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- Eco-Friendly Recycled Pencils Leave Behind Cheery Shavings
- Spotless Slurping: Ingenious Tool For Eating Noodle Soups
- Sky-High Fun: Apartment With Climbing Wall + 4 Story Slide
| Eco-Friendly Recycled Pencils Leave Behind Cheery Shavings Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT
Sharpening pencils is a dreary chore that leaves behind dirty, ugly shavings. Designer Duncan Shotton - whose goal is to bring happiness to people in their everyday lives - figured out a way to make even this boring task fun and colorful.
Shotton’s Rainbow Pencils are made from six layers of colorful recycled paper with an exterior layer of either black or white. They use normal graphite and are, in every respect other than their bright paper composition, regular pencils. When you sharpen them, they create beautiful, multi-colored shavings that look a lot more like art than garbage.
The designer turned to Kickstarter to raise the funds necessary to put the Rainbow Pencils into production. The project was so popular that it sailed past its financial goal – so hopefully soon these cheerful recycled writing implements will start making appearances in offices and schools rather soon. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles:
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| Spotless Slurping: Ingenious Tool For Eating Noodle Soups Posted: 12 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT
Eating noodle soup or ramen noodles should be a pleasant experience, not a frustrating one. But trying to get the solids into your mouth and drinking the remaining broth always seems to be a messy endeavor. Designer Julian Lechner came up with a brilliant solution.
Soup Sticks are just like regular chopsticks, but with one big difference: they are hollow like drinking straws. Four small holes at the bottom allow liquid to pass through without sucking up any of the solids in your bowl.
The simple product redesign allows you to eat solids and liquids with the same implement. Yes, spoons or forks can be used for the same purpose, but chopsticks are just more fun to use and allow for a greater measure of control. The Soup Sticks aren’t in production yet – they are currently just a bright idea from a talented designer. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles:
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| Sky-High Fun: Apartment With Climbing Wall + 4 Story Slide Posted: 12 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT
What can a parent do when building pillow forts and playing hide and seek start to bore the kids? If you’re lucky enough to have the space and budget for it, you turn your home into SkyHouse: a playground-like home with a climbing wall and four-story slide.
SkyHouse was designed by architect David Hotson to occupy a spectacular four-story loft at the top of an historic skyscraper in Lower Manhattan. The American Tract Society built the structure in 1895, and it is currently one of the oldest skyscrapers in New York. The top four floors had remained unoccupied and unfinished since the building’s construction, giving the owners free reign to make it into their dream home. The main level of the home occupies the entire first-story floor space. The second level is a mezzanine overlooking the space below and occupied by a home office. The third story is all bedrooms and the fourth story is a glass-floored attic arranged just below the supporting roof truss. Large windows all around the perimeter of the home provide for an abundance of natural light on every level.
But of course, the most notable features of the home are the ones that make it so much fun. A private elevator takes residents and visitors all the way up to the SkyHouse. Once inside, the color palette is a clean, modern white with whimsical, colorful accents peppered throughout the space. An exposed steel girder in the living room provides upward transportation in the form of a rock climbing wall. A small platform midway up the 50-foot wall allows private space for reading or gazing out at the spectacular skyline.
The stainless steel slide begins its twisty-turning journey in the attic, where a hole in the glass floor allows the mouth of the slide to rise up to meet riders. Small windows in the slide keep it from being dark and scary. Exit points at the second and third stories let riders disembark at different stops rather than going all the way to the first level.
The SkyHouse offers the best of both worlds: a highly livable and comfortable space for grown-ups and all the fun of a playground for kids. Those with a fear of heights may not enjoy the incredible views offered by the multitude of large windows looking out over Manhattan, but we’re willing to bet that there is something to delight just about everyone in this amazing house. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles:
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