Quite surprisingly that sand can dance to create an awesome kind of art, with the aid of vibrations. Just as shown in the video below, as musician Kenichi Kanazawa uses a stick to form some vibrations, various beautiful images then gradually emerge on the surface, to entertain both our eyes and our heart.
Lighter than paper but stronger than steel, the Minimal Backpack is so tough that it can even be used to hold bricks or steels. It’s waterproof too, so quite suitable for outdoors use, especially in rainy or snowy days. When not in use, simply roll it, place it in your pocket up and you’ll never feel it a burden.
We humans are not consistent with ourselves, as on one hand we try to live in a place different from the nature, while on the other hand we’re pursuing designs that seem natural or made of natural materials. But never mind, because self-contradiction is also a source of inspiration, which may bring us with awesome creations like these Wood Rings Tables. The designer start with sections of trees ranging from 60 to 600 years old, combining them with resin plates so as to keep the beautiful rings in wood and endow them with a stylish aesthetics as well.
On 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, Japan-based Bridgestone has showcased a new type of tire that is both air-free and prevent from dam puncture itself. Built with a tough but flexible thermoplastic structure, the tire actually behaves like a like a normal tire while with nary any horizontal force produced. It’s quite powerful too, each is able to support around 150kg and that’s certainly enough for personal mobility devices. Currently the Bridgestone is still researching how to protect against objects getting lodged inside, and they plan to issue the air-free tire to the market in 2013.
With more and more electrical products coming into our life, our small spaces seem to have been filled with various kinds of USB cables, but obviously we don’t need so many of them, coz what we need is only the Innergie Magic USB cables. It offers up to three different connectors to meet your various needs, and quite specially all the connectors are attached to each other so that you can keep an easy track of them.
Klaffi Shelf is an ideal shelving device for small apartment. Designed by Finnish Eeva Lithovius, the shelf takes up space only when open; when not in use, you can simply fold it up and lay it flat against the wall.
As nobody could get something without offering anything, we humans are expected to care about our cats much more when we’re enjoying the happy time accompanied by them. So the eSleeper is rightly what both you and the cat need. An infra-red beam is built inside the cat basket, sending data to an Ethernet Arduino to accomplish certain tasks. Thus when a cat walks into the eSleeper, the infra-red beam will be broken and then the Arduino turns on the RGB LED and a light to offer your cat with a comfortable resting location; as the infra-red beam is broken again, the Arduino would turn off the LED and tweet the cat’s sleeping information to people.
Watch out, a shark is nearby to attack you… in a special way of disguising itself as a safety helmet. Especially designed for kids to increase their safety of cycling, the crazy helmet features a vivid 3D effect, providing both a cool expression and full function as well.
While professional archaeologists are concerned about finding fossil dinosaurs, we unprofessional people are just enjoying the fun of playing with fossil soap. With a unique two-layer structure, these soaps will finally demonstrate the “dinosaur fossils” after you use them for more than eight days. Available in three different types, guess which dinosaur will you find first, tyrannosaurus, triceraptos or pterosaurs?
Good news for photography fans: the Camera Table Dolly is here to make sure your videos don’t come with a side effect of nausea. Simply twist your camera onto the device, and you can then create videos with smooth and professional look, just easy as that! Its friction arm is adjustable so that you can change the angle to shoot straight up, straight down, or anywhere in between.
Use as you read, these Alphabet Furniture sets all come with several individual modules but can combine to create a chair, a lamp and a table as well, just as the words you’ve already seen. So what do you think? Isn’t it funny to surprise your guests with the Alphabet Furniture?
Can Ferris wheel become invisible, lifting people up and down while never showing its original structure? Said “yes”, Spanish-based artist Maider López showed us an amazing video in which the Ferris wheel is really invisible… But how? [Read the rest of this entry...]
Sponsored by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), AeroVironment has created a tiny mechanical flying robot that can fly as real birds. The mini robot is shaped like a hummingbird, remotely-controlled without an external power source to fly, hover, mover forward and backward in the air.
With the Christmas Day coming nearer, what’s now popular on the internet isn’t this year’s Christmas tree however, but next year’s Eiffel Tower Tree instead. From June, 2012, about 6,00,000 plants will cover the Eiffel Tower, costing an astonishing £65 million. If the plan goes smoothly, quite soon we’ll see the world’s tallest tree in Paris, which is also expected to absorb more greenhouse gases at that time.
“Ministar” is a portable electric guitar featuring both a smart body and a full function. It’s only nineteen inches long, composed of a neck and head while lacking a guitar body. Even so, the guitar can still perform well in creating beautiful music, just as you can see in the video below.
