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Amphibian Mobile Home
The Sealander is an amphibian mobile home designed to help you make the most of your next vacation. The Sealander attaches to your car and can be transported easily. There are currently two prototypes available for use on land and on inland waters. The Sealander is completed manufactured in Germany with a glass fibre-reinforced plastic shell and lay-up composite moulding – high-quality materials that are seldom ...
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Poop Powered Kitchen Design
Dutch electronic company, Philips, has designed the Microbial Home, a domestic ecosystem that harnesses biological processes to break down waste and convert it into energy through the use of a “bio-digester” kitchen island that uses natural bacteria to generate gas. In a time when eco-friendly measures are becoming more important than just a passing fad, the Microbial Home fits right in with new ways of thinking ...
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Magnetic Light Switch Plate Key Holder
Jake Frey is a 21 year old industrial design student at Philadelphia University and this is his latest project. It’s called the Magnetic Light Switch Cover and he has just launched the product on Kickstarter.com in order to fund the development and manufacturing costs that are required to get the product to market. The Magnetic Light Switch Cover is a standard size switch cover with an ...
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Famous Album Covers Starring Cats
One of the most hilarious and quirky graphic design we’ve seen comes from an awesome new Tumblr site called The Kitten Covers. The never-ending collection of images feature famous and iconographic album covers, but all the human artists have been replaced by photos of adorable and cuddle-worthy (and ultra cool) kittens. The curator of the site describes the collection as “Legendary albums from a world dominated ...
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Photoshop Parody Dish Ware
Todd Borka has designed a line of dishes inspired by OS X and Photoshop that feature a set of humorous concept designs of plates with images of Photoshop-like tools. Borka has affectionately called the collection the iPlate. When asked about the inspiration behind the concept, Borka replied: “Who hasn’t dreamed of being able to manage the details of one’s own life, like we manipulate images on ...
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Flyboard: The Human Dolphin Machine
The Zapata Flyboard from Zapata Racing is a water powered jetpack that attaches to your feet and hand and sends you flying above the water using 100 horsepower. The Flyboard is also easy to use, all you need is the bravery to ascend to such heights above the water and the ability to swim and it’s a go. Very easy to use, connect FlyBoard on every ...
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Massive Art Made From Garbage
Top-selling contemporary artist, Vik Muniz, traveled from Brooklyn, New York, back to his native country, Brazil, in order to create these intriguing works of art that are made from garbage and waste. In Jardim Gramacha, the largest open landfill site in the world on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, are hundreds of civilians who work amongst the piles of garbage. Muniz decided to photograph some ...
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Extreme Close-Up Photos Of Animal Eye Balls
Black Rabbit Caiman Crocodile Fish Guinea Pig Horse Husky Hyena Iguana Siam Cat Snail Tiger Python Suren Manvelyan, became working as a professional photographer in 2006 and is currently involved in nearly all fields of photography, especially in Macro, Portraits, Creative photo projects and Landscapes; but it was his macro photographs of animal eye balls that made us say WHOA! The general public doesn’t usually have ...
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Tiny Apartment Transforms Into 24 Rooms
In Hong Kong, because of the space, apartments are small and expensive. Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 sq. ft. apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. He calls this the “Domestic Transformer.” Source: www.jellywoo.com/
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Sculptural Teapot
Product designer, Joey Roth, likes to design things that articulate the beauty of everyday rituals, and we think he has hit the nail on the head with the Sorapot – a modern and unique teapot. Like his other products, the Sorapot combines functionality with honest, unfinished materials. It’s architectural form brings tea’s quiet beauty into sharp focus – an appliance that resembles a sculptural piece of ...
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Cross Bow Snow Ball Launcher
For all you North American and European readers who find yourself living in a country where snowy weather is part of the fun, here’s a good one for you. The Cross Bow Snow Launder can fire snowballs up to 60 feet (18m) and make for an awesome day outdoors. To use the launcher, place a snowball in the front, pull back the lever until it locks, ...
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Celebrities As Sunglasses
Image is everything, especially for celebrities, so it’s no surprise when one of our favourite mixed media artists, Hengry Hargreaves, came up with this fun photography project where he has paired a set of gold sunglasses with a celebrity name. The idea is that each celebrity’s sense of style (and dare we say swagger?) can be summed up in a single pair of sunglasses that the ...
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Portrait Of Steve Jobs Made From Mac Parts
The creative folk over at Foundry decided to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, former CEO and master-mind behind the incredibly successful computer brand, Apple. An old Mac Book Pro was disassembled, and after admiring the intricate and highly sophisticated components that comprise the technology, each component was disassembled. The individual parts were used to create a portrait of Steve Jobs shortly after his passing in October ...
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Creepy Animal Shaped Chairs
Spanish designer Maximo Riera likes to design chairs that exhibit animal forms. The designer’s Rhino Chair, Walrus Chair and Octopus Chair, part of the Animal Chair collection, are equally interesting mainly because of the unexpected nature (no pun intended) of the chairs’ forms. The series of three sculptural furniture pieces retain the vitality of the animals which they represent – Riera ensured the animals’ biology and ...
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8 Foot Tall iPhone Dock With 10,000 Watts
That iPhone dock up above is no joke (notice the scale of the iPhone in it). It was built as a one-off for CES 2012 by Behringer, the award-winning innovator of affordable professional audio and music equipment. Known appropriately as iNuke, this $30,000 8ftx4ft, 700 pound dock pumps out a handy 10,000 Watts of power. All in a package the size of a refrigerator. FULL PRESS ...
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Ghetto-Fab High Heel Nikes
These fun high heel versions of Nike dunks made us say WHOA! While the shoes are likely just prototypes or works of art (not available for purchase) are extra cool. The combination of bright colours, patent leather and vinyl make these shoes funky fresh and totally fashionable – maybe with enough complaint from consumers, these babies could hit the shelves? Likely not, but it’s fun to ...
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The Levitating Lamp
There’s no magic behind these amazing Light-Light lamps, just a whole-bunch of awesome science. The levitating lamps are handcrafted and available in two styles: ‘Silhouette’ and ‘Eclipse’. The top portion of the lamp shade that hosts the light source is not physically attached to the bottom portion of the lamp shade – a phenomenon that is possible thanks to futuristic electromagnetic components and LED lights (which ...
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Top Ten WHOA-Worthy Tumblr Blogs
Accidental Chinese Hipsters A collection of people from China that don’t know they are dressing like hipsters. Lonely Cheetos Lonely Cheetos is the saddest Tumblr of the year. I Love Charts The best place to find awesome charts on the internet. Onion-Like Headlines In Real Life A collection of real headlines that are too good to be true. ...
