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Inhabitat: The latest lighting design from LZF Lamps puts paper swans to shame. The Spanish design firm used origami figures to inspire its giant, geometric pendant lamps, which debuted at this week’s Milan Furniture Fair. Not only are the lights arrestingly beautiful, they’re crafted from eco-friendly materials

We Are Handsome’s swimwear is not just your run-of-the-mill swimwear. Each piece is made by hand, with the highest quality polyester lycra, printed with high density inks using a placement sublimation process which is tedious to say the least. Each of the designs is limited edition. Some are sourced from 000’s of retro images and some designed by WAH’s in-house artist often using dozens of images to get the unique look and feel.

Let your tweets exist in real world! TweetBookz allows you to create and order high quality books of your tweets. Soft and hard cover versions are available in four unique designs.

SignOnSanDiego.com: A small La Jolla company thinks it has a technology that could represent the future of scientific publishing. The company, MolSoft, recently launched a platform it calls ActiveICM that enables authors to include three-dimensional, interactive graphics with the text of their articles. That means readers can click at the appropriate point in an article, call up an exhibit and view it from any angle

Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo . TrendCentral: Harnessing the power of the people, new online experiment Spot.Us hopes to change the face of journalism by putting a new spin on community-sourced content. During a time when many a reader has become wary of traditional news media outlets for delivering sensationalized, biased, or elitist content, Spot.Us offers San Francisco-area community members citizen journalism-style opportunities in which anyone can submit an idea for an investigative story and/or donate money to story ideas or “pitches” that they want to see covered. Those pitches which reach their funding goals (to cover the reporting costs) are then written by freelance journalists and published on the Spot.Us site.

Tikatok.com , a leading online children’s book community, makes it possible to give your children’s own original stories captured in beautiful hard or soft cover books for between $15-$20 as very personal gifts for family and friends this holiday season. The books created by children on Tikatok.com are truly one-of-a-kind presents that tell the stories and showcase the artwork of your children in professionally bound books, accompanied with their author page and photo. Unlike traditional photo books, these are the actual writings and illustrations from your children’s own creative imagination and something that can be cherished forever as personal keepsake from your favorite authors. In addition to these books, Tikatok is also offering gift cards to its members as great stocking stuffers or presents for those hard-to-shop-for people on your list. Beginning November 1, gift cards can be purchased on Tikatok.com for $25, $35 or $50.

Tikatok.com , a leading online children’s book community, makes it possible to give your children’s own original stories captured in beautiful hard or soft cover books for between $15-$20 as very personal gifts for family and friends this holiday season. The books created by children on Tikatok.com are truly one-of-a-kind presents that tell the stories and showcase the artwork of your children in professionally bound books, accompanied with their author page and photo. Unlike traditional photo books, these are the actual writings and illustrations from your children’s own creative imagination and something that can be cherished forever as personal keepsake from your favorite authors. In addition to these books, Tikatok is also offering gift cards to its members as great stocking stuffers or presents for those hard-to-shop-for people on your list. Beginning November 1, gift cards can be purchased on Tikatok.com for $25, $35 or $50

Tikatok.com , a leading online children’s book community, makes it possible to give your children’s own original stories captured in beautiful hard or soft cover books for between $15-$20 as very personal gifts for family and friends this holiday season. The books created by children on Tikatok.com are truly one-of-a-kind presents that tell the stories and showcase the artwork of your children in professionally bound books, accompanied with their author page and photo. Unlike traditional photo books, these are the actual writings and illustrations from your children’s own creative imagination and something that can be cherished forever as personal keepsake from your favorite authors

Silicon Alley Insider: Yes, newspapers are screwed. But that isn’t stopping some of them from coming up with some really interesting digital projects. So far we’ve seen the New York Times release a slew of cool gizmos and gadgets. But the Wall Street Journal’s Mobile Reader is easily our favorite to date.