The Finger-trap handbag designed by James Piatt means you never have to hold onto your bag again. Suction design holds the bag in place on your fingertips. Be sure to attach your new handbag after you leave the house, or you’ll never be able to open the front door.
After seeing Aladdin whisk Jasmine off to the clouds and around the world on his magic carpet, I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to hold puffs of clouds in my hands. Not that you’d be able to really hold onto them, since they’re essentially just water vapor with particulate matter and dust, but anyway…
Designer Lubo Majer took things a little further with Cirrus, a cloud-themed set of furniture that lets you lay down not on a bed of roses, but on a bed of clouds.
It might not look like it, but a lot of effort went into making sure the clouds stayed puffy and, well, cartoonishly cloud-like. The lounges are actually stuffed with flexible polyurethane foam and propped up with a rigid OSB frame and spring system to keep them looking like clouds. And in case you were wondering, that doesn’t sacrifice any comfort at all.
You can check out the full collection of Cirrus furniture over at Dizajno.
[via Yanko Design]
If you live in the area where Taiwanese artist Shu-Chun Hsiao set up his latest project, then you might be wondering why various locations have real and physical Google’s Maps icons plastered prominently on their walls or doors.
Wait a while, smell the flowers, and watch the birds, and you’ll have your answer.
These Google Maps icons aren’t just pieces of pop art based on the search giant’s popular maps application. They’re actually birdhouses that I’m sure birds of the right size will find a pleasure to live in.
Hsiao explains: “The project is aiming to put numbers of birdhouses all over the city for bird to accommodate. The iconic symbol will become a navigating landmark for the flying birds. Birds, have the most real experience of Google map. Birds can fly through the city, through streets. A birdhouse becomes their destination as Google Map(s) does.”
I’d like to have one for my house, please and thank you very much.
What do you think about Hsiao’s project?
[via Freshome via Laughing Squid]
Takara TOMY Company, Ltd., the Japanese toy company, just released a tiny cleaning robot, called the “Auto Mee S”, designed for cleaning smartphone and tablet LCD displays.
This is a fun gadget to have and would be a great gift that I would love to get…
With 2 rotating cleaning papers and 3 tires on its bottom, it wipes off fingerprints and dust during its travels over smartphone and tablet displays. It recognizes the end of the screen so it will turn and keep sweeping …
Falling in love can be complicated; falling in ‘like’, not so much. Either way, you’ve got various Facebook statuses to choose from (including the infamous “It’s Complicated”) and different ways to express how you feel – one of which is Yeople’s ‘I Like You’ pendant that shows the actual process of liking instead of just the icon itself.
That’s what makes this piece of jewelry so unique and oh-so-quirky.
When you give it as a present to someone, you’re not just letting them wear Facebook’s ‘Like’ icon you’re actually giving them a ‘like’ in real life. It makes an apt gift for Valentine’s when you’re still in the early stages of attraction and it might be awkward to give something with hearts and ‘I Love You’ stamped all over it.
The set comes with the in-the-process-of Liking pendant, plus a bracelet in the box. It retails for €22.50 (~$31 USD) on Yeople.
Wedding invitations don’t get any geekier than this. Bill Porter and his fiance Mara really wanted to come up with invitations that popped and screamed geek all the way. With their wedding theme being ‘Circuits and Swirls,’ the power couple put their heads together to come up with DIY invitations that involved circuit boards and embedded LED lights.
Like most couples, Bill and Mara’s main constraints were time and money, but they were able to get the job done – and by that, we mean all of 50 wedding invitations – by being resourceful and smart about it.
Each invitation had a battery and several blinking LEDs built into it which were controlled by a microcontroller. They embedded a light sensor into each invitation as well, which signaled the LEDs to light up when the invitation was opened.
The coolest part? When the light level detected by the sensor falls below a certain limit, a secret Morse code message is flashed for the guest to figure out.
Bill detailed how the invites were conceptualized and made on his blog, which you can check out right here.
[via Hack a Day via Dvice]
You can tell a lot about a person’s mood or disposition by observing his or her body language. For example, when a person’s pissed off or annoyed at you, then their arms are most likely crossed over their chest.
Aside from their moods, you can also surmise a few things about the person based on how they move. For example, dancers are usually more graceful in their movement and poses, like the dainty hand position you see below.
Of course, their hands get into position without the metal guide that you see above. That metallic thing you see, however, is a part of artist Jennifer Crupi’s series of wearable sculptures and it’s called “Ornamental Hands.” This and the other pieces in the series explore human nature and highlight communication by looking at a person’s body language and gestures.
My favorite would have to be the “Empathy Table.” It’s basically a table with indentations on the surface where two people sitting across each other would have to put their hands and arms in, to assume a position of empathy.
Which one’s your favorite?
[via designboom via Laughing Squid]
Smile, you’re on candied camera! Japan’s FabCafe is employing a 3D printer to create extra sweet, eminently edible, chocolate truffle self-portraits just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Not everyone is in love with IBride’s quirky furniture and portrait designs, but they should be. IBride
(translate – ‘hybrid’) designs add humor, self-awareness, and function
to any decor, and the Diva Wall Table, is no exception – the subject of this animal obsession being the ostrich.
Vases are pretty, but they take up a lot of room and if you don’t have
fresh flowers around very often it can be annoying to
have to store vases for a few random occasions. Wentworth Miracle Vases are made from durable PVC and are completely flat when unfilled.
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