Strive for originality in your gift-giving? Have glassblower Livio Serena from 5.5 Designers whip you up a pair of eyeballs. Eerily realistic with the ability to light up your room (they’re lamps), the Cloned Eyeball Lamps are bound to make an impression on whoever you decide to give them to. Just don’t go using them as anal beads, mkay? Link
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The FuChat Detects Anger and Responds With It
Apparently, eco-friendly WiFi routers aren’t the only thing D-Link is in to. The FuChat, as it so appropriately named, is a cordless phone capable of making internet and land-line phone calls. That’s not all, this phone also has the function to detect changes of tone in a person�s voice and changes in body temperature, alerting the user of their current ...
Read More »You’ve Seen The Dark Knight, How About The White Knight?
Remember the Virgin Galactic Mothership Hunter posted about over the weekend? Well, Designer Burt Rhutan of Scaled Composites and Sir Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin, have unveiled the latest in aviation technology and the world?s largest all carbon composite aircraft, the White Knight 2. It’s capable of reaching heights as great as 50,000 feet and specifies in training pilots for ...
Read More »Divine Bovine
Hubba hubba! Take a look at this assortment of sexy and seductive animals that are worth drooling over. Warning, these pictures are not safe for work and will surely give you a hard on. That is, if the other artsy animals I’ve posted haven’t already done that. No idea who made them, but I know where they came from and ...
Read More »I Can’t Tie My Shoes Without Muting My Music
Japanese mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo is experimenting with this mind boggling approach to mobile device control that’s sure to give anyone an eye headache worse than TV coming through your glasses. How does it work? Firstly, no hands are needed. Simply move your eyes up or down to raise volume, accordingly. To skip a track, look right twice. Currently, ...
Read More »D-Link’s Peachy Green WiFi Routers
First, D-Link put routers in your pocket. Now, they’re thinking about the environment. D-Link is proud to claim it’s the first manufacturer to produce green home network WiFi routers capable of saving up to 40% in power usage. These routers are like a thoughtful roommate who never leaves the TV on or forgets to put the toilet seat down. With ...
Read More »‘Lookin’ Retarded’ Isn’t A Def Leppard Song
See this picture above you? How could you not? It’s ridiculous looking. You’d think it was a VR unit from your favorite 1993 arcade. It’s not. This is the Exar Paradise, a home oxygen bar that is way too big, looks stupid and probably won’t fit in your third-floor walk up. Like I said, I don’t see how anyone except ...
Read More »Jelly Architecture
Here’s a series of jellies that were designed by prestigious architects. And by prestigious I mean random. Each piece is currently on auction, so if you really fancy any of this stuff, feel free to whip out your Master Card.
Read More »[Re]drive Has A Stupid Name, Great Cause
Saying you’re into saving the Earth is the best way to score pussy nowadays. After all, after Al Gore’s movie and the Prius, every company is looking for a way to market something as “green.” A company called Fabrik will be releasing what is being dubbed the world’s most eco-friendly external hard drive, as if you cared. The SimpleTech [re]drive ...
Read More »Beck’s Beer Bottle Art Gallery
Art is pretty cool and all, but beer is even better. That’s why it’s so great that London’s Royal College of Art has teamed up with German brewery Beck’s to bring the work of four up and coming British artists to a cold one near you. As part of a program called “Beck’s Canvas,” 27 million bottles of Beck’s will ...
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