There’s a company out there called Tom Spina Designs that wants to make your house into the most daunting of Star Wars-themed environments. They’ve created a total of 14 “master tiles” which replicate the surface of the original Death Star from Star Wars: A New Hope, allowing you to flip and trade out any number […]
Disney’s miraculous touch-sensitive technology isn’t available yet, but Tinkering Techie found a way to discreetly incorporate current tech to his furniture. He made a wooden nightstand and installed three capacitive touch strips underneath its overhanging edges. Then he made a custom circuit so that he could control the nightstand’s lights and a lamp through touch.
The strips are located on the front and side edges of the nighstand. Tapping any of them once turns on an RGB LED nightlight underneath the drawer, while a double tap turns on the lamp on the nightstand. The lights can then be turned off with a single tap. Tinkering Techie also said that he can use the double tap gesture on any 120v device in place of the lamp.
As you’ll see in the video below, Tinkering Techie also installed another RGB LED on the drawer that lights up when the drawer is opened. The touch strips can also be used to adjust the color of the nightlight and drawer LEDs.
Check out Tinkering Techie’s blog for more on his project.
[via Bit Rebels]
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.
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.
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).
Stir’s Kinetic Desk, the smart standing desk which not only shuffles electrically between different heights, but tracks your fitness and teases you with twitches when it thinks you need to change, has gone up for order. Priced at $3,890, the first fifty orders will ship out in February 2014, though everybody else will need to […]
Experimentation is a pretty standard part of the creative process, but it usually ends with an "a-ha" moment; once you know what you want to make, the trial and error part of the equation is dunzo. For architect Andrew Kudless, however, R&D is never over; he often pushes his sculptural work so far it accidentally ends up in a ten-foot wide puddle of plaster on his studio floor.
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You unlock this post with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a collection of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas.
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I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I used to imagine that my wardrobe led into a secret and magical world, just like in the Narnia books. Of course, no matter how often I opened it, I only found clothes and disappointment, but it was still fun.
There isn’t very much info on this wardrobe, but we do know that it actually does lead to somewhere else – a secret room painted with a Narnia theme. Some cool parent made this wardrobe for their 9-year-old daughter, and that’s about all we know about it.
Whoever it was for, somebody is having fun in that house and I really want to live there.
[via The Meta Picture via Geeks Are Sexy]
Despite what it says on its front, this really is the chair that I am looking for. When you spend all day piloting an X-Wing fighter, you get used to having an Astromech droid at your back, so those off-duty hours can feel a bit lonely. This chair solves that problem by putting an R2 unit on your back once again.
Paul Ryan of Xtinct 3D Design in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, made this chair out of CNC-cut cedar wood and it looks lovely. Paul previously made a Stormtrooper version, which is cool, but I prefer R2. I would totally sit on this on my porch if I had a cabin on Endor.
[via Homes and Hues]
There are those of us who prefer working at a desk that’s clean, free of clutter, and devoid of anything but the work we’re focusing on. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re ready for a monastic lifestyle where we have to give up all of our wordly possessions. Instead, this double decker Pili Table designed by Ricard Mollon is a fair compromise, keeping all our unneccessary crap a few inches below the desktop.
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This chest of drawers takes its name literally and gives you a manly piece of furniture. With a head. And eyes that are checking out his own abs and chest approvingly.
This clever piece of furniture allows you to do a nipple tweak every time you get out a fresh pair of socks or underwear. So that’s a bonus.
This strange piece of design comes from George McCallum. I’m glad there’s no bottom half. Knowing George it would probably be made of chestnut and I do NOT want to see his literal take on that. I don’t mind some nipple pulling, but that’s where I draw the line. And thankfully, he didn’t put any hair on this chest.
Pretty clever furniture pun though. Good work George.
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