Oregon, US based TreeSmart recycles newspapers to create amazing pencils. Apart from the ecological benefits, these pencils creates a new pattern each time it is sharpened. [via]

These amazing coconut shell bowls are from Bambu, a company that makes contemporary products using eco-friendly and renewable materials. [via]

Here is an interesting and easy-to-use US dollar design concept for the US Dollar ReDe$ign Project. This is created by a graphic design firm Dowling Duncan.

According to the firm, the reason for the vertical format is that “When we researched how notes are used we realized people tend to handle and deal with money vertically rather than horizontally. You tend to hold a wallet or purse vertically when searching for notes. The majority of people hand over notes vertically when making purchases. All machines accept notes vertically. Therefore a vertical note makes more sense.”

More entries can be found here. [via]

Above is an useful flowchart on how to evaluate new people on Twitter. This is the creation of John Antonios, a Cairo, Egypt based marketing consultant. Click here for a larger image. [via]

Geosocial universe is an info-graphic created by the digital creative agency Jess3. It shows the relative size of social networks and online services such as Skype, Gmail, MySpace, Twitter and Foursquare, and also shows the proportion of their user base that access the service via a mobile device. [via]

Above are 15 facts about neutrality on the Internet from Online MBA Programs. [via]

Designed by Israel based designer Yaniv Berg, this new camera design concept allows photographers to more easily “shoot from the hip.”

The DSLR camera is designed in the shape of a periscope, shifting the shooting center of gravity from eye level, down to the waist. This angle is known to help capture more intimate and direct photographs without appearing staged. [via]

Apple has launched a new iPad advertising campaign called “iPad is Delicious“ featuring the third-party apps and thereby making it delicious, current, learning, playful, literary, artful, friendly, productive, scientific, and magical. Cool!

The illustrated guide to Ph.D is an interesting explanation of what Ph.D is by Matt Might, Assistant Professor at the School of Computing University in Utah.

I think this illustration is applicable to knowledge in general. [via]