June 2008
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“Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine is an interactive sculpture. Experience the most satisfying feeling when a piece of China breaks into million pieces . All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of China will slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy […]
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Kraanspoor
Kraanspoor (translated as craneway) is a light-weight transparent office building of three floors built on top of a concrete craneway on the grounds of the former NDSM (Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij) shipyard, a relic of Amsterdam’s shipping industry, along the shores of the IJ river in Amsterdam North.
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Solar Powered Plant Pot
Buy plants to brighten up your concrete home, buy mood lamps to brighten up your home, buy both to bring a smile to your face and you can even admire them at night. Put them under the sun, and you feed both with life at the same time.
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The Analogue Digital Clock is Back
It is BIG, mainframe computer style of ages past.
Via: Wired.com
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Shit Box
Next time you’re camping, instead of digging a hole, why not infuse a little portability into nature’s call with the Shit Box?
Shit Box is a portable lightweight cardboard toilet. It is rigid, resuable (comes with 10 degradable poo bags in case you start to imagine something unappetising) and fully biodegradable.Extract from The Brown Corporation
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Ecopanchina
Grow barley, malt grain, make beer, bottle beer, drink beer on bench, fill bottle with water, water barley, repeat.
Ecopanchina has won the prize “the best readymade of the bottle” for the Nastro Azzurro Design Competition celebrated in Milan.
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Flat Pack Furniture
Room 2 flat pack furniture by Jamin Vollebregt.
Via: juniper
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Cash Money Clip
A real dollar bill adapted to form a magnetic money clip. Same size and feel as the cash it holds with no clutter and you can use the money clip as currency when low on cash. This money clip comprised of two steel plates and a thin neodymium disc strong magnet.
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Cash Money Clip
A real dollar bill adapted to form a magnetic money clip. Same size and feel as the cash it holds with no clutter and you can use the money clip as currency when low on cash. This money clip comprised of two steel plates and a thin neodymium disc strong magnet.
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Ammonite Washbasin
Watch water spiral down the drain with this Ammonite sink. Very interesting.
Your morning ritual will never be the same again. If your contact lense happens to drop into the sink you will have more time to save it. More work for your spring cleaning too, with more dirt to brush away on more corners…
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James Dyson working on green cars
Britain’s most famous inventor, Sir James Dyson, is working on a project that could lead to the creation of a fast, green car.
Engineers at his research laboratory in Wiltshire are developing a powerful lightweight motor that could enable electric cars to zoom along for hundreds of miles without causing pollution. Solar panels on their […]
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Random pic of the week
For the “spare tire conscious” people, or the “show off I have a small waist” people, or the “it’s my birthday soon” people… a measuring tape belt! This person above is FAT!
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Credit Card Pig Bank
Your old friend updated for the age of the wireless internet.
Use it to save money (every time you slide the credit card trough the card reader a (predertermined) amount of money gets deposited in your account) - or to donate money (imagine a bunch of pigs in shopping malls, banks, post offices).
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Multiplicity: The Art of the Furniture Prototype
My god, yes that is a chair. Designed by Chris Holden from RCA, he has sat in it and it can work.
Via: NYTimes.com
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Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot
A Quadband GSM with EGDE and HSDPA/UMTS slider phone with 8.1megapixel camera with Xenon and LED flashes! This camera beat my Samsung NV 10 to pulp with Image stablizer, face detection, BestPic and smart contrast.
For viewing, it comes with 2.4″ QVGA TFT display with scratch-resistant mineral glass material. To store the images, it has 160MB onboard […]
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