Tag Archives: design

One Dead, One Dying: CD / Vinyl Format Made Into New Media

Here’s another cool new design hybrid, using old technology as the basis. VinylDisc is a dual sided format with one side featuring three-minutes of vinyl goodness, with the other side featuring a standard 70 minute CD. Other than posing a great way to compare digital and analog technologies, VinylDisc is a stroke of genius on the face of two endangered ...

Read More »

Hybrid Creature Toys Made From Bits Of Everything

These toys made by Sang Won Sung (not to be confused with twin brother Sing Two Singing), are made from bits of other recycled toys (and some assorted household objects), creating odd, and sometimes eerie looking toy models. The two boys pictured above are aptly named “bull” and “elk”, both of their faces made with the recycled torso of a ...

Read More »

Life-sized Leia, You’re Our Only Hope

The best way for us nerds to score chicks is to focus on ladies that have mobility problems. In other words, trouble running away from our squealing voices. Instead of focusing on paraplegics (as sexy as they are), this Life-sized Princess Leia model has nowhere to run, and couldn’t run even if she did have somewhere to run too. With ...

Read More »

Guitar Hero Arcade Cabinet

The second coolest thing than being an awesome guitarist, is being an awesome Guitar Hero player. This Guitar Hero Cabinet resembles a real guitar rig set-up, though with a added in display for the play of the popular video game. Only a matter of time before Guitar Hero 3 is being played on the Arcade Cab. Is the track list ...

Read More »

RoboCard Keeps CDs Safe and Your Butthole Clean

With his tin toy robot look and corrugated cardboard body, the RoboCard is willing and ready to do the extremely bizarre task for which he was created. Believe it or not, RoboCard will hold and protect up to 14 CDs and a roll of extra toilet paper “for any spill, leak, drip, drop, or other emergency.” At W8.7″ x D6.3″ ...

Read More »

Recycled Chiquita Chandelier Attracts Monkeys

Mmm, we love ourselves a nice banana. Most of us primates do. We don’t know if we could eat enough to make an entire chandelier of the packaging (instead of with the actual product like with the Bic Pen Chandelier), but maybe we should consider it. Using only cut outs from recycled crates of Chiquita bananas,� this chandelier blocks most ...

Read More »

Sony’s New Cell Phones Stink…Like Apple Pie?

Sony’s new DoCoMo SO703i may come with GPS, TV, and music player functions, but what’s really interesting about these phones has nothing to do with the specifications. That distinction goes to the fact that one sniff of your phone could make you think about lunch. That’s right, the DoCoMo SO703i is available in 11 unique scents, like “apple pie” for ...

Read More »

Digital Clock Is All Hands, No Face

� Vice Versa is a concept clock by Yiran Qian from China. If you like staring your gadgets right in the face, you might have a tough time with this gadget, seeing as Vice Versa has no face. The clock uses a set of revolving displays with an analog time style, with digital numerals. Basically, you get both an analog ...

Read More »