belgium on technabob...

elevator art in antwerp: through the roof

elevator-art-1

Elevators have become a common fixture in urban environments. People don’t really acknowledge them anymore; we just pass through them to get somewhere else. Kind of like the Midwest. I’m kidding. But anyone who goes to advertising company Dubois meets Frogger’s Antwerp office will definitely take note of the building’s warehouse elevator.

The elevator art…

continue reading »

August 9th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design geek art + craft just plain fun

carwriting: designers track car’s movements to make iq font

iQ-font-1

Graphic designers Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta, known collectively as pleaseletmedesign,  teamed up with professional race car driver Stef van Campenhoudt to…create a font. But hey, if you were given the choice between sitting in front of a computer all day and watching a pro racer trace Qs and Zs to make a font, you’d…

continue reading »

July 22nd, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design just plain fun strange + wonderful technology

yay for art!: cloaca no 5 machine literally produces pieces of crap

cloaca_1

The fifth version of world-renowned artist Wim Delvoye’s sculpture is now on exhibit at the Université du Québec à Montréal’s gallery up until Valentine’s Day. Why should we care? Because his sculpture is actually a machine. A machine that “reproduces the human digestive system, from mastication to excretion”. In other words, all this machine does…

continue reading »

February 4th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: interactive strange + wonderful weird science

scooterdesk puts your laptop on wheels

ScooterDesk by Utilia Design

Here’s a unique computer desk design. The ScooterDesk is a self-contained workstation which lets you sit and scoot around your office without leaving your desk.

Created by the Belgian sustainable furniture design firm Utilia, the ScooterDesk gives you a solid work surface for your laptop, and lets you sit in a comfortable upright position while…

continue reading »

October 21st, 2007 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design

dining in the sky: hope you wore your parachute

Dinner in the Sky

This strange restaurant combines the delights of dining with a thrill of well, a thrill ride. You’ll travel about 150 feet into the sky before you chow down on a gourmet meal prepared mid-air.

Dinner In The Sky uses a mobile crane to lift its entire 22-seat open-air dining room over city streets all over…

continue reading »

June 30th, 2007 comments (9) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: strange + wonderful

cable cat keeps mouse from snagging its tail

KabelenKelKat

If you’re using a wired mouse, you know that cable snags can be a pain in butt. This clever little desktop gadget helps keep your mouse cord from getting tangled, and looks cute doing it.

While I’ve tried to use my real cat to keep my cables in order, all he does is try to…

continue reading »

June 24th, 2007 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing gadgets