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more about #design Papsky: looks like a game of asteroids... or at least thats what I thought when I looked at the picture without reading anything. more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: An interesting way of decorating a blank white wall... even if it isn't very practical. Loved the idea more » Metkis: "The frustration begins when you realize you have to rearrange it every time you want to change the station..." The frustration began when I realized... more » tomsomething: With the way this is set up, different stones on your wall could be your presets, then you just hook it up to whichever station you want to listen to.... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: "but I think I'll stick to knobs for this one" But the knob was tuning it... more » minimaltek: I was going to say laziness killed the radio star, but I believe video got to it first... more » soggy_cheerio: The National Geographic Channel recently had a show on The Great Escape where they used a cribbage board as a radio. [channel.nationalgeographic.com] ... more » alexdowson: the elevator muzak version of black hole sun is a really nice touch. more » ilovexspin: The main picture kinda looks like an AT&T coverage map. more » Bertone77: Meh, if I'm going to play chess that nearly impossible to tell who is where and which piece is which, I'll use this one. more » se7a7n7: I rather play on a cats/dogs chess set than this thing. more » frigg: Muggles will never come up with a chess set to match the entertainment value of a good game of Wizard's chess. more » Robotronic: Kind of bothersome how rooks are worth more than bishops and knights, yet are smaller than both here. Also annoying: bishops can move in any diagonal... more » minimaltek: This would be child's play to Mr. Spock more » Prostate of Grace: The queen on one side should be Godzilla and the other Gigan. This would make taking other player's pieces infinitely more fun. But isn't each side s... more » joetato: Shouldn't a high-tech company like Google have an original Pong come up from their table? So analog. Tch, tch! more » mercury_marine: So huffers of this paint should be easy to spot, huh? more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I love the taste of radioactive cow milk in the morning... more » The n00b: "But to any fat cat VCs in the audience," The Vietcong are still alive and well, however, now we tag you without using an AK more » dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: If the colors were refillable it would be great. Instead of carrying around 20-30 cans of the colors you want, just carry the one with several refill ... more » -
#radio
This Radio Is Hard To Tune, Easy To Look At
Radio Active, a project by industrial design student Erez Bar Am, is a wall-mounted analog radio. That's all good and well. The frustration begins when you realize you have to rearrange it every time you want to change the station. More » -
#chess
Cube-Based Chess Set Adds Modern Confusion To Timeless Difficulty
My chess strategy doesn't extend too far beyond pulling my knights out first, because that's what the computer games always do against me. But with this cube-based set, I'd probably need a strategy just to remember which piece is which. More » -
#design
One CMYK Spray Can Holds Thousands of Colors
What if, instead of defiling your local school, church or train yard with just a few colors of spray paint, one can contained a near infinite array of expression? More » -
#design
LED Glasses Fool Everyone Into Thinking You're Guzzling Milk
Think those plastic glasses are filled with Daisy's fresh milk? Wrong! The battery-powered white LEDs light up the opaque plastic, fooling everyone into thinking you're drinking nature's own juice. Instead of gin. [Amazon via OhGizmo] -
#motorcycles
The RK Racer Motorycle Can Thrill You and Stab You In a Million Different Ways
I'm not sure what to make of the Racer from RK Concepts. It looks fast, but maybe juuuust a bit over the top. Plus I'll bet that bikini babe walked away with a stab wound from sitting on it. More » -
#design
Google Creative Leads Have the Best Conference Tables
What do we have here? Just a boring table, right? Of course not! Google Creative Lead Ryan Vanderbilt is hiding something much more exciting in this custom conference furniture. More » -
#cases
Plywood and Cork Laptop Case Slides To Stow
With their innovative furniture design, Charles and Ray Eames showed the world that plywood could be both beautiful and functional. Brian Kelly's plywood laptop case is at least one of those two things. More » -
#design
Electric (Reading) Chair
Don't worry, pushing the big red button on this chrome reading chair by Aleksej Iskos simply turns on the lights, though we insist that you try it first...err, because we're so hospitable. [Aleksej Iskos via HomeQN via notcot] -
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#audi
Audi Traveling Shaver Concept Doesn't Come With an R8, But It Should
So I happen to love Audis. I drive one, and I like her fine, but nevertheless if I received this razor in my stocking, she would have developed an inferiority complex at the sight of my incessant shaving. More » -
#vacuums
When Style Meets Suction: The Escargot Vacuum
Vacuuming is functional, and sometimes it's bloody expensive, but rarely would I use the term "fashionable" to describe this weekly chore. And yet, this Toshiba/Electrolux collaboration, inexplicably called the Escargot, exists. More » -
#architecture
Underground Five-Star Hotel Fit For a Mole King
This proposed subterranean London hotel is going to put all 200 guest rooms beneath the surface of a former golf course. Sorry, CHUDs: it's time to gentrify the soil. More » -
#leds
Siemens Awes Autobahn Drivers With Spinning LED Christmas Star
With 9,000 LEDs, a little superglue and some holiday magic, Siemens and artist Michael Pendry teamed up to turn a wind turbine outside Munich into "the world's biggest revolving Christmas star." It uses as much energy as a hairdryer. More » -
#design
KOR's Special Edition Water Bottles Etched With Sloshing Landcapes
Put down that bottle of Evian (or worse, your gym-branded bottle) and check out these "nature-inspired" water bottles from KOR. Each bottle represents a different water charity, with $5 from the sale of each $35 one being donated. More » -
#concepts
Bloxels: Imagine Playing With These Building Blocks as a Whippersnapper
Bloxels. Bloxels bloxels BLOXELS. If you say the word, you can kind of understand where designer Jinha Lee got his inspiration from for this special-looking display prototype which adapts depending on which blocks you stack next to one another. More » -
#firefox
A Mockup of the Firefox 4 User Interface: Hello, Gorgeous!
A Firefox developer has posted a handful of mockups of Firefox 4's user interface redesign along with some explanations of this shiny new App Button we're getting. Everything just looks oh-so-gorgeous and simplified right next to that old 3.5 design. More » -
#concept
Fleximus Camera Concept Values Simplicity and Bendability
Art Lebedev is known for designing products that serve as elegant solutions for complex problems. If your problem is, "I can't figure out how to use this damn camera," his Fleximus concept is the solution for you. More » -
#geekschoolprojects
This Sublimely Trippy Floor Responds to My Every Captivated Step
Here's something beautiful: a mechanical garden that responds to your step. It makes me feel like I'm in Wonderland. More » -
#clocks
Daily Life Clock is a Wall-Mounted Parable
Instead of traditional hands and numbers, this clock from BGM project tells time in images and ages. A grandmother, grandchild, and dog circumnavigate its globe, representing the hour, minute, and second hand, respectively. Aesop couldn't have designed it better. More » -
#geekschoolproject
Human Wind Chime Would Be Perfect For the Back Porch of Your Rocket Ship
This installation at NYU's ITP Winter Show responds is responsive to touch, and sounds as trippy as it looks. That's a very good thing. More » -
#trashcans
Forget the Wealth, Share the Trash
Seriously, folks, this is not what we do with your tips when you hit Share up there in the masthead. I swear. Well, for most of them, anyway. This is actually a concept trashcan build on a popular meme. More » -
#travel
Mini-Moscow on Sale for Just $3 Million
It took 300 people to construct a 400 square foot model of the USSR's capital city back in 1977. Today you can buy that super-detailed, scaled-down version of Moscow for a mere $3 million. More » -
#design
Fukasawa Design Specializes in Coffee, Tea, and Elegance
The Coffee + Tea Maker from designer Naoto Fukasawa makes the morning that much more bearable while you wait for that first sweet hit of caffeine. More » -
#design
Spoon Chopsticks...And We Thought Creativity Was Dead
They're chopsticks. They're a spoon. They're a massive mess waiting to happen. Spoon Chopsticks! Yeah! [Yanko via DVICE] -
#design
The Ten Netbook Positions of Exquisite Pain
I revisited this summer post from Core77 by Dave Malouf. I must have missed this amazing piece of research that explains the different positions one can use a netbook in and the corresponding points of pain and stress each causes. More » -
#design
One Day You'll Be Able to Touch, Sniff, and Taste the Entire Internet
Wish you could touch, sniff, or lick something you see online? This concept will eventually make that wish come true as it spits out a scented flavor strip while you slip your hand inside the device to cop a feel. More » -
#design
GE Designs a High Tech Sleigh For Santa
Santa has a "magic sack" and flying reindeer, but his sleigh is kind of old fashioned. GE has thought about this momentous problem and has come up with a tricked out solution using all kinds of proprietary technology. More » -
#architecture
Huge Steel Pipes Being Turned Into Offices
When it was time to design new offices for a steel pipe factory, a clever guy decided to use the factory's product as a major part of the new additions. Puns about pipe dream designs aside, it looks pretty good. More » -
#design
A Century of Great Gadget Design: Phaidon's Design Classics
Phaidon, publisher of the best-looking books on the planet, just released Pioneers, Mass Production, and New Technologies, three volumes each containing 333 of the most impressively designed objects of the last century. Here are 12 gadgets that made the cut. More » -
#art
Kinetic Sculpture's Crab-Walk Powered by Paper, Bamboo and Physics
There was something terrifying about the Lego walking machine, but this little guy seems harmless enough as he scuttles across the table. Maybe because we both know that at any moment, I can easily recycle him. More » -
#clocks
Poetry Clock Called '6 Is For Blossom' Is Only For The Most Lyrical Amongst Us
Inspired by the poetry of Herman Hesse, this clock tells the time by lighting up various words. By the time you work out what the time is of course, it's probably moved on another 10 minutes. More » -
#architecture
12 Beautiful Staircases That Could Easily Kill You
The guys at Oddee have put together a list of 12 of the most "creative" staircases that designers have conjured up. Creative...yes. Deadly...you bet. More » -
#design
Eternal Ice Drop Makes for a Perfect Cognac
On-the-rocks drinkers can be very particular about their ice. Creating perfect ice spheres is one way to ensure that you don't sacrifice flavor—this Ice Drop is another. More » -
#toys
What's Basically the Most Adorable Children's Gift I Can Imagine
Here's the idea: your child scribbles an animal on Shidonni's website, they hand-sew a corresponding one-of-a-kind plush toy and mail it to you. Neat, right? More » -
#bike
Unicycle Built For Two: Cool Design and Sign of the Times
It's a neat-looking concept Corbin Dunn came up with, as far as cycling death-traps go. But in this economy, it's also practical for couples who'd rather not splurge on extravagances like a second wheel. UPDATED: Now with instructions and video! More » -
#concepts
As You Kick Her Head, Lady Gaga Would See Dozens of Reflections in These Mirrored Shoes
Combining art and maths, much like the Mobius Strip bagel, these mirrored Invisible Shoes reflect the ground, causing small animals to headbutt your ankles. Imagine kicking Lady Gaga in them. [CNET Asia] -
#keyboards
Keystick Keyboard: The Hypochondriac's Data Entry Tool
The Keystick collapsible keyboard concept looks like it was designed with portability in mind, but its true purpose is actually rooted more in swine flu than road warrior. More » -
#mobiusstrips
The Mobius Strip Breakfast Wars Have Begun
Chris, I see your slathered in cream cheese Mobius strip bagel and raise you a glazed, fatty donut. Any wagers on which foodstuff is next in line? [Serious Eats via MAKE] -
#design
The Pen de Touch, for Driving Light Cycles
The Pen de Touch provides haptic feedback while interacting with virtual objects. It also looks like Jeff Bridges could streak across the interface any second. More » -
#books
What Would Books About Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube From The 1960s Look Like?
Fortunately we don't have to think too hard about what they'd look like, because French artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal has designed a series of book covers for 10 of our favourite web services. More » -
#design
Super Skinny Vase Balances With MAGIC (...or Magnetism)
Some call it science. I call it witchcraft. But this "Magnetic" Vase, $40, defies nature by standing tall when it should submit to "gravity." I'm buying four just to melt them down. [ThinkGeek]
