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The QlockTwo Watch: Time In Words
You may remember reading about The Coolest Clock In The World on WHOA a few months ago. Well, the folks at Biegert & Funk have turned it into the coolest wrist watch in the world! The world′s first wristwatch in words at Baselworld! In a square there is a grid of 110 letters. When the stainless steel button is pressed, words light up in unexpected places ...
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D-Cell Battery Salt + Pepper Shakers From Kid Forever
Looking for a cool and different Salt & Pepper shakers? Salt & Power Battery Dispensers are a perfect fit. Their D-Cell batteries shape makes anyone believe they are real batteries and are sure to make you say WHOA! They are refillable through the bottom and, the best part? there’s a see-through “power indicator” that shows you how much salt or pepper you’ve got left inside BUY NOW ...
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15 Famous Movie Scenes Recreated With Lego Men
American Lego artist Alex Eylar has won our hearts with his hilarious and accurate recreations of famous movie scenes using Lego. All lighting is compliments of a desk lamp and paper to diffuse the brightness, and while all of the scenes shown were constructed from scratch most have been disassembled due to a lack of space. We love these works and look forward to many more ...
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Bloody Heart Shaped Cake
Uk-based baker extraordinaire Lily Vanilli (yes, this name is apparently real) has created a bloody cake that is sure to make some stomachs turn. The “Bleeding Hearts” cake is completely edible, made entirely out of red velvet sponge cake or blood-red cocoa cake, topped with blackcurrant and raspberry “blood” coulis. Yikes. Sounds a lot better than it looks, right? The mini versions are available for order ...
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Furniture Made Out Of Compacted Sawdust
Israeli industrial designer Yoav Avinoam has created a stool and coffee table made out of recycled saw dust. Sure, this isn’t quite an elaborate collection of furnishings, but quality over quantity is the focus of today’s post, and let us tell you this: sawdust furniture is pretty cool. This collection has been exhibited around the world and has won Avinoam the 2010 Massimo Milano design award. ...
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Laser Cut Nori For Seriously Posh Sushi
Following the 2011 tsunami on Japan, nori sales were down. In order to boost sales, Japanese ad agency I&S BBDO developed a series of intricately laser-cut seaweed sheets. The “Design nori” series features Cherry Blossoms (Sakura), Water Drops (Mizutama), Hemp (Asanoha), Turtle Seashell (Kikkou) and Tortoise Shell (Kumikkou) patterns, all of which have a special symbology in Japanese culture (mostly relating to happiness, good fortune and ...
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Funky Zoomorphic Chair Designs
Designer Merve Kahraman has designed two fabulous chairs in the Hybrid line. The collection was inspired by the mythologies of parahumans and is proportionately designed in a way that attempts to merge human and chair into one. Both chairs are handmade and available in different leather options. And here we were thinking it was so 1991 to throw the bunny ears over someone in a photo ...
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Star Wars As Told By Dr. Suess
Illustrator Adam Watson has produced an adorable series of drawings showcasing Star Wars characters and the universe they live in as if they were part of a Dr. Seuss story. Watson notes that “the Star Wars universe really blends with the goofy, strangely-named world of Dr. Seuss pretty easily!” – we couldn’t agree more. Seuss-ified Yoda takes the cake, but we love furry and friendly Seuss-ified ...
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‘Game Of Thrones’ Characters As Pets
Admit it, you are addicted to Games of Thrones despite it horrendously geeky tendencies – or perhaps you are the horrendously geeky type yourself and this show is right up your alley? Either way, Games of Thrones is wonderful. We have been following the show and have become smitten with all the characters (even the bad ones) which is why these illustrations by Mario Flores have ...
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Family Portraits Via Skype Projections
If you are already reading this text at the bottom of the screen, then you have undoubtedly been wowed by the portrait work of photographer John Clang. This photo series entitled Being Together explores how families who live in different countries attempt to remain connected through the use of online media line Skype. The artist himself lives in New York while the rest of his family ...
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Solar Powered Floating Resort Concept Is High Luxury
Italian industrial designer Michele Puzzolante has come up with a concept for the design of this self-sustaining floating resort/yacht hybrid. The Solar Floating Resort (aka SFR) is 20 meters long and offers luxury-seeking travellers an opportunity to experience marine life from a submerged pod, or the chance to sunbathe on the deck in an eco-conscious way. The SFR resembles a disc-like structure that connects and upper ...
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Dresses To Match Your Favorite Social Website
Italian digital artist Victor Faretina has been inspired by popular websites in his latest series of works entitled Web in Vogue. Faretina has successfully broken down each website and domain’s function in order to reassemble its elements and the principles of its design in a way that translates the websites into fashion. The use of popular logos, icons and colours makes it easy to identify each ...
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Amazingly Detailed Miniature Food Rings
We love anything portrayed in miniature format, and these super intricate and fun pieces of costume jewelry fit the bill to a “T”. Etsy vendor FingerFoodDelight sells a wide range of amazingly cute rings that feature your favourite dishes and drinks. Margherita pizza, cupcakes with heavy frosting, french fries with ketchup, crab leg soup…you name it, it is available as a miniature sculpture made to fit ...
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Jumbo Fingerprints Made From Random Stuff
American artist Kevin Van Aeist produced this collection of photos appropriately titled Fingerprints that features jumbo-sized fingerprints made out of everyday items (some of which are positively random in the best of ways). The artist uses his own fingerprints as his subject matter and attempts to use the materials that comprise the print to define the character. For instance, the fingerprint made out of yarn is ...
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Smart Leaning Rocker Design For Waiting Rooms
Let’s face it, when you’re waiting in a doctor’s office to hear your name called, or lining up at the passport office to renew your freedom to travel, sometimes you get a little antsy. You’re not alone, it happens to the most whoa-worthy people, and now thanks to product designer Avihai Shurin, you can release some built-up anxiety in a perfectly appropriate and public-safe way. The ...
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In South Korea: The ‘Love Land Sex Theme Park’
Feeling a little randy? You can get your fill of fun on your next vacation to South Korea if you stop by the Jeju Loveland sex theme park. Yes, this is true. Love Land is an outdoor sculpture park that opened in 2004 on Jeju Island in south Korea. Aside from 140 sculptures of people getting it on, the park also shares sex education films, hand-on ...
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Famous Artists Artistically Dissected
Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh – some of the world’s most famous and widely acclaimed modernist painters are shown in a new light as part of a promotional campaign for the MASP Art School in São Paulo. Brazilian advertising firm, DDB Brazil is responsible for executing this fabulous idea of artists shown dissected with their innards revealed in the artists’ very own original painting ...
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New York City’s Underwater Nightclub
The next time you are looking for a place to party in New York City, consider popping into the Underwater Nightclub in the Hudson River. Errr…wait, what?! Wearing old school scuba gear DOES look appealing, but we’re pretty thankful that this underwater nightclub is merely a concept, inspired by a wristwatch and presented by TechnoMarine. On the other hand, there is an upside to partying underwater ...
