Traumgedanken

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Budding designer Maria Fischer’s thesis project on dreams, Traumgedanken, uses string to weave together literary, philosophical, psychological and scientific texts for a tangible interpretation of how “pieces of reality are assembled to build a story.”

Auto Ink

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Artist Chris Eckert put together Auto Ink, an interactive sculpture consisting of an automated tattooing machine. If you dare to insert your arm and flip the switch, the machine will automatically assign you a religion and needle a symbol associated with it into your skin.

IPad 2 Smart Cover

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Sure the new iPad ushers in just enough bells and whistles to rev up sales again, but we think the way the slim all-in-one cover remedies some of the device’s biggest form-factor problems is the real step forward.