"People no longer want just the pretty kitchen, " says Janice Costa , editor of trade publication Kitchen and Bath Design News.
In design news, French designer Patrick Jouin unveiled his Bloom Table Lamp, a 3D-printed lamp that opens and closes like petals of a flower.
In other green design news, artist Michael Jantzen has released designs for a solar-powered seed-sowing machine that would plant flowers at sites of environmental destruction.
In green design news, a new architecture competition challenged designers to transform the Costa Concordia shipwreck off the coast of Italy into a new seaside park.
"If you can stamp it, you want to stick with steel or aluminum, " Mark Verbrugge, director of General Motors' Materials and Processes Lab, told Design News magazine earlier this year.
The big design news in Stockholm this fall is the expansion of the flagship store of Svenskt Tenn, the 87-year-old home-furnishings label known for the modernist furniture and fantastical textile patterns of Austrian-born architect Josef Frank (1885-1967).
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In other green tech and design news, Hitachi unveiled an impressive new wireless controlled robot to help with the Fukushima Daiichi cleanup and London-based designers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves developed the GravityLight, an amazing low-energy, battery-free light that works by harnessing the power of weight and gravity.
So the design of news feed needs to reflect this changing trend.
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The city whose historical treasures tend to outshine its thriving and compelling contemporary-design scene is aiming to rectify that, and to make headlines for something other than bad news, by launching the Istanbul Design Biennial, an ambitious pair of exhibitions and related activities that will run through December 12.
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With a 52-foot mast, Deuce carries 840 square feet of sail, better than 12 times that of the more common, ubiquitous DN class of iceboat (named for a design contest sponsored by the Detroit News in the 1930s).
Vancouver, Canada-based precious metals mining company Wheaton River Minerals (amex: WHT - news - people ) and San Francisco-based civil engineering and design firm URS (nyse: URS - news - people ) both remained on the top buy list from two weeks ago.
Updated : Facebook is revamping its most-used feature: its News Feed, making its design more image-focused and mobile-friendly, while providing more ways for people to access specific types of content.
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Design Within Reach ( DWRI - news - people ) and Tea Collection.
Those that are most susceptible to news-induced spikes, by design, are not selected using our approach.
Medis is also working with Flextronics (nasdaq: FLEX - news - people ) to manufacture power converters and with Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ) on design engineering for the fuel production line.
The lawsuit claims that Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ) specifically asked server supplier NEC (nasdaq: NIPNY - news - people ) to design an Opteron-based model, but that NEC inexplicably shelved the product, never marketing it to any other customers.
The design sings super-cool, with the latest news and events clearly presented on the opening page.
"I approached the Ambulance Trust because I thought maybe I could produce a design that would benefit them, " he told News Online.
There were no personal computers, and no Internet, no satellite radio, no Cable TV, no news, gossip, fashion, or design blogs, no social media, and alas, no Forbeswoman.
We wouldn't worry about the design's progress just yet, but the news hints that Sony's timing on pulling it all together is much tighter than it was for the PS3 -- although that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Kindler also lured Neil Gibson, formerly chief scientific officer at biotech OSI Pharmaceuticals, to head oncology research, and Briggs Morrison, a former oncologist who made clinical trials run faster at Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ), to design drug studies.
To add more questions, Compaq will at some point start outsourcing chip design to Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
High-profile breaches at Epsilon, Sony and MasterCard exposing more than 120 million personal records have dominated the news and raised awareness for the need to design effective security strategies.
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He also uses Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Picasa2 and Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Picture It to design his own greeting cards from digital photos.
So far, however, Dell is missing the biggest element in the turnarounds at Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) and Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ): deep product design teams.
Or you can fire up the computer and surf over to online furniture outlet Design Within Reach (nasdaq: DWRI - news - people ), and shop for one of the graceful chairs designed by the Finnish genius Eero Saarinen--he died in 1961--that are crudely echoed on the Jetsons.
The design includes an emphasis on larger photos and images in the News Feed.
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Keynote scores for the ease of its drag-and-drop assembly and its context-sensitive Inspector tool, which will be familiar to users of design products from Adobe (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) for controlling the attributes of each element.
Contract manufacturer Flextronics (nasdaq: FLEX - news - people ) helped out with the physical design and will handle manufacturing for Fossil.
It acquired a research lab in India from Swedish telecom titan Ericsson (nasdaq: ERICY - news - people ) and a telecom-chip design firm in Austria.
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