RIPmobile
It's no doubt many of us gadget-freaks have a cell phone or two laying around, beat up and bruised that we call "backup". Now you can put them to good use with RIPmobile, a company that collects cell phones and…
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Cease + Desist Art Show
If I had a Cease and Desist order from Louis Vuitton, I'd probably be a little scared-- but not the folks at The Hotel Des Arts in San Francisco. Remember that hotel? Packed full of customized rooms from floor to…
Continue Reading →Fresh Mailbox Design
This is Adriean Koleric's fresh take on a new mailbox design. This product was originally developed as an entry for the 2005 Frost furniture prototype exhibit in Edmonton. The designer's intention was to come up with a fresh take on…
Continue Reading →Fluorescent Lights and Powerlines
1301 fluorescent tubes powered by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines. This is what happens when physics meets art, clearly a success and very fascinating. Richard Box, an artist-in-residence at Bristol University's physics department had the idea for this…
Continue Reading →U4 Elements
U4Elements is a quality online boutique. They have a small but nice collection of both men and women's fashion (more women's stuff than mens right now), a bit of music, and a pretty substantial amount of jewelry. The store is…
Continue Reading →Fit For Use
Fit For Use has a small but good collection of t-shirts, art, and some other original goodies. They have a couple screen prints by Jeremy Ray, and they were even selling a shirt called "wearable drawings", with 98 hand drawn…
Continue Reading →TIVO and Google Maps
I've been avoiding buying myself a TIVO for some time, but every-time I play with one-- I want one. I just think I'd find myself watching TV way too often. Every now and then I see a TIVO hack that…
Continue Reading →Lotus 23: Reinventing The Umbrella
Young Australian designer Andy Wana was this years Gold winner at the 2005 Australian Design Award-Dyson Student award. His ingenious take on the umbrella won him top honors, he calls his design "Lotus 23". The reengineered umbrella design is fully…
Continue Reading →Get It Louder
Remember Scott Rench? He is easily one of the most talented and forward thinking and talented sculptors I've have ever seen. I mention this because he is going to be showing at the Get It Louder exhibit in China this…
Continue Reading →Hotel des Arts: Painted Rooms
The custom boutique hotels around the world all took notice to the Hotel des Arts in the heart of San Francisco's downtown Union Square when it launched last year. Last year they showed their project called "
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