Category Archives: New Products & Gadgets

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Fake swimming pool

Posted on January 25, 2012 | 2 comments

This is the swimming pool art installation in 21st Century Museum of Art, at Kanazawa Japan by artist Leandro Erlich.The top surface is filled with 4 to 5 inches of water that looks like a realistic pool. The people underneath the swimming pool can actually look above with realistic water effect on top of it.

A layer of water only some 10 centimeters deep is suspended over transparent glass. Below the glass is an empty space with aquamarine walls that viewers can enter.

Here is video of it in action.

(via Design Rulz)

What’s On: Leandro Erlich (itsnicethat.com)

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Tagged art installations, Fake swimming pool, Japanese art, Leandro Erlich, street art, swimming pool design

Pringles problem solved

Posted on January 23, 2012 | 2 comments

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Tagged first world problems, funny pringles picture, innovation, Pringles problem solved, reddit, snack package design

Automated ball launcher for a dog

Posted on January 20, 2012 | 1 comment

If you have a dog that only wants to play ball, then this is the device for you.

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Tagged ball launcher, Dog tennis ball launcher, dog toy, funny dog picture, pets

J. Edgar Hoover gave Shirley Temple a fountain pen that emitted tear gas

Posted on January 20, 2012 | 2 comments

Shirley Temple–Hollywood’s most famous child star–could not be protected from such real-life intrusions as kidnap and extortion attempts, death threats and an attempted seduction by a Hollywood producer when she was only 12 years old. The threats weren’t reported at the time, she said, for fear that they would stimulate more threats.

The FBI was called in numerous times to investigate these death and extortion threats against her. She and J Edgar Hoover became friends through it all. In 1949, J. Edgar Hoover gave Shirley Temple a strange FBI souvenir– a fountain pen that emitted tear gas.

Shirley Temple’s autobiography.

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Tagged Child Star: An Autobiography, child stars, FBI, Fountain pen, fountain pen tear gas, hollywood conspiracy, Hollywood crime, j edgar hoover, Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple's autobiography, spy tools

Carpet alarm clock

Posted on January 16, 2012 | 1 comment

A new alarm clock design that forces you to stand up.
Here are some other alarm clock designs that might help you get out of bed.

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Tagged carpet alarm clock, cool alarm clocks, floor alarm clock, floor mat alarm, sleeping

French fry holder for your car

Posted on January 12, 2012 | 4 comments

This had to have been invented by an American. Want one? Buy it here.

(via The Whatever)

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Tagged car accessories, car holder for fries, cool products, french fry holder, product inventions

Incredible LED watch design

Posted on January 12, 2012 | 2 comments

Look Ma, no hands! This cool faceless LED Watch is all band, and no dial. I want.

Images via Designboom

It was designed by Hiranao Tsuboi. This wristwatch is a one-of-a-kind and was made especially for Tokyo Design Week in 2008. Similar watches are now for sale here.
(via Inventor Spot)

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Tagged cool watch designs, faceless watch, Faceless watch design, Hiranao Tsuboi, LED watch, wristwatches

What a $20,000 cellphone looks like

Posted on January 6, 2012 | Comments Off

January 23rd marks the beginning of the year of the dragon on the Chinese calendar, and Vertu is celebrating with a luxury dragon-themed mobile phone based on its Signature collection. Each quad-band dragon phone comes in stainless steel with emeralds, black steel with Rubies, or gold with diamonds. A four-clawed dragon mounted on the back is hand-made from a 20-step process that takes 36 hours to complete — the scales alone take more than eight hours to engrave. Before being mounted on the phone, each gold dragon is shipped to Switzerland to receive a hallmark of purity. All this labor and certification doesn’t come cheap. The handsets cost about $20,733 ($26,800 in Singapore dollars) each, but buyers get a leather case, a charging base, and one year of Vertu Concierge service free. There are really no specs of particular interest, but that’s not really the point. (via The Verge)

My diamond-encrusted Bluetooth should look good with this.