://www.nolandgrab.org/archives/2005/07/instant_skyline.html

    posted by Amy on 2005-07-11 20:47:58

    Shoes are not only hideous but dangerous.

    posted by Terry on 2005-07-11 21:50:47

    Terry- I guess foot binding is back in style.

    posted by Lori 2 on 2005-07-11 22:39:13

    Yay, Charlotte's Web!!

    posted by patrick (the other one) on 2005-07-12 23:15:33