Tag Archives: design

Almost every conceivable gadget has been decked out and covered in Swarovski crystals at one point or another. It was only a matter of time before Swarovski appeared on the iPhone, adding a glitter of stylistic jewelry to an already beyond stylish piece of gadgetry. The website Crystal Icing is offering a service to cover your iPhone with 1500-3000 crystals, ...

Some people still prefer carrying cash around. We have sort of phased paper money out of our lives, keeping a spare $20 around in case of emergencies. The one dangerous thing about only using a bank card is that you can lose track of your spending really quick. A futuristic design concept might change how we budget ourselves. Using RFID ...

When GameDaily contributor Carol Orsini decided to get hitched to a non-gamer, there was bound to be a few kinks along the chain. But one thing’s for sure. She was not going to have a non-gaming themed wedding. The multi-consoled cake features 4 different consoles, the Xbox, the Xbox 360, PS2, and topped with the limited edition gold Zelda Gamecube. ...

While Atari might have been even a little before our time in gaming glory, we appreciate it as much as other geeks. The prototype for the Atari Flashback Portable, which is now a confirmed product rather than a conceptual piece, looks like one really functional handheld console. The handheld itself looks not much bigger than the game cartridges themselves, and ...

Smoking bans across the U.S. have taken hold, many places banning smoking in any private area, or even public areas. If you wanna cause a stir, but don’t actually want to be thrown out of the place you’re located, whip out one of these. Tankbook is actually a full length classic novel, miniaturized to fit inside of a vintage cigarette ...

Only so many men are manly enough to put in this much time into a baked good. The Optimus Prime Transformers cake was painstakingly detailed over a period of 26 hours, 4 for the planning, and 22 for the baking and icing. With a total cost of supplies equaling about $85, if you don’t include the mental anguish, the Optimus ...

You and your chicken shit sky diving just got a new competitor as most extreme of the extreme sports. By 2009, we might see Space Diving added to the X-Games line of competitive extremities. It is currently in the works for a huge 120,000 ft free fall from the outer limits of the Earth’s atmosphere. Eventually researchers hope to reach ...

As of late, Japan has been looking at how robots can solve some social problems, in addition to the labor that they are currently being developed for. “Life/Machine – Scenes From A Roboted Life” is a project to explore the interaction between humans and robots in a domestic living space, and how they might coexist in an efficient symbiosis. The ...

When was the last time you played with one hole that could be used in so many ways? OK, on second thought don’t answer that. These interesting images show unique ways to use the center hole of a CD as a design helper. Featured here are a few of our favorites, but you should check out the rest. They are ...

Using custom circuits and a whole bunch of LED bulbs, here is a totally custom product built from scratch, including self-etched boards. The LED Bonsai tree spins a series of bulbs to create the appearance of a, yup, you guessed it, Bonsai tree. The fast speed of the spinning LEDs creates a 3D image, which either looks like a Bonsai ...