20 Dec
Tiny apricot wood speaker and radio

You thought you had seen it all when it came to technology, but here’s one gimmick that tops the last. A speaker that resembles, in size and appearance, an acorn. Hand made from 100% apricot tree, this tiny acorn can be used as an FM radio with earphones, or can be connected to you iPod […]


Something so simple can bring so much pleasure to an artist…or in this case, even an Accounts Receivables cubicle monkey with odd packaging needs. The Or-Ita is a new tool created by Makoto Orisaki ,a Japanese “inter design artist”. But what does this Or-Ita tool do? Well it simply perforates cardboard. And what’s the point? Because […]


20 Sep
"Il était une fois" by Benjamin Lacombe

I don’t know why, but I’m a pretty big fan of pop-up books. Both that ABC3D book and Popville are legitimate works of art, and when done right they’re their own genre of awesomeness. It appears this Il était une fois book fits the above category, as this trailer for the book hints at. Illustrated […]


17 Aug
Clever solutions to the puny limitations of cell phone cameras

While the iPhone 4 might have the most impressive built-in camera ever made, the truth is that there still are limitations as to what iPhone can or cannot do (nevermind other mobile phone cameras). But Photojojo! has solved this setback through their Camera Phone Lenses, which attach to the iPhone or any other camera-equipped phone […]


11 Aug
No, not if it's the playfully subversive street art of Mark Jenkins

We first became aware of the work of Mark Jenkins during a recent Los Angeles gallery show, where his absurd human-like characters dominated the room. Raised in the scintillating art Mecca of Fairfax, VA, it probably wasn’t too obvious to Jenkins as a child that he’d wind up a renowned artist. But despite his rising […]


3 Jun
Flat Light not only looks like a desklamp, butit does its job as well

The ultra thin and ultra clever Flat Light poster is simplicity distilled. Designed by Finn Magee of the UK, it is simply a 16.5″ x 23.5″ printed poster of a desklamp outfitted with LED lights to make it a light source you can tack onto your wall just about anywhere. The light it emanates is […]


26 May
Tato Bicycles: adding useless additions to bicycles since 2009

This Tato bike is the most creative invention since sliced bread. People bike to work, correct? Why not add in a frame so we can hold their briefcase! Well, Tato Swiss manufacturers, businessmen are rarely concerned about the environment and are probably the last customer you want to appeal to when designing a bicycle, because […]


It’s always hard to tell what’s real in these wacky interwebs, but this marketing ploy by Argentinian beer company Andes sure seems to be legit. Not only legit, but really quite inventive. In this think-inside-the-box, free-social-media, scantily-clad-promotional-girls world of beer advertising you have to take your hats of to Andes if they really pulled this […]