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The Most Creative Stools in the World!

Check out these amazing stools, from a tooth stool to crystal stools and even snake and puzzle stools!

                                                                Crystal Stools

                                            Stools made entirely of Val-Saint-Lambert Crystals!
                                                                     The Tooth Stool

This best seller designed by Philippe Starck, was originally created for the Saint Martin's Lane Hotel in   .                                                                        London
                                                      iTamtam M1 iPod Docking Stool

Introduced by Branex Design, a French base company at the CES 2010 in Las Vegas. Most iPod docks look great on a desk, nightstand or countertop. The iTamtam dock sits on the floor, and you sit on the dock. Odd, right? Inspired by a line of stools featured at the MoMA, the iTamtams are docks, stools and speak systems all in one sleek package.
                                                               
                                                                     
                                                                     Hand Stool                                                                   

With this hand stool, the quirkiness and coolness is pretty handy. This stool in the shape of hand is made in hard-wearing ABS plastic. It could be used as a center piece in your living room or maybe even in your garden.

Puzzle Stool

Easiest jigsaw puzzle in the world or genius seating arrangement? The Jigsaw Puzzle Stool by VivaTerra is as much of an enigma as you want it to be. Crafted from sustainably produced, plantation-grown sheesham wood, the stool can be enjoyed on its own or linked with one or more of its brethren to form a bench or a mini-table.

                                                         Acrylic Stool / Magazine Rack

Designed by Karim Rashid (Born in Cairo, raised in Canada), he brings an inventive duality and a global sophistication to his Magino Stool and Magazine Holder. When the slots in the legs are employed to store magazines and other print material, the stool holds the publications with ease.
                                                                 
                                                                     Headstand Stool

The stool "headstand" is based upon the principal of a skipjack and offers dynamic seating. Headstand turns the common ludo-pawn upside down in a surprising manner due to an unusual balance point.

                                                                          Spring Stool

At ICFF 2010 in New York, the Belgian manufacturer Wildspirit exhibited the Spring Stool, designed by Dutch designer Erik Jansen.
                                                                     Portable Stool

This creative stool was designed for everyone who likes traveling. It's made out of cardboard but it can easily hold a person up to 90Kg. It's very easy to fold and carry around. No glues and such chemicals are used to set up the stool. Take it anywhere, suitable to be used in concerts, camps, street, etc.
                                                                       Splash Stool   

                                     
                                                             Snake Bar Stool Concept                            
                                              
 Designer Svilen Gamolov has announced his Snake Bar Stool concept. The stool is radically designed and resembles a hissing snake ready to strike at the challenge with a vicious and fatal poisonous bite.                                                     
                                                             Martini Glass Bar Stool              

This beautiful bar stool features the freshest design we have seen in a very long time! This modern bar stool is made and imported from Italy for unmatched quality and design. The coolest bar stool around! Shaped like a martini glass, complete with an olive which serves as a backrest.

Monovelo, the Wheel You Pedal From the Inside

by Derek Markham 

Instead of riding above the wheels on your bicycle, what would it be like to ride inside the wheel? In the history of velocipedes, there have been a number of monowheel designs, but the latest version is the Monovelo, which you might remember seeing during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The Monovelo is a giant wheel, two meters across, with the rider sitting on an inner frame containing the seat, handlebars, and pedals. The inner frame contacts the outer wheel through three small wheels, allowing it to remain in position as the Monovelo rotates forward while pedaled. There are no brakes on this ride (just your feet), and the steering is handled by shifting your weight, not through any steering mechanism.
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Joggobot Keeps the Pace

No joke, the other day I decided to go jogging for the first time in 10 years. I didn't get very far before I had to stop. The tar fumes coming off the freshly asphalted road I chose to jog on probably didn't help matters, nor did the fact that I was running in cheap basketball shoes and corduroy cut-off shorts.
But I won't put the entire blame on my lack of running attire. My failure to make it 400 meters before sucking wind and nearly collapsing into a ditch of poison ivy probably has something to do with being out of shape.


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However, I might have at least made it to the end of the road had Joggobot been flying in front of me, whirring out inspiration and dangling the carrot in front of this donkey's nose.
Who or what is Joggobot, you ask? No, it's not a new fraction of robotic Juggalos, though that sounds absolutely terrifying.

 oggobot is a quad-rotor helicopter drone, developed by Floyd Mueller and Eberhard Grather at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and it's here to help sandbaggers like me go the extra mile.
Grather and company took an AR Drone and used customized software to program Joggobot so that it flies a few yards ahead of a runner and keeps pace. Joggers wear a T-shirt with a specialized blue and orange pattern that Joggobot recognizes and follows.
When an onboard camera "sees" the pattern, Joggobot hovers about 4 feet off the ground and maintains a safe distance no matter how fast the jogger is running.
"People enjoy jogging together, but a lot of people, they just don't have anyone who jogs with them. Or they just start off jogging and need someone to run at their pace," Grather said. "So, maybe it's good for them to have this bot system of Joggobot that motivates them."
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With this research, Grather said his team tried to investigate the bigger picture of how people will exercise in the future and what role robots will play.
Check out the following video of Joggobot in action. However, Grather's jolly face and Austrian accent made me want to invite him over for a plate of Wiener schnitzel and a stein of beer. But that doesn't sound like the diet of any runner I know. No wonder I'm out of shape.
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Wingsuit Stunts Involve Big Planning

by Sheila M. Eldred

While modern wingsuit flying has been around since the mid-'90s, the number of jumps and stunts are proliferating as fast as, well, leaping from a cliff. Last month, there was the first ever wingsuit BASE jump off Kilimanjaro and the first ever wingsuit flight over the Egyptian pyramids. The first wingsuit flight over the Grand Canyon is planned for April.
While the videos that go viral may look spontaneous, highlighting the most adrenaline-pumping minute or two of flight, they rarely mention the days, months, even years of preparation that go into the leap.
But research on each jump is meticulous, said Mick Knutson, editor/founder of the online BASE jumping magazine, BLiNC, who has logged over 500 wingsuit BASE jumps. As in skiing, each potential jump-off location has several routes, or lines. But unlike skiing, you can’t take it "nice and easy" the first time down, Knutson said.

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 "There are lines people have been looking at and researching for years and still trying to get right," he said.

 

Although pilots use Google Earth and topographic maps to scout a new route, "sometimes it takes an old-fashioned walk-it-from-the-ground-up, which could take days," Knutson said.
That's partly because the area a flight covers is so large, and partly because the research requires scanning everything from geographic outcroppings to the color of the rocks in the area. Dark-colored rocks, for example, absorb thermic heat and generate thermic lift, Knutson said. And even if you're not flying near outcroppings, they can create turbulence in certain meteorological conditions.
After all those details are known, a wingsuit pilot may take the first flight of a new line at a higher-than-usual altitude to further scope the course, Knutson said.
"It forces the person to become more like an aeronautical pilot, studying where you’re going to fly," he said.

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There’s also a deep-seeded camaraderie in the sport, Knutson said, so information on new routes is readily shared. And while there are downsides to the proliferation of jump videos, one upshot is that sponsoring companies may pay for pricey helicopter flights to do research of new jumps.
All the research in the world, however, doesn't compare to experience in a sport that leaves no room for error. Before potential wingsuit BASE jumpers even start thinking about taking their first leap, they're encouraged to do at least 200 BASE jumps and 200 wingsuit flights from an airplane first.
Before he started wingsuit BASE jumping, Jimmy Pouchert had done 800 BASE jumps. Now, the co-owner of Apex BASE teaches first-time wingsuit BASE jumpers.
"Before they jump, we talk about everything that could possibly go wrong and how to solve it," he said.
Certain locations are ideal for first jumps, Pouchert said. The “exit point,” or jump-off point, needs to be very tall and very overhung.
"The difference between an airplane and a BASE jump is in those first five to eight seconds you really have to be careful not to flip over," he said. "It can get insane immediately."
Experience also helps develop intuition, said Knutson, who has been on top of cliffs that took hours to climb only to turn around at the top. If he's not feeling right, that's his cue to pack up the suit and hike home to have breakfast, he said. When the feeling is right, however, he becomes hyper-aware and vigilant.
"When I'm flying, I am so in tune to what's happening that I can feel the individual hairs on the tops of my hands," Knutson said. "I'm processing data in quarter-second increments. And if I didn’t have that speed and attention, I wouldn't do it."
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