Guillaume Cagniard of the La Boite design studio in France brings us a piece of convergence inspired by stand up arcade game machines…you might have seen one in a museum. This thing has a retractable docking station for your iPod/iPhone, a side panel access for a gaming console/computer/Bluray player, a killer speaker system complete with […]

Pommes Frites has taken the guesswork out of public intoxication at high-brow events. The next time you’re heading to the opera, bring your modified copy of “Opera, Front and Back.” Operating under the assumption that bringing an Opera 101 book is inconspicuous, you can take nips from your concealed flask and no one will be […]

Hey DJs, having trouble keeping time whilst on the decks? Have no fear, the turntable clock is here. Wear this piece of blingin’ convergence around your neck, hang it from a wall or hook it to your set up. The turntable clock, from Pixelthis, makers of the hard drive clock, the bike gear clock, the […]

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut is hosting this Tom Sachs sculpture exhibit until Sept. 16. He carves, molds and shapes various materials into cameras. If you scroll through some of the photos you’ll realize that Sachs has an odd obsession with NASA. Hey, I’m not judging. As a matter of fact, I love […]

With the look of something out a Dr. Suess book and supposedly more useful than a baby seal clubbing device, comes the Gramophone from Aesthesis. At almost four feet tall, this stainless steel and carbon fiber bank-breaker was engineered by Swedish auto-maker Koenigseggs, in collaboration with design firms Ergonomidesign, Eker Design and the materials manufacturing […]

The A-stand from AIAIAI Labs is a laptop stand made from some leftover plumbing pipe used to mold Danny DeVito…I didn’t know they stacked it that high. While that’s not really true, (because DeVito was really hatched in a test tube, remember?) I can tell you that the design was inspired by Dan Steingart, an […]

If you want good sound, you’re just going to have to pay for it. And the Kanto Syd 5 iPod Speaker might very well prove that to you with it’s bass output, compatibility with other pieces of hardware and of course it’s price tag. You’re going to pay upwards of $359 for this mini monster, […]

It works much the same way that Googling your name in quotes does. Recently on display at the MIT museum, Personas finds all the fun facts about everyone sharing your most awesome name, compiling the data into an easy to read, color-coded chart that features different categories. I actually saw a few facts about myself […]