August 20, 2007

Jawdropping Industrial Chrome Crib, Was $9,945 Now $560, Needs Wk

The Doernbecher Crib from Hard Manufacturing provides a dramatic improvement in the pediatric ICU experience for everyone involved: doctors and nurses, little patients, and even their families. All four sides raise and drop with ergonomically designed ease and security,...
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Bwahaha, Handknit Lemmings Plunging Off Handknit Cliff

[pet-killers: 1, peer-reviewed science: 0!] In the classic 1958 nature documentary White Wilderness, filmmakers for the Walt Disney Company faked a lemming migration and over-the-cliff suicide plunge using pet lemmings they bought from Inuit children. As a result, and...
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More Mercedes Benz 2008 C-Wagon Spy Shots

By camouflaging all the test mules with hideously boring body panels from a fifth generation Camry, Mercedes-Benz has done a spectacular job of keeping the ground-breaking design of the new, mid-range C-Class a mystery, right up to the launch...
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DTQ: What's Missing From The Non-Fugly Kids Market?

DT reader, advertiser, and mailing list drawing prize donor Mark from Sparkability took a break from his sweet kids design guru-ing to email his list of the Top Ten Most Needed Kids Products:Cribs under $400 Doll/Play furniture (crib/cradle/highchair) Cookie Jar...
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Liveblogging The Yo Gabba Gabba! Premiere On Noggin

It's freezing outside [in DC. In August. They call this global warming? Feh.] so the kid and I will be liveblogging the premiere of The Most Important Children's Television Program Of Our Generation, Yo Gabba Gabba!. Stay tuned for...
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Huge, Hand-Woven Pacman Carpet At Our Children's Gorilla

The motto for the wonderful Swedish design firm Our Children's Gorilla is, "The children's imagination is our inspiration." In this case, "the children" are "the children who spent the 80's in dark video arcades, pumping every spare kroner into...
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