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What would thrift shopping look like in the metaverse?

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Built around the idea of a digital universe (or a metaverse), Around is a unique approach to thrifting, that facilitates the exchange of original products through online trading… and relies on NFTs to act as a proof of product authenticity as well as a sort of warranty card.

Sure, cryptocurrencies and NFTs are an absolute curse for the environment, although this new conceptual VR marketplace is certainly doing its part by promoting a somewhat sustainable culture of second-hand product ownership and an extension of a product’s life cycle. Meet ‘Around’, a metaverse marketplace for your physical goods. Much like a digital storefront like Amazon or Shopify, it allows products to be bought and sold, although it lets individual sellers sell their own belongings, sort of like a virtual garage sale – think eBay but better. What’s interesting about Around is that it doesn’t just let you buy and sell used goods, it’s a comprehensive virtual world where even your digital avatar buys and sells items too… so a pair of actual Jordans purchased in the physical world would also mean that your digital avatar would own a pair of Jordans.

Secondhand products are simply auctioned off to the highest bidder in this virtual universe. Your digital character participates in a bidding war with other characters, and the person who wins the bid doesn’t just get the actual product shipped to them, they also get the bragging rights of their avatar owning a digital copy of the product too (similar to buying skins on Fortnite). Along with the digital copy, your avatar even acquires the product’s NFT, which acts as proof of ownership and authenticity. An NFT is minted for each individual product, sort of like a digital badge, and when you sell a product, the NFT gets transferred to its new owner. The NFT serves as a warranty certificate in the real world, allowing brands to live up to the promise of their product’s quality, and for the added flair, it displays as a digital badge in your digital world, allowing you to flaunt your swag in the real world as well as the metaverse!





What Around proposes isn’t something radically new, but it does package a few existing concepts, like product ownership, thrifting, NFTs, and the metaverse into a singular cohesive solution. It seeks to reinvent how youngsters shop in the future, offering an interactive, immersive virtual storefront that people can practically line up in front of to buy limited-edition merch, effectively turning the digital store into a new social space.

Designer: Jeongin Lee

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Using Condensate Creatively

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Whether it’s for health or comfort reasons, plenty of people implement dehumidifiers to reduce the level of humidity in the air and the same users often encounter a similar problem. The collected water generally goes to waste as it’s filtered directly back into a drain or disposal system. The Around dehumidifier addresses this issue with a simplistic design change.

It incorporates a removable reservoir specially adapted for watering plants. The reservoir remains enclosed within the compact unit until the indicator light displays that it’s full. Then, the user can quickly remove it and use the water to hydrate their garden or indoor plants. A specialized lip funnels water exactly like a pitcher!

Designer: Joonhyuk Ahn

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The light indicates how much water is in the container.

Best Laptops: Top 10 Best Seller Laptops

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There are many laptops that will be best for you in many ways. But the most radical laptops you can find have two things in common. They are quality-wise tops and their performance is superb as well...

Best Laptops Around for Miles

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The most radical laptops you can find have two things in common. They are quality-wise tops and their performance is superb as well. Best laptops include several brands such as: Lenovo, Apple,...

Magnetically Driven Pen

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MagPen is a magnetically driven pen interface that works both on and around mobile devices. The device introduces a new vocabulary of gestures and techniques that redefine the way we use our current standard capacitive stylus. With this new pen we can explore ranges like detecting the orientation the stylus is pointing to, selecting colors using locations beyond the screen boundaries and more.

MagPen recognizing different spinning gestures associated with different actions, it even infers the pressure applied to the pen, and uniquely identifies different pens associated with different operational modes.

As the designer explains, These techniques are achieved using commonly available smartphones that sense and analyze the magnetic field produced by a permanent magnet embedded in a standard capacitive stylus. This paper explores how magnets can be used to expand the design space of current pen interaction, and proposes a new technology to achieve such results.

Designer: SungJae Hwang

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