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These Are The Droids You Are Looking For
You super-geeks are going to wet your pants over this – you can now have an 18″ tall interactive R2-D2 Droid of your very own. The freaks over at Purrfect Toys are selling this astromech droid unit that si ready to obey your commands. Get the droid’s attention by calling out “Hey, R2!” and get ready to play with your new robotic friend. There are over ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses
Imagine our excitement when we discovered these hilarious images of human noses that have been altered to resemble Ninja Turtle heads?! These images come from a frequently-updated tumblr blog called Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses, that has the following slogan: “God is the artist, I just find the turtle in his work”. The artists takes photographs of celebrities, politicians, sculptures, artists and draws a turtle head outline ...
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Bullet Wall Hook
This wall hook is sure to make you look twice! The bullet wall hook was designed by Brazilian-based product designer, Belo Horizonte. He claims that his works are heavily concept-based, and all have historical meaning – this set of bullet hooks is no exception. The hooks (not so subtly) signify violence and urban war in “times like these”. Horizonte claims that this product is not mean ...
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Heart-Shaped Wine Carafe
A Milan-based design showroom called PaolaC, released a design challenge during Milan’s design week to the students of Bozen-Bolzano University to create a tableware collection informed by food, health and eating habits; and that is exactly what up-and-coming designer, Liviana Osti, did. Osti was born in Trento, Italy, in 1989 and was studying design at the time of the competition. The carafe, entitled “Cuore” (which means ...
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Weird Steampunk Minions
Artist, Joseph F. Drust, has developed a wide range of vinyl “kitbashed” sculptures called Steampunk Minions that boast a seriously WHOA-worthy style. The creations plug into your computer via USB hookup and some of them light up, react to music and (our favourite:) play old-school Nintendo NES games. The sculptures are made out of recycled operational parts including magnets, tesla coils, USB drives and LCD screens. ...
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Nerd’s Map Of New York City
CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL RES VERSION New York City is one of the most vibrant and interesting cities in the world. As it is, tourists need more than a week to check off all the “must-see” sights, but the list just got longer (especially if you’re a super nerd). An enormous nerdy collaboration over at BuzzFeed has resulted in this super cool NYC tourist map ...
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Ing-Q: Single Seater Pod Car
Commonly mistaken for a giant baby monitor or personal massage device – this curvaceous bubble-shaped product is actually one of the most innovative car designs we have seen in a very long time. The kudos go out to 23 year old designer, Xiaowu Huang – a fourth year student from Hainan, China who is attending the Wuhan University of Technology. Huang is studying Automotive Support Engineering ...
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The World’s Smartest Coffee Cup
You never have to worry about burning your tongue on hot beverages again thanks to the smart folks over at Smart Lid. The Smart Lid, put quite simply, uses colour changing technology to indicate when your coffee or tea is safe enough to drink. A very hot beverage will result in the disposable lid appearing to be a bright red colour – a colour that most ...
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QlockTwo: Coolest Clock In The World
QLOCKTWO makes you pause and allows a different view of time. The typographic front combines the moment with the written word and makes it a statement. „It is half past eight.“ This clock forms a perfect square and seems to hover freely at the wall. A matrix with symmetrically arranged characters constitutes another square in the interior. Some of these characters shine in pure white to ...
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Quentin Tarantino Gushes Blood
Quentin Tarantino 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 are ...
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Solar Powered Device Charger
It’s about time someone took advantage of the sun’s free solar rays and developed a charger for electronic gadgets – thank you goes out to the brains behind the Ray prototype for this wonderful gadget design. The charger comes with a strong suction cup that can be used on any glass surface, including windshields as well as car and airplane windows, to collect solar energy and ...
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Amazing Chalk Swimming Pool
Leon is a Guinness Book World Record Holder for the largest street painting ever created. Leon Keer (1970) learned to paint through designing and producing large advertising murals for multi nationals (since 1997) such as Coca-Cola, Schweppes, Heineken, Red Bull, Reef, Evian, Royal Club, Remy Martin and Absolut Vodka. He has executed commissions in the Netherlands, Germany and Australia. His knowledge of materials, acquired by painting ...
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Super Geeky Bathing Suits
Thank goodness for designer, James Lillis, the brains behind the trendy fashion brand called Black Milk. James unknowingly started the popular clothing brand when he bought a used sewing machine and as much cheap nylon lining as $6 could buy. He made a couple of awkwardly sized shirts for himself and then the idea of designing and making his own clothing hit him after a friend ...
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Poo-Powered Bicycle
We’re pretty sure you’ve never seen one of these before: A Poo-Powered motorcycle with a toilet bowl for a seat. Were we right, or what? The unusual motorcycle design, called the Toilet Bike Neo Project, was recently unveiled by leading Japanese toilet manufacturer, TOTO, in order to promote the company’s “Green Challenge” of reducing CO2 emissions in bathrooms by 50% over the next five years (what ...
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2lmx: The Luxury Watch Re-Thought
’2lmx’ luxury watch in platinum with black dial full view, anthracite titanium case with black dial full view, rose gold case with white dial custom order model: chocolate brown with gemstone insets diagram of watch mechanism Sexy Promo Video: Designed by watchmaker and former museum director arnaud tellier, the ’2lmx’ is the inaugural watch of a new geneva-based luxury watch manufacturer by the same name. A ...
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Badass Disney Starlet Tattoos
Tattoo artist, Timothy John Shumate, of DeviantARTist Telegrafix, whipped up these illustrations of cartoon characters with tattoos to give us a glimpse of what the characters might look like if they were ink-obsessed (and let’s face it, if you dealt with being in love with a mortal and your only way to seal your fate was to surrender your angelic singing voice to an evil octo-woman-creature, ...
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Custom Golf Carts For The Rich
You can be the coolest cat on the green with one of these custom golf carts from Luxury Carts. Each cart’s custom body style is bolted to a Club Car, EZ -Go, or Yamaha Chassis and work off the golf course as well (ideal for gated communities, retirement homes and country clubs). If you can’t find a ridiculously cool cart to call your own, don’t fret ...
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Two Roads To Courage: Whiskey And Brass Knuckles
A gentleman by the name of Tyler Riewer is fortunate to have the best friends on the planet. As a birthday gift, they created a custom suitcase fitted to hold a set of brass knuckles and a bottle of Bulleit Bourbon. The custom case features the words “Life is a daring adventure, or nothing,” on the exterior along with the phrase “sack up.” Inside, presumably an ...
