Georgia Republic architect Irakli Kiziria has designed a Louis Vuitton condom, enveloped in the label’s notorious brown packaging and adorned with what looks like raised lettering (for enhanced pleasure?). The luxury rubbers are priced at $68 each, according to the “official” website. To put the price in perspective, $68 could buy you about six 12-packs of regular condoms. GOLD MINUTE REPEATER WATCH FROM LOUIS VUITTON EXERCISE ...
There’s nothing wrong with a good pun every now and then which is why we love this hand-shaped Hand Soap by Andie McPhee. It’s true, we will go pretty far to solicit a smile or a giggle from our friends, and we can’t think of a better way to do that than with this hand soap casually placed in the guest bathroom. But WAIT! The baby ...
What do you say about a human-scale torso that has been constructed entirely out of white card? We’d say: Bravo! Kudos go out to Australian architect Horst Kiechle for creating this interesting work of art from nothing more than paper product. The sculpture, entitled Paper Torso features geometric organs, including a heat, lungs, intestines and more, that are all removable in order to be studied in ...
Brooklyn-based artist Steve Bialik is a genius. Ok, maybe not by scientific standards, but surely a pant load of Stars geeks who love classic Japanese illustrations will likely tout him as one. Bailik’s first series of Samurai Star Wars include Star Wars characters remained as JApanese Samurai in typical Japanese block printed scenes. Furry Chewy looks more like a Japanese dragon than a fuzzy space creature, ...
There’s nothing wrong with adding a little bit of retro into your life, and now it’s easy to do so on an everyday basis (without having to succumb to retro fashion styles) with the Retro USB Mouse. The 1985 computer mouse model is compatible with both PC and MAC, and costs a lot less than the fancy-shmancy high-tech mouses of today. Our only qualm is that ...
The sculptural beauty behind this coffee brewer is impressive – the Top Brewer by Scanomat turns the common conception of coffee brewing and dispensing on its head. The arched stainless steel tap is designed to be installed within any tabletop, and brews the perfect cup of coffee every time. The patented milk foamer is the heats fresh milk on demand and foams to the desired texture ...
Siren Elise Wilhelmaen, a young Norway-based designer prides herself on creating concepts and designs for products, furniture and installations that have an eire of sustainability and humour to them. The knitting clock and knitting grandfather clock were created in 2010 out of wood, wool and acrylic glass. The clocks knit a single stitch, and are working 24 hours a day to produce a 6 foot (2m) ...
A British team of researchers has been trying to determine what kind of freaky creatures, if any, inhabit the volcanic underwater vents (often referred to as the block smokers) of the South West Indian Ridge in the Indian Ocean, and let us tell you this – the creatures they have captured are sure to star in Disney’s next horror film. It’s believed that some of the ...
Leave it to architect Frank Gehry to come up with this twisted and fabulously interesting design concept for the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. The centre was conceptualized in 2007 and founded by Larry Ruvo – the founder of “Keep Memory Alive” (also known as KMA), a research facility and health centre that Ruvo opened in memory of his father who was ...
VAN GOGH GAUGUIN GUSTAVE MOREAU GEORGES SEURAT DELACROIX DEGAS RENOIR Ever wonder what the palette of history’s most influential painters might look like? Us neither, but we were happy to stumble upon some photographs of what we’re hoping actually ARE the real life wood palettes of masters like Gaugin, Degas and Delacroix. The remnants of pigment blobs on each palette can give present-day researchers a lot ...
One of our favourite Canada-based shoe and accessories lines, Luigi Sardo, recently starting producing winter toques inspired by designer Mark Lacaria’s home base of Toronto, Ontario. The toques are made of thick knit acrylic yarn and feature chunky knit custom text on the front and back panels. The toques have become the latest craze in winter wear, with more and more buyers becoming interested in sporting ...
Korean artist Seo Young Deok has created a series of nudge sculptures constructed entirely out of lengths of chain. The artist uses medium-gauge household chains and bicycle chainrs to create incredibly beautiful and realistic human forms. The reflection of the chain material is evocative of the traditional sculptural medium of bronze, and yet the chain provides the sculptures with such a distinct and tactile texture that ...
Forget everything that you thought you knew about egg-timers. Introducing … PiepEgg! PiepEgg is an egg-timer which cooks along with your eggs! Breakfast eggs cannot be cooked more easily and more precisely! This (c)ultimate egg-timer actually recognizes the temperature of the egg yolk as it coagulates. Just place PiepEgg in a saucepan along with the eggs and an effective melody will sound when the desired firmness ...
CLICK TO VIEW FULL SIZE This diddy is courtesy of Andrew Shears, an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley in Menasha, Wisconsin. He recently earned a PhD in Geography from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. His research interests lie at an intersection of the human-environmental nexus, and includes branches of technological, memorialization and urban geographies. He lives in Neenah, Wisconsin with ...
A Rube Goldberg machine is a device that aims to complete a simple task in the most complicated way possible. The Rube Goldbergian contraption featured in this post assists with turning the page of a newspaper, and the overly complex machine and its master have become two of our favourite things in the world. Kinetic artist Joseph Herscher, dubbed by the New York Times as “Brooklyn’s ...
The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma, and sometimes referred to as the series comma) is the comma used immediately before a coordinating conjunction (usually and or or, and sometimes nor) preceding the final item in a list of three or more items. For example, a list of three countries can be punctuated as either “Portugal, Spain, and France” (with the ...
The Little Printer is a cube-shaped, palm-sized printer that prints personalized mini-newspapers for you, with content curated from your own social media profiles. The print-out reads like a personalized receipt that is maximum 10 inches in length. Content to be printed is controlled from a smartphone app and then printed once or twice a day depending on user settings. And don’t worry, the Little Printer isn’t ...
spnKiX are battery powered, motorized skates that strap right on to your shoes. They are hand controlled by a wireless remote. All hardware and electronics are integrated into a frame made of fiber reinforced nylon. One motor and battery pack per foot. A wireless remote controls both feet at once. The remote straps to your hand and you can vary the throttle with the continuously variable ...