Tag Archives: design

The geek mind is sometimes ignorant to the abstract, such as fine art. Flickr user Paulthewineguy has put together a photo set which translates art into a language geeks can understand. Using emoticons and code, these pieces of art are much easier to admire, being a geek, than ever before. Art snobs beware, as this might make you feel a ...

Think about this. In 50 years when everyone is working from home and is constantly sitting at a desk, there is going to be some major problems with atrophy of the limbs. The Lindo Hip Desk allows you to have some work space even when you are standing and doing house work. Two prongs jut out of the device, allowing ...

Everybody who grew up in the late ’80s or early ’90s has owned a slap bracelet at one point in their life. And if they didn’t, they were most likely “L” to the “-osers”. If these E-Paper Slap Bracelets ever get to see the light of day, you, or at least your children, might get the chance to be too ...

In an effort to promote the new flick, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, a spectacle effect is being played at Tokyo Harbor. Using a system based around water projection screen techniques and some water fountains, the water of Tokyo Harbor has been turned into one big promotional device for the film. The Water Horse film itself revolves around ...

Murdering people with normal straight razors is so passe. How about we mix it up a bit, maybe start killing people with a straight razor made from an old circuit board. This Homemade Circuit Razor was made by a friend of Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing, who decided that killing hookers was so much more interesting when you do it ...

Globus is just one big ball of productivity. Closed, it acts as a piece of spherical art, drawing curious onlookers to scope out the design. When opened, Globus reveals that it holds a pull-out office, complete with a laptop tray and spherical seat. We know that this is only a concept, but we have to say that the ergonomics of ...

Take a trip to Akbuk Bay, Turkey and you might be surprised what you find. Scattered along the shore are cottages which strike flashback images in my head of the sleepless nights I spent devoting my life to saving Princess Peach from the Goombas. Seriously, how awesome would it be to live inside of a 1up mushroom? And were these ...

� Remember the days when certain colored people weren’t allowed in your local delicatessens and cameras still used film? Designer Sungwoo Park remembers. This conceptual USB Digital Camera pretends to be an analog camera, offering no viewfinder, no LCD display, and only one button, yet with the ability to transfer photos with a USB cable. The purpose is to gain ...

We Americans love our carbs. Throw us a piece of bread and you bet your ass we’ll gobble that shit down. Pita might not be the bread of choice in the states, but cool wallets are a novelty that never gets tiring. The Pitapocket is all of the bread goodness, without the empty calories. Made of cotton, the pita-like wallet ...

They say the pen is mightier than the sword. But it would be pretty cool to have a cool knife extension to add on to the pen just in case. These eating utensil extensions for pens allow you to turn any average ballpoint into dining cutlery, or a weapon, depending on if you’re a cup-half-empty sort of guy. Just imagine. ...