Ring Sight
August 26, 2008

I have never ever thought of bad aiming a rubber band to be a problem to be solved.
Increase your handguns aim with a ring sight.

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Random pic of the week
August 25, 2008

An inflatable dog turd the size of a house has blown away from a modern art exhibition in a Swiss museum before bringing down an electricity line and smashing a greenhouse window.
“Complex Shit”, a sculpture by the American artist Paul McCarthy, cast loose its moorings and was lifted by a sudden gust of wind from the Paul Klee centre in Berne and carried 200 yards to eventually make landfall in the grounds of a children’s home.
Oh Shit?!…
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Bloom Edwardian Armchair
August 25, 2008

Leather armchair with three dimensional patterns… refreshing idea to an ancient furniture.

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Cat Playhouse
August 24, 2008

Folded cardboard vechicles to torture your cats in…

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Zaha Hadid Lotus
August 23, 2008

“The ‘lotus’ is a system of enfolded furnishings through which one can seduce and engage the immediate and more distant world. This room fluctuates between two extreme states: one which is highly condensed and exclusive of its surroundings and the other which is unfolded, dispersed and interlocked into its environment. reconfiguration is also a means towards appropriation and personalization.

The ‘lotus’ room is conceived as a fragmented enclosure that can be compressed and expanded into programmed areas for resting, sitting, storage, and browsing…”
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Steel House
August 23, 2008

A steel animal poised atop the egde of a cliff looking at the conquered land…


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Replug
August 22, 2008


Replug, a series of adapters and extension cables that couple between headphones and devices, turning standard 3.5mm audio jacks into breakaway connections. Each product comprises a plug tip that is attached to the body via a resilient elastomeric ring. When too much force is applied, Replug simply detaches from itself, preventing catastrophic damage to the audio equipment. The product series currently includes headphone adapters and 6-foot long extension and audio cables.
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Zip Stool
August 22, 2008

This rice straw is used to make an eco-friendly furniture called “Zip”. Using a belt that normally used to stabilized boxes or furniture when moving out, it strap and compressed the rice straw into a bundle and cut the top of the rice straw to make a nice stool.

Open burning of rice straw after harvesting is a common practice in certain Asian country so this actually solves a pollution problem.
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Smoon Ombrella
August 21, 2008

Smoon Ombrella is a device that acts as a light source and looking like a membrane on a stick. The product of furniture designers Beau & Bien, This moony umbrella LED lamp is intended to shield you from sunlight akin to an umbrella. And boosts the serenity of dark with soft light by night. It runs off solar energy and can go a whopping 6 days on just 10 hours of charge.
This Plexiglas beast will off set your bank account by €1424.
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House Within A House
August 20, 2008

This is a contemporary aquarium that considers architectural elements which are usually overlooked in your typical glass fishbowl.
Designed to look like a condominium, this humble abode for fish comes as a modular unit so that multiple ‘rooms’ can be stacked on top of one another. The overall architecture takes into consideration the latest finishes with a maple interior and of course has a lot of windows to let in natural light.
Now your fish can live in style too!
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