Things I like

This blog post is entitled 'Things I Like' or 'highlights from core77'. Core77 is an industrial design blog that I subscribe to but haven't caught up in a month or so until last night. So here are the ones I liked the most from the last month:

A water-top table designed as a reflection of eastern mentality towards social relationships.

Kitchen Station - mostly I like this because the dripping dish drain waters a plan. Cute.

USB Typewriter along with a host of retro-retro-fits.

A chemical-free water-based cleaning device - grease, grime, mud, scum - you name it. Did I mention no chemicals?

This Swiss scientists has invented a cheap, organically-made, flexible, lightweight and color-variable solar cell. 

Sukkah City - competition/event in Union Square. Also,  a jewish tradition and holiday.

GIF images showing how simple mechanisms function - this bottom one has actually mystified me for years.

Epoxy-esque Mixed Drink

An artist/designer/inventor combines art-making and sound-making


FLAMMA from Helmut.
This guy buys a bunch of basic items from IKEA and starts a fire without matches, a lighter or even flint. The idea is neat, and the concept is even neater. The notion of starting a fire in the wild with only the basic items you can find around you is transformed in today's urban environment where its easier to find crap from IKEA than sticks, stones and strong rope-like vines.