Most likely you wouldn’t be familiar with his name, although you might have already seen some of the fruits of his labor in feature films like Alice in Wonderland, TRON, Imaginarium of Dr.Parnassus, and Band of Brothers, to name a few.

His new venture is creating something you can own, use, and display, right in your very own home: his Fidelity-sound speaker systems.

Some of the designs featured on his site are the Ghanaian Ancestor Mask, the Droid, and an Italian Portraiture. Most of these speakers are special order so you’d have to contact Grant directly via email to set up the purchase.

Only the Ghanaian Ancestor Mask speaker has been set with a price, tagged at around $1,200 (USD) per pair plus an extra $150 for shipping.

The prices are pretty steep, but you can also view these speakers as a work of art to justify the price. That, plus the fact that they’re all designed and made by a renowned professional propsman.

[via Unplggd via Oh Gizmo!]

Everyone, meet the Plugys. Plugys, meet everyone.

If, for some reason, you’d like to turn any one of your media devices that come with a headphone jack into a plant, a faucet, a bolt, a key, a spring, or a mushroom, then go right ahead and order one of these Plugys.

Strapya World adds that the Plugy is also a useful invention, since “it prevents dirt from getting into the earphone jack.” But we’ve gone for so long without plugging these quirky Plugys into our devices, and I don’t feel like that dirt did much damage on my iPod. What about you?

Anyhow, each of these Plugys go for ¥400 ($4.90), so if you’d like to pre-order one (or two or three or all six), then head right on over to Strapya World.

[via Oh Gizmo!]

Any Apple fanboy/fangirl would relish having The Jobs on his/her Christmas tree. That, or you can make it and place it on your desk. I like how large his head is. That seems pretty appropriate.

You can find a guide in German here at Benm.at and here’s a link to the PDF.

[via 9 to 5 Mac]

The soap glows with a sickly, radioactive green light and the front is printed with the periodic table element marking for Uranium. The soap has to be exposed to light to glow, much like anything else that has glowing properties.

The strangest thing about this soap isn’t the glow, it’s the scent. The bar of soap smells like the ocean. I assume that means salt and rotten fish. In the case of the Texas Gulf Coast, the soap might be crude oil scented. A bar will cost you $6.99 over at Perpetual Kid.

[via 7Gadgets]

If you are the hard-core DIY type you can download the plans for the thing here if you have the LEGO Digital Designer 4.0 software. You will need you own blocks for the construction. If you are new to LEGO building and lack some of the blocks needed for this project you can but this as a kit.

The kit includes the blocks you need for building the tree diorama and will cost you about $25 (USD). This is a cool decoration and would look great on your desk to show coworkers just how geeky you are this holiday season.

Animal lovers need not worry, because the wall tentacle is actually made from household materials, like used paper, sawdust, starch and glue. The whole thing was coated with shellac for that creepy gloss.

I love how the tentacle was photoshopped into that fancy office. It’ll probably be more at home in a seafood restaurant or something. You can buy the wall tentacle at ArtAkimbo’s Etsy shop for $950 (USD). Yes, it’s worth it. Do it!

[via Crafty Crafty]

The good thing is that these stickers are removable, so you can easily reposition them or simply remove them completely if you don’t like the look. Naturally, they’ll work on other laptops, not just MacBooks.

About the only thing that’s not antique about them is the price – at about $25 USD (€19), you probably could have bought yourself an entire collection of typewriters back when they looked like this. If you don’t mind the price, they’re available at Les invasions éphémères.

[via Design You Trust]

The commands are silkscreen printed on a 31.5″ x 6.7″ bar of MDF plywood, a simple yet attractive reminder of what our ancestors had to go through. No spot healing brush tool?! *gasp*

The carved hand tool adds a special touch:

You can order the Wall Bar at Meninos for $70 (USD). Blasphemers who can’t bear to look at such crude tools can settle for the Photoshop and Illustrator magnets instead.

These Furry Objects were created by Danish textile designer Magnhild Disington. She steps into dangerous territory because of ethical concerns about items made from fur.

Anything made out of fur is controversial, but Disington manages to turn electronic objects into a fashion accessory. Let me just mention that these covers are made out of the leftover fur materials that would usually be discarded as waste (if that makes you feel any better).

Also, these could give electronic gadgets get a new lease on life, since the fur makes it them less disposable. I think that this is an interesting idea, since it juxtaposes disposable and non-disposable items, but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. What do you think? Would you get one of these?

[via Core77]

The cool thing about this pumpkin is that you can grab the pattern from Seed of the Zombie Pumpkins! to make your very own plumber-inspired Halloween decoration.

In addition to Mario, Zombie Pumpkins! has designs for Wario, Bowser, and characters from a couple of other video games too. The site charges $2 to download up to two of the intricate patterns, or you can pay as little as $5 (or whatever you think it’s worth) and get access to the full library of patterns, which includes over 140 cool, unique designs in a variety of genres.

Mmmm… Now I want me some pumpkin pie.

[Miniature Brainwave via Neatorama]