After seeing this design I immediately thought “Why didn’t they make it like that before?” It’s so convenient when you can just put the umbrella in the corner and it’ll stay it that position till the time you’ll need it again. I also would like to mention that making an umbrella stand up is not easy. It’s just a stick on a tripod. The umbrella’s weight is not distributed equally so it took the designer Hironao Tsuboi much effort to make it stand up and stay up. Other then that, it functions just as well as any other umbrella, keeping you dry when it’s raining.
While some car companies are busy making and perfecting their electric and hybrid cars, MDI has made a car that runs on compressed air. The car will seat 3 people, have a range of 220 km (130miles) and a 70 kph (45 mph) speed limit. For those who don’t have a driving license the car’s speed will be limited to 45kph (30 mph). The air supply or in this case fuel can be refilled in a few minutes with an air compressor available at every gas station.
MDI declares AirPOD will be the first car to be series-produced, by the end of the first quarter of 2009 and the price is said to be very low for a car this size.
WOW! SteelSeries and Blizzard have unveiled a mouse made especially for World of Warcraft. First thing first, It looks amazing, if aliens used mice with their computers I’m sure this is how we would picture them. Now comes the function part. The mouse has 15 programmable buttons. 15! That’s more then I used for the whole game including moving around but I understand that for PvP you need to have lots of buttons you can quickly push and not take your eyes off the screen. Also, you can choose what color the mouse will glow. You can chose from 16 million colors. A bit overkill but may keep the player busy while he’s in queue for the next battleground. One last thing, the mouse will be on sale on November 13, the same date when the Wrath of the Lich King comes out and will cost $90
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a chair made entirely from natural crystals at Second Nature in Tokyo later this month. The process of making such a chair is simple, I remember doing similar stuff in chemistry class when salt crystals stuck to a string. The proces sis simple yet very creative when it’s used to make furniture.
An original Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters is on sale on eBay. The auction will last till October 11 so you still have a chance win it. the current bid is 18,100.00. Ecto-1 is a 1959 Cadillac Cadillac M&M with a 8 cylinder engine and the owner says the car is in excellent condition. the link to the auction page is after the jump.
The Brunch is a series of products that make our lives a bit more interesting.
A bread slicing tool that helps to slice precise pieces or bread. I remember seeing one in a kitchen a long long time ago. It made slicing bread faster and safer, good for those who are bad with knives.
Measure how much milk and sugar is in your coffee
Helps you align the cutlery perfectly
This teapot records from which height you’ve been pouring tea. Utterly useless information but fun to know.
The most brilliant piece of all the toaster that shoots out your toast. You can set the angle and force so the toast would land exactly on your plate or someone else’s plate. Not sure if it can shoot a toast across the room but that would certainly be cool.
This installation which says “Obsessions make my life worse and my work better” was made by Sagmeister inc. in Amsterdam. The sign consisted of 300,000 euro laid out by 8 people. Sadly the installation lasted less then 24 hours when the police removed it. Still it was a great piece of art.
This is a limited edition of one cat 1Uber-bike by artist Byron Hemmes. The 1Uber-bike is powered by a 1200cc Buell 97 S3 Thunderbolt engine, the body is made from high-grade stainless steel. The bike costs £320,000 or roughly $565,000 which is a bit high for a bike especially whoever riding it would look like his humping a jaguar
This phone was designed by Londoner Arthur Schmitt and it’s just awesome. The phone is so inefficient, so bulky, such a pain to handle and all these things make the phone even better. Among all the inefficiencies, which makes this phone so cool, one stands out the most - you need to use punch cards and binary phone numbers to control your phone’s features and make calls. Isn’t it just the coolest gadget ever?
Field of Light by Bruce Murno will be on the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, this winter. The project consists of 6,000 acrylic tubes containing optical fibers. Just like flowers growing in the desert stand out so will the installation when it starts to glowing, capturing everyone’s attention.
