April 2008
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Uno Unicycle
Built by Ben J. Poss Gulak, it’s an electric vehicle that uses a similar sort of microgyro-motor system as the Segway, but with two gyros: one for forward and back, and one for turning. Its got just a power switch and everything else is done by leaning.
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Drop Shower Faucet
Drop is the new faucet shower designed by Giulio Iacchetti for IBrubinetterie. ” a drop of water is a drop of life… the first squeezable shower to avoid wasting even just a drop”
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F1/Carbon GMT
Inspired by the F1 race car world and constructed of carbon fiber, Swarovski crystal, rubber and metal, this timepiece has 18 identical rubies and tells the time in everyone of the 18 cities on the 2008 F1 circuit. With a built in lap timer function and a stopwatch.
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Clue Premier Edition
Clue premier edition… with actual 3D rooms! Wood-paneled game box encloses nine sunken rooms, each rendered in precise detail, right down to the furnishings. I used to have a box of Cluedo… not really fun but this looks fun just to stare at…
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Random pic of the week
Trees and plants have a kind of flexibility that is both disturbing and inspiring. Left to their own devices they can wrap around objects and create strange works of unintentional art.
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My Beating Heart Pillow
“The My Beating Heart Pillow is a soft, huggable heart with a soothing heartbeat to help you relax, meditate, and take delicious naps. You can feel the heartbeat, which is not simply a recording, but a carefully designed rhythm which gradually changes and was modeled after the heartbeat in a meditative state. Our heartbeats naturally […]
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Take Care – Umbrella Stand
Useful and alive at the same time, this little indoor garden will need all your care to stay functional but will also make use of your umbrella’s residual water…
Good when you have no time to walk your dog too…
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Rega’s Low vibration Turntable
Black is so hedonistic.
Best known for its high-quality tonearms, Rega makes a fine range of turntables including the Planar 78 – a mono turntable that only plays old-old-old-school 78s. The highest care has gone into the design, which uses Rega’s ultra-low-vibration state-of-the-art rigid-mounted motor assembly. The platter is metallised, giving good mass and […] -
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Watch Components Motobikes
Makes me want to tear up my old watches and have some fun…
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LAMY noto by Naoto Fukasawa
The LAMY noto is a design product from the Japanese star designer Naoto Fukasawa. The name Fukasawa stands for the reduction of form to the absolutely essential. The LAMY noto is
a ballpoint pen whose design is restricted to the absolutely essential functions and good writing.
LAMY noto, easy writing, every day.
LAMY noto. Easy writing.
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Buchegger, Denoth, Feichtner Design
The work of Austrian designers Bernhard Bucheggar, Michael Denoth and Thomas Feichtner is incredibly intriguing. Dark and angular, yet warm and mysterious, and very James Bond, the group say they practice a counter strategy to an economically motivated concept of design and instead, they search for a strategy apart of globalization and mass production. According […]
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