These teacups are marked on the rim with drips of tea – but in gold. And the ‘Lip Tease’ teacups hold traces of lipstick, again in gold. As an added detail, a rim of gold teastain is revealed on the saucer as the teacup is lifted.
via Reiko Kaneko.
The Jeeves & Wooster pendant lights were designed as a playful take on lighting with a real emotion of cultural identity. The hat is an object that often associates its wearer with a particular society, heritage or race. The bowler & top hat are classic British cultural icons reflecting a bygone era of imperialism, class divide, & eccentricity. The pendant has an inbuilt ceiling fitting with black ceiling canopy.
There are two kinds of dog beds, the one you want your dog to be comfortable in and the kind you want to be comfortable with. The “Mija” is by far more glamorous than the typical dog bed and features 10mm thick acrylic and furnished with luxury faux suede cushions filled with shredded memory foam.
Try to temper your enthusiasm as prices start from $1,407
Love the look of this surround vision setup, roll on 10years so we can all get systems like this!
We’re sort of hoping the third year’s the charm for Ostendo and the CRVD display — we first spotted the crazy 43-inch curved monitor at CES 2008 with Alienware and NEC branding, then just NEC branding at Macworld 09, and now it’s CES 2010 and Ostendo is actually selling it directly.
Even better, the company’s hooked up with ATI for a pretty sweet Eyefinity demo — sure, you might have seen the three- or six-screen Eyefinity demos in the past, but having three CRVD screens wrap 180 degrees around you is pretty wild. We played a little Dirt 2 and did a little Google Earth zooming on the rig — we might never scrape the $6,499 per screen for a setup like this, but we can certainly watch the videos after the break and pretend.
From Engadget.
Criminal evolution in action…
NPR reports on enterprising thieves who used Google Earth to do evil, and specifically to find California wineries with solar panels for the taking.
Yes, even the criminal underworld has embraced clean tech in the 21st century. Many thieves have reportedly used trucks to simply crash winery gates and steal up to 70 panels at a time. Local sheriff deputies speculate that online tools such as Google Earth might make it particularly easy to locate possible targets — more than 400 panels worth over $1,000 each were stolen from Napa Valley vineyards in 2009.
from Popular Science.
If you’re anything like me and like to coordinate your contacts list from time to time, LinkedIn have a very simple page for exporting your contacts list as a CSV file, which can then be loaded into Outlook or Gmail contacts.
Plus the bonus for Gmail users is that merging contacts is a one click process, which is a great feature (and you could even use it to clean up your data via the import/export feature)
One team of the Puma Penguin Army stands guard in my house, roaming between the hallway and office, to the media center and fireplace… a second team has gone on an adventure with the amazing Birds of a Feather photo-blog photographers Lou Mora and Sarah Yates. Where they will go and what they will get up to is in their hands now! First i got a mysterious messaged that they were getting carded by security… next i get these pictures. Somewhere on their roadtrip between LA and San Diego they seem to have stopped off outside the refineries near El Segundo
via NOTCOT
Lee Noble’s love for cars remains as young as it used to be. I can say so because even when he left the company he built, Noble, his newest creation, Fenix supercar, comes from the Fenix Automotive. Fenix supercar is believed to be the sequel of the iconic M12 which was a great success but Fenix is a start from the scratch as far as the designing part is concerned.
via Auto Motto
Microsoft launch yet another curiously interesting keyboard design (which unfortunately doesn’t use bluetooth, instead their own custom slim USB adaptor!)
The design tenets that we looked to for the Arc Keyboard were simplicity and crisp softness, creating an aesthetic for this product that is casual and sophisticated at the same time,” said Monique Chatterjee, industrial designer for Microsoft Hardware. “We drew our design inspiration directly from the places where we envision this product will be used so it perfectly blends with existing home accessories
via Gizmodo.
