Owning a toy car that runs on a pre-determined track is just so passé. The Doodle Track is one toy car that doesn’t follow a boring repetitive track as seen in slot cars. The cool part is that you get to design and doodle your own route for the car to travel along!
Now that certainly looks fun. You can think of it as the real-life Line Rider, a legendary flash game that has seen a huge cult following. The car utilizes its optical sensor to follow the line drawn.
I can totally picture this cool feature being used in dominoes and Rube Goldberg machines. Let’s just wait.
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Buy from ThinkGeek, $14.99.
Here’s another range of food-themed cellphone charms from Strapya-World. This time, beautiful and yummy-looking ‘baked’ bread is set to make mouths water. Designs range from realistic-looking freshly baked croissants, bagels and all the way to cheeseburgers! They are squeezably soft and therefore probably good for stress relieving too.
Now who actually wants to go around with such a big thing hanging off the phone? First of all, it simply looks good and secondly, it also makes a mobile phone easy to find amongst the stuff lying within a tote bag.
The price for each phone charm ranges from 390 to 780 yen, Strapya-World.
Collaborations are great. Especially when you take two of the best icons in animation and consumer electronics and put them together. Just take a classic Disney character like Mickey Mouse and play Mix-em-up with a cool music product like Sony’s line of Walkman players, you get one music player that not only looks great on the exterior but functions well too.
From the lineup it’s obvious that there are so many colors and designs to choose from it’ll be hard not to find one that will suit the taste of the individual. The range of Disney themed Walkmans have recently been announced to be on sale for the Japanese market, and we can only guess now if they’ll make their way across the globe in the future.
Big mobile phones are not common. Having them specifically made out of Lego certainly isn’t an everyday affair either. Put them together and you have one truly unique enormous handphone made out of Lego!
Built by renowned Lego artist Nathan Sawaya, the Lego BlackBerry smartphone isn’t going to be receiving or making calls, but will sure turn attract tons of attention with its built-in flatscreen TV display. I’m pretty sure the folks over at Blackberry love it.
Ever need to tear off the pages off a calendar at the beginning of each day? This calendar does it automatically, but also not without a second agenda up its sleeve: It’s part of a marketing invention by ad agency Euro RSCG Duesseldorf to promote the need of STIHL’s leaf blowers in a truly unique way.
The pages that drop off the calendar represent the leaves that fall off trees in autumn which is when leaf blowers are necessary; and for this reason why the calendar is dated only for the days from 09/23 to 12/21 of the year 2010.
This uber geek Mario shelf built by a couple from Germany certainly provides a great idea for a gaming geek’s room, even so if it’s the room of a true-blue Mario geek.
The colorful set of shelves come with question marked compartments just like in the series of Mario games; unfortunately (or fortunately) to open it you do not need to jump up and hit it from below. Simply swing the lid up to access its contents.
Just like the shelf, the green pipe is definitely a familiar sight from the game as it acts like a side-table for a cordless phone and charger. Another great addition is the 8-bit LCD clock with the Italian plumber spinning round all day long.
Absolutely great build, and it definitely helps to have a girlfriend who’s a student in mechanical engineering who can really build stuff.
Ever have the nasty nightmare of having a guest spill over a drink on your favorite tablecloth during a meal? This specially designed Underfull tablecloth by Kristine Bjaadal actually wants to be spilled over, for when it does happen a beautiful hidden design unravels as it absorbs the dampness and takes on the color of the spillage.
Though it may sound uncomfortable for some, the tougher stains that manage to remain on the tablecloth even after washing will turn out to look like colored designs.
Probably at every meal then the host will be praying that someone will actually spill over a drink so the tablecloth will end up with a different design each time; or maybe the guest of honor can be invited to purposely spill one at the end of the meal to achieve the same effect. Over a period of time, the Underfull will definitely be one tablecloth that’ll be filled with colors and memories for recounting stories to friends and family.
Every year, many tourists try to time their trip to Japan during spring in April to catch beautiful cherry blossom trees blooming across the country. To recreate the celebration of spring at home, it’s definitely impossible to grow a cherry blossom tree indoors.
This is where the Magic Sakura comes in: The Magic Sakura arrives as a specially constructed paper tree and when water is added to the tree, the magic unfolds as beautiful mini sakura flowers pop out, grow and fill the entire tree within 24 hours. Perfect for house parties and desktop decorations during spring. 680 yen, Otogino Japan.
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Guy uses chatroulette to play a simple game. If the other party tilt their head to look at the words, they lose. It’s a pretty ingenious way to use the site to perform psychological tests on random folks.
This cat definitely lives a pampered life. A custom made cat-lift specially made for its kind.
An insightful video by pixelenemy that basically teaches how not to suck at Battlefield: Bad Company 2, specially catered to seasoned Modern Warfare 2 gamers.
This cute and unique-looking iPhone stand is modeled from modified dining silverware making it look like a dude holding it with his hands. From ForkedUpArt Etsy.
A very cool Nintendo DSiWare puzzle game featuring an amazing 3D motion-sensing virtual reality screen called Attakoreda.
A great implementation of a Rube Goldberg machine that took several months to build just for a music video.
Tilt shifting is a technique in photography and also an after-effect of photoshopping that makes subjects within the captured frame look as if they were miniatures.
The final effect combined with a toned up saturation of colors usually produces a pleasing image like a child drawn to colorful toys. To produce a tilt-shift video, a series of time-lapse high resolution images are seamlessly sewn together to achieve a work of poetry in motion.
This tilt-shift video of New York by Aero Film director Sam O’Hare is definitely a good example of the technique, capturing the beauty of NYC in its quasi-miniature form.