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1. Giving Tree A masterpiece of design, Nick Foley’s Pear Light is a delicious mix of art, technology, and fantasy. The tree is a charging station for the pluckable pear-shaped bulbs, which remain illuminated by ultrabright LEDs for up to an hour by themselves. craftzine.com/go/ pearlight

2. Sweater Edition Newsknitter is a “data visualization project,” which sounds a bit dry, but meditation on the connection between the news and daily life. Internet news feeds are converted into visual patterns, which are turned into knitwear using a computerized knitting machine. casualdata.com/ newsknitter