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Hide Your Porn

17 Mar 2006

Quick hide your porn! – 72 degrees* is a bedroom shelf for teenagers – designed to provide a place to store and hide pornographic magazines. The shelf has a secret compartment that can only be opened with the ring.
72 degrees is a monthly prize awarded by a leading pornographic magazine. It arrives at the family’s home in an inconspicuous package – addressed to the lucky winner!

72 Degrees

72 degrees is the average angle of a healthy erection. The hidden compartment opens to this angle. Materials used: English white oak veneer on MDF Sterling silver ring and lock.

Seen on DesignBoom | Thanks Ben

 
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Posted in Design, Geek, Humor

 

Stuff In Lego

09 Mar 2006

Tech-E-Blog lists a top ten of the strangest lego creations.

Lego USB

Volvo XC90

The Volvo XC90 is the official car of Legoland California and is built by Lego Master Model Builders. The car was built in 2004. See more pics of this project and a press release by Volvo and Lego

Instructions on how to transform your Sandisk 256MB Cruzer Micro to a Lego Jumpdrive can be found here.

 
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Posted in Design, Games

 

Vintage Heinz Restyled

22 Feb 2006

Heinz Ketchup Sweden has a very cool site up, with a lot of funky wallpapers to download. I don’t understand any of the words, because the Swedish language isn’t my cup of tea, but if you understand the word ‘galleri’ you know where you got to go. Just click on any of the products on the main page (notice the cool ‘less is more’ design style) and click on the funky word in the bottom navigation that looks like ‘gallery’. Every product has its own wallpaper series.

Heinz

Check out Heinz Sweden

 

Chocolate XBox 360

20 Feb 2006

A few weeks ago, I was at Microsoft’s Belux headquarters, and I’ve written they had this very cool chocolate XBox 360 on display in their entrance hall. Kris Hoet, the guy we met back then, has sent me some really nice pictures of it. This is so cool ! Thanks Kris ! You Rock !

The pictures were taken by some colleagues of Kris. Kudos to them. The chocolate XBox 360 was made especially for the X05 annual event in Amsterdam, October last year.

XBox 360 1

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Food For Thought

09 Feb 2006

Worth 1000 has been around this blog before with various contests. This one is about glorious food. Here’s an entry I’m extremely fond of, a cookie keyboard with chocolate keys. Great photoshopping !

Worth 1000 food

Check out the entries for this competition.

 
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Hey you, designer !

08 Feb 2006

If you think you’re able to create some great textures for a 3D movie, here’s your chance to get noticed ! This is, to my humble knowledge, the first time ever that producers are launching a public invitation to designers to participate in the texturizing of a movie. Nice evolution.

Orange is an animated film project in the making to be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, made with Blender, open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.

The producers have put out a call for textures. If you’re a computer artist, accept the challenge. Rotten fish textures sound harder to me than grunge maps, but I’m no computer artist.

From the Orange blog:

Orange

Well, the translators have had their turn (and there will be more news on that later), but we’d also like to give the opportunity for more people to contribute. Part of us are now within the final materials/textures/rendering phase and are working on textures now ourselves. We had a nasty and unfortunate theft in the studio last week, and three of our cameras were stolen, so especially now, we could use some help with textures from outsiders – from gathering source material to final, lighting-corrected, tileable textures.

via the creative commons blogAPPLY HERE

 
 

Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas

02 Feb 2006

Danielle Sacks was at 4th Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas. Saatchi & Saatchi are handing over $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in marketing services to someone with an idea that has the “greatest world changing potential,” whether it be on an individual, societal or global scale. Judges were Baz Luhrmann, Lou Reed, Philip Glass, and a few other cerebral artists.

The winner this year is Peter Brewin and William Crawford’s idea. They’re two post-grad industrial design engineering students from London’s Royal College of Art who came up with a deployable hardened shelter intended for disaster relief for instance in case of tsunamis and hurricanes. Maybe they could ship a few thousand to Pakistan?

ConcreteShelter

The idea is that anyone could transform transform the 500 lb sack made of a cement impregnated fabric bonded to the external surface of an inflatable plastic inner into a shelter that can last up to 10 years, and all of this within 40 minutes.

The idea isn’t new, it already came in second in the RCA Awards of 2004, still it’s pretty impressive.

Check out the ConcreteCanvas site. – via [Fast Company Now]

 
 

McDonalds Interactive

02 Feb 2006

Seems like the McDo is starting to turn to the web with all options included. Check out the interactive website the Australians came up with. It has dozens of items linked up in a nicely animated flash environment.

The site is still running in a test phase, so not all information is present, but it seems it will become a rather impressive experience, especially for a large multinational like McDo. They’re turning to user experience and really, it seems to work.

A few side notes though, the floating atmosphere is pretty cool, all these different items in the background you can hover to activate… it’s quite entertaining but it’s bound to turn off ‘older’ web users. I know that if I show this to my dad he’ll get sick because everything is floating. Also the ’spacy’ background sounds are a bit over the edge. It’s not a ‘zen’ site, but the music makes it sound like it.

Ronald

Next to the flash site is a static version, just for people like my dad. Like I said, things are running in beta, so it’s not all as it should be. But I must say it’s a great effort to catch up with the time and trends.

Things have been changing at McDonald’s. From our restaurants, to our company, to our food and now our website… we’re giving you more choices, surprises and something special for your inner child.

Check out the new McDonalds – via [Random Culture]