Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California found that being too clean could impair the skin's ability to heal. The San Diego-based team discovered that normal bacteria that live on the skin trigger a pathway that helps prevent inflammation when we get hurt.

Very Interesting!

This is awesome. I want.

From the Yamaha website:

Media artist Toshio Iwai and Yamaha have collaborated to design a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century, TENORI-ON.

A 16x16 matrix of LED switches allows everyone to play music intuitively, creating a "visible music" interface."

 

TENORI-ON Website

This is super awesome. I'd love to get my paws on one of these guys to give it a spin.

"The "breathing chair" looks like a piece of white, square tofu. Wu said that the chair is made of high-density foam plastic that is 100 percent environmentally-friendly. There is a "trick" behind the design of various sizes of holes in the chair – based on professional calculation of the spatial structure, the tofu-shaped chair, coated with three layers of foamed plastic, can "automatically adjust" according to the weight and posture of the person sitting on it."

AWESOME!

Cool shoes.

"The Dyson Air Multiplier™ fan works very differently to conventional fans. It uses Air Multiplier™ technology to draw in air and amplify it 15 times, producing an uninterrupted stream of smooth air. With no blades or grill, it’s safe, easy to clean and doesn’t cause unpleasant buffeting."

RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME AND BEAUTIFUL! I want.

Really cool collection of wood cuts! http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/ to see them all.

This looks pretty awesome. It's a portable espresso maker. I might buy for having at work. Only about $30.

Great ideas are often born out of terrible circumstances.

Here's a tweet I had favorited from Cameron Moll. I read it recently and was really taken by the truth of it. I printed it out and placed it on my wall at work. Thanks for the wisdom.

Like most fun projects I've been involved in Bigulo started off as 800 lines of broken code, that we were always told that "anyone could have written". But we did, and that's usually the difference.

Des Traynor writes about a site he and his friend built, grew, and sold and the lessons he learned in the process. Great lessons and interesting read.

I spend a fair amount of time developing quotes for websites.  Heck - I’m even travelling to the Netherlands to talk about my approach for quoting and planning ExpressionEngine based sites.  One of the tougher aspects of quoting work is that initial feeling-out of the prospective client.  Do they want steak on a hamburger budget or are they realistic about the costs involved for what they want?

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Good article about one aspect of giving quotes for potential projects. Really great insight!

Look at the beautiful mark in the bottom right hand corner. Really, really nice.

This is a beautiful little piece of design from Microsoft! While Microsoft is an easy target for insults at times, generally speaking I think their peripherals (mice, keyboards, etc) are some of the very best. This piece is a mouse that folds up for easy portability. At just over $30, too, it's pretty affordable.

The Swash line of high-tech toilet seats combines the latest innovation and design to bring you a new level of luxury and hygiene. Better than a conventional toilet seat or bidet, the Swash features a heated seat and delivers a warm water wash with temperature, pressure, and pulsation adjustability.

Check this out. Awesomeness.