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Funky Sunglasses Made From Recycled Skateboards
Well-known skate brand, Diamond Supply Co. has released a preview of its latest line of sunglasses that are made from recycled skateboards. True to their brand and like previous models, the sunglasses feature a retro-inspired frame, but instead of conventional plastic, the entire frame is made of multicoloured layered wood construction. The Diamond brand title is labelled on each temple stem for proof of authenticity. We ...
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Now You Can Inhale Chocolate And Coffee With ‘Le Whif’
Satisfying a chocolate cravings feels so great, but it can often result in bas news for your waistline. Luckily, Le Whif has developed a vaporized version of chocolate that allows you to inhale your delicious treat at a consequence of less than 1 calorie PER serving. Although not an original idea, we’ve shared products like this in the past, but we’re still blown away that each ...
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Highly Detailed Art Made Entirely Out Of Fingerprints
Artist Judith Ann Braun uses her fingers to create stunning murals. With nothing more than graphite dust and her own finger tips, Braun is able to create works of art within the Fingerlings series that have an intense sense of motion and texture. Her abstract works are particularly intriguing, but the artistry behind her landscape works is equally impressive. In Braun’s artists statement, she states: [The ...
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Pal-V: A Funky Flying Car Prototype
The PAL-V ONE is a dual purpose vehicle that drives on land like any other car, but within minutes can be transformed into a flying vessel. The PAL-V ONE flies like a gyrocopter, making it easy to take off and land in small spaces. To operate the PAL-V ONE, users in the USA require a Sports Pilot License. In Europe, a Recreational Pilot License or a ...
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Crazy Bubble Gum Illusion Art In Venice
Luxembourger artist Simone Decker created a provocative art installation of small-scale bubble gum wads positioned throughout Venice, Italy and photographed in a way that the gum wads appear to be large sculptural works. Th collection was called “Chewing in Venice 1 & 2″ and was created in 1999 – it’s an oldie by this time, but still a goodie. As said by the artist herself, “The ...
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16 Hilarious Celebrity Make-unders
If celebrities were not privy to the private chefs, the makeup artists, the hair dressers and the stylists that work to create the images we have come to know and love, it IS POSSIBLE that celebrities would be just as average looking as the rest of us common plebs. These photos of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Jennifer Anniston, Scarlet Johansson, ...
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Life-Sized Lego Forest In Australia
One of our favourite companies, Lego, has designed and installed this life-sized LEGO forest in the Living Desert in the Australian Outback. The forest consists of 15 pine trees and 15 flower sets all 66 times larger than their toy counterparts (that sets trees at 4m high!) and are made out LEGO built the forest in celebration of the company’s 50 year anniversary. John Peddie, the ...
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Aquaskipper: A Wicked Human-powered Watercraft
The Aquaskipper designed by Inventist is a lightweight watercraft designed to offer users a great workout while they are hopping and skimming above the water surface at a top speed of17mph. The Aquaskipper features a fiberglass spring that is responsible for the gentle bobbing and bouncing on the water’s surface while the hydrofoil wings have very little drag in the water. We think the Aquaskipper looks ...
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Electric Paper Airplane Conversion Kit
No rowdy highschool classroom is complete without a soaring paper airplane, but to make the most of your flimsy little aircraft, you should invest in the PowerUp Electric Paper Airplane Conversion Kit designed by Shai Goitein. The electric propeller slips onto your boring paper airplane to give you over 30 seconds of flight for a single charge (the battery recharges in 20 seconds just in time ...
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Some More Extremely Impressive Body Painting
New Orleans-based artist, Craig Tracy, is known for his unique works of art, appropriately titled Bodypaintings that involve human subjects who lend their bodies to act as the canvas for Tracy’s paintings. Tracy uses many techniques in his Bodypainting works when applying pigment to the human body, including traditional paintbrush application, finger painting, sponging, splatter and dripping application and airbrush. Inspired by culture, nature and intellectual ...
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World’s Largest Building Made Of Recycled Beer Bottles
Las Vegas is now home to the world’s largest building made from recycled bottles called the Morrow Royal Pavillion. The 30,000 square foot manufacturing facility was created by LAs Vegas Entrepreneaur, Scott McCombs, and is made from more than 500,000 beer bottles that were collected from Las Vegas strip hotels and crushed into tiny glass bits. The crushed glass was then formed into a concrete composite ...
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Cold Water Coffee Dripper Perfect For Summer
The Hario Cold Water Coffee Dripper sounds like a great product – in case the title didn’t give it away, this coffee dripper produces a smooth, mellow brew using the classic cold-drip method perfect for making full-flavoured coffee concentrate ideal for iced beverages and for use in cooking and baking. Now, unless you like a super concentrated cup of joe, you’re going to want to mix ...
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Handy Dandy Storm-Proof Matches
REI’s Stormproof Matches are meant to be used by backpackers, hikers and extreme sports fanatics who find themselves at a loss for fire due to inclement weather. The match will not let go of a flame until the chemical coating has entirely burned out, making it somewhat easier to start a fire in the rain (a lot of rain…like…a storm). To extinguish the fire prematurely, the ...
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Luxury Yacht Inspired By The Streets Of Monaco
Have you heard of Yacht Island Design? This amazing company is striving to make major changes in the hatch design industry, most notably with their design concept to recreate the streets of Monaco upon an innovative floating platform…i.e.: a yacht. Leaving the conventional hull shape behind, this company is taking complete and utter creative freedom in order to offer clients a truly unique vacation experience. The ...
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45 Self Portraits Created On A Different Drug Every Day
Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders conducted a bizarre experiment. For several weeks, he took a different drug every day and made a portrait of himself under the influence. He is no stranger to self portraits either: on March 30th 1995 he started doing at least one Self-Portrait everyday for the rest of his life. At present he has over 8,000 of them. Like fingerprints, snowflakes and DNA ...
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The Creepy Burning Earth Fire Pit
Backyard fire pits would be so much more exciting if everyone used the Third Rock Earth design by Fire Pit Art. USA-based Fire Pit Art is a company that produces creative heavy duty fire pits for residential and commercial use (including custom designs). The Third Rock design features a large orb with negative cut outs of the Earth’s lands, while the two thirds of water space ...
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The Amazing Pet Jellyfish Bowl
Apparently, jellyfish are becoming a fad in the world of ornamental aquariums, and Jellyfish Art is a company that is aiming to introduce jellyfish as pets to the masses as living works of art. Jellyfish require special water flow patterns to survive, and many large-scale aquariums are fully equipped to house these magnificent creatures. Jellyfish Art has developed a special type of tank that will allow ...
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Bulletproof Polo Shirt
Columbian designer, Miguel Caballero, has released the Bulletproof Men’s polo shirt that looks like a regular collared short-sleeved shirt, but comes with anti-ballistic set of removable ultra-light weight panels. The bullet-proof polo shirt is part of Caballero’s Black Label Collection – a line renown as “high-security fashion”. High profile clients including Steven Seagal, King Abdullah of Jordan,Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, Columbian President Alvaro Uribe, Prince Felipe ...
