Jun 15 2007 Mechanical Watch Movement Cuff Links
These mechanical watch movement cuff links are made from 20th century gears, levers, and jewels, and set in 18K gold. The watch innards were all taken from authentic vintage watches from the early to mid 20th century. Judging from their description I can't figure out if they're functional though. At $1,400 a set you'd expect them to be, but there's no face so they'd just be rotating openly on your sleeves. Which would be cool as hell, until you got your tie stuck in the gears and killed yourself. They'd find you dead on the ground, suffocated to death with your wrist stuck to your throat.
Jun 15 2007 Used Soccer Ball Purse
Have a used soccer ball lying around? Turn it into a purse. Or better yet, eat it. Delicious!
Jun 15 2007 Batman's New Suit
This is Batman's new suit from the upcoming Batman movie The Dark Knight. And wow does it look good. It looks like actual body armor, instead of the typical skin-tight latex with nipples drawn on. Although really, nothing says "I'm scary and here to kick ass" like some fake nipples and a huge crotch bulge.
Jun 15 2007 Stolen Jewels
Designers Mike and Maaike found some low resolution pictures of famous and expensive jewelry using Google Image Search and then stole, doctored, and transferred the images to leather. The result is this pixelated leather jewelry which I guess resembles the real thing from really really far away.
Jun 14 2007 The 10 Second IQ Test
According to this, I'm a super duper genius. And according to my mom, I'm a little prince!
Jun 14 2007 Insane Boeing 747 Landing
I can't tell if this is the best landing I've ever seen or the worst. But it's definitely the most insane. I'm pretty sure the pilot got his license out of the inside of a Cracker Jacks box.
Jun 14 2007 Sexy Undwear Cellphone Strap
The always awesome Japanese have created a line of lingerie for your cellphone. For about $9 you can get a pair of bra or panties which you can attach and hang from it. And if you don't want to put them on your cellphone I guess you could always wear it. I mean, 2 inch lingerie? That's hot.
Jun 14 2007 Playground Fence
"Playground Fence", designed by Tejo Remy, is a playful re-interpretation of playground fences.
Not only are the protrusions and recessions of the fence eye-catching, but they allow for a more active interaction between those on either sides of the fence, providing seats, benches, nooks and playspaces for children.
It's a pretty neat idea, although it hasn't been put into use yet. Tejo says he's looking for public commissions for his design and I hope he gets them. The only fence I had to play with as a kid was electrified. Yeah, my parents were pretty strict.
Jun 14 2007 Scanner Built Into Book
Datamancer has put together this flatbed scanner built into a bound leather book. The scanner sits inside a sheet metal frame with the book built around it. There's really no practical use for this, but it looks super cool. I guess you could pretend to put a piece of paper in your book and then scan it. Perfect for spies, except that you'd have to walk around with a suspiciously huge leather book all the time.
Jun 14 2007 The Box
The Box is designed to look like a normal cardboard box but it's actually soft and built for sitting on. And they look cool and all, but the site lists the price as €349 (about $465 US dollars) which is just absolutely ridiculous. For that price they should be made out of Fabergé Eggs.
Jun 13 2007 Tunnel Through House
Just in case you were wondering, yes, every home needs a bizarre tunnel running straight through it. More shots of this curious thing after the jump.
Jun 13 2007 TSK-VX7 Touch-Screen Keyboard
The TSK-VX7 is a touch-screen wireless keyboard that was presented during Computex Taipei 2007. Since there's no keys to push down on it seems way too easy to make errors. It looks cool (and by cool I mean stolen from Star Trek), but I can't see this actually functioning as a mainstream keyboard. Although to be fair I can't see much of anything. My glasses are like Coke bottles.
Jun 13 2007 Titan luxury flashlight
SureFire has created the Titan, which they claim is the world's first luxury flashlight. It's the first (and only) fully variable-output flashlight and has an operating range from zero to 65 lumens. There are no preset levels meaning you can get every output level in between. It has a titanium body and a scratch-resistant sapphire window, and the whole thing costs a whopping $500. Because why eat food when you can, you know, own a flashlight?
Jun 13 2007 MacTruck super tough notebook case
MacTruck is a case built for Mac notebooks made from 5052-H32 aluminum alloy, a super tough magnesium aluminum alloy used for making tanks. The MacTruck starts at $200, and the manufacturers claim you can drive a truck over it and your computer will survive. Plus it would look crazy cool handcuffed to your wrist. You could put on sunglasses and a suit and everything.
Jun 12 2007 Full Size Camarasaurus Dinosaur Replica
If you've got $56,000 lying around (and really, who doesnt?) you can get yourself this full size Camarasaurus Dinosaur Replica. It stands 6 meters high and 17 meters long, and is basically the coolest possible thing you could ever put on your lawn. Unless, you know, you dug up Elvis' grave and put his corpse on your lawn. I guess that might be cooler.
NOTE: If you also purchased this thing, you would officially be my king.
EDIT: I had an additional zero when I converted the mm to meters. No, this thing isn't larger than a football field.
Jun 12 2007 Home Theater Pool Table
The folks at Heiron & Smith have put together this ridiculous home theater pool table which they call The Executive. It costs $12,000 but it's well worth it, my friends. Why? Because it has built in speakers, a tiny LCD screen (which you'd probably have to sit on the ground to see), and a built in PS2. I can hardly believe the value! I mean, a PS2! It's like packaging this thing with a dinosaur fossil. And those are practically priceless! Seriously though, you'd be better off feeding your money to zoo animals than buying this thing.
Jun 12 2007 Warping Wallpaper
The guys over at Surrealien have developed a process of placing wallpaper so that it looks distorted by the objects it surrounds. Whereas wallpaper is usually placed haphazardly around objects, the warping wallpaper is placed consciously with the environment. Although if you actually put this stuff in your home I give you a week before you start losing your mind.
Jun 12 2007 Guy Gets Zune Tattoo
I was wondering if there was anybody dumb enough in the world to actually get a Microsoft Zune tattoo, and apparently there is. Thanks, Internet. For the porn too.
Jun 11 2007 $1 Million Ice Cream Cone
Bruster's Real Ice Cream unveiled the world's first $1 million ice cream cone (left) at the JCK Las Vegas Show, based on their signature waffle cone (right). It was created by diamond manufacturer Lazare Kaplan International Inc. and consists of nearly 20 troy ounces of 18k white and yellow gold, 548 round Lazare Diamonds, 87 Lazare square emerald cut diamonds, and one 5.63 carat Fancy Intense Yellow radiant cut diamond. The total carat weight comes to 152.16 and the cone is on sale for $1 million. Although it seems like false advertising to call this thing an ice cream cone when there's not a single bit of ice cream in it. What if somebody buys this thing actually looking for ice cream? Man, I bet they'd be so pissed.
Jun 11 2007 Importance Of Seat Belts
This is a PSA on the importance of seat belts. I'm a little curious how they managed to film it though. Either they've got some really good special effects guys or they just murdered two people.
Watch the video after the jump.
Jun 11 2007 Levitating Light Bulb
This floating light bulb is part of an art exhibit that will be shown at Sonar in Barcelona later this week. It's electromagnetically levitated and powered wirelessly so that it'll be on while floating in midair. If somebody could make a commercial version I'm sure they'd be hugely popular. Just like me. With the ladies. Rowr!
Jun 11 2007 The Auto Mower
The Auto Mower is like a giant Roomba for your lawn. It self-charges at a docking station and then goes off and mows your lawn on its own or at a set schedule. The thing costs $2,000, but is more environmentally friendly than regular gas-powered lawnmowers. Plus regular lawn mowers don't look like they'd chase you around and try to kill you. Would you seriously want a giant robot with spinning blades roaming freely around your home?
Jun 11 2007 Russian ATM Runs Un-Activated Windows
This is an ATM in Russia displaying an error message saying that Windows needs to be activated within seven days. Just another reason why banks probably shouldn't get all their software off BitTorrent.
