Arts & Design

Optical Tone Room Is A Trip

Japanese artist Mutoh Tsutomu has created the raver’s wet dream room. The Optical Tone installation is a combination of art, technology and science. Clad with LED light spectrums in conjunction with sensors that interact with inhabitants of the room, Tsutomu uses a special algorithm to display RGB colors. This interactively examines the problems in human perception and the recognition of ...

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Infinium Labs’ Phantom Lapboard Is Released

Remember the Phantom gaming system? The one which promised you’d be able to play games streamed over the Internet through a broadband connection for a monthly fee? Me neither. Yet after six long years of nobody giving a fuck, they’ve finally decided to release the keyboard designed for the system. The Phantom Lapboard is nothing special. It sits on your ...

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Dubai Tower Is World’s First Building In Motion

A revolutionary skyscraper by Italian architect Dr. David Fisher is planned for Dubai. The unnamed tower will be 80-stories high with revolving floors that alter the shape and form of the building. With the aid of an immobile cement core, spinning floors rotate around the core while staying connected to it. This will give guests of the building a constantly ...

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Artificial Scenic Window Belongs in a Casino

Sky Factory’s new programmable “SkyCeilings” is just what introverts need to raise their Sims “room” stat. In an effort to make surroundings either at home or at the work place aesthetically pleasing, Sky Factory’s ceiling creates an illusion of nature by introducing changes of light and color; all in real-time as if it actually were to simulate the local rising ...

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Stove Design Burns Eyes In More Ways Than One

Check out this stove. It’s called the Arcus and it has the ability to change the temperature of a pot or pan simply with a twist of your wrist. With a concept design like this one, I had hoped the designer, Manuel Perez Prada, would’ve included the ability to literally raise the heat to a higher elevation. This way, when ...

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Xip3: Backpack, Shirt, Pillow

I don’t know about you but I’m always doing one of three things: smuggling drugs in from Canada, wearing a shirt, or sleeping. It’s a tough life, I know. Luckily, there’s the Xip3, a shirt that turns into a backpack and a pillow when you need it. Equipped with Polartec 200 lining, it’s a pretty ideal shirt for rough conditions ...

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Cheapest Money Clip Sold For Top Dollar

Money clips can be made out of anything. Paper clips, rubber bands, you name it and a money clip is made of it.� Designer Scott Amron is trying to dupe people into buying either a $12 pre-made money clip or a $9 DIY kit to make your own. The design is simple: a dollar bill with one end taped with ...

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Tooth Tattoos Make For A Humorous Write-up

The year is 2011. Rap music has evolved to the point where bling and grillz are no longer cool. The new fad is tattoos. Rappers everywhere from all crews are swarming dentist offices trying to get tooth tattoos. What are tooth tattoos? I’m glad you asked. Back in the year 2008, the Heward Dental Lab in Salt Lake City decided ...

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Geartop Coffee Table

Now this is just a longshot but I think that designer Dale Mathis might be into cars. I mean I’m no expert but I would imagine that a coffee table full of car parts and metal would appeal to the automobile enthusiast. The gears move in continuity together as you sit on your couch, eyes gazing down upon pound after ...

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Black Tissues

For the super elite, regular tissues will not do for coke nose. After all, how are you going to spot the white chunks of blow on a white tissue, save the mucus and blood. Thankfully, Japan has turned up a set of black tissues that not only look brilliant, they cost a small fortune as well. For $150, you get ...

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