The inside of the house features all the trademarks of clean modern design, but uses distinct features such as a stone fireplace, and slab counters to create a connection with the tough landscape that surrounds the house. Full-height windows give the inhabitants unobstructed views on all sides, which reinforces the fact that Villa E is an architectural oasis in the middle of the desert. In order to complement the simple earth tones, stone, marble, and wood decorations, the house is filled with artworks you might expect to find in the markets of Marrakech....

I could be wrong. I felt the same way about the Apple iPad when it was released. Now I used mine every night in bed and on every photo job I take. I digress. Beyond the Apple Watch and the Android Play devices, a few other newcomers are doing some truly innovative things. The Olio Model One Smartwatch is a prime example. It isn’t a hacked version of Android or iOS, it’s a unique snowflake that displays detailed data in an elegant, easy-to-use way....

Yet Persol, the Italian eyewear company, didn’t peak during the years when Steve McQueen couldn’t be seen without a pair of Persols. They’re continuing to show their relevance by reaching back into their own history, and showing why vintage cool will always be atop the trends. The new Persol Film Noir Edition Eyewear takes some of Persol’s most iconic frames and gives them some special edition styling. Namely, the “gangster”, the “detective”, the “reporter” and the “femme fatale”, a collection of four frames inspired by the characters and iconography of mid-century film noir....

With a twist, the rOtring 800+ transforms from a mechanical pencil to a precision stylus, allowing the user to switch back-and-forth between paper and digital at their pleasure. Illustrators and other graphics artists can brainstorm on paper and tablets using the same, very personal illustrative instrument. rOtring details this dual life in their video promo below. The rOtring 800+ Pencil Stylus Hybrid is a bit pricier than your standard precision stylus or mechanical pencil....

Four years ago, the local government decided that enough was enough. They decommissioned a section of the highway in order to build a new main road. However, to them, letting the old concrete viaducts and beautiful bridges waste away into ruin would be a terrible sin. They hosted a design contest to ensure that the bridges wouldn’t go to waste. That they could be turned into something better, something more practical than a decades-old, run-down highway....

The interior, crafted by Coordination Asia, is awash with glass on nearly every surface. Even the floor, walls and furniture are coated with a black lacquered glass. The contents of the museum range from stained glass windows to glass sculptures and other historic uses of glass, including a shared focus on its industrial history. The Shanghai Museum of Glass is to be one of 100 museums constructed in Shanghai in this decade....

Related Reading: How to Be a Better Kisser Though some of the stigma has faded from a man applying a little gloss to dry lips, there’s an increasing number of companies who recognize the masculine market needs a mouth glaze that heals, repairs, and protects a man’s kisser, but also looks, feels, and smells like it has some machismo. Best Lip Balms for Men To celebrate the brands that give a guy’s mouth what it needs, here’s the 17 best lip balms for men....

If you aren’t familiar with these services, they send out a set menu to your home with pre-measured ingredients accompanied by a recipe. You then follow their instructions, cooking up whatever truffle-soaked thing they boxed up and sent to you. Most of them offer meal plans for any major diet, allowing vegetarians, gluten-avoiders, or pure carnivores to get a suitable eating plan. Unlike Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig, the intent here isn’t necessarily to lose weight, but to provide quality food without the trouble of tracking down ingredients, recipes, and adding work to your already overbooked schedule....

It’s a remarkably versatile – and incredibly non-invasive – piece of hardware, and the demos on Thalmic Lab’s official website show it being used for everything from playing with toys to managing a business presentation to controlling a military robot. According to Thalmic, a few applications will even allow for the use of two Myo armbands at the same time. Most devices that are compatible with the armband will utilize a number of pre-set gestures included with the Myo, allowing users to have a seamless experience right out of the box....

Proper handling and consuming of sushi isn’t about tradition, it’s about flavor. The proper way to consume sushi is made to create a balance between tastes, so that you aren’t overwhelmed by soy sauce saltiness, wasabi heat, gari ginger sweetness, or the natural flavors of the sashimi, nigiri, or maki. Though high-end sushi restaurants run by the chefs might look down their nose at breaking from tradition, the real sufferer from eating sushi the “wrong” way is the eater....

However, as with anything else, guitars vary greatly in quality depending on the brand. Additionally, some brands make guitars that are suited for a specific style, while others have a wide variety of models to suit different levels and styles. Ultimately, the ease of playing and how good your tune sounds depend on the type of guitar you are using. While there are lots of options to choose from, it can be easy to get lost in the plethora of guitars available on the market....

Some of electronic music’s most successful artists understand two of the most common ingredients to a great musical recipe– simplicity and repetition. If those are among the tools of your musical trade, the Simple Sequencer is a solid DIY addition to your audio arsenal. Consisting of 24 knobs that control 8 steps of sequencing, Simple Sequencer allows its user to manipulate the pitch, the length of the tone and the length of the silence between them....

Designer Henrik Amberla took on quite a challenge in attempting to make the alarm clock a thing of beauty. In our home, at least, the alarm clock is the most hated device, representing the end of our dreams and the beginning of the work day. But the Milky Way Alarm Clock by Henrik Amberla is hard not to love– it packs a future-forward design sensibility into a shape inspired by the Milky Way galaxy....

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The Vegan House by Block Architects is named after the culinary tradition shared in this part of the neighborhood. For decades, locals would meet here for traditional Vietnamese dishes of vegan purity. The owner wished to honor that history in this new home’s name and its design. The Vegan House still welcomes friends and neighbors in for a meal at a full service kitchen on the ground level. It’s built with a serving line, seating for plenty and easy access from the street....

Dreams are images and stories that occur in our minds during sleep. And since they are stories, different characters other than yourself can pop up now and then. It could be a family, a close friend you just went out with last weekend, a co-worker, a crush, or someone you know from long ago. Ready to find out why people show up in your dreams and find out those dream meanings?...

In layman’s terms, a geofence is an invisible boundary around your neighborhood that recognizes when you approach. When you cross that invisible line, the Honeywell Lyric heats or cools your home to a desired temperature before you walk in the door. There’s no pattern learning or schedule programming needed — it just turns on before you arrive and shuts down when you depart. In the mean time, the HVAC is dormant, keeping your heating and cooling bills to a minimum....

What Makes A Good Adventure Vehicle Adventure is all about being able to handle challenges – known and unknown, foreseen and unforeseen – without losing your cool. The same goes for the conveyance you decide to take with you into the wild blue yonder. More than having everything you need, it needs to have the ability to adapt to its surroundings, to change with the terrain, and to keep you safe while it hauls and solves, going over terrain easily....

Most of us are tied to our various digital calendars, trusting them to remind us when we have a meeting, when we need to take our blood pressure medication, and what the names of all our damnable children are. This has its place, but the overwhelming array of features and options, not to mention the time needed to yank out your phone, tablet, laptop, smartwatch, or cerebral implant and input all you need can be prohibitive....

Beginning its tale in 1837, Invicta all but faded during the quartz crisis of the 1970s, since they were largely an automatic and manual-winding company. Then, lifting from the ashes in full glory, Invicta began to again produce award-winning designs that stunned, amazed, and worked like the Swiss timepieces that they are. The Invicta of today holds true to the original idea of founder Raphael Picard who wanted real Swiss watches to be offered at affordable prices so that everyone could have a timepiece that worked like a dream....