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Inspiration from the world of home interiors

Inspiration from the world of home and interiors is to be made regularly available to members of CDN in an innovative exchange of editorial content with the leading design resource in the design, fashion and lifestyle sector. Starting today, CDN will publish a quarterly report using images and information provided by WGSN-homebuildlife, the online trend forecasting and product design tool created for the interiors market. It is an offshoot of WGSN, the online service providing analysis, research and global creative intelligence for the fashion and apparel industry.

Smart car tipping strikes San Francisco

The Smart ForTwo: brilliantly designed to be safe, compact transport for two people and easily manoeuvred around the city. Although perhaps a little too easily manoeuvred, if what happened to four of the little blighters in San Francisco earlier this week is anything to go by. That’s not a standard parking procedure: ‘Smart car tipping’ has suddenly become a thing.

Porsche Battery – a mere £1200

The rather expensive Porsche Lithium Ion Battery Car batteries have been roughly the same shape and size – and utilised basically the same lead-acid technology – for years. They’ve got better, as you no longer need to top them up with distilled water at regular intervals (I’m showing my age now), and they are less prone to going flat. But that probably has more to do with alternators replacing dynamos than the batteries themselves.