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There’s a designer in everybody, just trying to get out. One of the first lessons and designer studying their craft will learn is the very basics of color theory (colors can even alter human emotion and physiology, as we’ve seen). The RGB diagram has become an iconic staple of the design world and for good reason, it’s simplistic beauty is ...

Let me tell you. It would totally trip me out to walk into someone’s house and see illuminated hats hanging from their ceilings. Hats are meant to be on bodies. Or used as weapons. But�definitely�not as home lighting. Somewhere, a dapper chap is walking around hatless. Link

Fellow GEARhead, Philly, wrote to us to tell us of her thrill at finding this excellent R2-D2 cake, which she said was particularly exciting because she had “always wondered what a droid tasted like.” Well, let me tell you, droids come in many flavors. Some taste like straight up metal, but then there are others that have that generic chicken-y ...

Why even bother leaving the house these days? You can work from home, order our groceries from home. I mean, the internet has really revolutionized our entire culture. And now, the Map-Equipped Treadmill, properly known as the NordicTrack X7i Incline Trainer, shifts and inclines depending on the actual topography of the terrain you set as your own custom hiking route. ...

In most cases, stacking crap you don’t wanna throw out or just can’t find it in yourself to part with (magazines, mail, soiled diapers, you know, the usual) could be seen as either hoarding or just plain unorganized. The Vinyl Wall Sticker Chair gives you an excuse to stack crap in massive piles on your floor. And that excuse, ironic ...

If your tired of telling kids to get off your damn lawn, this is not the garden statue for you. And let me tell you why. Because all of those kids might be running scared, but you’ll have a whole new problem. Throngs of geeks will flock to your yard, and the difference between us and kids? We’re much more ...

The Star Wars universe is an interesting place. No matter how many Star Wars books you read, or movies you watch, there is never any mention of personal�hygiene. There’s that one part where you can almost see Lando’s nose pluck up into disgust after Han lifts his arm, but that’s about it. (Did I make this up? Maybe, maybe not. ...

When you take 2000 recycled keys off of defunct keyboards and paste them onto a bench made of baltic birch wood, you’re just asking for furniture snobs to turn up their noses in disgust. “But how could you destroy such beautiful wood?” Ahh, shove it up your key-impressed asses. Designed by Nolan Herbut (lol, Her Butt), the Wolfang Keyboard Bench ...

The Less Lamp is one of those gadgets that would appear to be great for anger management. Take that… and that! And…. AHHHH, I’M BLINDED! SCREW YOU LESS LAMP! OH, GOD, MY EYES! An innovative design concept, the Less Lamp is a sealed lamp shade made of plaster. When you get it and unbox the Less Lamp, you�ll find that ...

I friggen’ HATE when the last remaining bit of toothpaste happens to be all the way at the bottom of the tube. It’s one of my pet peeves. This double-sided tube of toothpaste contains two caps, so there really isn’t a bottem anymore, only a middle. So I guess my new pet peeve will be getting the remaining toothpaste from ...