Oh my! Has the world turned upside down!? No, it’s just these household plants hanging upside down from the ceiling. The designer, Patrick Morris, had the strange desire to hang potted plants from his ceiling. After many trial and error attempts and a lot of soiled furniture, Patrick came up with a unique reservoir system that feeds water directly to ...
Read More »Afternoon Linkage for November 10th, 2008
Monday is my favorite time of year. iCellar for your wine Luxury hot tubs look really relaxing Millennium Falcon Mac Mini Mod NVIDIA has made a 4GB graphics card Radio 1 listeners, rejoice! iPlayer is coming to OS X MGM and YouTube are partnering up Beautiful Bamboo Dean Kamen is working on a car “I Bought the Entire Spinal Column ...
Read More »Honda’s Walking Assist For The Sackless
I don’t know about you, but I’d find it quite difficult to take steps with this thing straddled in between my legs. Alas, it is Honda’s inevitable desire to give me blue balls with its latest device geared towards the disabled – the walking assist device with body weight support system. Honda is no stranger to assisted walking devices for ...
Read More »LED Menorah Saves You Some Wax
December is almost upon us, which means you can expect to see a whole bunch of Christmas and Hanukkah decorations like this 5.5� tall, 9� wide LED menorah. Who says you’ve got to be Jewish to enjoy the festival of lights? The LEDs are controlled via a potentiometer, so you’ll have to make sure you light the candles in the ...
Read More »If You Want To Hang With Me, I’ll Give It One Shot (Tap That)
Phil Collins. We’d do anything in this world to play drums like the Genesis drummer. Maybe this concept system from Petr Hampl is a good place to start. You put on the glove, tape the beat with the included headphones on and record your rhythms. You can go back and edit your tunes, bringing you one step closer to the ...
Read More »Yet Another Impediment With The Pacemaker
Pacemakers are turning out to be more problematic than their original conception intended. The electronic device that runs the arterial show can not only be controlled wirelessly, but can also be deactivated by nearby MP3 headphones. Research teams are suggesting that patients wearing a pacemaker should stay more than three centimeters away from such devices as the interference from the ...
Read More »Food Chain Friends Are Morbidly Cute
What if I told you, the overworked mother, I could teach your child about science and let them enjoy some quality playtime simultaneously? I’m sure you’d burst into tears and start thanking me but I can’t take credit for this. The Food Chain Friends are a cute series of stuffed animals that eat each other and do it quite well. ...
Read More »Allow Me To Pay You With Spider.gif
I spotted this on Tumblr last week, so I thought I’d share it with you guys. It’s the tale of a man trying to settle a debt by paying with a drawing of a spider. You’ve got to read this shit to believe it. I haven’t the slightest idea of where to begin… Link
Read More »Klypsos, A New Use For The Paper Clip
When you’re at a kicking party that’s got a ton of free wine and hors d’oeuvres, your hands are bound to be full. With this re-imagined paper clip, however, holding a glass of wine with your dish full of appetizers will leave your other hand free to shake hands and/or grab asses. The Polish design studio Razy2 is calling this ...
Read More »Ferrari Now Offering iPod Touch-based Audio System
It’d be super nice if we could all afford a $277,000 Ferrari Scuderia Spider 16M, but alas, the world is completely unfair. It’s unfair because despite Ferrari offering up a limited run of 499 of these Spiders, its new iPod Touch dock will cost extra. The 16GB Touch will feature custom Ferrari sounds and themes, as it’s the usual practice ...
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