The latest Dezeen Mail newsletter features a pen that draws 3D objects, Google's Tel Aviv offices and a blackened-timber Melbourne residence (above) plus all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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News: Apple has applied for a patent for a slap bracelet with a video display that could be a blueprint for its much-anticipated "iWatch" concept. More about Apple files patent for video "slap bracelet"
News: Mace, the British firm behind London's Shard skyscraper, has been selected to oversee the construction of the world’s tallest building in Saudi Arabia. More about Shard builders to construct world's tallest skyscraper
Sliding blue and yellow walls hide the sleeping and storage spaces in this 1970s-inspired beach apartment in the south of France by Turin-based designers Studio UdA. More about Fun House by Studio UdA
News: Google has released a video preview of Google Glass, the voice-controlled wearable headset that lets users send and receive messages, take pictures and search the web hands-free (+ movie). More about Google unveils video preview of Google Glass headset
The bright lights of Broadway and the Eiffel Tower's ironwork inspired the interior of this Parisian hamburger restaurant by French studio CUT Architectures (+ slideshow). More about Paris New-York by CUT Architectures
Product news: the circular sections of this console by French designer Philippine Lemaire for Ligne Roset can be curled round to make a dining table. More about Itisy table by Philippine Lemaire for Ligne Roset
This gabled steel shed surrounded by crops is a self-sufficient farmhouse in Ontario by Studio Moffitt (+ slideshow). More about House on Limekiln Line by Studio Moffitt
Spanish architects Anna and Eugeni Bach have renovated an ageing Barcelona apartment to show off its mosaic floors and decorative ceiling mouldings. More about Apartment Refurbishment in Consell de Cent by Bach Arquitectes
British fashion designers Sibling crocheted colourful flowers and giant accessories for their Autumn Winter 2013 womenswear collection shown during London Fashion Week. More about The Natural Blonde by Sister by Sibling
News: a pen that can "print" 3D drawings in mid-air has attracted nearly $500,000 in one day from Kickstarter backers (+ movie). More about Pen that doodles 3D objects attracts 0,000 on Kickstarter
Hackney-based Studio Weave has constructed a network of listening pipes in a back courtyard of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital to create a secret factory of lullabies for children (+ slideshow). More about Lullaby Factory by Studio Weave
Ilse Crawford of Studioilse has converted a 100-year-old house in Stockholm into a boutique hotel filled with richly coloured wood, leather and velvet (+ slideshow). More about Ett Hem Hotel by Studioilse
Stockholm 2013: a wall lamp that mimics an eclipse of the sun and tray of vases held fast by magnets were among the objects on show in an exhibition of work by young Norwegian designers during Stockholm Design Week (+ slideshow). More about State of Things by Klubben
Windows are hidden behind timber screens that fold back in all different directions at this family house in Israel by architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More about Kfar Shmaryahu House by Pitsou Kedem
In this previously unpublished movie filmed by Dezeen, Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola explains why she rejected the "very masculine" style of kitchen showrooms to design a retail space for kitchen appliance brand Scholtès. More about "Kitchen design should be less masculine" - Patricia Urquiola
Product news: Croatian designer Filip Gordon Frank has put his paperclip-like Mini Me desk lamps into production under his new brand Polymorph. More about Mini Me lamps by Filip Gordon Frank
News: relaxing planning restrictions on the green belt would destroy London's vitality "even more surely than it would despoil the countryside," architect Richard Rogers has warned. More about Allowing greenfield development would "wreck" London – Richard Rogers
These fictional views of imaginary architecture and landscapes are photographic collages produced by American CGI artist Jim Kazanjian. More about Hyper-collage photography by Jim Kazanjian
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book containing over 800 drawings by the Bouroullec brothers. More about Competition: five copies of Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec - Drawing to be won