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 The expanding (or collapsing, depending upon your viewpoint- we’re staying positive today so expanding it is) solar lantern is an interesting design that allows for a decent amount of light from a compact package. The idea is simple enough, it’s a paper lantern style lamp with a solar panel on one end. It ... read more on Expanding Solar Lantern...  The Smoking Machine by Kristoffer Myskja takes a cigarette from it’s pile of smokes, lights it up, “smokes” it, then disposes of the cigarette butt. It’s like smoking for robots I guess. The machine uses a set of gears to move the cigarette into the smoking tube. The cigarette is lit mechanically, a ... read more on Smoking Machine Does the Smoking for You...  I’m not sure I totally “get” this jewelry design but they go right across your face and lift or pull your skin into bizarre positions. Created by Burcu Buyukunal, these pieces of jewelry distort your face. It’s like a free temporary facelift. via read more on Face Changing Jewelry is like a Diamond Studded Facelift...  Shoe phone! Adidas has introduced a cell phone that looks like a pair of Adidas sneakers. This clamshell phone might be a little outdated featurewise but stylewise it’s gimmicky cool. Sure they could have accomplished basically the same thing using just a case but what’s the fun in that (not to mention the ... read more on My Adidas… Can Make Phone Calls...  Most support towers for power lines are just simple metal towers without any consideration given to design other than utilitarian concerns. They just blend into the landscape in their ubiquity and dullness. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Why not make them artistic and interesting? Icelandic design firm Choi and ... read more on Incredible Power Line Support Tower Design...  George Lucas announced today that the entire Star Wars live-action saga will be released on Blu-Ray in the Fall of 2011. All six live-action feature films will be available in the high definition format for the first time and will include documentary features and previously unseen footage. The version of the original ... read more on Star Wars to be Released on Blu-Ray (Finally)...  Rob Jan from Radio Station 3RRR 102.7 FM in Melbourne pieced together this quirky Star Trek Enterprise prop from various DJ items he had lying about the station. The Starrrship is made out of a pair of toy microphones, 6 LP vinyl records, 5 vinyl singles, some CDs, a gutted cassette tape and ... read more on Space. The Vinyl Frontier. Microphones and Records Star Trek Enterprise...  If I was given just one more try to chase down my dream, it would be that I was an airship tycoon turned buffoon. I’d cross the sea in the light of the moon, too soon, leaving my home marooned, in a glass bottomed hot air balloon. In the blink of an eye, ... read more on World’s First Glass Bottomed Hot Air Balloon (video)... |   | ||||
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