Saturday, July 20, 2024

By Ryan Nill Just as I predicted in 2004, here is a chair whose seat is made entirely of plush pandas. It is probably disgustingly expensive, in addition to be disgustingly cute. But it is also limited edition, so some...

By Evan Ackerman I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but that doesn't stop me from appreciating this coffee maker named after a gastropod. It's easy to see why it's called -snail-, and although it may not add much to...
By Evan Ackerman We've run across (non-conceptual) toast printers before, but nothing with the utility (or the resolution) of this concept. Designed by Sasha Tseng, the toaster incorporates a stylus and notepad on the top, and whatever you write on...
By Evan Ackerman Need more light in your life? Grow it on a tree. The Pear Light, designed by Nick Foley, is a hand forged steel tree upon which grow three pears. Inside each pear are 10 ultra bright LEDs...
By Ryan Nill Fuwapica Furniture glows! ...based on how much you weigh. The Fuwapica project was unveiled at the SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego; the glowing cube-shaped furniture comes in two varieties, Honeycomb and Ice. Upon sitting down, the furniture will...
by Ryan Nill Lose the baseball bat folks, because your new backseat equalizer is gonna have to be the S2 Hammer by ATOMdesign. ATOMdesign has reinvented the wheel by reinventing the hammer. Fortunately, S2 Hammer looks pretty awesome and can drive...
By David Ponce Marka Quiñonez is an artist that likes to make groovy vinyl toys. He's better known as Marka27, and he happens to be the creator of a long awaited line of speakers called "Mini Gods". They...
By David Ponce The wallpaper you see in the above picture is not an artist's rendition of a hallucinogenic experience; it's actual wallpaper from a German company called Surrealien. You send them a detailed technical plan of your room,...
In the dead of the night, Microsoft has taken the wraps off Surface, formerly known only as Project Milan. MS Surface is a surface computing device, one which could very well change the way we expect to interact...
By David Ponce Sony Design has been playing around with speakers, in this instance coming up with this column of glass named "Rin". column rising vertically from a stone floor, tapering into a translucent pole from which sound...