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Felted Household Appliances
Photo: Hans Tan
Some artists make cute little felted things – but not French designer Lise Lefebvre: for her art thesis project, titled "The aesthetics of domestic sound," she created a series of "acoustical skin" – basically covers for household appliances and tools to muffle the sound!
Link [Flash, click on the last projects] – via Andreaxmas
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Jammin Johns: Toilet Seat Guitar and Keyboard
Why settle for a boring toilet seat? Musicians Marvin Maxwell and David Boone decided to bring their love of music to the toilet … by making handcrafted guitar and keyboard toilet seats (their motto is "music to your rear")!
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Calculator Keypad Chair at PantoGraph
photo: PANTOGRAPH
I ran across these fantastic bench shaped like numeric keypads and a chair shaped like a mouse by Japanese studio PantoGraph. Can someone who can read Japanese tell me what they’re all about?
Link (Don’t miss the Diorama section – it’s wonderful!) – via misterstarfish
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Exploded Light Bulb Lamp
Hans Bleken Rud of Norway’s NorthernLighting designed this pendant lamp, made to look like a giant incandescent light bulb that has just exploded!
Link [Flash, click on Products, then Scheisse]
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Zing Spoon
Let’s face it, sometimes there is a need to launch your lunch or defend your dinner, and this is the perfect utensil to do it with. It’s easy to use; simply load up a particularly mushy pea or corn niblet, aim, pull back the spring-loaded handle and watch your food take flight.
Link -via Everlasting Blort
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Zombie Lawn Sculpture
Add some fright to your flower garden with this resin sculpture by Alan Dickenson. Link – Thanks, Tom Jackson!
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Speakers of Unusual Designs
Freshome blog has a neat post about 17 home audio speakers that don’t only sound good … but they look good too! Well, actually I don’t know about "good" … how about "unusual"?
This one above is the Woofer Speaker System by Buro Vormkrijgers. Yours for only $1,449.00:
Pun intended, the "Woofer" is a co-axial speaker system consisting of two dogs. The custom engineered electronic filters make for great sound, and the aesthetics – well, you’ve definitely got two new best friends.
Here is the list: Link – Thanks M!hai!
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Man Planted Cannabis Hedges
Talk about "cultivating drugs" – a couple in Nerang, Queensland, Australia, decided that the best way to grow their cannabis plants is to hide them in plain sight … so they made them into hedges!
Sen-Sgt Symons said he had never seen cannabis shaped and trimmed into a hedge in his 25 years in the police service.
Neighbours looked over the fence in amazement as police dug up the manicured crop and removed it to be destroyed.
"They are a lovely couple," said one neighbour. "Who would have thought that hedge was grass? It just looks like an ordinary hedge in a suburban yard."
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Make Your Own Foaming Soap
I received a bottle of foaming soap as a gift and had wondered if I could refill it, since it measures the proper amount for hand washing so well. A comment at Consumerist led me to an Instructable on exactly this question. Foaming soap costs more than regular liquid soap, but the difference is the container. And the secret is that the foaming soap you pay more for is regular liquid soap that has been watered down! Now I know what to do with all this “bath gel” my family got for Christmas. Link
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Diamond Rings Found in Toilet -12 Years Later!
10-year-old Cameron Delonde was retrieving a dropped toothbrush from the toilet when he found a set of diamond rings! Cameron and his father traced the rings to the former homeowner who had lost them 12 years earlier. The rightful owner’s daughter, Mary Trainor was delighted to see them.
Trainor said her mother passed away five years ago and she and her brother searched in vain for the family heirlooms, to no avail. She said she was thrilled to have them back and still can’t believe they’ve been returned.
Cameron’s father said he’d had a ring stolen years ago and remembered how that loss felt. He said he was determined to return the rings.
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Web in the Windows
The name of the window dressing business is Nets2go, but that is not usually interpreted as “internet”. One customer, however, asked for very specific designs on all the different window blinds in his home. Besides the Digg blind, he also commissioned blinds with the logos from Facebook, StumbleUpon, Firefox, Wordpress, YouTube, and more! His ‘net blinds didn’t go over well with his wife; the two are now separated.
“It was coming anyway”, Mr Schofield told us, “but my design choice for the blinds was pretty much the nail in the coffin. She doesn’t understand the intense geek in me. And anyway, the only one she’d even heard of was Youtube”
Link -Thanks, David!
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Remote Buddy Holds and Finds Your Remotes
How many remotes do you have? Are you always looking for them? Then here’s something for you: the Remote Buddy, a vertical remote holder that not only serves as a home for your remotes, but will help you locate them when they wander out of the room … Link – via OhGizmo!
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Google Earth Helps UK Teens' Summertime Craze: Pool Crashing
Ah, Google Earth. It’s an amazing technology and service from Google … which inadvertently helped launch UK’s summertime craze: pool crashing!
Teens begin by surfing Google Earth’s satellite images to find houses with swimming pools — or at least paddling pools. Once a target has been identified, sweaty swimmers then use Facebook to arrange an organised, but uninvited, pool-crash. [...]
Owners of several plush poolside properties have already returned home to find teenagers taking a dip in their man-made lakes or their spoor: beer cans, dog-ends and vomit floating atop their once crystal-clear pools.
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From Cradle to Grave: The Story of Life, Told with Beds
This is the story of birth, life, and death ... told with (unusual) beds!
Cribs and Cradles
Make sure your baby gets the right start with this $15,000 carriage crib!
... or if that's too rich for you, how about these round cribs from Petit Trésor? At less than one-tenth the price, they're a bargain!
But if you're a bad baby, here's the crib for you, an installation piece called Mama Tried by Jack Daws:
Kid's Beds
What? A regular bed for Daddy's little girl? Never! Not when you can have this $47,000 Cinderella pumpkin-shaped carriage bed from Posh Tots:
... or for the boys, how about a pirate ship bed from V.I.P. Kids? Just £3750.00 ...
Beds for the Young Adults
Enough about kids' beds, here are some fantastic beds I wouldn't mind owning ... Of course when you're a young adult and single, this bed by Dominic Wilcox is really all you need ...
Dominic Wilcox's Bed (1999)
Or if you're too busy working on your career, here's a computer desk / bed combo for you:
The Computer Bed by FlyingBeds - via Freshome (many more modern beds there)
With sky-high housing prices, a lot of young people start out having roommates. But that doesn't mean you have to sacrifice style, here are a couple of beds that fit this particular stage in your life:
DocXL, Sofa/Bunk Bed combo
The mattresses are on teak platforms suspended by heavy ropes.
Photo: Jean Allsopp for Coastal Living - via Curbly
Beds for the Young and Restless
And now, a bed for the, um, romantic period of your adult life ...
Springy bed made with recycled suspension springs.
Very comfy (erhm, for sleeping of course, what were you thinking?)
Bed for Couples
Then onto having your own place, and perhaps a significant other and a more mature taste ...
The Tree Bed by Shawn Lovell Metalworks
Cloud bed by Courtney Skott
After a while, you've started to build some assets ... and along with money comes paranoia (or is it just prudence?) So here's the perfect bed/tank combo:
... and after a while, comfort is all that matters, so here's an electric adjustable bed from Relax The Back (I so want this, but my wife vetoed this idea because she knows that I'll just make it go up and down while she's trying to sleep ... She's a smart woman!)
The Last Bed
Photo: Claudecf [Flickr]
The tomb of Charles Pigeon, the inventor of a non-exploding gas lamp (I suppose that's very important), in Cimetière de Montparnasse, signifies eternal rest for him and his wife.
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Highest-Popping Toaster in the World
Meet the CO2 gas-powered toaster, the highest popping toaster in the world and apparently some sort of art project by Freddie Yauner: Link – Thanks SenorMysterioso!
Also, don’t miss: The Fastest Clock in the World (keeps time to a millionth of a second – for those who can’t afford an atomic clock)
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10 High-Tech Coffee Tables
BornRich blog has a neat list of the top 10 high-tech coffee tables for your home. This one above is the interactive LED coffee table, called The Wave, which senses where over the table you put your drink and lights up accordingly.
Link – via GeekAlerts
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Tomorrowland Dream House at Disneyland
Disneyland has a new Tomorrowland attraction, called the Innoventions Dream Home, a showcase/model home built by Taylor Morrison that is chockful of new technology from HP, Microsoft, and Life|ware.
The interactive mirror is described as such:
Teen Daughter’s Room
At her desk, the Elias family daughter can connect with friends or her favorite entertainment. As she develops new interests, she can easily change the photos and posters in her room. But she may be spending much of her time in front of the Magic Mirror, a virtual mirror that projects accessories, hairstyles and the clothes from her closet onto her reflection, fitting the styles to her body so that she can try out different “looks” as she prepares for her brother’s party. Tip: Watch as she holds the dress up for consideration. The virtual skirt even sways as she twirls around!
mod*mom blog has more info: Link
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Shower Curtain Smell? Yup, Toxic.
Ever smelled a new shower curtain? According to the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, a Virginia-based advocacy group, that smell is toxic:
Vinyl shower curtains release over 100 toxic chemicals into the air in people’s bathrooms, including known carcinogens and reproductive toxins, according to a new report calling for the ban of Polyvinyl chloride in bath curtains and liners.
The laboratory tests of five new PVC shower curtains, released Thursday, found 108 different volatile organic compounds were released
into the air over a 28-day period, including off-gassing above the recommended level in the United States for seven days.These compounds can cause respiratory irritation, headaches, nausea and damage to the liver, kidney and the central nervous system. Some VOCs are also suspected or known to cause cancer in humans.
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Aphrodite Drawers by Tadao Hoshino
The Aphrodite Drawers by Tadao Hoshino look like a chest of drawers that is about to topple over … but the piece actually has a bit of clever engineering in it:
The Aphrodite is a highly original piece with cantilevered drawers, giving the illusion of instability. The name of this piece is inspired by the numerous possibilities for creating a variety of effects when drawers are opened in different ways.
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Ice Cream Light Bulb
You know what those swirly new energy-efficient fluorescent light bulbs remind me of? Ice cream! And apparently, I’m not the only one – here’s Whippy (2006) made by artists Alex Garnett and Nahoko Koyama of Mixko:
Link [Flash, click on Art & Creative, then hunt for it] – via Treehugger, thanks Chris!
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Artistic Fire Pit by John T. Unger
Now that is a fire pit! Artist John T. Unger created the Beach Burner Portable Bonfire, an awesome fire bowl from recycled steel that looks good both with or without fire.
Perfect for your next luau on the beach: Link
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Giant Cheese Grater Room Divider
The giant cheese grater room divider above is an art piece called "Paravent," created by London-based Lebanese artist Mona Hatoum: Link
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Color Sense Game
The Color Sense Game from Pittsburgh Paints finds your “color personality” based on your five senses, your interests, and your style. Each resulting personality gives you lots of colors to work with. My color personality is Mosaic and Tapestry, which I can’t argue with. Link -via the Presurfer
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A Whale of a Flower Vase
I love this whale flower vase concept from Alessandro Bêda! He’s looking for a way to produce it, so if you want to get one, you’ve gotta wait. Link
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The Letter in the Pond
Yes, it’s a letter, from 2003. Found in the bottom of a pond.
Recently, a friend of ours, Simon, moved to Over, just North of Cambridge, UK. He was moving to a lovely property, with a nice garden and a pond.
Simon wasn’t so keen on the pond though. It’s not very child friendly, and with two young ones running around the garden, he thought it would be safer to get rid of it.
A few buckets and hours of sweating later, Simon lifted the pond lining to discover a laminated piece of paper sitting at the bottom of the gaping hole that once was the previous owner’s pond.
You’ll need to go to the linked story to read the entire letter, but I’ll let you know this much: the writer was not happy. Link -via Metafilter
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Plumbing Art
Talk about a space saver! The Design Odyssey Vertebrae is an entire bathroom in one column. The toilet is at the bottom, then a sink at sink level, and a shower head folds out from higher. This is one of 10 examples of cutting-edge bathroom design at DVICE. Some are hi-tech, others are just beautiful. I particularly like the huge shower head embedded in the ceiling. Link -via Digg
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The Death Star of Cat Litter Boxes
Having three cats means living with three sets of cat poo, sometimes more when the kitties go twice a day. So soniaz of Unplggd blog decided to get the Litter Robot, the Death Star of self-cleaning litter boxes. Here’s what she has to say about it:
We have to say it was impressive how much it diminished the smell. We used to dread coming home after a few hours away because, if someone pooped, we’d know just by walking into the building – not even into our apartment. Now, with the Litter Robot, we weren’t sure if anyone had went until we checked the drawer.
While the lack of smell was a major plus, the noise wasn’t. We couldn’t keep this sucker on at night since when it went through its cycle it would wake us up. This won’t be a problem for those of you living in larger apartments, or houses. The noise is pretty minimal, but when your bed is 10 feet away it’s hard not to wake up, and like your cats, think the sky is falling.
The cats luckily got pretty used to the whole thing and went in and out without a hitch – well, most of them did. One kitty (Dim Sum!) wasn’t too into putting her entire behind into the Litter Robot. While the LR is huge, its actual pooping area is rather small – 14 inches across with the max amount of litter inside. Dim Sum, the calico, had a tendency of going in just enough (or not enough) to get her pooper inside. The result: finding little presents on the trigger step. Not sure if this is the Litter Robot’s fault or my r-tard cat’s fault.
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Guerrilla Gardening
Most people simply ignore a sad traffic median full of weed, but not this guy: Scott took it on his own to create a "traffic median oasis" by secretly planting it. Turns out, he’s not a lone – there’s a growing league of "guerrilla gardeners" who plant without approvals …
BRIMMING with lime-hued succulents and a lush collection of agaves, one shooting spiky leaves 10 feet into the air, it’s a head-turning garden smack in the middle of Long Beach’s asphalt jungle. But the gardener who designed it doesn’t want you to know his last name, since his handiwork isn’t exactly legit. It’s on a traffic island he commandeered.
"The city wasn’t doing anything with it, and I had a bunch of extra plants," says Scott, as we tour the garden, cars whooshing by on both sides of Loynes Drive.
Scott is a guerrilla gardener, a member of a burgeoning movement of green enthusiasts who plant without approval on land that’s not theirs. In London, Berlin, Miami, San Francisco and Southern California, these free-range tillers are sowing a new kind of flower power. In nighttime planting parties or solo "seed bombing" runs, they aim to turn neglected public space and vacant lots into floral or food outposts.
Link (Photo: Mark Boster / LA Times)
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Fullmoon by Sotirios Papadopoulos: Furniture with Lunar Glow
Behold the "Fullmoon" credenza by Sotirios Papadopoulos for ENNEZERO. The piece is painted with glow-in-the-dark paint called Ecolightinside, so the furniture gives off a soft glow in the dark: Link
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Urban Garden Shed Offices
Working from home is not easy, but it’s easier when you have an office you can use just for work. If you have a shed or room to build one, it can become a home office away from the distractions of the house. Here are twenty such shed offices that have been customized to the max. I’ll take the Manhattan rooftop shed! Pictured is a greenhouse that was converted to an office. Link
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