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No one likes the ugly sight of a condensation ring on the coffee table. This is a problem. Thankfully, there’s a solution, and it’s full of math.
These coasters will match perfectly with your number lamp and your equation bookshelf, so long as all you care about is, uh, math.
The math coasters, which are…
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June 29th, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: alisha k.
filed under: design geek art + craft
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Though I’m not at all certain that a Red Ring of Death is something to celebrate, per se (they’re usually occasions of anger and misery in my neighborhood), I suppose it’s nice to take something awful and turn it into something cool. Or rather, something that helps keep condensation off your nice table.
And look!…
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June 22nd, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: alisha k.
filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun video games
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As I spend much of my time trolling through a million-an-one RSS feeds for news stories, I find these clever feed icon coasters kind of amusing…
Created by the designers over at Meninos, the set includes the familiar icons for various web syndication formats like RSS & XML. Each set includes a whopping 16 coasters,…
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May 22nd, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: design just plain fun
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For some strange reason, I never thought I’d write a story about floppy disk coasters twice. But these really floppy, floppy disk coasters I found over on Etsy today were just too good to be ignored.
Modeled after the truly retro 5-1/4″ floppy disk, these soft coasters are handmade from colorful felt, and just like…
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December 30th, 2008
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: computing geek art + craft just plain fun retro
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1985: A time when we gamers grew sick and tired of the princess being in another castle. When jumping on something first became a method of destruction. When Luigi looked exactly the same as Mario, except for his white and green clothes. Relive those days with a glass of beer and these classic Super Mario Bros. coasters.…
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December 10th, 2008
stumble it! digg it!
author: lambert v.
filed under: geek art + craft retro video games
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Check out these great drink coasters, based on those ubiquitous iPhone menu icons.
Created by the guys over at Brazil’s Meninos design (the same guys who make these awesome hard drives), these icon coasters are a great gift for any iPhone addict. All your favorite applications are there, from Maps to Calculator, from iPod to…
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September 29th, 2008
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun mobile tech
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These fun drink coasters may just look like an abstract dot pattern on the surface, but thanks to some cleverly placed perforations, you can actually make your own custom pixel creations out of them.
Each coaster is made up of 110 individual 1cm square “pixels” which are perfed in a way that lets you selectively…
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September 5th, 2008
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: design just plain fun
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Here’s an ingenius little invention for all you boozehounds out there. Imagine if you will, sitting at your neighborhood watering hole, when the bartender sees a little flashing light out of the corner of his eye and just knows it’s time to refill your cocktail.
That’s just what these coasters do. Simply set one under…
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December 7th, 2007
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: gadgets just plain fun
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NASA is thinking about a new technology to save the lives of astronauts if something goes wrong at launch time. The proposed new emergency escape system is actually based on those vertical drop roller-coasters that have popped up at amusement parks around the country.
The idea is that if something were to happen on the…
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February 24th, 2007
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: strange + wonderful