If you ever wished to watch the Olympics on a plastic bubble in the sky, your dream may soon come true. A group of engineers, artists and architects, led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have unveiled plans for a Digital Cloud that would seemingly hover over London.

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Designer Wieke Somers has won the top prize at the Dutch Design Awards 2009 for her whimsical merry-go-round coat rack. In addition to being a gorgeous piece of art, this clever installation functions as a personal storage area where visitors can leave belongings in lockers as well as hang their coats. [Core77]

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Simon Pillard and Philippe Rosetti of the Paris-based design team Munchausen have spruced up simple IKEA furniture by covering it with over 20,000 Legos. [CoolHunter]

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Animusic. Video after the jump.

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Check out this year’s winners of the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition: stunning images of nature under a microscope. Above is the entry that won first place, Dr. Heiti Paves’s photo of the anther (pollen-bearing part) of a thale cress plant. [NYT]

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