Porn for the Holidays: Sumptuous Gifts You Want (But Won't Ask For)
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"Porn" has a rather diffuse meaning, nowadays. Nevermind your expertly stashed bookmarks folder (hidden under News>Miscellaneous>Macramé Blogs); we're referring to the even more superficial variety. You've probably heard the terms "architecture porn," "interior design porn," and, lately, "tech porn." As eye candy, these ultra-luxe items exist to titillate, to make us salivate ...
Designer du jour Yves Béhar loves electric cars, as we saw when he unveiled a concept for a hackable vehicle at the Greener Gadgets conference back in February. In addition, his company fuseproject helped develop the drool-inducing Mission Motors electric motorcycle, the fastest vehicle of its kind on the market. Now Béhar has teamed with GE to unveil a new design for an electric ...
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The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless.
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Nonpareil designer Yves Behar kicked off the Greener Gadgets conference in New York on Thursday with a keynote in which he complained that green design is frequently "unsexy." In an appeal to designers to think about both the form and the end-result of their creations, Behar spouted a personal credo that "it's not beautiful if it's not ethical; and if it's not beautiful, it probably shouldn't ...









