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China on Saturday unveiled what it billed as the fastest rail link in the world — a train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour. The super-high-speed train reduces the 1,069 kilometre journey to a three hour ride and cuts the previous journey time [...]
In a largely unknown and secretive campaign from Asics, the Japanese brand via creative agencyAmsterdam Worldwide & Freedom of Creation decided to do something a little interesting and unorthodox with their “Left and Right” campaign. Their stellar line of 80’s footwear embodied a “what’s a left, without a right” theme as ten personalities worldwide were each [...]
Coarsetoys offer up a preview of what will be another big release for the company this year. The figure follows the popular signature JAWS line from the toymakers, this time created in a distinct monochrome colorway with hints of red blood. The whole rundown can be seen below with an anticipated shipping date set for [...]
Visionaire Magazine will soon be releasing its 57th issue for 2010. This new edition, as interactive as ever, features 52 important figures playing the role of curators with each selecting 7 artists a piece, creating in essence a Smart desktop calendar featuring 365 different artist with each of their works shown on one page per. [...]
New York artist KR will be participating in an exhibition at the Vicious Gallery in Hamburg starting on Halloween, October 31st, 2009. The event will feature a number of works alongside a piece involving the painting of a Cooper Mini in what we can anticipate to be KR’s iconic drips motif.KR x Mini ExhibitionVicious GalleryKleine [...]
The digital magazine battle royale has gone up a notch today, with the publishers of Popular Science magazine creating this beautifully graceful concept. Game on, Wired and Sports Illustrated, game on.Publisher Bonnier has worked with design agency BERG to come up with the Mag+ tablet, which has the magazine pages run vertically, rather than on [...]
Pharrell Williams brings forth the latest installment of his Perspective series in the shape of The Tank Chair. Slated for a world premiere at the Emmanuel Perriton Gallery during Art Basel Miami Skateboard P’s latest venture in contemporary furniture comes along in four colorways and is made of plexiglas and full grain colt leather. After taking inspiration [...]
And now onto an unusual tip to fight off a business crisis. A Japanese tavern owner is bringing up a new generation of customer pleasing waiters: macaque monkeys. Are you ready for some monkey business? STORY: This “sake house” in northern Tokyo employs two popular and unusual waiters. They are named Yat-chan and Fuku-chan (pronounced Yat-tchan and [...]
The most revolutionary gadget at this moment has 113 individual oled-displays and you can type with it. The Optimus Maximus, developed by Art Lebedev, takes keyboards to a whole new dimension.
This sickening ad admonishing us to think twice before booking flights works around the idea that ‘your flight has an impact’. It takes this idea to extremes when it features polar bears falling out of the sky and impacting on hard tarmac, before panning out to show them lying bloodied and broken. Climate change is [...]
Strukt brought a stunning multi-touch table, called “Struktable” to the 2009 TOCA ME design conference in Munich.With its 70-inch display size, the Struktable is built for simultaneous interaction of up to 8 people. The touch-sensitive surface recognizes unlimited finger touches at the same time – therefore, users can interact more intuitively.The table features 5 simple [...]
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For those who are bored with ordinary contact lenses, an artist-designer in the Netherlands named Eric Klarenbeek has created what he calls The Eye Jewellery Project, for people who have been dying to dangle diamonds from their eyeballs.The Swarovski ‘Sparkle’ product that we introduced last week, looked okay, but just looking at this contact lenses [...]
Inspired by graffiti, nature, sculpture, lighting, music and souvenirs, designer Charles Kalpakian’s playful lamp ‘dog’ stores books on his back and lights up by pulling his tail several times, a dynamo stores energy and provides light. More work on his site hellokarl.com
Europe plans to enter the fledgling space tourism market by offering a chance to experience weightlessness to help pay for scientific research. Novespace, a unit of France’s CNES space agency claims to be leading the field in scientific deployment with a converted Airbus A300 jetliner. With Europe’s space ambitions facing a budget squeeze due to the [...]
Italo Rota has designed this home for the Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli. This home is located in the hills of Florence, Italy and the color of the home can be changed to match the personality of the home owner.
This futuristic Ferrari Monza was designed by Iman Maghsoudi and it looks more like a spaceship than a car. The future cars will be capable of travelling speeds of 300 km/hour, too fast for a human to operate manually as they lack “sufficient concentration” and dexterity. As a result, computers will have to be programmed to [...]
The deepest pool in the world is known as Nemo 33, a recreational scuba diving center located near Brussels, Belgium which opened in 2004.It is filled with 2,500,000 liters of non-chlorinated, highly filtered spring water maintained at 30 °C (86 °F) and contains several simulated underwater caves at the 10 m depth level. more about [...]
hen cookie-cutter planned communities are the standard, it takes balls to step outside the box with some seriously daring design. A crazy concept can become the trademark of the neighborhood or the bane of the block. Here are 10 monuments to end the monotony, built and owned by those not afraid to buck the trends.
It might look like an innocent box of fruit but inside there’s a surprise!Put your coin on the box’s fish-shaped button. You’ll hear a noise — and before long a cute paw will appear to nab your cash! It’s not on the market till January but this coin bank will surely be a huge hit. [...]
Elva Hsiao, famous Taiwanese pop singer, spent $35,000 on an image makeover in order to release her latest album in October. Her management company hired five top stylists to come up with a brand new image for her this year. Apart from her brand new image, the next most captivating piece of accessory from her new wardrobe [...]
Italian fashion designers Donatella Versace, Alberta Ferretti, Anna Molinari for Blumarine, Veronica Etro, Silvia Venturini for Fendi, Consuelo Castiglioni for Marni, Angela Missoni and Rossella Jardini for Moschino, have teamed with Coca Cola for fund raising campaign in support of the victims of the earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy. more [...]
If you happened to watch this weekend’s Formula 1 race set in Abu Dhabi, you may have seen a giant red structure with a huge Ferrari emblem on the roof. It’s called Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and as you can guess, is an engineering and architectural masterpiece dedicated to the wondrous world of all things Ferrari. Ferrari World [...]
Dubai is building another masterpiece structure shaped like a pyramid and like the pyramids of the Mayans and Egyptians, this new structure in Dubai is a giant : it will cover 2.3 square kilometers (0.88 square miles). The structure called Ziggurat will house nearly one million people and will be self-sustainable with all natural-energy sources. It [...]
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there’s the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It’s a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. As great as it seems, this concept is seriously creepy because it powers itself by converting the glucose [...]
See that enormous blue funnel in the middle of those buildings? It’s just one of the six canopies that will light up the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. As the close-ups show, the scale of these things defies belief:
Sometimes, you just want to practice your putting. If you’re near a woman wearing Triumph’s new golf outfit, and you can convince her to take it off, you can putt to your heart’s content. Yes, this ludicrous item consists of a green bra that transforms into a putting green, with the cups turning into holes. Sink [...]
The Finger Touching phone concept is perfect if you’re not brave enough to have a phone embedded under your skin, yet still want to look trendy and futuristic. Granted you’d look dorky talking into your hand, hologram buttons or not. The idea is that the phone’s keypad is projected onto your hand and the “buttons” separated [...]
Coca-Cola can would help save energy while reducing air and water pollution. Would it really make a difference? Let’s do some math: I assume the consumption only increases through time, but let’s take the daily 2007 numbers from Global INForM Cases Sales database: The total number of Coca-Cola cans sold per worldwide is 67,873,309. Diet [...]
Take your spitball firepower to the next level with this guide for constructing a No. 2 Pencil Crossbow, one of many undersized armaments found in John Austin’s must-read new book Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction. More »
People are freaking out all over Norway because of what you are seeing here. According to Norwegian news outlets, the spooky giant spiral was seen, photographed, and recorded on video from all over the country
The first time I saw this bottle of Ballantine’s whiskey I thought: I need a drink. Then I looked closely and I thought: Fuck, I need a drink. And some disco dancing too. Then I looked a third time, and discovered that the animated electro-luminiscent graphic EQ included in its label didn’t actually respond to the [...]
Just because it isn’t HD doesn’t mean it can’t be beautiful. The Parallel Image display uses photoreceptors to transmit brightness levels to the other side of the display. I’m in love with all of that gorgeous copper.The project represents how video would be transmitted if serial data had never been invented. Each pixel in the [...]
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Seriously, how awesome does that look. Imagine Special Forces soldiers zooming through the skies at 60 mph, covering distances of 30 miles or more without being picked up by radar. It could actually happen.
Forget looking at the mood ring on someone’s hand to know how she feels. Now it’s the chair under her cute bum that’ll reveal all. And the LEDs and embedded micro-chips on it are way cooler than bubblegum machine trinkets.The Mood Chair is designed by a company called Aether & Hemera and while it doesn’t [...]
Check out this cool new technology Philips is showcasing at IFA 2006 in Berlin. It’s amazing! They are integrating LEDs into fabric and had some jackets and a couch there. Really cool! more about “Light-emitting shirts!“, posted with vodpod
I know it won’t look like Batman once it’s all unboxed and under normal lighting, but for a fleeting moment, I want to possess nothing more than this $60 miniature Dark Knight multitool.
Well, I’m not really sure what this installation, from Tokujin Yoshioka for Hermes, is selling, but I’ll tell you what: I’ll totally buy it. It’s at the Tokyo Hermes store until January 19th. Video after the jump.
One day, there will be a camera in every object you see. In essence, each object you look at will be looking back at you. Until then, we just have this bulky HD watch. The JTT WACAHD8GB is a somewhat ordinary timepiece that, when not telling the time, is shooting 1280×960 video at 30fps, or grabbing [...]
Popping bubblewrap, or opening beer cans just not your obsessive compulsive cup of tea? Here’s another toy for Bandai’s Mugen range: the Mugen Tokoroten, which simulates squeezing a sea algae snack. 630 Yen for our Japanese brethren. [CNET Asia]
OK, listen up undapants! I’m so getting these keyboard stickers by Chris de Lorenzo. Why, you ask? What do you mean why? It has ninjas! And umbrellas! And pirates! And elves! And yetis! And ice cream! And freaking David Bowie!
Are you looking for something “different” in your life? Watching Japanese girls apologize or say “I love you” turn you on? Simultaneously? Then you’re strange, but hey, there is something that caters just to your tastes.
Dubbed the Amatoya, this concept recon buggy would allow a two-person crew to zip around hotspots and fire fronts to collect intel faster, and more safely than the modified Toyota Landcruisers and light tankers that are typically used today.
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