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With simple and sophisticated furniture, it’s always fun to experiment with wall treatments as bold as this beetle wallpaper. Available in four colors, the decorative sheathing is produced by ‘Porter’s Original Paints,’ based on the anatomy of the Christmas Beetle.

Whether or not you’re into insects, the exaggerated scale of the creepy crawlers provides a opportunity to deck your walls in intricate organic detail. The beetle wallpaper has a grace and beauty that some might not have expected from a bug on the wall.

Vincenz Saccento and Robert Antonio Mazzullo cleverly created the v100 Mod Box, a 10x10x10 living/work area that houses all the necessities in a small, yet very functional space. All the appliances are made from recycled materials or can be fully recycled to promote an eco-friendly message.

This energy-efficient and modern architectural design makes the v100 Mod Box a very trendy living space that is adaptable for many uses with its ultra chic motto and clean aesthetics.

Perfect for outdoor decor, these Mario Ruiz Frame Lamps are guaranteed to brighten up your night.

With a rectangular frame, the interior of this piece is lined with LEDs. Beautiful and modern, these silhouette Mario Ruiz Frame Lamps will make a great addition to your back yard, filling it with mystical and magical wonder. Check out the featured gallery to see these Mario Ruiz Frame Lamps in action.

Jim Richardson is taking Twitter out of the marketing department and putting it in the hands of curators.

When you think of museum curators, does the image of an isolated librarian come to mind? Someone peering into their book or painting–someone who doesn’t have time to immerse themselves in the minute details of life that social media makes available? Well it turns out that museum curators are, in essence, re-branding themselves–with the help of Jim Richardson, Managing Director at the Sumo design company, who’s organized a global event, Ask a Curator, to allow the general public, students, and anyone who’s interested to simply ask a question to hundreds of museum curators on Twitter tomorrow.

How do you prevent paintings from changing colors? What’s the biggest theft you’ve ever witnessed (or didn’t witness)?” All such questions will receive answers via Twitter.

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When Google announced the previously rumored phone call feature for Google Voice inside Gmail, we all got excited for a Skype-challenging VoIP service that’s already embedded in our email. But the most charming element of the announcement was yet to come.

Instead of a boring old ad campaign of TV commercials, YouTube videos, billboards, and what have you, Google decided to do something a little bit more fun. The company is constructing several old-style British phone booths that will be using the new Google Voice feature–all for free. The phone booths, modeled on a 1957 vintage example, will be installed in high-traffic areas, like college campuses.

The Google Voice phone booths seem to be completely free–there’s no way to contribute money, for one thing–so I suspect the calls will be limited to the States and Canada.

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By: David LidskySeptember 1, 2010 The radical reinvention of the once-humble cork.

Each wine cork tells a story: A weekend in Maine, a silly party, a proposal served up with Champagne. But nothing ruins a night like wine tainted by rotten cork. Some 300 million bottles a year — about 2% of all wine — are “corked,” leading the industry to experiment with alternatives.

Synthetic corks can require Herculean strength to get out. Easy-opening screw caps — about 10% of the market — have all the romance of parking-lot drinking. Glass stoppers “will not give you taint,” says Kyle Rossler, a VP at Encore Glass, which distributes Vino-Seal glass closures. But glass is pricey, and it’s “popular in Germany,” making it the David Hasselhoff of wine closures.

“Anyone who’s gone away from cork wants to come back,” says Erin Grace, director of imports at the distributor Winebow.

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