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NYC Manholes Turned Into Coffee For Ads

Ad creep: A Gurerilla marketing campaign by the ad company Saatchi & Saatchi for Folgers has turned some New York City manholes into STEAMING CUPS OF COFFEE!

Gift Box

This box made from two bills. The bills/box can be the gift itself, but it is also just about the right size for a ring box. (Perhaps a dollar-bill ring?)

Get yourself two fairly new, crisp bills. Older "soggier" bills are much harder to work with. For this design to work, the folds should be very precise, and perpendicular to the edges of the bill if the resulting is to be retangular.

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Lay the bill on a flat surface, face up. Fold the bill in thirds
lengthwise as shown. Gently unfold these folds, you will reuse them
later. I will refer to these as the third folds.

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Fold the note top-to-bottom just to the right of the portrait, then
unfold. Repeat just to the left of the portrait. I will refer to these
as the portrait folds. Note that the third folds the oppose
(are perpendicular to) the portrait folds.

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Starting at the top left corner (as illustrated), close the top
third fold to about 90 degrees. Lift the right edge of the
bill to the right of the right portrait fold up while holding
the top third fold in place, allowing the third fold
to close completely to the right of this corner.

Inside this corner will be a remaining portion that you will crease
along the natural 45 degree line to complete the corner.

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Complete the previous step for the other three corners. Now you will
have two "tabs" sticking up on the left and right sides.

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For each tab, pull it inside the box, folding so that the natural
edge of the box is pulled slightly over inside the fold.
(Look carefully at the bottom left of the picture.)

Do this evenly for both tabs.

For the two other sides, evenly fold over the edge of the bill.

You should now have an open box.

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If you make another piece just like the first, but slightly
larger, you would have a lid similar to that found on most shoe
boxes. To adjust the instructions above, you would fold so that the
inner rectangle (bounded by the third and portrait
folds) is slightly larger.

I do not like the way that looks, so I close the box another way
as illustrated below. Try both - choose whichever you prefer.

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Fold the second bill lengthwise so that the width matches the
widest portion of the open box you just made. I will refer to this
bill as the cover, and the previous piece made as the open
box in the following steps.

You need two folds as shown to be able to follow the last
step (see below). For general appearance, it is nice if these are
nearly symetrical as shown. These will be called the width
folds.

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Holding one end of the cover across the bottom of the open box, find
the point which matches the corner of the open box and fold at that
point.

After folding, open the fold to 90 degress, hold the cover
back in place, and find the point for the next corner of the open
box as the cover wraps around.

Repeat this process until the cover wraps over itself (four folds).

These will be called the wrapping folds.

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There is now one very long side to the cover. Fold back the long
side so that is just a bit shorter than the first side.

I will call this the end cover fold.

In this illustration, the end cover fold is at the left edge
of the picture. I have also (gently) completely unfolded the cover,
refolded the end cover fold, the width folds, then the wrapping
folds in that order. (This unfolding/refolding is optional, but
makes the cover look nicer.)

In either case, the end cover fold puts the remainder of the long
side inside the wrapping folds. Refold the wrapping folds holding
the long side in place to crease it at the correct points.

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Open up the width folds slightly on the open end, and insert the last
side under the width folds. (Normally I do this with the open box
already inside, but for clarity, the picture shows this without the
open box.

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Slide the open box inside the cover before closing the cover tightly,
or close the cover with the open box already inside. In either case
you are done.

Of course if the gift box is for something special, a little ribbon
adds a nice touch. (I used ordinary curling ribbon, cut in thirds
lengthwise for this picture.)

Feature: Cell Phones of the Future

It’s not everyday that you see a phone that can “bend and twist” at your command or transform a number of ways, so check out these incredible cell phone concepts of the future, as some just may become a reality sooner than you think.

BenQ-Siemens Transformer

At first glance, this may look like your typical Smartphone, but at the twist of the screen, it’s able to stand upright for the ultimate multimedia experience.

Pantech Pivot Point

Designed by Lunar Designs for Pantech, Pivot Point is a futuristic mobile phone concept, sporting a “swiveling screen that can be set up like an easel for easy typing.”

If it ever gets out of the design stage, the device is sure to be a hit with mobile TV and video-conferencing junkies

NEC’s “Tag” Phone

NEC has just unveiled “Tag”, its next-generation cell phone concept. Available in white, black, or orange varities, this device boasts ‘”shape-memorizing” material — the tag will bend and twist at your command.’ Other specifications have not yet been released.

Pantech’s Flexus Mobile Phone

Pantech’s sleek “Flexus” mobile phone concept recently took home the iF Design Award for Excellence & Innovation. This handset boasts a “trackball and Moto PEBL-esque keypad.” Here’s what Nicholas Deleon has to say:

I take it I’m not the only one who would like to see this released, right? Because something that pretty deserves to be allowed to leaves it room every once and a while

Fujitsu’s 4-way Slider Phone

Fujitsu’s 4-way slider phone concept features “a virtual keypad allowing it to display a pad appropriate to whichever way the keypad slides out: left, right, up or down.”

There are four buttons on the front which would make the machine very tempting as a music playback device. Indeed, there’s something of the iPod about the device, though we’re not saying this is the kit Apple’s going to unveil as the iPhone

How to sleep at work?

上班时候该怎样打瞌睡才不会被老板骂？看看这些照片！

在 frogview 看到这些照片! 个人觉得 要是想像他那样上班偷睡，还是需要勇气的！毕竟要用头发作为代价~~

Death To Stinky Socks （Ephydrol除脚气产品广告）

脚气是令人尴尬的东西，它的"强大威力"一直是各种除脚气产品生产商在广告中运用得最多的元素。其实一直以来，脚气对人类的伤害并不是最大的，它对袜子的伤害才是永恒的，因此产生了"臭袜"这一流行词。
Ephydrol在其除脚气广告里同样也运用了类似的创意，但这一次，袜子成了主角。

EPHYDROL，一款专为臭脚分子准备的产品，估计和“神奇”治脚气差不多。脚能臭到这一步也确实很无敌了。本来脚气是一件很让人尴尬而且郁闷的事情，抛开诸如“脚气，咋整？”这样扭扭捏捏的表达，就好像ED不好意思去买伟哥一样。反其道而行之，让使用者开怀一笑，终于可以大大方方地去买你的产品了，何乐而不为!

This campaign got sent in and nominated for the previous Adprint festival, but unfortunately didn’t make it to the prize winners. Nevertheless, quite an amusing campaign with very entertaining images. The one with the soldier is really way too funny. I can think of a dozen of products that could replace the socks, like cheese and so on, which would make the concept very useful in different contexts. I love these. Great job!

Bloomframe

这个可收缩的窗户/阳台是 阿姆斯特丹 的Hofman Dujardin Architecten的作品。
对于那些小户型的房子 原本是没有阳台的话，装上这样的窗户可以满足拥有一个阳台的愿望！
尤其对于寸土寸金的城市来说！这个Bloomframe显得尤为可贵~~！只是不知道其安全性如何！
如果能够保证使用它的安全性，想必会有很多人愿意买上这么个方便而又浪漫的阳台的。

Recently been apartment/condo/loft shopping ~ and one of my biggest priorities are sunlight and big windows and balcony/patios/roofdecks. Too bad i can’t simply pop in a Bloomframe from Hofman Dujardin Architecten in Amsterdam. As a two in one, balcony and window, the design gives “the possibility to use the surface of an apartment to the maximum.” More imagery of it in different angles below.

Potato-Powered MP3 Player

“Kipkay” shows us another way to power your MP3 player. Basically, the potatoes provide phosphoric acid, which enables a chemical reaction causing electrons flow from copper to zinc — each potato generates 0.5 volts and 0.2 milliamperes. Video after the jump.



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Environmental Obesity

"Think about what it consumes before buying."

Espresso Art

全球变暖的 另类 证据

网上看到这张有意思的图片。 或许，这能让我们 了解到，全球变暖 给我们带来了什么！

对于人类的生活，气候变暖带来的负面影响和正面影响是同时存在的。

P.S. 气候变化也可能带来有利的影响，如：温度升高使中纬度的一些地区存在着农作物增产的可能；全球木材供应可能会增加；对某些缺水地区(如南亚部分地区)的居民来讲，可用水量可能增加；中高纬度地区居民因冬季寒冷的死亡率降低；由于出现暖冬，取暖所需能源减少。

食色性也 （下）

曾看过 李碧华 女士 写过个一篇关于粥的文章。

文中写道两种粥：“仙人粥” 和 “神仙粥”。

对这两种粥的功效是这样描述的：“仙人粥”养血益肝，固精补肾、健筋骨、乌须发。“神仙粥”大补虚劳，益气强志。服后元气足，精力盛，止泄，壮阳。

看得出区别了吗？

“仙人”终究碍于一半“人”的世界，追求的是乌发、长寿，形而下。“神仙”境界比较高，不要做人，欲仙欲死，精神欢愉享受才无以上之。

两锅粥的“内涵”，真有趣。

食色性也（上）

发来了一个关于食谱的连接，于是点击了进去。说是食谱 其实多为“养生之道”。

略微看了几则。 想起曾经听到过的一个“经典” 比喻：把那些餐馆食客 比作 隐性的嫖客！——上馆子吃饭 和 去青楼嫖娼行为模式完全一致。

大致是这么得出结论的： 花钱找乐子，付费买享受。 青楼和餐馆都讲究全过程的服务，以客人的器官满足为最高目的，只要你付钱爽快就行。

记得 有人曾见孔子的“食色性也” 重新加以诠释 “食 ， 色性也”。只是多了一个 逗号，但意思却变了。它将食物、进食 赋予色欲的属性，食就是色，色就是食。