Chocolate candle gracefully decomposes into fondant:

The Salon Professionnel du Chocolat’s Fujisan is a candle made of chocolate. As it burns down, it oozes molten chocolate onto the cake in which it is mounted. I imagine this would require a lot of patience on the part of the dessert-eater, but it might make a cool centerpiece that the host lights up just before clearing the main course plates.

FUJISAN plays with 2 inescapable elements of birthdays: the candle and the chocolate cake. The idea is to revisit the “fondant au chocolat” by using the candle to obtain the warm heart of the cake. Planted in the biscuit, the chocolate candle melts little by little it and fills the “crater” of the cake. So, the time of a song, the fondant gets ready under our eyes.

FUJISAN

(via Neatorama)

Cityscapes made from schoolbooks:

Liu Wei, an artist from Beijing, is currently exhibiting a show called “Foreign” at the Almine Rech gallery in Paris. Wei’s art plays with cityscapes, and “Foreign” features cityscapes made from schoolbooks affixed with steel rods and clamps. To the right is Library No.4, above is Library No.6.

Almine Rech Gallery – Current

(via Neatorama)

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Lego wigs:

I love the Lego wigs used in this Elroy Klee campaign for Mindplay. They’ve got the perfect mix of impracticality and strikingness to qualify as gen-you-wine coo-choore.

Mindplay: bricks on me

(via Geekologie)

(Photo: Niki Kits-Polman & Ebo Fraterman)

A Softer World:

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Eric Sloane’s Weather Book:
By means of insightful hand-drawn diagrams, Eric Sloan gives the best explanation I’ve ever seen of how weather works. Originally created to help sailors 50 years ago, it works for pilots, outdoor explorers, and anyone else dependent on a change of weather.

— KK

Eric Sloane’s Weather Book

Eric Sloane

2005, 96 pages

$10

Available from Amazon

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Eric Sloane’s Weather Book

Forgot Algebra:

How to Help Realign Someone’s World View:

Babies driving robot wheelchairs (super cute video):

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Here’s an amazing feel-good video with which to end your week, via the National Science Foundation. The really awesome footage starts around a minute and a half in.
“James C. (Cole) Galloway, associate professor of physical therapy, and Sunil Agrawal, professor of mechanical engineering — have outfitted kid-size robots to provide mobility to children who are unable to fully explore the world on their own.”
The robotic assistance devices are designed to help infants whose mobility and independence is limited by conditions such as autism, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy.
I understand that these will be among the many exhibits on display at the USA Science Fest at the Washington, DC Convention Center on Sat., April 28th. Babies probably not included.