Archive for July, 2011
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GEEKY iPOD TOUCH BED SHEETS
If you can’t live without your iPod Touch being in arms reach 24/7 then these bed sheets are just for you. The set costs $49 and is designed to look like the screen of an iPod Touch in that it has all the icons and shortcuts across the top of the duvet. The pillow is also designed with the drawing of an iPod on it to ...
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NINTENDO CONTROLLER COFFEE TABLE
Kyle Downes over at Ultra Awesome has built one of the coolest coffee tables ever seen– a functioning NES controller coffee table. In a stroke of old school genius, Kyle devised this giant NES controller from a scan of an original, crafting this one out of wood and basic electronics. And yes, it works if you plug it into a classic NES console. It may feel ...
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NASTY DRIED SQUID SAKE BOTTLES
Japan’s Ika Tokkuri sake bottles are pretty much as green a bottle as you’ll find; they’re made entirely from squid skins. Bottle-like shapes can be made by artfully stuffing the squids with rice or grain, and then using another green technology–the sun–to dry them into the desired shape. As for that fishy, squid taste? It’s actually desirable among certain sake drinkers, as it makes the taste ...
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OPTICAL ILLUSION DOOR
For all of you who love to see people walk into closed doors. Love optical illusions? We do too! Did you see the 3D Optical Illusion drawings from THIS POST?
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RETRO iPAD ARCADE CABINET
The brainiacs over at ThinkGeek have officially released the iCADE – an Arcade Cabinet with functioning joysticks for the iPad. Simply drop your iPad into the desktop-sized arcade cabinet and the blue tooth capability will connect to the iPad software effortlessness. ThinkGeek partnered with ION and ATARI in order to bring you a huge suite of classic arcade titles including Asteroids, Battlezone and Tempest. A friendly ...
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KNOTTY BUBBLES LIGHT FIXTURE
Knotty Bubbles pendant lights designed by Lindsey Adelman for Roll & Hill. Lindsey Adams Adelman was born in New York City in 1968. Her current work is the apex of a lifelong exploration in making objects. An ongoing interest in combining the hand-crafted with the machine-made, the sensual with the practical, and the feminine with the masculine consistently defines her work. Her work has been included ...
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A BOAT THAT FOLDS INTO A BAG
Designed by Arno Mathies & Max Frommeld, this small 8′ boat (2.5m) is made of a single plastic sheet and can be folded for easy transport. “The objective is to create an accessible flat-pack leisure boat designed for flat water environments”. A great concept for campers or even natural disasters!
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THE HEAD OF DANIEL DAY LEWIS
Daniel Day Lewis photographed by David LaChapelle. David LaChapelle, born March 11, 1963 in Fairfield, Connecticut, is a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique, sexualized, and often humorous style. LaChapelle’s work has been described as surrealist, grotesque, shocking and ironic. Ingrid Sischy, long-time editor of Interview magazine, has said there ...
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REAL LIFE STEAMPUNK IRON MAN COSTUME
This year has been a pretty decent year for conventions of all sorts, and one of the most recent ones that took place was the New York Comic Con. During this conference, Marvel hosted a costume contest, which focused on their characters, and the winner was Matt Silva, who came up with a modified version of the Iron Man suit, designed to look like it was ...
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3D STREET ART THAT WILL FOOL YOU
Street art that is sure to make you say “WHOA!”. Hand-drawn 3D chalk street drawings are always fun.
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2,000 POUND TRANSFORMER CAKE
To promote the third Transformers movie, Cake Boss uh, boss Buddy Valastro crafted his own homage to the legendary Autobot—and as befitting of the star of a cable reality show, it’s not your average day-old Safeway bakery department birthday creation. More sculpture than cake, the creation features Bumblebee halfway through transforming from a Camaro into an Autobot, looking like he’s sitting on a Camaro’s front end. ...
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CRAZY BATHTUB DESIGN
The minimalist Le Cob bath collection from Omvivo CEO & Chief Designer Joseph Licciarsi. Although it doesn’t hold much water as usual, the overflow water is designed to cascade onto the pebbles below, creating a therapeutic waterfall effect. www.furnicraft.info Want to see more modern design? Check out the Futuristic Villa from THIS POST.
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RETRO SLR CAMERA iPHONE COVER
Trick your friends and protect your iphone at the same time with these clever plastic shields that look like the Leica rangefinder camera. The first Leica prototypes were built in 1913 and intended to be used as compact camera for landscape cinema 35mm film. Unlike other compact cameras of the time, the Leica transported film horizontally, extending the frame size to 24 x 36mm, instead of ...
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BEER CAN LINGERIE
Russian designer, Ramm ND designed these Lingerie Cans. The cans look best when two are placed side-by-side – a clever marketing plan to get buyers to purchase more than one.
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SAVED HUMPBACK WHALE PUTS ON SHOW
It’s really hard not to anthropmorphize this situation: last February a boatload of people freed a humpback whale trapped in a net, and the whale put on a display that looks for all the world like a joyful “thank you” (this starts at 6:30). Whatever it means, it’s really lovely. Found by: Sylvain Duford Source: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com Like water mammals? Check out the amazing photography of Underwater ...
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$9200.00 CAMERA LENS CHESS BOARD
“Getting ready to move a business is just like any other move: you spend a lot of time waiting for workmen to show up: painters, electricians, plumbers, you name it. It seems Roger and Aaron got a little bored over at the new building. There wasn’t much to play with: lots of empty space, some lenses we’d started moving over, and some floor tiles they found. ...
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PSYCHEDELIC THREAD ART
After becoming bored and frustrated by the restraints imposed upon him by his graphic design course, Gabriel Dawe moved from his hometown of Mexico City to Montreal, Canada, and began creating artwork using techniques and materials that were considered women’s work by many of Mexico City’s male inhabitants. The colourful threads are installed close together but still allow for enough transparency to make the pieces of ...
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THIS BICYCLE COSTS $40,000
Describing their products as “perfectly handcrafted and strictly limited objects of art,” Germany’s Vandeyk Contemporary Cycles this fall will release the Nightstream, a retro-inspired mountain bike with a whopping €16,500 price-tag. The bike brand, comprised of “a handpicked brigade of experts in fields as diverse as design, bicycle frame building, photography, and writing,” seeks to produce revolutionary, highly-sophisticated designs with each hand-constructed bike. Constructed with only ...
