Archive for July, 2008

Sports Bottle Dumbbell

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Check out this cool sports drinking bottles design by Jin Le. Unlike the normal evil plastic boottles, this design has the dumbbell shape. Making you muscley is another purpose of this interesing design. But I would question whether it is enough weight for the arm exercise.

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Phone Concept: FuChat

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FuChat is a cordless phone concept for the home that can display the user’s emotional information, the time, weather images, or the ‘Do not disturb’ icon when they are busy. Using the hole on the top of the phone, you can hang it from a door-handle while you don’t want to be disturbed. Made from renewable plastic, FuChat is a eco-friendly product.

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“Stone” Garden Lamp

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Designed by Josep Puig and Josep Novel for Alma Light, lamp “Stone” is a perfect decoration for your garden. It is also available in suspensions or table lamps.  [via]

Fingerfood by Ken Goldman

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Imagine by Ken Goldman, “Fingerfood” are charming little plates with rings, especially designed for party. Genius!

Breakfast Appliance Looks Like a Laptop

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It is not a laptop. It is an interesting design by Thibault Masclet, called V-Line that is a small multi-functional kitchen appliance for breakfast. V-Line consists of a toaster and a cooking surface, on which we can make tea or keep the coffee warm.  [via]

Mobile Performance Venue

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This building is an amazing performance venue designed by norway’s various architects. It is a 90 x 60 metres dynamic oval structure capable of holding 3500 people in a central performance space of 2000 sq m. Unlike any traditional performance venue, the venue is made from many different inflatable hexagonal modules, which makes it be a mobile building. The structure takes 2 weeks for assembly and one week for disassembly.

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Whiteboard with built-in iPod Speaker Dock

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The “Daily System” whiteboard comes with a built-in iPod dock, rolling out your latest music findings through it’s decently embedded speakers. In addition to your iPod, the whiteboard also accommodates other items such as notebooks, notepads and a calendar. The Smart iPod Speaker Station with Whiteboard is available in black, white or espresso stain for $149 over at the Pottery Barn website.  [via]

His & Her Gift_Chair

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Do you want to have a chair as your friend’s birthday gift? If yes, then maybe you should check out this  His & Her Gift_Chair, a piece of furniture designed by Roderick Jonathan Gritten for the EPS Design Competition. 

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Bloody Knife-wielding Serial Killer Shower Curtain

killer-curtain.jpgI think this Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain would be a wonderfully weird way to surprise a house guest. It features the silhouette of a man with a dagger and enough blood splatters to take it well beyond the point of being a subtle gag. What’ll really startle ‘em is the sound and motion-activated “Psycho” music clip, complete with screaming woman. The Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain is available from Things You Never Knew for $19.98.  [via]

Living in a Stairwell Home

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This ultra-compact stairwell dwelling is a great design for a teenager looking for his independence. Created by H2O Architects, it is a 12 square meter house that offers a place to sleep, work, live and wash–meals are taken inside with mum’s cooking. The house has four split-levels and is a extreme assembling option to turn the building into a kind of “inhabitable furniture”.  [via]


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