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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 and relieved of anger.”

But I thought it’s the act of throwing it yourself and releasing your tensed up energy that counts…

Extract from today and tomorrow

Programmable SkyCeilings™

Programmable SkyCeiling is a virtual skylight that recreates and simulates the rising and setting of the sun. It creates an enhanced illusion of nature by introducing changes of light and color, in real-time. The programmable features allow SkyCeilings to increase and decrease in light intensity and color to simulate the local rising and setting of the sun – even following the seasons. A computerized control-device that can be programmed for any geographic area is responsible for producing the many subtle changes of the system.

The programmed dimming feature of SkyCeilings has benefits to human physiology and well-being as well. For example, in an ICU the body’s circadian rhythm can be reinforced to help healing. An “opposite” use of this technology can occur in a nurse’s station where an environment of alertness can be created during the middle of the night. Other applications, including shortened or dramatic cycles, extend to casinos, restaurants, home theaters, and other healthcare and hospitality environments.

Extract from Sky Factory

Ultraslim Compact Aluminum Stepladder

Standard utitilitarian step ladder is getting ancient and is in need for a rethought, something that can be accepted by the world, not arty farty. This compact, lightweight ladder fits into a sliver of space for storage. Made of sturdy aluminum, it opens with a fingertip push.

Extract from Williams-Sonoma

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.
Click on the link to read more of it’s construction and design.

Extract from archDaily

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.

Extract from Firebox

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

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.

Extract from rafavinader

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.

Extract from Cash Money Clip
 

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…

Extract from HighTech

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!