Are you more of a “take action” sort of person, rather than a tight-scheduled numbers guy? The Average Day Watch, designed by Crispin Jones, is crafted for people just like you, who just don’t find much need for numbers in their life. Replacing the traditional digits are an assortment of daily routines. Just after noon? Then you know it’s time ...
Read More »Skiing the Slopes as You Drop The Browns Off at the Ole Swimming Hole
Talk about being scared shitless. Coca-Cola has gone all hardcore with the marketing of their new Georgia Max Coffee brand, redesigning a number of toilets at some of the most popular ski resorts in Japan. And really, where else could something this absurdly awesome exist? The fully wrapped bathroom walls simulate the experience of a skier on all sides of ...
Read More »Winter Recreated Indoors… With Post-It Notes
Don’t ask me why they did it, but they did it. Design group “I Never Kissed A Dog” spent hours, meticulously covering a room in white Post-It notes, as to recreate the wintery whiteness of the coldest season of the year. The project, called “Winter 1972,” does a bang up job of recreating the sharpness of winter’s chill, and it ...
Read More »First Motion-Sensitive Shakable Ad Introduced To iPhone, God Help Us
It was bound to happen eventually. Something tells me that this will be the equivalent of a pop-up for the iPhone generation. Dockers has introduced the first ever “motion-sensitive” ad to the Apple iPhone device. The ad will be featured in an assortment of the most popular iPhone apps. The ad, titled “Shakedown 2 Get Down,” takes advantage of the ...
Read More »Afternoon Linkage for March 12th, 2009
What do you guys think of the new Facebook design? I don’t like how it’s migrated more towards a “Twitter-like feel” but I do enjoy the cleaner layout. U2 is now in cahoots with RIM and the Blackberry A sharp-looking NES box Sirius-XM is going to try again Lex Luthor needs a bailout A beautiful bookshelf made from cardboard Nintendo ...
Read More »Jorge Colombo Sketches With The iPhone
No one can deny the technical prowess of Apple’s dream gadget. But did you know that the iPhone can be used as a legitimate painting tool? Such is the case with artist Jorge Colombo. Check out these realistic (to an extent) sketches of New York City that he drew using the Brushes application on his iPhone. Grand Central? Check. New ...
Read More »Taste The Rainbow: Mac Mini
The Mac Mini is a fantastic computer for day-to-day use or as a media center box for your TV. Problem is, that anodized aluminum finish can look dull sitting next to all your other gadgets surrounding your television. Spice it up a little with a paint job from Computer Choppers. For a whopping $200, they’ll gladly dye your Mac Mini ...
Read More »Water Flutes: Your Child Is A Dirty Prodigy
The next time your child complains about taking a bath, shove some candy and Water Flutes in their face and they’ll love you forever. For real this time. Water Flutes are just what they sound like. You fill the plastic tubes up with water whilst in the bathtub. Then, you read the included sheet music and learn how to play ...
Read More »NCAA March Madness iPhone App
Consider yourself a huge college basketball fan? Excellent. If you own an iPhone, your day just got a whole lot brighter. CBS Sports is teaming up with MobiTV in an effort to offer 63 NCAA basketball games for free on the iPhone. The app, which goes on sale today for $4.99, will allow users with an iPod Touch or iPhone ...
Read More »Google Morphs GrandCentral Into Google Voice
Google today announced Google Voice, an improved version of the GrandCentral service it’s been offering since acquiring the company back in 2006. Before you jump for joy, realize that yes, there is a wait list for invitations and people who signed up for GrandCentral will get first dibs. Among some of the new features Google will be rolling out with ...
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