Inflatable Everything Chair: The Ultimate Gift for Lazy Guys

Looking for a place to hang out and chill? Look no further than the Everything Chair. This comfy, inflatable easy chair has everything you need to maintain your state of slothfulness, and is the perfect gift idea for the lazy man who has everything.

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Simply blow up the chair with the included foot pump, and get to relaxing. The 36″ x 36″ x 36″ chair offers a pair of built-in can holders in the arm rests, pockets in the arms for storing your magazines, game discs, and remote controls, as well as a pair of speakers in the headrest. While you could just hook up your media player to the 3.5mm jack, I’m thinking you could hack the speakers to function as inexpensive, but effective surround speakers for a media room too.

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There’s really not much to dislike about the Everything Chair – unless you’ve got a cat that hasn’t been declawed. At least they’ve been kind enough to include a puncture repair kit to help deal with unintended leaks. And you could always just put your cat in the box that the chair comes in.

The Everything Chair is available from IWOOT for £49.99 (~$81 USD) or from Convenient Gadgets & Gifts for $89.95(USD).

Heathrow Airport Needs Tightrope Walkers Just to Change Its Lightbulbs

Heathrow Airport Needs Tightrope Walkers Just to Change Its Lightbulbs

Heathrow’s Terminal Five was designed to be a soaring, light-filled tribute to the wonders of flight. Five years into its life, though, 60 percent of its lightbulbs are burned out—because there’s been no safe or cost-effective way to change them. Now, officials say they’ve found a solution: Acrobats.

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This Disaster Housing Is Made From Upcycled Relief Water Bottles

This Disaster Housing Is Made From Upcycled Relief Water Bottles

When natural disasters hit, one of the first relief supplies to arrive is clean, bottled drinking water. But soon the empty bottles could be put to good use, too—in the form of this new style of disaster housing.

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When Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill Screws Up It Makes Art

When Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill Screws Up It Makes Art

Photoshop is amazingly powerful. But like any other program it’s limited. Sometimes hilariously so. And content-aware fill is an example of an amazing feature that’s still in the gray area between amazing and really off base.

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Africa’s Underwater Hotel The Manta Resort: Is That Captain Nemo out My Window?

I guess that if you’re not afraid of water, then underwater hotels can make for some fabulous sights. This new one will provide you with an amazing stay, thanks to being submerged more than 13 feet below the surface of the ocean.

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The Manta Resort is an all-inclusive hotel room that is partially submerged. It has a rooftop terrace for basking in the sun and to stargaze at night, a landing deck at sea level that comes complete with a lounge and restroom, and an underwater hotel room surrounded by glass panes, allowing for a 360-degree view of the marine panorama.

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From inside their room, guests can view marine life and coral reefs. Fish are supposed to sleep beside it, and there are spotlights to attract even more creatures.

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Staying at the Manta Resort will cost you a pricey $1,500(USD) a night, but its a truly unique experience for the price.

[via designboom]

KANO KIT DIY Computer: A Computer So Simple, Anyone Can Assemble It

The Raspberry Pi computing platform definitely has some interesting applications. This project is no exception, because it will allow users of all ages and experience to assemble a DIY computer. A Raspberry Pi is used as the brains of the operation.

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The MAP Project Office collaborated with Kano to create this DIY computer kit. It’s a complete computer system that its makers claim is as easy to assemble as LEGO.

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The system comes with a two-part bumper case for the computer board, as well as a custom wireless keyboard, with a built-in touchpad and color-coded buttons, making it kid-friendly. It connects to any monitor with an HDMI port, and comes with an 8GB SD card pre-loaded with the Kano OS and tools to help learn how to program. The open source computer can run pretty much any Debian Linux package, and will come with easy-to-use software for creating and playing simple games.

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The KANO KIT DIY Computer is being crowdfunded via Kickstarter. You’ll have to pledge at least $119(USD) to get yours. With nearly a month of funding left, the project has amassed more than $560,000 against a goal of just $100,000. Needless to say, it will go into production.

[via Kickstarter]

Microsoft wants your Xbox One wireless controller designs

Microsoft has been going a bit contest-crazy lately with the run-up to and launch of its next-gen gaming console Xbox One. Aside from all the promotional contests for the system itself, last weekend it announced the “Made By You” Gamerpic design contest, which is still going on (deadline is Dec. 9.) Later in the week–two […]

Would you want to sit in these morphing airplane seats?

Would you want to sit in these morphing airplane seats?

It has more or less become fact that when you pay money to travel on an airplane, you’re subscribing yourself to probable gropage, uncomfortable seats, shoddy service, a few degrees of recline comfort and nuked sludge as food (if there is food). It’s not pleasant. It’s not futuristic. It’s not fun. What if airplanes were a little bit more adaptable? Starting with the seats.

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Most Beautiful Items: November 16 – 22, 2013

Most Beautiful Items: November 16 - 22, 2013

Oh, my. Our most beautiful items this week really run the gamut. From stadiums shaped like vagianas, to crazy digital fabrication, to a beautiful futuristic speedboats, we’re really going for it this time around. Enjoy some of our favorite posts from the worlds of art, architecture, and design in the past week:

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Inside Jony Ive’s Extraordinary (and Very Expensive) Sotheby’s Auction

Inside Jony Ive's Extraordinary (and Very Expensive) Sotheby's Auction

Jony Ive creates objects that end up in the hands of hundreds of millions of people. But for his latest trick—a RED charity auction at Sotheby’s tomorrow afternoon—he and designer Marc Newson are offering up something else: The one-of-a-kind.

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