PicoCool

”Plushdepartment combines the power of computers with living, organic and beautiful materials. We create cases from ceramic and glass and concrete and wood. We add colour and style and pattern and line to what used to be a boring square box.” Designs range from shiny gold casings, sleek minimal black and white, to the PURE*ZENDER, an urban, street art-inspired computer and amplifier. The computers are Intel Core 2 Duo, 1000 GB hard drive, 2 x 2048MB highend Dual Channel RAM 800MHz memory, and comes with network gigabit LAN, USB, Firewire and more.  Currently available for purchase in the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey.

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"Escape to the beach, the mountains or the trees in San Francisco-based Kyu Che’s sustainable Lifepod. Loosely based on the traditional Mongolian ger (or ‘yurt’ as the Russian translation goes), the Lifepod is at once organic and high-tech. Built to be highly portable, the Lifepod is a fully functioning, off-the-grid mini capsule for modern nomadic living.” [via inhabitat]

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"The Minipod loudspeaker follows an organic design, where form follows function. Each characteristic of the design has a precise acoustical justification. The Minipod is essentially an amalgamation of three spheres to form one pressure-vessel, minimizing cabinet vibration, sound radiation and distortion, allowing sound waves to move more freely.” [via honeybee at Stylehive]

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Barbara Cohen’s jewelry designs are anything but ordinary. Each piece combines both natural and synthetic materials to become a hybrid.  There’s both minimalism and decorative embellishment, hard and soft, ancient and modern.  Cohen writes, “Upon seeing my collection of fossil pendants a fellow artist called me an organic perfectionist.” In this seeming contradiction lies the intrigue and the beauty of her series: Mesh, Cocoon, and Stone. Thanks to Stylehiver, fiction, for bookmarking these to the Hive.

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