Set your Day to Awesome!

  It’s been a while since we debuted a new poster here. So this is the latest design to work its way out of my head. Thinking of the coffee mug like a knob on a dryer or an Awesome Machine. You know where i would set that bad boy! Right to 11. Anywhoo Enjoy Set your [...]

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Happy Holidays From the CaffiNation!

We here at the CaffiNation Podcast and Puzzle Piece Productions would like to send out our warmest wishes to you and yours this holiday season. There are so many problems in the world it’s quite nice to spend a few moments with family and friends celebrating the things that are going your way. So our [...]

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Gojira invades the mall

Although decorating the tree for Christmas is festive, I believe making it look like a monster would scar the kids for life…especially in Japan. In 2000, at the Aqua City Odaiba shopping mall, located in Japan, the holiday decorative committee decided to construct a christmas tree in the shape of Godzilla. Not only did they shape it to look like him, [...]

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Peta attacks Tanooki Mario

Since the beginning of the Super Mario Bros. franchise, which began in 1983, there hasn’t been any kind of complaints about any of the game content in the series. Personally, I wouldn’t think there would be. Well, I guess I was wrong. PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has decided to finally show there concern about [...]

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The Bionic Bumper Cars

Everybody has played Rock’ Em Sock’ Em at least once in there life time. Personally, I prefer the red guy, also known as the Red Rocker. Now as an adult, you wouldn’t mind playing the game, but you need to have it a little more exciting. Well, the people over at Hammacher Schlemmer has given [...]

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Comfort Coffee

The air has a chill to it. The leaves have almost all fallen. And the days feel right. Coffee means a lot of things to a lot of people, to me it means Comfort. Comfort A smooth deep brew slowly wafting sultry scents your way A promise of comfort, A premiss of decadence Coffee this [...]

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Train Station decorated with 8-bit Nintendo

After being commisioned to cover an entire train station consisting of  8-bit artwork, Finnish artist Lars Arrhenius went to work. The Thorildsplan Tunnelbana station, a train station in Stockholm, Sweden, was redecoratred in 2008.   The entire station is covered in artwork inspired by early 1980′s Nintendo games. The artowrk consists of Dig Dug, Pacman, Super Mario Bros, and [...]

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Gameboy Zombie

What do you do with a gameboy that hasn’t been used in quite some time. You make a zombie, that’s what you do. And that is exactly what artist Donald Kennedy, an artist over at KodyKoala, did with his old gameboy. Other than the gameboy, he also used hands from a Iron Man Monger figure [...]

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Super Mario High Heels

Even though none of us here at Caffination are female, or wear any type of woman’s clothing, I thought these were a must see. These were just a personal project. However, if they were to be sold at all, I’m sure the would be quite the hot item among the geeky girls.

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Pumpkin Carving at its best

With Halloween right around the corner, nothing gets the spirit going like carving a pumpkin. I know Paul is talented in carving a pumpkin, but I have not been granted that gift. However, nothing can beat the carvings by Ray Villafane, an artist for Villafane Studios. Some of his carvings are just amazing. His work [...]

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Smaug over the Lonely Mountain

Last year I started to carve a dragon, and messed up a bit. Put a hole in the other side of the pumpkin. Only one thing left to do when you mess up. Make it into something amazing. What dragon was bitten by a hole in the side of the mountain? None other than the [...]

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Light cycle comes to life

Anybody who has seen Tron, knows the best thing about the movie, other than the graphics, is the “Light Cycle.” Owning a bike that looks that good would cost you a pretty penny, $55,000 to be exact. You would find the gasoline powered “Light cycle” over at Hammacher Shlemmer. The Tron bike was presented last [...]

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Buckyballs goes Cube.

When I found Buckyballs, a bunch of pebble sized balls made from rare earth magnets, it wasn’t long before I had to get it. And when I did, I had nothing but fun for weeks. And I still have fun to this day. Recently, the company who sells Buckyballs have brought out a new product, [...]

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Dead Island coming to theaters?

The recent release of “Dead Island” has gained good reception on the gameplay. However, what made “Dead Island” a big success was something better than the game itself. When the trailer for the game hit the internet, about 10 million hits were made to the video in just 2 days. With a huge response to [...]

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Coffee Up

A phrase I unabashedly derrived fromt he term Cowboy Up, indicating that the person was about to do some hard work. Same thing but for creative endeavors there is less likely to be a physical rammification for a poor performance, but any effort needs to be maxed out. Only one way I know to burn [...]

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Coffee Power Up

Coffee is what fuels us, it is what powers so many things we do. I’ve shown this design before, and even printed out some fun giveaway posters. And of all of the things I’ve done this is one of my absolute favorites. I can think of no better story to throw down on National Coffee [...]

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Adidas Star Wars Campus Wampa Sneakers

  Sneakers are big business, and so is Star Wars. But do you the chops to actually buy and wear limited edition Wampa Fur Sneakers? Actually for 150 dollars you don’t get the finest in culled fur from long long ago, nor far far away. This is horsehair. With a fun Wampa logo, and a [...]

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Origami Cuptea Teabag

  The experiance of drinking tea is just as important as the taste. there is a ceremony involved in creating good tea, in enjoying it to its fullest. This product, dubbed Cuptea, by designer Lee Seo-jin brings all of that into one delightful package. At this point just a design exercise but the product is [...]

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Create-Your-Own Mug

Not sure when this came out but I love the idea. Starbucks has debuted a larger mug with a special coating on it. This coating, when written on with the included pen and baked in an oven becomes permanently marked with your words of wisdom, inspirational doodle or hilarious missive. And honestly $14.95 for a 16oz mug, [...]

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Food Sculpture

  A collection of off the wall Sculptures and food based art. My personal favorite is the Pepper Skull above. and the Scallion Mantis below. Have you seen any other awesome food art? I myself have been known to dabble in carving, Apples, Pumpkins ect. Its almost time again.     h/t Mas @ IneedCoffee [...]

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Rubik’s Cube Mug

Its a mug shaped like the toy you could never beat. Let’s be honest ifyou were really good you would have the solved cube sitting there next to a normal mug… I’d like to see a mixed up version for those of us who couldn’t beat the system. $12.99 and it shall be yours h/t to TotallyCoolTech [...]

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Space Invaders Watch

  Romain Jerome has done some funky stuff, but this is funky fresh. Coming in two flavors the Space Invaders watch comes in full on color or authentic monochrome each to a limited run of 78 pieces each. this was done in homage to 1978 being the year that space invaders came out. This watch is fused [...]

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NHL12 has girls

When I first heard about EA Games bringing females hockey players to NHL 12, I immediately thought of Jimmy Dugan from ‘A League of Their Own’, “I don’t have ball players, I’ve got girls!” This will be a start of something new to all future sporting games. The decision to put the female gender in the game comes [...]

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Cthulhu loves coffee

  I Love getting an image stuck in my head, and quite honestly this one had been bouncing around in my attic for a while. Especially when people ask how I like my coffee. Black as my soul? or If you happen to be able to brave the horror, i would truly enjoy some R’lyeh [...]

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Gears of War 3 Bike

With the release of Gears of War 3 just 8 days away, what better way to get pumped up for it, then seeing a bike dedicated to Gears of War. Paul Teutul Jr., also know as Paul Jr, and the people at PJD have built a bike to for epic games in celebration of their [...]

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Zombie Ipsum: Frightful Filler for Your Damned Designs

Way back when, you know in times of latin and stuff. Well at least before Times New Roman, and definitely before Helvetica, typographers had a problem. When they wanted to show someone a new typeface, or work out layout on a design people kept focusing on the content of the type on the page. So [...]

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Justice League meets the Wild West

Now this is a neat design. If the Justice League were to be around during the western days, I think names like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, would have no meaning. An artist, by the name of Ten Bandits, has designed the founders of the Justice League of Americas, as if they were in the [...]

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Inkling, a digital solution to a paper problem

Wacom has done it again, They have found a simple way to convert a tactile, and personal media such as sketching and convert it to a digital file. I love my wacom tablet once set up correctly it makes creating digital files with the skill i have worked to develope. But it only lasts as [...]

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Celebrating Zelda with Gold

As a big fan of the Legend of Zelda franchise, I know that whenever Nintendo wants to celebrate one of the releases, something always turns into gold. The original Nintendo had the gold cartridge, Gameboy had the gold handheld GameBoy, N64 had the gold console with a gold controller. So it would only be right [...]

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An Illustrated Silmarillion like no other

I am a huge fan of Tolkien’s World. Middle Earth is unique amoung fantasy worlds in that it lives and breathes. It has a history, linguisitc and mythological. The Hobbit was an introduction, The Lord of the Rings was the Poetic Edda, the culmination of years of study into a world that was growing organically inside [...]

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Mario Pipe Mug

Warp Pipes, not for the faint of heart, now if you have a fan’s mind and a kiings wallet a 34.99 mug might seem like a good idea to you. I love the design and the fact that you get one of 4 molded coasters is a great find, but 35 bucks a lot of coins to [...]

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The Golden Ratio of Apple

I love design, especially good design. And Apple has been a part of some great design in the past 30 years, other times not so much, I’m looking at you one button mice, and puck mice. But their logo has always been beautiful (although I am partial to the older multicolored one) But i was [...]

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Little taste of the Shire

It is amazing what people do to show how much they are a fan of something. Many devote their lives just for you too see how much they enjoyed a book, a novel, or someone famous. In Montana, this is exactly what Steve and Christina Michaels did. They are so much of a fan of [...]

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Perfect use for Life’s lemons

Here at Caffination.com, we are all about the lemons. Over at Snorg.com, you too can show how much appreciation you have for combustible lemons. With the “Burn life’s house down” t-shirt, you would make Cave Johnson very proud. Burn Life’s House Down

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So you want to be a Ninja!

‪You’re going to need some parts and pieces first. But a tool for any well heeled Ninja is a Smoke Bomb. And this wonderful video from Kip Kedersha will show you how its done. Man now i need a friend with some black powder. The man has an awesome knack for making awesome how to videos, and [...]

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Tea Tumbler by Kicker Studio

    The Kicker Tea Tumbler is an interesting idea for tea consumers. The premise is simple enough. Drop in loose tea, Of which i am a huge fan, and then top it with boiling or near boiling water. cap it off and enjoy. The strainer at the top of the clear tumbler allows you to sip [...]

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The PAS House

If you were like me, you would always hear the phrase, “No skating in the house!” With a house built for skating, what would parents say? In Malibu’s Las Flores Canyon section, in California, a house is being constructed for the purpose of skating. The idea was given to architecture, and author of “Air Architecture”, Francois Perrin by [...]

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Geek vs. Food: by Steven Anderson

Who hasn’t wanted to throw in a couple of hats for the kids after polishing off Ye Old 96′er? Well take the world of eating challenges, loving blend them with a helping of geek culture and you get Steven Anderson’s beautiful works. All available as actual T shirts on Red Bubble! Nice Work! My favorite would [...]

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Hey there, Dollface

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to see yourself as a doll, now you have that chance. CloneFactory, based in Japan, is giving people the opportunity to create a doll resembling the customer. After a digital composite, the company is able to make the doll any way you would like, with outfits to [...]

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Scrap turned into robots

Will Wagenaar, has a gift for making art from Scrap. You can find his beautiful brand of art of at Etsy, where he goes by reclaim2fame. His creation Brenda is shown here as an evil little robot, built entirely from left over parts He also has a fantastic assortment of other robots at his call. [...]

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Interlocking Lego Promise Rings

    How do two geeks show their commitment? Well if you aren’t Irish a Claddagh ring probably wouldn’t work for you. And no one is really using Fede Rings anymore. However when two geek hearts beat as one, a LEGO variant on the same sentiment is a great Idea! At 125 dollars they seem right on [...]

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MC Escher… ‪Waterfall in real life

I’ll just leave this here. Obviously some type of visual trickery is going on but… forced perspective is a beautiful thing. I’m thinking renewable energy! ‪Waterfall‬‏ – YouTube.

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Darth Vader Balloon

This is one way to arrive to a party. Benoit and Michel Lambert, who are Belgian balloonists, built the Darth Vader balloon in 2007, with the help from Cameron Balloons. They make appearances all over the world. You can watch them as they participate in “The Great Reno Balloon Race“, from September 9 to September [...]

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Forever Marilyn

A 26-foot statue of Marilyn Monroe was unveiled in Chicago’s Pioneer Court. It is a recreation of her most famous pose, from the 1955 movie, The Seven Year Itch. The main reason for the staute, according to Zeller Realty Group, is to make people think. A spokesman for the company stated that, “Paul Zeller likes to bring in [...]

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Zelda Day is here

A day that I wish I could go and celebrate with the hundreds of other fans. Zelda Day is here to be celebrated on Saturday, July 23.  Taking a day to enjoy the lifestyle and music of Hyrule, with beer and drinks theme. Unfortunately, it is in Rio de Janeiro. So if you are in [...]

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USB drive with a Combo Lock

Talk about your old world simplicity. The Cryptex Flash Drive.  This lock designed in AutoCAD and cut out of solid brass encases a USB drive. a simple physical lock to prevent and unauthorized USB action going on. Great idea. but honestly folks once someone has physical access to a piece of tech it’s only how [...]

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Decorating your Xbox360- Gears of War style

With the Gears of War saga coming to an end, Calibur11 has decided to bring out something special for the occasion. Calibur11 is a company that enhances the style and productiveness of the Xbox 360. For the release of Gears of War 3, Calibur11 will be selling this scary, but unique vault, also known as a case. [...]

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Lego Letterpress Prints

We have seen Lego Art, LEGO sculpture, wonderous Constructions and Lego Murals. But up until now the LEGOs themselves were the art, or possibly a video if the lego was part of an animation. The piece itself was also a singular entity, its not like you can take a replica home without a massive amount [...]

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Sipping on Ctrl-Alt-Del

Notihng is more satisfying than drinking a nice cup of coffee in the morning. But when things are going out of wack, you now have the advantage of ctrl-alt-del coffee mugs. So take a deep breath, have a sip of your coffee, and just end some of those tasks.

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Warrior Monster PC Gaming Pad

As someone who owned the orginal Xbox I understand controller issues. And as Game geeks we all have our favorite and our hated controllers. My favorite is the Xbox 360, it is as perfect as i could imagine it being. I absolutly hate the N 64 controller for the third leg and trigger in a position which [...]

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Light bulb burning for 110 years.

Normal lightbulbs usually last for about 1 year, or 2500 hours, depending on how much you use the light. How about a lightbulb that has lasted 110 years. In Livermore, California, A Firehouse has a lightbulb that’s been burning since 1901. Made by The Shelby Electric Company, it is a handblown bulb with carbon filament. [...]

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Superman and Friends in Bulgaria

An unknown graffiti artist has transformed a statue of Russian Red Army soldiers into superheros and American icons. Superman takes center, while Santa Clause and Ronald McDonald were at his side, and others surround him. Below the statue, The phrase “Rolling with Time” was spray-painted underneath. Although the transformation has already been washed away, it has [...]

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Heart With No Beat

The beat goes on. but does it have to? Two groundbreaking doctors at the Texas Heart Institute don’t seem to think it needs to. The heart beats, and creates our pulse, because the tissue itself needs time to gather strength for the next downbeat, the next contraction, so for a fraction of a second no [...]

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What tie would go with the armor?

How would you react if you saw a co-worker walk into work in an armor suit? Wang Kang, a telecom worker in Shanghai, was able to experience just that. He was able to construct the first Iron Man suit, also known as the MK1. After 3 months, and spending $450,  Mr. Kang completed the suit. It [...]

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Built to Own Steampunk Laptops

There was a time owning a piece of steampunk goodness meant that your or your friends had to have talent and tools at hand. Now thanks to Richard Nagy, the Datamancer if you have Money instead that will work just fine too. The Datamancer is selling custom steampunk machines for $5,500 dollars a clip, which [...]

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Hoverbike today, Flying Cars Tomorrow!

While it doesn’t look like much beyond a cross-bred swamp boat and rocking horse. This beautiful contraption is the prototype for Chris Malloy’s Hoverbike. Yup you heard correctly. A crazy Australian designer/engineer has put together a prototype which he postulates should be able to hit speeds of 170 miles per hour, heights of 10,000 feet [...]

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Norwegian Wood & Espresso

Espresso is to coffee, as good design is to art. You can call any old thing coffee and any old thing art. But to truly be set aside and aspire to the perfection of espresso or Great art. Espresso as a whole is an experience from the moment you grind your beans to the second [...]

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Save a tree, grab some wood

If you are all about the enviroment, this is definitley for you. This watch is made out of 100% wood. The best part about this product, for every watch that is bought, the company that makes these watches will plant a tree. So if your goal in life is to save the planet, or you [...]

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Smart Holder – Coffee Cup Sleeve by Jongwoo Choi

I think we’ve all been in the position of having to carry a load of coffee tea or beverages of our choice back to a group of waiting people. No one ever takes into account the hand to cups requested ratio. This spiffy design simplifies the math involved by introducing interlocking coffee cup sleeves. So [...]

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Lenticular Flooring

Ever walk down a crowded hallway only to have everyone try to cram through one door at the end of it? Only because it’s already open? It doesn’t matter f there are 3 or 10 other doors everyone tries to take the path of least resistance, or effort. Enter the world of lenticular flooring, by placing various [...]

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iPhone Alarm Dock

Although it is a simple design, I think it is a great concept. This Alarm Dock, a design by Jonas Damon, is an updated version of the old GE flip clocks, like the one you see in the movie Groundhog Day. Hopefully, Bill Murray won’t start smashing these clocks. You will find the Alarm Dock [...]

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Sci-Fi Motorcycle Helmets

Tigerpause444, the designer of these helmets took children’s toys, sliced them up a bit glued drilled and shimmied the parts into place around real motorcycle helmets. And the finished product looks mighty cool. I’ll give you massive design points for putting together something so close to being accurate with only children’s toys as your basis [...]

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Nobody gives Cave Johnson lemons

Chris Myers, who makes his contribution to the cosplay world, has designed these combustible lemon grenades. Everything that needs to go into these lemon grenades is there. The only difference is that instead of it exploding, it gives you Cave Johnson’s rant about lemons. All in all, this is a great design.

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Police Officers and DSLR Cameras

Sometimes the truth hurts. other times your eyes don’t really show what is happening in a picture. no matter what side of the police photography debate you find yourself on you can see how police officiers would see cameras as weapons, they can assasinate a career, they can ruin a life, almost as quickly as [...]

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CuTime Wall Clock by Flussocreativo

  I love obvious designs. Around my house i have a Hardrive clock. when a device is no longer useful it needs to live on it it has a silent beauty to it. The Cutime Clock is something you can do at home, if you have a blade that is long past it’s usefulness throw [...]

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Missy the Missing Cat

There are times in your life where you need to ask for favors. there are times in your life when as a designer, a computer guy ect when those favors go a bit above the call of duty. This is one such story, concerning Missy, the poor lost cat, and a request for her safe return. [...]

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Minimalist Tolkien Posters

I’m a huge fan of the works of one JRR Tolkien, this collection has all the heavy hitters, from Lord of the Rings to the Hobbit but i would have loved to see a couple other titles done as well. Silmarillion anyone? Either way this is a fantastic piece of minimalistic art. Enjoy! While I [...]

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Spotted Dog and other works by Susan Kare

Susan Kare is responsible for some of the most iconic icons in early mac history. Happy Mac, The Watch, grabby hand all historic . The Spotted Dog, or perhaps better known as the Moofing Dogcow, was one of the more pervasive, and others as simple as a cup of coffee, or as horrible to see as the System Failed Bomb, or [...]

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Pickmaster Plectrum Punch

Some people use their fingers and others use picks. Guitar playing is something i have far from mastered but this nifty gadget means never having to buy another pick. Old Credit cards, no problem. Find one with a fun design and away you go. Altough at $35.00 you’re going to need to play a lot [...]

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GymyGym Workout Office Chair

    How often have you said to yourself, man if i could only get some time away from the office i could get in shape quick! Well self that time is now, provided that you have an extra 599 dollars laying around. I work and sit almost 9 hours a day in the same [...]

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Tea Diver : Submersible Cuteness

  You can buy this wonderful piece of tea innovation, for only 20 dollars. Its a diving bell style deep sea diver, that you can fill with tea, as an infuser. I can’t get over how cool and fun this looks. One word of warning though, you are going to need a clear cup, such [...]

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Slurp Mug

Take one part greek humor, and two part industrial design innovation and you get the unlikely marriage between a soup ladle and a coffee mug. brain child of DEDE DextrousDesign, this is a bit of whimsy i could get being.  I’m not one to quibble about the shape of your mug as a functional device. As long as it holds [...]

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S’More To Love Rack

    Sometimes simplification just doesn’t need to happen. And for 19.95 you realy don’t need this but it looks fun. Yes this is a rack for smores. I personally am not a fan, possibly because fo the latent girl scout propaganda mechanism only second to the dreaded cookie sale. Possibly because of my boy [...]

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Peg Lamp Light Fixture

  Quick and Easy Lightbulb changing is here, at least as a design concept. and the best part about it is that with no twisting motion the extra stress put on the glass, leading for the need to keep extra potatoes around is no longer there. Spuds of the world rejoice! OhGizmo! » Archive » [...]

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Bosch IXO Vino

Can you imagine a world where people had to use their hands to open a bottle of wine? Can you picture this barbaric place where it took more than a couple of seconds to make sweet vino flow? I can’t possibly imagine such a place, but if you live there then the Bosch IXO Vino [...]

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Bulletproof Clipboard

Anything can be a clipboard, all it needs to be is flat, reasonably smooth and portable. Well a sheet of polished body armor meets all of the requirements so if you plan to meet with insurgents, take dictation from a dictator or you know just have some really rough meetings I’d suggest taking a look [...]

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‘Flora’ digital flower vase by Yoshiki Matsuyama

Flowers are a wonderful gift the problem with the gift is that they can only be enjoyed in one place, and that shipping them from place to place is exensive and hard to do. Flora is a digital flower vase, with a 3D projector and scanner in the base. So any flower you put in [...]

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Bento Laptop Tablet by René Woo-Ram Lee

We all have phones, some of us have laptops, and an even smaller subset of people have laptops, phones and tablet devices. No matter what the tech heavy media tries to tell you it is hard to offord all of those things on a modest budget. Which is why you won’t find all that goodness [...]

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True DIY Computer

  Steve Chamberlin is more than your average potatoe clock inventor. He has done more than pulling a how to guide off instructables, he is the cheif architect behind Steve’s Big Mess O’ Wires (BMOW) computer, and it is is more than just another off the shelf Frankenstein of a machine. Now the BMOW is [...]

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TiGr by John Loughlin Bike lock for the future

Cycling as both a hobby and a way to get somewhere in a dense urban area have experienced a renaissance of late. Could it be gas prices? Could ti be a focus on greener healthy living, or is it just practicality winning out over a cramped environment and everything else is a side effect? How about all of the [...]

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Sculpted Paper Skull Made of 11,000 Dollars

  Scott Cambell is a singular talent both as a tattooist and as an artist in general. his work usually draws from the regular slightly offbeat world of tattooing and enters into sculpture, and other mediums as well. These pieces of art are constructed out of laser cut sheets of real currency. Having run a laser cutter in our department [...]

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The Original Egg-Bot

Once more its that time of the year. Easter is upon us again, Clucking bunnies and vinegar baths for eggs await. But what if you could outsource your egg dyeing, your family art time. What if a robot could do it for you? Enter the Egg Bot! This is a rotational version of the old pen plotters. [...]

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Bert turns human

  If this is what Bert from Sesame Street looks like, I think I would have nightmares. In fact, looking at this creeps me out. I am curios to know what his buddy Ernie would look like in real-life. Artist: Nacho Diaz

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YOU Shall Not Pass by Alvaro Arteaga

How cool is this? As any self respecting Tolkien geek will tell you this is one of the most enduring lines in the saga. And it is also directly surrounded by one of the biggest arguments in Fandom. Do Balrogs have wings?  I am on the Wings side of the debate personally. Where do you stand? YOU Shall Not [...]

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Boog Coffee Warmer

There are many problems in a coffee drinking tech’s life. One of them is particularly egregious. Cold coffee, or at least coffee not at your optimal consuming temperature. We could do an entire article, and perhaps we will all about what temperature you like to drink / refuse to drink coffee. but as any working [...]

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