Pac-Man Xmas tree
Wow! So far this is my favorite Xmas tree this year! Maybe next year it could be playable… – [via] Link.
Made On Earth
Periscope house
Maybe a good (re)make? – YOU walk across the green-lawned, palm-hemmed park overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California, and climb the stairs to the little house in the picture above. Your party gathers around a circular rail in the center, the door is closed and at first all is darkness. Then, slowly and […]
Time hackers!
Great story on Wired by Quinn Norton about “time hackers” – “If you have one clock … you are peaceful and have no worries,” says Van Baak, fingering a length of cable connecting two of his machines. “If you have two clocks … you start asking, ‘What time is it, really?’” Van Baak is in […]
Chairs and benches can’t stay away from each other
“Stuhlhockerbank” or “Chair Stool Bank” is a sculpture by Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz that combines a long bench with several individual chairs to make a rather large, asymmetric piece of furniture. Although “poetic” to say the least, this design might not work very well for an airline gate waiting area. STUHLHOCKERBANK – Link, [via]
Pencil bench erases your butt, feels pretty nice
I’m not sure I would want to sit on this bench, especially if I had important documents in my back pockets that might get erased. The “Pencil Bench” attempts to incorporate everyday office schwag into a semi-comfortable piece of furniture. The next iteration will hopefully not be the “exploding ball-point pen bench”. Pencil Bench – […]
Fake window adds much needed light to bare walls
Another pretty simple day project. Affix some bright white LEDs to the inside of a venetian blind, add a timer switch, attach to a blank, empty wall in your house or apartment, and you instantly have a much psychologically larger living space. The “Bright Blind” by Makoto Hirahara will fool you into thinking that there […]
Automatic tubular bells
A MIDI controlled set of Tubular Bells – bing bong, schematics included! Link.
