1. Damien Hirst

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    Damien Hirst’s skull is covered in $100 million worth of diamonds, which means this piece of art will spend the rest of its life in a vault or under guard.

    click: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst

    Category: New Ideas, New Ideas Blog Comments (0) | September 16, 2007 by Pat Hanlon

  2. Hand Job: A Catalog of Type

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    Former Urban Outfitters designer Mike Perry (who designed our Thinktopia poster) has a book just out from Princeton Architecture Press titled Hand Job: A Catalog of Type.

    click: midwestisbest.com

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  3. Rieko Miyata

    Japanese designer Rieko Miyata forms this clamshell lookalike from coiled ribbon. click: http://www.japandesign.ne.jp/

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  4. Kidrobot

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    Kidrobot claims to be the planet’s premier creator and retailer of limited edition toys, clothing, mini-figures, artwork & books. And they may even be right. Recently relocated to Melrose in L.A.

    click: kidrobot.com

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  5. Mycelium Delirium

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    The largest organism on our planet is not a whale, but a bit of underground fungus (mycelium) recently discovered in eastern Oregon. Nobody knows how much it weighs, but its mass is spread across 2,000 acres, and is possibly 8,000 years old. A perfect bioorganism for a remake of The Blob.

    Click: Mycelium Delirium

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  6. Izzy’s Ice Cream

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    This tiny ice cream shop in St. Paul, Minnesota is every marketer’s ice dream. As if flavors like Squad Car (coffee with donut chunks), Orca (licorice with vanilla swirl), Kalamansi sorbet (a bright citrus flavor), and Dinosaur Egg (malted vanilla with chocolate chunks) aren’t enough, you also get an “Izzy”–a tiny scoop on top of your double scoop. Handmade waffle cones have a surprise milk ball inside.

    click: izzysicecream.com

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  7. Amyris

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    Cure malaria? Sure. Stop global warming? Why not? From developing a less expensive cure for malaria to fuel energy cells, Amyris Biotechnologies has received funding from a host of investors including the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation. Using metabolic engineering, which is startingly different from genetic engineering (based on the work of Jay D. Keasling, professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s synthetic biology department), Amyris is able to translate synthetic biology into solutions for real-world problems. Watch for novel pharmaceuticals, renewable fuels, and specialty chemicals.

    click: amyris.com

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  8. Halo 3

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    The game that gave insomnia a reason for being, Halo 3 is launching on midnight September 24 in Times Square. Third (obviously) in the Halo series from Bungie, the studio Microsoft purchased years back to help support their Xbox, the new version amps up everything.

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  9. Locavores

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    The right to eat movement is taking shape as Locavores, a group located in San Francisco, challenges the world citizens to eat within a 100 mile radius of their home.

    click: locavores.com

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