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Frame, by Ola Giertz, isn’t your average easy chair. It’s a rectangular shaped chair that looks to be a three-dimensional picture frame that will “frame” the person who’s sitting in it. Designed for Materia, the seat takes a different approach to the chair by letting the user decide how they want to sit, while at the same time, letting them be the focal point in the chair.

Because it has no backs or sides, Frame lets you sit on it like a stool, straddle it and lean back on a side, push it against the wall and use the wall as a back, or you can put two Frame’s together to make a larger cocoon to relax in. You’re also not obligated to put the chair up against the wall if you don’t want to – you can place it in the middle of the room and sit on it facing either side.

The padded frame acts as a sound absorber so it will reduce unwanted noise while you’re trying to relax.

Photos by Carl Magnus Johansson.

Google has just announced a “Smart Contact Lens” which allows diabetics to measure their glucose levels easily through their tears. With diabetes becoming an increasingly growing problem, affecting every one in 19 people in the world, Google’s efforts could dramatically change how people living with the disease function daily. The lens works via a tiny electronic chip and antenna that is thinner than a human hair, embedded between two layers of lens material, that reads blood sugar levels through the wearer’s tears. Testing and discussions with the FDA are under way but it could be some time before the technology becomes available to the public.

Google Announces “Smart Contact Lens” is a post by Marta Sundac on Highsnobiety.

The trio of creatives that founded Vitamins, a design and invention studio in London, racked their brains thinking of how people stay organized and the best way that they themselves could remain on task. This led to The LEGO Calendar, a large and visible way to keep themselves and their projects organized.

Take a look:

Due to the partners being on the road a lot, they needed something that could work on- and offline, while being easy to understand. Their solution – a wall-mounted calendar made completely with LEGO bricks that laid out three months of the year.

Each horizontal gray board represents a month and each column symbolizes a day. All of their projects are assigned a specific color of LEGO and each brick represents 1/2 of a business day. Every team member gets their own LEGO person that shows their line on the calendar.

So what happens when someone’s not in the office? Well, they thought of that too. They designed software that automatically synchronizes the actual calendar to their digital one in the cloud. It’s as simple as taking a photo of the LEGO calendar with your phone and emailing it to a special address. Their software then scans through the photo and automatically detects what’s going on and updates the digital calendar. Genius, right?