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dos 2.0 pillow by art lebedev gets an upgrade

art_lebedev_dos_pillow

These clever Dosogus 2.0 pillows by designers at Art Lebedev Studio are embroidered with a directory listing from everyone’s favorite command line operating system – DOS.

All your old favorites are there, including AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. But if you look carefully, there are directories for WINDOWS and a HIBERFIL.SYS file, so this pillow must actually…

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November 6th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design geek art + craft quickpix retro

gridus spreadsheet barbecue grid is cruel and unrelenting

gridus-grill

The specialty of Art Lebedev’s design studio is in stylizing the mundane. But their idea for a grill is just plain cruel. Called Gridus, the barbecue grid copies the look of a spreadsheet, ensuring that the user’s mind will be thoroughly driven insane as the concepts of “vacation”, “relaxation” & “cookouts are fun” are shattered.…

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April 19th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun

art lebedev’s data dolls store nothing but themselves

Art Lebedev Matroshkus

If you’re unfamiliar with the Russian craft of Matryoshka, they’re those little stacking wooden dolls that fit inside one-another, gradually getting smaller and smaller. Designer Art Lebedev has taken these traditional dolls and put a geeky spin on them, adding data storage measurements to each one.

So the big mama is a Petabyte, inside her…

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June 17th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design geek art + craft

art lebedev’s pultius remote is ridiculous

Art Lebedev’s Pultius Remote

So what do you get when you put your remote control in the taffy-pulling machine from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? This crazy design from Russia’s Art Lebedev Studios was an attempt to include as many channels as possible on a single remote, without a need to press multiple buttons.

The Pultius TV remote…

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October 5th, 2007 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design

computer button thumbtacks by art lebedev

Orbiculus Thumbtacks

For those of you who confuse the real world with the computer world, these push pins are perfect for you. These Orbiculus thumbtacks from Art Lebedev Studios bring computer command buttons into the 3-dimensional world.

Each set comes with a variety of ten thumbtacks, featuring common computer dialog buttons, such as “Yes,” “No,” and “Cancel.”…

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April 29th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design just plain fun

lebedev tells the time in words

Art Lebedev Verbarius Clock

Russian industrial designer, Art Lebedev has introduced his latest creation, a clock that displays time using words rather than numbers or hands.

Lebedev’s Verbarius clock spells out the time using phrases like fifteen minutes to five.” The clock is multi-lingual and can tell time in Russian, English, German, Spanish or French and is being offered at…

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February 21st, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design timepieces

art lebedev does sound

Art Lebedev Sonicum Speakers

Industrial designer Art Lebedev is known mostly for his Optimus Mini Three OLED keyboard and his nifty cursor shaped mouse.

Now his clean, minimal designs will be showing up in a new desktop speaker system. Art’s new Sonicum speaker system is a 2.1 system featuring two satellite speakers and a powered subwoofer. Power specs aren’t…

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November 12th, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: audio design home entertainment

super cool desktop widget

Optimus Mini3 Display Keyboard

Russia’s Art Lebedev Studio has designed the Optimus Mini Three, a custom keyboard/display device that allows you to place “widgets” outside of your computer screen. The keyboard combines three soft-keys with three super cool, full color 96×96 pixel OLED screens and special software which lets you create your own display widgets and send them to the USB-connected…

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August 3rd, 2006 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing gadgets