With the iPhone soon to be launched on the world, the question has come up that maybe Apple borrowed their design for the iPhone from a company called MyOrigo? There are a lot of similarities like the entire screen being touchscreen, flipping the phone for widescreen, mp3’s and phone calls. Sadly MyOrigo couldn’t get a cell phone deal for their mydevice(image to the right.)

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Cool Modern Bookshelf by Designer Leo Kempf. He practices the art of plywood bending as a new woodworking technique. What you see in the photo is a piece of hard redwood and bent birch plywood that fits into corresponding slots in the redwood. The bookshelf removes the need for bookends by taking advantage of physics. Gravity holds everything in place.
Very cool looking and functional.

Raw Studio makes some very clever and highly creative garden chairs, made from one sheet of plywood. They’re made in Kent, Enland by a local an engineer-turned-art-student.

Hive is offering a modern storage solution that will brighten up any room you put it in. From Hive, The red componibili:

This year gold and red, the colors that symbolize Christmas, enliven two of Kartell’s cult products: Philippe Starck’s Gnomes and Anna Castelli Ferrieri’s Componibili modular units. Offered here is the Componibili. Available in a limited edition red, to lend a touch of playfulness as they furnish their surroundings.The Componibili elements have been designed to meet the various needs of use in any environment.

So, from the founder of boingboing, we get a new blog called Rule the Web.
Which is incidentally the name of his new book. Mark Frauenfelder’s book and how-to blog is simple. He explains how to do anything and everything on the internets…better, faster, and easier. In his post today he talk the virtues of using AOL-owned comany Xdrive which offers 5gb of storage. Not bad. I look forward to hearing much more from him.