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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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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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If ever I saw a solid chair that looks like it would be comfortable, this would be it! Sculpted with the right negative parts, your bits would fit snugly as you park yourself down.

Not practical for women though eh? Especially pregnant women who need a seat. Or maybe the designer is trying to say its a man’s world (that needs rest).

Seen on Core77

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Ideal for all tea drinking Windows users who are all too familiar with the key command Ctrl-Alt-Del comes this tea set.

Great product idea, just not sure you’d like to be reminded that you’re maybe forced to reboot when you’re trying to chill with a brew!

Via Swiss Miss

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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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Now if this is a real product, I can see this camera lens mug being a pain to clean, but it looks good nonetheless.

Via SwissMiss

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Mujuworld, created by UK-based Mr and Mrs Muju, is a site showcasing their illustrations and wonderfully detailed, hand crafted plushies.

They’re a refreshing change from a lot of the vinyl “designer” toys I’ve seen out there, with great combinations of color tones creating these tactile pieces.

You can buy them on their Etsy store – not cheap, but reflective of their creativity and hand skills.

More on Mujuworld.co.uk

Via NotCot

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Victorian style is quite trendy in some ways, with the steam punk movement and mechanical elements that are in contrast with the slick, minimal style of today’s technological gadgets.

The British Library in London therefore presents a small and timely collection of Victorian era gadgets in its Business and Intellectual Property Centre.

Take this as an example – a tiny machine complete with its own map that would tell motorists which way to go. Miniature scrolls bearing the directions were loaded onto the watch and revolved as the wearer continued his journey.

I can only guess that drivers could revolve the maps without endangering the operation of their vehicles. A far cry from today!

Maurice Collins, a retired businessman from Muswell Hill, London, has a collection of 1,400 historic gadgets and cherry-picked 50 must-have items for the exhibition at the British Library.

Mr Morris said his collection was a celebration of ‘ingenious products that attempted to solve human difficulty’.

To see more of the items on display, check out The Daily Mail.

Via Switched

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Brittnybadger took apart used cooking/cleaning appliances, and arranged their interior parts very systematically on a white sheet of bristol board.

Her intention was to explore the hidden “brains” of these appliances; allowing us to view these everyday objects from a new perspective. Components never looked so good!

More on Brittnybadger’s Flickr photoset

Via SwissMiss

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