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The Brazil headquarters for retail conglomerate Walmart's online division by Estudio Guto Requena has colour-coded levels and a terrace with a miniature golf course (+ slideshow). (more...)

the new time collapse video charts transportation patterns and volume, while revealing the color palette and preferences of san diego drivers.

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When USB flash drives first came out, they were useful, expensive and valued things. Nowadays they're still useful, but I've got a drawer full of them, as every press conference I attend passes them out like candy. Most are made of plastic, some of metal. As they continue to proliferate, oughtn't we make them out of recycled/recycleable materials?

BOLTgroup thinks so. The North-Carolina-based design firm is trying to Kickstart Gigs 2 Go, their project to release flash drives with bodies made from recycled paper pulp. The idea is that users buy them in credit-card-sized four-packs, and tear them off as needed for file sharing. Have a look:

The reason why I've got this in the "Yea or Nay" section is, do you think these will see uptake, given their cost? When it comes to bang for buck, careful shoppers can scoop up flash drives for roughly 50-cents-to-a-dollar per gigabyte; The Gigs 2 Go drives still available ring in at roughly two bucks per gig, with an early batch of $1/gig long gone. Do you think their uptake will be dependent on cost, or would you be willing to pay slightly more for a thumb drive you could recycle?

When Xiao Wei's right hand was severed in an industrial accident, doctors at a hospital in Changde, China, grafted it to his ankle. The blood supply from his ankle kept the hand alive and viable on the seven-hour journey to a larger hospital with better facilities, where it was removed a month later from his ankle and reattached to his wrist. It's not clear whether he'll regain the use of his hand, but doctors are hopeful.

Severed hand saved after being attached to man’s ankle [Metro]

(via JWZ)

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We have been so lucky to have such a great partnership with Society6 over the years with our Design Milk Dairy curated product collection and our weekly Dairy posts. We’re celebrating today by sharing the top 10 most popular products we’ve shared in our Dairy. From pop icons to patterns to pineapples, here are your favorites:

10. Pop Cross iPhone case by Danny Ivan from our iPhone 5 cases post

9. 5050 No.1 by Martin Isaac from our patterned pillow post

8. Sorbet II by Galaxy Eyes from our iPhone 5 cases post

7. Pineapple Pattern by Georgiana Paraschiv from our Samsung Galaxy S4 cases post

6. Heavy Construction by Richard Vergez from our Fall hoodies post

5. March 1927 by Three Of The Possessed from our patterned pillow post

4. A Lot of Cats mug by Kitten Rain from our mugs post

3. Pass this On iPhone 5C case by Danny Ivan from our iPhone 5 cases post

2. Scales by Steven Womack from our patterned pillow post

AND THE MOST POPULAR PRODUCT IS… (I knew it!)…

1. Bill Murray pillow by Replaceface from our pillow faves post

In an ongoing effort to support independent artists from around the world, Design Milk is proud to partner with Society6 to offer The Design Milk Dairy, a special collection of Society6 artists’ work curated by Design Milk and our readers. Proceeds from the The Design Milk Dairy help us bring Design Milk to you every day.

“SQUIRREL!” Have you ever wondered why parks and other urban green spaces are filled with squirrels? Well, Etienne Benson, an assistant professor in Penn’s Department of History and Sociology of Science, believes that their intentional introduction to America’s green spaces was “essential to maintaining people’s health and sanity”. In his latest paper, “The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States,” Benson explains how squirrels were intentionally introduced in order to alter people’s conceptions of nature and community.

Read the rest of Squirrels Were Introduced to U.S. Parks to “Maintain People’s Health and Sanity”

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