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A Fuzzy, Cuddly Depression-Fighting Robot Is The Platonic Ideal Of Cute
By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com

Like a non-virtual Tamagotchi, the Babyloid is designed to lift the spirits of lonely older people.

“Be as smart as a puppy” is the advice that Matt Jones of BERG has for robots of the near future. You can see that design prin­ci­ple in action w…

Oxytocin Bot.

atencio:

How come no one told me that tabloid magazines have the best personal ads ever? (Taken with Instagram at Sunset Bronson Studios)

Berlin, Rampenlicht. 

stattbad

Brrrrlin

archiemcphee:

We have a special fondness for street art that works particularly well with its surroundings. This massive piece by Mambo is exceptionally awesome, both in scale and cleverness.

In 1929 Johnny Weissmuller inaugurated the Molitor swimming pool in Paris. This wonderfull art deco building is scheduled to be demolished in 2012. This giant collage is a giant tribute to the olympic champ as well as a bridge between that golden era and today.

[via Unurth]

(via braiker)

The popular social blogging site Tumblr is hiring writers and editors to cover the world of Tumblr.

Chris Mohney, a senior vice president for content at BlackBook Media, will be the site’s editor in chief. Jessica Bennett, a senior writer and editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, will be the executive editor and, she said, a kind of Tumblr correspondent.

“Basically, if Tumblr were a city of 42 million,” Ms. Bennett said, referring to the number of Tumblr blogs that exist, “I’m trying to figure out how we cover the ideas, themes and people who live in it.”

Their work — both documenting the Tumblr service and marketing it to users — will appear on the Web site’s staff blog and on a separate part of tumblr.com that has not been set up yet, a Tumblr spokeswoman said Wednesday…

(Source: thedeadline)