Hasta La Gadget!

Born Rich: Considering the fact that we toss over our drinks one out of 10 times and that too when we are doing something important like playing a competitive game of Halo, we definitely need to think of a way to avoid our drink spilling on the floor couch.

However, somebody has taken all the pain onto himself to save us the time from cleaning the spilled coffee with a very simple coffee table mod. A coffee table that would act as a file server, media control for my living room TV, and light entertainment for guests is sure to be welcomed in any geek’s home.

Coffee table mod clears the spill for geeks [Born Rich]

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This is certainly an innovative and chic mixture of the new and the old if ever there was one.

Design firm Maruwakaya specialize in stylish consumer goods that collaborate with contemporary brands and traditional crafts. They previously worked with Puma to produce an extraordinary wooden bento box. Now they have created a cover for your iPhone made out of lacquer and deerskin leather (known as “inden” or 印伝/印傳), a technique famous in Yamanashi. As you can see below, this is not only an original choice of materials but the results are very striking too.

What the inden technique does is it makes leather-ware highly durable; ideal for handsets that you take everywhere around with you. The product comes in four different colors and designs. It also comes with a wooden box but, with a price tag between 11 and 12,500 JPY (c.$110-250), this is definitely not a casual purchase. Manufactured in strictly limited numbers and only available online, Maruwakaya is taking orders to be shipped in February at time of writing.

Apple iSlate should be this simple. With an aluminum or white polycarbonate body, perhaps even rubberized, and no bezel whatsoever, with a very thin black frame. It really doesn’t need anything else. Ogle its simple beauty in the gallery.

I like it. I would like the screen to reach the very edge of the device, but that’s probably not possible with the current technology.

But where’s the button, some may ask? I think that, for the iSlate, they can actually pass on the physical home button, since it doesn’t make much sense in a 10-inch format. I mean, where do you place it? In the bottom center? Two home buttons on the sides? One? On one corner? What corner? Instinctively, I don’t think it’s needed. And they always implement a hard-to-reach physical reset button on the back.

Hopefully, we will have answers at the end of the month. [Thanks Rodolphe Desmare for the art]