Hasta La Gadget!

Whether you are always on the road, or spend a lot of time at your friends’ houses, Bluetooth speakers are a nice thing to have around. This little cubic speaker looks like a good way to go if you need to share your tunes on the go. The 1Q is a portable Bluetooth speaker that’s housed in wood, resulting in better quality sound than typical plastic enclosures.

1Q was designed by Vers Audio and launched through Kickstarter. This little 3-inch speaker is designed to work in tandem with another to deliver stereo sound. The output is 6.5W, so it won’t knock off your socks, but the designer says that it’s optimized for 1Q’s small size. The charge is supposed to last about 10 hours, which isn’t bad.

The project is already fully funded, and surpassed its humble $10,000 goal almost tenfold! You’ll have to wait until a retail version is released to get your own, which will sell for $120 before the holidays.

[via Kickstarter]

Man, it would be so awesome if Timelord police drove around in these. This TARDIS Delorean, or CARDIS (or TarDeLorean) is the most awesome car I have ever laid eyes on. I don’t know if it is bigger on the inside, but I am confident the Doctor will have no problem picking up hot new companions in this beauty.

By Doctor I mean the 11th. Wait, I mean Doc Brown. When it comes to DeLorean interiors, the whole bigger on the inside thing is really important too, given how cramped these things usually are.

This awesome piece of awesomeness is blowing my mind and I can’t believe that I never saw this before. If only it were real. Sadly it’s just some awesome artwork created by a guy named Pacta for a Worth1000 competition.

[via Geekologie via Geektyrant]

Chairs are more than just pieces of furniture. At times, they can also be random yet awesome pieces of artwork, like the Enginering Temporality chair by Design Academy graduate Tuomas Markunpoika Tolvanen.

Tolvanen got the inspiration to do his project after witnessing his grandmother’s declining health due to Alzheimer’s. The project is actually a tribute to human fragility, and from the looks of it, Tolvanen was able to get that point across very well.

Perhaps the process to get the chair looking like that is even more striking than its final appearance.

So here’s what Tolvanen did: he cut up some tubular steel into rings and then joined them back together to form a semi-covering over the chair. And then he burned the entire thing. He says:

My pursuit was to give an object a memory, create tension and stage a play between the perfect, anonymous mass produced structural material and the imperfect of human being. The shell that is left caresses the vanished object, the memory of it, referring to the past.

It looks pretty awesome, doesn’t it? In addition to the chair, Tolvanen also created a cabinet, using similar techniques.

[via Design Boom via Chair Blog]

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