Category — Ideas

Yurko Gutsulyak designed this delightfully dangerous Calendar of Matches.

Each page is a month with a comb made of matches with each match corresponding to a day.

The matches are real and the construction of the calendar is absolutely safe, although I would suggest this item is for the riskier of us. Maybe if there are any stuntmen in the house?

Via NotCot

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These guys, who call themselves the Bartendaz, use their own body weight instead of weights to train. Its a form of calisthenics and looks to be a creative way to exercise when weights and resistance machines aren’t an option. Pretty inspiring!

Via Bottom Half Nude

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Transforming robots that always get picked last. Here’s a cool contest for people to submit their own ideas for alternative but crap transformers. Some good ones in there and a comical antidote to the cool ones.

See more on Worth1000

Via The Awesomer

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This superb looking lunchbox designed by Frederique Morrel, is  made from vintage tapestries. The design is based on the convenient format of a well known meal container for kids available at fast-food restaurants and folds flat.

Each product is one of a kind, so its way too good for daily use. Which brings me to wondering why would you get it? Maybe by unfolding flat, you could stick it on the wall.

Seen on Pop Wuping

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If you like the idea of a male dancer forming letters at your beck and call, check out the Dance Writer.

Might take awhile to write your name, but I guess that’s missing the point.

Dance Writer

Via Swiss Miss

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These awesome vintage Vespa headlight lamps by Lamponi’s Lamps use vintage Vespa headlights and handlebars and would look stunning on any Vespa fan’s desk.

There is a range of Vespa lights to select from which are fully customisable with each and every unit being made to your requirements.

It takes 25 days for Lamponi Leopardi to make it. You’re gonna wanna need one of these real bad though as they cost from $1772 to $2044.

See more on LamponisLamps.com

Via BornRich

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I can’t think of many ways to destroy the stylishness of the classic Mini, but spending a million on it wasn’t going to be an obvious one. So I find the following custom job a wide-eyed and bemusing stare.

This slightly (!) garish edition was designed by Juhan Losop from Metal Hammer, who is renowned for several unusual car and bike projects.

The Mini limo boasts plush interiors with a Philips Ambilight Fire Diamond 47’’ LCD TV installed inside. It also packs in 70 TFT monitors, 30 parking sensors, and 20 parking cameras inside.

The exteriors include wheels with 100 gold and multicolour wires which have specially made Swarovski crystal hubs which are 8 cm in diameter.

There are gold sputtered window films on front glasses (around 50 grams of pure gold was spent to make this film) and the body is made from around 1,000,000 Swarovski crystals.

When I first caught a glimpse of this, I thought it was a Lowrider-style custom build. Lowriders are over the top but its a style I love, with shiny distinct chrome finishings and personal airbrushed portrait artworks adorning their panels.

But this Mini doesn’t seem to have that style. It just smacks of having money poured on it in the most expensive and most unstylish way.

At a price tag of a million euros this is bound for a rich princess with too much money and no sense of the real world.

Via Born Rich

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This Steampunk Phone is a conceptual prototype by Londoner Arthur Schmitt. No touch screen, no video, no game and no button! It includes a earpiece, gauges, visible screws, a rugged brown scheme, a spinning number-counter. It uses punch cards and binary phone numbers to control your phone’s features and make calls.

All pretty cool and a nice little antidote to all the flashy gadgets out there. Providing of course, that you have all the time in the world to make a call.

Via LikeCool

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Graffiti in the digital age! L.A.S.E.R. tagging is a new form of graffiti art created recently and which is currently cropping up in cities all over the world.

Temporary, digital and therefore less destructive, its good to see something like this crop up, although its probably a bit more expensive to do than getting a traditional spray can of paint. The world’s your canvas though, albeit at night.

Check more examples below and be sure check out the tagging in action in the video.

You can view more photos on Flickr

Or check out L.A.S.E.R. Tag on the Graffiti Research Lab website

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I think this is one definite case of an image speaks a thousand words, except it doesn’t need that many. This is quite obviously a unit-based fridge system that makes it ideal for flatshares.

I’ve no idea how it works, whether its modulised and detachable and therefore powered by the base unit, but a great way for lodgers to take responsibility for their own fridge is if they had their own box and simply moved in and stacked it.

Designed by Stefan Buchberger as part of Design Lab 2008.

Via Formfiftyfive

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