The Luft Balloon Clock is a wall clock (also includes a desk stand) that looks like a transparent mylar balloon. Available from Lox in orange and beige for $146 apiece, the clocks measure approximately 13″ round and operate on a single AA battery. Me? I operate on veins full of
Designed and sold by UK-based novelty footwear maker Irregular Choice, these are the $239 Roll The Dice high heels. In case you couldn’t tell, they’re Monopoly themed. I’m kidding, even people who have never heard of the game could tell you they’re Monopoly themed. It’s…hard to miss. Does anybody really
This is a video of Seattle based artist Rudy Willingham placing stickers of Simpsons characters around his neighborhood (Burger King appears to have been a goldmine of content) in places that are contextually appropriate for the characters’ faces or whatever they’re doing. That’s clever. I especially liked the one of
The Guinness World Record for largest display of carved eggs was recently awarded to Chinese artist Ma Chao for the 1,040 intricately carved eggshells he’s produced. The eggs feature characters from the 1986 television series Journey To The West (adapted from Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel of the same name), and
Previously seen letting mushrooms play a keyboard, Youtuber BionicandtheWires is back with another video, this time allowing a colony of oyster mushrooms to paint a picture. The mushrooms’ natural fluctuations in electrical activity is transformed into brush movement via attached solenoids. That painting, wow — way better than anything my
Because what good will future robots be if we can’t ride them into battle against other robots, Kawasaki has released a video of its conceptual hydrogen-electric CORLEO. CORLEO is a large quadruped robot that could be ridden by one or two people like a giant dire wolf. It looks like
This is an Architectural Digest tour of Casa Organica, the home built by architect Javier Senosiain of Aquitectura Organica for himself in 1984. And what a home it is! Calling it a hobbit house doesn’t really do it justice because it’s so much more, I was just trying to be
Because bad ideas come in all shapes and danger sizes, this is a video of Australian Youtuber I Did A Thing building and testing a propane pulsejet-powered swing set. The sound it makes as it goes around is nuts. Unfortunately (but probably actually fortunately for them), the swing is only
