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Wheely’s – a ‘bicycle café’ by the Volvo boffins at The Nordic Society For Invention And Discovery’, currently funding on indiegogo.

Maria De La Croix writes:

Today we are extremely proud of launching the world’s smallest AND most ECO-friendly café AND the world’s first open source brand. All in one! The concept is a café is totally enclosed in a bicycle. A fully equipped Wheely’s Café bike, including cups and branded materials, costs $ 3000. Less than 1% of what it costs to open a Starbucks.

We would sell jelly snakes and Lucozade from ours.

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Currently exhibiting at Milan Design Week 2014, the one-piece cast aluminium Manta Ray seat by architect Zaha Hadid may look like some class of butt-cupping fetish chair but is in fact a minimalist dual armchair for two with built-in arm rests.

It’s all about the ergonomic use of surface area.

It would be wrong to find it in any way arousing.

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