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Have you ever thought of drawing, with a GPS device in a briefcase as your pen and the world as your paper? Well the artist behind the biggest drawing in the world has. It is a self portrait created by Erik Nordenankar. Erik created a briefcase that housed a device that had a GPS device and enough battery power to last the 55 day journey. And with the help of DHL he shipped the device around the world to create this image. Check out more info here.
(via ELI)

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The Journey

So have you have just moved into a new flat and there is no furniture. Wouldn't it be great to make one call and a box shows up at your house which has all the furniture in one container? Well the answer to your prayers is the CASULO.

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The CASULO has an entire appartment's furntiture in one 31"x47" (80 cm x 120 cm) box. You can assemble all the furniture in under ten minutes. The deigners Marcel Krings and Sebastian Mühlhäuser are from the Köln International School of Design in Cologne. They won the "Abraham & David Roentgen Award" in November 2007. via:treehugger

Have a look at this video and see how easy it is.

I am sure that you all have experienced this before. You buy some bit of tech and by the time that you get it home is out of date and replaced by something else. Or there never is that bit of tech that does everything that you wanted it to do, something is always missing. Wouldn't it be great if you could to customize what you wanted into one device and upgrade it whenever you wanted, without buying a whole new machine?

Well those clever wizards over at Bug Labs have done just that with their BUG device. "The Lego of Gadgets," as CNET describes it, is a modular easy to use snap on electronic elements that allow you to create your own personalized devices. With open source programming possibilities what are you waiting for?